China is publishing less and less data that could give a complete picture of the economic situation. The discontinuation of youth unemployment statistics is just the latest example. The second-largest economy is becoming a black box.
By Jörn Petring
Together with tech expert Kai-Fu Lee, author Chen Qiufan has written a book that outlines future scenarios of a world permeated by artificial intelligence in the year 2041. Fabian Peltsch spoke with him about why AI will not only change the global political order, but also our self-image as human beings.
By Redaktion Table
Xi Jinping wants to turn the yuan into a global currency. Yellowed documents from the days of the Cultural Revolution show that China already claimed to achieve this in 1969. However, the latest attempt will probably not succeed either.
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The opposition of the BRICS to the US-led policy of the West is so strong that they have pledged full support to Vladimir Putin for the next summit in Russia. They have also announced which countries will soon expand the group of emerging economies.
By Redaktion Table
Apart from the enlargement, the departure from the dollar as the global currency was a major topic at the BRICS summit. Parallel to the summit, Brazil's former president Dilma Rousseff gave first insights into these plans. Rousseff heads the New Development Bank in Shanghai – and thus, the future BRICS central bank.
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