People talk a lot about AI and the huge impact that it is going to have on all of our lives, and this week has suddenly seen one possible way in which that happens. The key word is OpenClaw, which is an AI agent which can control and coordinate all your apps, data, calendars, emails […]
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Caught in the flow
China is a big player these days in many global issues, but in this new Iran war it is to a large extent a bystander, feeling the effects and trying to work out how this is going to play out. The initial consequences are a sharp cut in seaborne oil supplies from the Gulf, a […]
China set its economic growth target for 2026 at 4.5%-5%, a downgrade from the 5% pace achieved last year, reports Reuters, which says the target leaves room for greater, albeit not decisive, efforts to curb industrial overcapacity and rebalance the economy. China also released its 15th five-year plan, and as widely expected, pledged investments in innovation, […]
China set a cautious new climate target for the rest of the decade, reports Bloomberg, which says the goal frustrates hopes for tighter policy that would accelerate the nation’s work to curb emissions. A new goal pledges to cut carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 17% by 2030 and compares to a previous objective to […]
On the second day of the National People’s Congress (NPC) the country’s growth target of 4.5-5% was formally ratified. The figure was first proposed during the party’s plenum in October, the lowest growth target set by Beijing since 1991. A lot has changed since the target was proposed by the party back then. The current […]