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Cultural colonialism has rightly been rejected – but China’s protest shows that authoritarians can also weaponise tradition
This year’s , titled Laboratory for the Future, was inaugurated on the same day that the leaders of the G7 industrialised nations met in Hiroshima. As different as these events appeared, both signalled the end of globalisation. Both also displayed the promise and perils of a fragmenting world.
Of all the arts, architecture is the most globally homogenising. Erecting tropical copycats of Paris and London was a staple of European . Today, the same glass-and-steel tower blocks dot interchangeable financial capitals the world over.

But the casting of Asian American actresses in two of the main roles has reframed the musical to emphasize its exploration of the otherness — an otherness that some Asian Americans often feel in ...

Rep. Michael Waltz said Antony Blinken's visit to China 'plays into Chinese propaganda and calls for an abandonment of 'old thinking.' ...

Antony Blinken is the highest-level American official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office and the first secretary of state in five years to make the trip.

The trip by Blinken makes him the highest-level American official to visit China since Joe Biden became U.S. president.

Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller By Jamie Fisher Produced by Adrienne Hurst and Aaron Esposito Edited by John Woo Original music by Aaron Esposito Engineered by Dan Farrell and Quinton Kamara Almost ...

China’s BYD says the Dolphin will be ‘the most affordable, high-quality EV’ launched in the country
The launch of a new electric car this week in Queensland could start a price battle among other manufacturers and make the technology accessible to a wider audience.
But market experts warn that Australia still needs better policies to ensure the competition takes hold and more consumer education about the ultimate price – and price savings – of the new vehicles.

House Republicans have assembled a $237 billion tax cut package with a bevy of provisions to bolster the economy and offset the impact of 40-year high inflation on American workers.

Across North American schools, South Asian students are holding elaborately planned pretend weddings with the pomp and circumstance of real ones.

Chief executives in the U.S. have long pushed for closer ties between the two countries. Now they just hope a rocky situation won’t get worse.

Republicans rebuked the secretary of state for visiting China for diplomatic talks as they advocate a hard-line, military-first approach to Beijing.

Amid the intelligence-agency fomented furor over supposed Chinese interference in Canadian elections, the Canadian state has intensified its efforts to compel the country’s universities to cease ...