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Everything is possible for A.I. because so little has happened. And like China's potential in the 1950s, the possibility for growth appears unbounded.

One year out from the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic games, Paris has announced it will reopen the River Seine for swimming competition and then allow public swimming, ending a century-long ban. This ban was in place to stop people immersing themselves in river waters polluted by stormwater, sewage and…

Millions of party members are learning the finer points of Xi Jinping Thought to advance China’s ‘great rejuvenation’.

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NONFICTION: Tania Branigan looks at how the Cultural Revolution still affects China — and beyond.

‘Anti-spying’ raids on consulting firms and attacks on tech companies are being driven by party ideology, says academic Chris Marquis

Samuel Fosso scoops £30,000 award for performative self-portraits of historical figures including Angela Davis and Mao Zedong

Tania Branigan, once China correspondent for the Guardian, makes the strongest English-language effort yet to reconstruct what it was like to live through, and then with, this part of Chinese history.

Xi Jinping’s aggressive stance and ‘wolf-warrior’ diplomacy drive the Philippines and other vulnerable countries into Washington’s arms