On October 6, 2026 Le Monde carried an interview with former WTO Director-General and former EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy on EU-China trade as the EU feels increasing pressure from a surge in …

On October 6, 2026 Le Monde carried an interview with former WTO Director-General and former EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy on EU-China trade as the EU feels increasing pressure from a surge in Chinese imports. As a Le Monde subscriber, I'll share a few paragraphs translated by ChatGPT: You were European Commissioner for Trade and participated in the negotiations that enabled China to join the WTO in 2001.

In the age of AI disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth.

In the battle for an Alaska Senate seat and the governor’s mansion, the oil-dependent state’s declining fisheries loom large, but no one wants to look at the biggest culprit, climate change.

Five women have said they were the targets of malicious public relations campaigns that were spearheaded by three influential players.

According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

La gagnante du marathon de Québec veut inspirer les nouvelles mamans

Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.

This October 2025 conference of young Chinese scholars based both outside and inside China covered many topics related to AI influence on society. Topics included: Human relationships including the…

This October 2025 conference of young Chinese scholars based both outside and inside China covered many topics related to AI influence on society. Topics included: Human relationships including the implicit power of technological system like China's Blued gay social networking app that actively structures who becomes visible to whom, what users know about each other, and how they evaluate possible partners,

As China’s General Secretary Xi Jinping gets more wide hairs it is worthwhile to look back at how the Chinese Communist Party resolved it succession problem in the past. This article was writ…

One of the concerns I have heard from Chinese people and read in some Chinese articles over the years is that the Party’s rule has lowered the moral tone of Chinese society. Living in a total…

One of the concerns I have heard from Chinese people and read in some Chinese articles over the years is that the Party's rule has lowered the moral tone of Chinese society. Living in a totalitarian society exposes you to pressures not just from the central government but from leaders at all levels (Little Brothers but local big and often only nominally subordinate to Big Brother).

Former PRC General Liu Yazhou faces a death sentence now that he has been handed over to PRC state and Communist Party officials for prosecution on alleged corruption charges. Some call him pro-Ame…

PRC diplomatic history scholar Shen Zhihua’s talk at a 2020 Tsinghua University “Workshop on China’s Border Regions and Asia” 中国边疆与亚洲研究”学术工作坊 is on YouTube. In 2009，Chi…

Unable to question the government, the Chinese are taking their economic frustrations out on their fellow citizens.

Federal law has banned taxpayer-funded propaganda for 75 years. The White House is airing it anyway, weeks before the midterms, and the people who could stop it are silent.

The New York City mayor has an antidote to globe-spanning distemper.

The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.

A proposal to bolster relations with the Kremlin through the purchase of Russian energy assets is striking even for an administration that regularly mixes personal business interests with foreign poli...

And if not, who was the president talking about?