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Trump’s Vanity Summit With Xi (opens the original)
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While expectations for the summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping were low, it was disappointing to watch them prioritize pageantry over substance. Trump’s cringe-worthy declarations of heartfelt admiration for Xi reflect his twisted sense that the trappings of power are power itself.NEW HAVEN—Long on ceremony but short on substance, the eagerly anticipated summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping was a disappointment. Perhaps n
The Price of You (opens the original)
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As more people shop online, firms are increasingly setting individualized prices based on personal data, including purchase history, location, demographics, behavior, and biometric data. AI threatens to turbocharge such surveillance pricing, further widening the gap between privacy expectations and reality.WASHINGTON, DC—You ask an AI chatbot to recommend a thermometer. It gives you a confident, friendly answer with a link to purchase it. What the chatbot neglects to mention is that it shared yo
The Opposing Forces Reshaping Global Finance (opens the original)
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The financial industry is being pulled between two powerful forces: bottom-up financial technology is enabling seamless integration, while top-down geoeconomic statecraft is promoting fragmentation. So much for the conventional wisdom that finance will simply become smoother, cheaper, and more globalized over time.SAN FRANCISCO—Two secular trends will shape finance in the years ahead, one powered from the bottom up by transformative technological innovations, and the other from the top down by g
An EU–Canada Partnership Against Coercion (opens the original)
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By proposing that the European Union and Canada begin work toward an association agreement, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has taken a critical first step toward establishing Europe as a hub for the world’s democratic middle powers. Such an arrangement would enable resistance to US pressure without decoupling from the US.PARIS—When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyentold Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that she wants &#
What Killed Liberalism? (opens the original)
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There is no shortage of people and ideas to blame for liberalism’s decline, but searching for a single culprit is probably futile. Two new books by Gordon Brown and Daron Acemoglu take up the harder question of how to rebuild the institutions that once gave people a sense of community and power over their lives.LONDON—Modern liberal democracy is buckling in many countries whose citizens have known no other system, with established parties shedding support and populist movements moving from the f
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