Hope And Reality

Seven rounds of US-brokered talks and six Israel-Lebanon deals later, President Trump maintains that the ceasefire is “working.” What exactly that means and who exactly it’s meant to be working for is unclear, but the residents of southern Lebanon are telling a very different story. Some 24 villages within southern Lebanon have been totally destroyed, […]

The Economic Tsar Who Built Modern China-And Whose Reforms The CCP Is Dismantling Authored by Heng He via The Epoch Times, Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the hard-edged reformer who engineered China's rise from planned-economy backwater to global manufacturing giant, died this month at the age of 97. Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji poses during a working session at the Europe-Asia summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Sept. 22, 2002. Gerard Cerles/AFP via Getty Images His legacy-tax centralization, mass layoffs, China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and a brief, forgotten moment of tolerance...

San Francisco Judge Dismisses xAI Trade Secret Lawsuit Against OpenAI Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, A federal judge dismissed a trade secret lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s xAI against OpenAI, ruling that the plaintiff failed to demonstrate the competing artificial intelligence company improperly obtained confidential information. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued the order Monday in San Francisco, dismissing the case with prejudice, resulting in xAI being unable to refile an amended version of the complaint based on the same arguments. Lin found that xAI did not make clear that...