7 scientists, mathematicians, physicists and experts who moved to China in 2025

China logged a welcome uptick in spending on services during the just-concluded eight-day “super golden week” public holiday, as the country’s transport hubs handled record numbers of passengers. Chinese transport authorities logged 2.432 billion passenger trips – a record high and a 6.2 per cent year-on-year increase – during this year’s extended holiday, which combined…

I recently attended the excellentKilkenomics festivalin Kilkenny, Ireland. If you ever get the chance to go, I recommend it. Putting comedians and economists on the same stage doesn’t sound like it makes sense, but it’s surprisingly effective; they balance each other out quite well. And Ireland is a wonderful country, of course. But I did…

Reading the political report delivered by Vietnamese General Secretary To Lam to the 14th Party Congress, and stripping away its layers of propaganda, a stark portrait emerges of a new power figure—more decisive and more ambitious, yet burdened by existential contradictions the Communist Party of Vietnam is choosing to ignore. Comparing the 2016 report by…

After several missiles were fired at targets in western Ukraine’s Lvov region, the Russian Defense Ministryconfirmedon Friday morning that its formidable new Oreshniks had been used – for only the second time. Reports indicate that the Stryigas fieldandgas storage facilitywere among Ukrainian targets that were hit. Thefirst useof the hypersonic Oreshniks, featuring hard-to-defend-against MIRV payload,…

The Dutch government’s latest decision to halt its intervention in Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, may ease tensions with Beijing but it underscores what analysts describe as an accelerating Western push to decouple from China’s semiconductor supply chain. To understand the dynamic, start with the less-than-two-months sequence of events leading up to and including the latest…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer refused on Monday to heed ‌calls to quit, even by the leader of his party in Scotland, after a second aide resigned from a team in crisis over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador ‍to Washington. Under pressure over the appointment of a man whose close ties to the…