- Britain's free speech problem: hate speech laws that forbid giving offence, and an incentive for people to claim to be offended - hampers public debate
- Mexico: Claudia Sheinbaum's Mexico's president will enact a populist reform of the country's justice system that will undermine the rule of law, poisoning Mexico's economic prospects and weaking its young democracy - elected judges will be a feeble check on the ruling party and drug lords
- Beware the AI manager: 1. The risk of over-aggressive cost-cutting, lay-offs
- China-Russia relations: Russia supplies oil, gas and other energy exports, accounting for 80% of total Russian shipments to China. While China accounted for 34% of Russia's total trade in 2024, Russia made up just 4% of China's (bc of Western sanctions that left Russia with little to no alternative suppliers for all the imported good it needs, or alternative buyers for its goods
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