Recently, a senior US state department official claimed that Big Tech companies may be complying with clandestine Chinese requests for user information held in Hong Kong. The allegation raises concerns over the handling of ethical issues by Western businesses and reflects China’s long-term plan for geographical expansion and control in the world.

Though there are denoted benefits AI in Finance, the long-term impact may end up leaving the world economy worse off. Ultimately, the decision of AI’s integration into finance will come down to the large institutional investors as well as the retail investors like you and me.

With tensions in the Taiwan Strait heating up, Beijing has increasingly flexed its muscles. But just how far is China willing to go to get its way, and is its approach even working?

If a foreigner went to China, they would be surprised by how difficult it is to pay for anything with cash with most restaurants no longer accepting paper bills and even beggars having moved on from physical money.

2020 has been a momentous year for the Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong stock exchanges. So far, these Chinese exchanges have collectively raised $76 billion, 43% of the global total.

The U.S. campaign to remove Confederate and other representations of white supremacy has inspired many Latin Americans to do the same to statues of conquistadors and early European explorers.

Education has always been a way out of poverty. However, the pandemic has completely interrupted education, creating challenges for low-income students. Is there anything governments can do?

If Biden were to be elected president, he is faced with the insurmountable task of restructuring the United States’ current relationship with the Latin America region.

Cuba's anomalous dual-currency system represents the radical fervor to fight for Communism.

How can two seemingly opposites, humans and machines, work together to improve our healthcare?

A.I can help us prevent disease and live overall better lives. How?

Similar to the way fashion manufacturing was one of the first industries to be mechanized in the late 1800s, the industry has now become one of the first to become subject to the rise of automation.

Two scientists, France’s Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for discovering and developing a powerful tool, CRISPR-Cas9, for genome editing that has enabled relatively quick and easy modification of the building blocks of life and promises new drugs for a range of diseases.

Imagine walking into your nearest Amazon warehouse and realizing that it is devoid of people. Instead, you find robots, a lot of them, and that all the work is done by these intelligent machines.

China is so often seen as a cunning and forward-thinking global player in the West. But its true means of diplomatic engagement are far less thoughtful.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has proposed the “dual circulation” initiative in response to heightened U.S.-China tensions and the COVID-19 pandemic. Will China ultimately be successful in implementing this long-term economic reform?

The development of the DCEP has been partially driven by a desire to proliferate the Yuan into the international financial system.

The G-20’s struggle to secure well-defined and quantified commitments from China to freeze low-income nation debt is of the same kind that fueled the United States’ volatile response to an ascendant TikTok, WeChat, and Huawei.

Child obesity is a growing problem in Mexico. Many state legislatures have already passed or are considering a ban on the sale of junk food and soda to minors but there are varied reactions.

Latin American countries claim to have a democracy, but what exactly does that mean? Their "democracy" verges on dictatorship, bringing about questions of how they got there and what they can do.