Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. On December 8, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China by ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. President Donald Trump announced on December 8 that the United States would allow Nvidia to sell its powerful H200 chip—a ...

Rising tariffs and geopolitical trade tensions don't seem to have made a dent in the dominant Chinese manufacturing powerhouse. The country's trade surplus with the world for 2025 just crossed the $1T ...

President Donald Trump on Monday announced he’s removing export controls on Nvidia’s H200 chips to China, a key reversal in what’s become part of a broader trade war between the world’s two biggest ...

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released two powerful new AI models that the company claims match or exceed the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini-3.0-Pro — a development that could ...

Zahra Moi's Daima Kenya Africa showcases its fashion line themed "Unity in Every Thread" at the Africa’s Next Top Model Grand Finale on 22nd November. [David Gichuru, Standard] Kenya’s fashion and ...

Marble can reconstruct, generate, and simulate 3D worlds—think of it as a type of “world model.” In an interview with Fast Company, Li describes world models as a “significant” evolution of the ...

Japanese automaker Nissan has announced the establishment of Nissan Import & Export (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. at the China International Import Expo, marking the first joint-venture vehicle import-export ...

FAW-Volkswagen, a joint venture between Chinese state-owned automaker FAW Group and Germany’s Volkswagen Group, has announced it has produced its first batch of Volkswagen-branded vehicles for export ...

China’s automotive market often serves as a proving ground for global carmakers, and Volkswagen is now taking that strategy abroad. Models originally built in partnership with FAW for Chinese buyers ...

Vietnam’s economic rise has been extraordinary. The country has made a triple transition from central planning to a market economy, from import substitution to export-led integration and from extreme ...

The Fairlane was to Ford what the Tempest was to Pontiac, the Chevelle to Chevrolet, the Belvedere to Plymouth, and the Coronet to Dodge - the building block for the intermediate series of automobiles ...