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The UK is making it impossible to study China honestly Times Higher Education

When OpenAI’s AI agents launched an autonomous attack on Australia’s Medicare portal in June, it took the company 84 days to report what had happened – a delay that exposed gaps in regulatory oversight that Hong Kong industry experts say the city must also address. The incident followed breaches involving Google’s Gemini AI, which compromised three companies a month earlier. Google did not confirm those breaches until September, and only in response to media questions. Such incidents have drawn.

Japan’s push to strengthen its armed forces is running into headwinds that money alone cannot resolve, analysts warn, pointing to prolonged delays in US weapon shipments and domestic manufacturing bottlenecks that undermine operational readiness. The issues have cast doubt on Tokyo’s ability to meet ambitious force expansion targets as the government prepares to overhaul its defence and security spending priorities. Observers say these setbacks highlight the need for Japan to build up its...

The Hong Kong government has set forth on a course of action which seems destined to upset large swathes of the middle class, including senior personnel from finance, business, technology and academia. These are the very people whose presence here underpins our professed economic development strategy. I am referring, of course, to the discussions now reaching a climax on the terms for extending the leases of private recreation clubs. The government has set the end of this year as the deadline...