Pandas at the San Diego Zoo, the 2008 Olympics Games and Chinese state media on Youtube all have one thing in common: they are displays of Chinese “soft power” that…
Ask the average American what’s behind the COVID-19 pandemic and you’ll probably hear range of rather pedestrian answers that do not include the word “pangolins,” and certainly have nothing to…
At 35, Audrey Tang (唐宗漢) was appointed as Taiwan's digital minister, a role that she also occupied as the country's first transgender and non-binary member of government. More recently, Tang…
“I knew it,” said Ric Xian, a University of Southern California student from Beijing, China. “I just thought with everything we had gone through so far, we are not going…
In the hit Netflix show “Black Mirror,” each episode features its own distinct fantasy about various tech-centric futures. While episodes seem to portray a world far removed from current times,…
For McDonald’s that remained open in COVID-era China, food ordering and payment went completely digital as a safety measure during the coronavirus outbreak. A QR code is pasted on the…