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Her thumping election victory gives Takaichi Sanae the space to make hard choices others in Japan have so far ducked https://t.co/5Lq6035mDW ...

The latest edition of the men’s cricket World Cup will go on. But brinkmanship has dragged cricket ever deeper into South Asian geopolitics https://t.co/pICWlNBpw9Illustration: Lan Truong https://t.co/yBSwz7oBgM ...

Trading for profit is still popular, but Asia’s dominance in crypto mainly reflects a shift in how the currency is used: not just as a speculative but also as a new form of financial infrastructure https://t.co/UAOF68gsgy ...

Chinese courts have been inundated with IP cases, which now exceed 550,000 a year, making the country the world’s most litigious when it comes to such disputes https://t.co/fHqkOfxHXf ...

China has long-standing problems with expensive but poorly built homes. The situation is a stark illustration of how Beijing’s policies can conflict with each other https://t.co/Nbs3i2aDQr ...

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Can AI conquer the physical world? This week, “Babbage” considers how “world models” could make driverless cars, humanoid robots and scientific simulations work better https://t.co/EQWnh05tVC ...

A wave of songs is taking aim at substandard men. We explain how it reflects a gulf between young men and women https://t.co/r719zKUagJ ...

By denying the threat that greenhouse gases pose to human health, Donald Trump has made the requirement to regulate them disappear https://t.co/TQs6LGNONz ...