Mighty, but also dangerously overconfident https://t.co/HS4w4IAGbv

“B for Busy” has been a rare bright spot for local languages in Chinese film https://t.co/FoqO7uGyBp

Not long ago China stood out for its economic resilience in the face of the pandemic. Today it is a $17.7trn source of vulnerability in the world economy https://t.co/kSK358dIlw

Antimicrobial-resistant infections are now a leading cause of death around the world https://t.co/U1ClxHy3TB

On “The World Ahead” podcast with @tomstandage:
- What will happen to inflation in 2022?
- China pushes its new digital currency
- The outlook for regulating cryptocurrency https://t.co/CtPWH5zD29

As ever, Tessa Hadley’s prose is limpid and measured yet richly sonorous: her new novel, “Free Love”, combines a modern sensibility with the psychological realism of writers such as Henry James https://t.co/WyNlWC263D

“This has been a classic case of bad journalism, bad government, and bad science.” Robert Bartholomew, a medical sociologist @AucklandUni argues that Havana syndrome could be a mass psychogenic illness, on our “Babbage” podcast https://t.co/M8VPOBlFhW

Box-sellers are trying to adapt https://t.co/X42T2HmZhX

Whether and when matters improve depends on the course of both the virus and the global economic recovery  https://t.co/k92NU6OPTT

Remakes illuminate the purpose and pleasure of storytelling. But to their detractors, they suggest a culture gnawing on itself, and risk-averse producers pandering to timid audience https://t.co/jpgfn6IzWT

“There has been like a shopping spree—small innovative businesses in Europe being bought by big tech as a sort of distributed innovation.” EU competition commissioner Margrethe @Vestager talks to Jan Piotrowski on “Money Talks” https://t.co/V6h3ZwGq00 https://t.co/PghkF4Mp94

Competition in tech is far from dead. It is difficult to find a part of the industry where two or more of the tech titans are not facing off against each other https://t.co/HgmIydDqpa

To be among the crowd at one of Meat Loaf’s shows, where the age range extended from children to grandparents, was to see an artist with the rare gift of communicating joy https://t.co/0kgwGO3B2k

Government capital combined with access to plentiful public data has helped turn Chinese AI firms into powerhouses in certain niches https://t.co/Ys6mfTVKVQ

The sentences being doled out this month are unusually harsh and long, even for a one-party state https://t.co/0b1ecHRfx3

The worst fears about the global economy have so far not come to pass. We explain why  https://t.co/0llFerYG8n

Since 1990, divorce has become easier in at least 30 of the 38 members of the OECD https://t.co/LS2N4sw8Ol

Joe Biden voters are more likely to have a negative view of America than those who voted for Donald Trump, according to new research from our data team. Why are so many liberals pessimistic about America? Listen to “Checks and Balance” https://t.co/AvkKetN9DD https://t.co/WonP9qfArp

American hospitals are already short of staff. An upcoming vaccine mandate for health-care workers could make things worse https://t.co/UaoU6yJcVL

Novak Djokovic's deportation shone a light on the vast powers of discretion granted to Australian immigration ministers https://t.co/HcLDhyyDDn