The US airstrike that killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and widely considered as the country’s second m ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
The White House on Tuesday proposed regulatory principles to govern the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) aimed at limiting authorities’ “overreach”, and said it wants European offic ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
For decades, space has been the domain of governments. But Astroscale, a seven-year-old startup that wants to clear space trash from Earth’s orbit, aims to be one of the first private companies to dev ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm Megvii's plans for a US$500 million Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) are back on track as the firm's application has been cleared by the stock exchange ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton said on Monday that he is willing to testify in the expected Senate impeachment trial of the US president, a surprise development that could ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
Tens of thousands of Iranians thronged the streets of Tehran on Monday for the funeral of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed in a US air strike last week, and his daughter said his d ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-06
The Trump administration mounted an extensive campaign in the past two years to block the sale of Dutch chip manufacturing technology to China, Reuters reports, citing people familiar with the matter. ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-06
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s decision to kill Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, as Democratic lawmakers questioned whether the action was ju ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-06
Iraq’s parliament has called for US and other foreign troops to leave the country amid growing anger over the US killing of a top Iranian military commander who had been on a visit to Baghdad. Iranian ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-06
The United States killed Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force and spearhead of Iran’s spreading military influence in the Middle East, on Friday in an air strike at Bag ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
In recent years, fears of a new cold war between the United States and China have been proliferating. But the tensions between the two powers would be better described as a “cool war,” characterized n ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said there are indications Iran or forces it backs may be planning additional attacks, Reuters reports. He also warned that the “game has changed” and it is possible th ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
Newly passed legislation will push the US State Department to disclose how it polices the sale of cyber tools and services abroad. The move followed a Reuters investigation which revealed that America ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
The world is dancing to the tune of a handful of psychologically flawed men and women. As George Woodcock, biographer of George Orwell wrote, 'love of power is a sickness that shapes and corrupts not ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
Hong Kong has had a bad start for 2020 as a supposedly peaceful pro-democracy rally degenerated into scenes of violent clashes between police and protesters and a lucky draw promising millions of Hong ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
Supporters of Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups who stormed the US Embassy’s perimeter in Baghdad and hurled rocks in two days of protests withdrew on Wednesday after Washington dispatched extr ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
