How China is ruled by engineers and America is run by lawyers
China is an engineering state, obsessed with building megaprojects, while America is a lawyerly society, reflexively blocking everything, good and bad. That’s the framework for a new book by Dan Wang which explores the merits and madness of Beijing’s engineering state – and how it compares with Washington.Through personal insights from living in both countries, Dan Wang explores China’s strengths and weaknesses, and offers a critique of how American leadership could lose the technological arms race to its rival.
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Australia and India seal major film Industry pact as Bollywood booms down under
As the popularity of Indian films surge in Australia, a new era of bilateral film collaboration is being cemented through a cultural trade deal in India. The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is on in Goa, and filmmaker Rachel Griffiths is part of an Australian delegation there to sign a historic agreement that will open up new, reciprocal opportunities between the two countries, including a major distribution deal, academic knowledge exchange and program and career development schemes for film makers.
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Jamal Khashoggi's widow devastated by President Trump's defence of Saudi Crown Prince
The widow of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi says she is hurt and disappointed that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a warm welcome at the White House this week.US President Donald Trump fiercely defended the Crown Prince saying he wasn't aware of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, effectively contradicting CIA assessments that the Saudi ruler likely ordered the murder of Khashoggi in 2018.Jamal Khashoggi was critical of the Saudi regime, and his widow says his brutal murder up-ended her life.
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One Nation surges in the polls as the Liberal Party searches for meaning
As we enter the final parliamentary sitting week of the year Sussan Ley seems to have just survived the political killing season. The Liberal Party leader's climbdown over net zero by 2050 has quelled a mutinous party room, for now at least.With the Coalition in disarray, and One Nation surging in the polls, the centre has been left wide open for Albanese's Labor government.
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G20 leaders meeting in South Africa
South Africa is hosting the G20 this weekend and it should be the country's big moment, a chance to showcase its diplomatic and economic potential.But Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and the leaders of Argentina and Mexico are skipping the meeting.Without the participation of major powers, is the G20's ability to function as a credible forum fundamentally undermined?
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