ANYONE WANT to buy a used social network? One careful Chinese owner, 170m users in America and revenue there of $12bn last year, predicted to rise this year by a fifth. The...
Apple was once considered so important to both America and China that some even hoped it would help avert great-power conflict. Now the iPhone-maker finds itself more exposed than any big American...
Apple reclaimed its crown as the world’s most valuable company on April 9th. Financial markets roared higher in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to put a 90-day hold on his “reciprocal”...
Canadian nationalism is very unlikely to get out of hand. But when even the politest people on Earth are wrapping themselves in the flag, you know that national pride is on the...
“Track and field has failed to reach its potential for years,” says Michael Johnson, an American sprinter with four Olympic gold medals. A ranking of the 100 best-paid athletes in the world...
On a recent Thursday afternoon, the Haikou International Duty Free City, a sprawling mega-mall on China’s southern island province of Hainan, is worryingly empty. A few families meander through the cavernous building....
WHO IS BETTER at the technology of the future: America or China? Speculation is at fever pitch. The world’s most famous artificial-intelligence company, OpenAI, is American. Models produced by DeepSeek, a Chinese...
“THE GOLDEN age of America begins right now,” intoned Donald Trump at the start of his inaugural address on January 20th. The business world bought the glittering talk, in anticipation of lower...
