Roger Boyes: Britain doesn’t need a Cold War with China: We should confront Beijing over its abuses while using our influence to temper US hostility. https://bit.ly/2WL42R1
Will China control the global internet via its Digital Silk Road? Will Beijing use the Digital Silk Road — the technology sidekick to the Belt and Road Initiative — to grow its control over global communications networks? As the pandemic shocks geopolitics and the US. China tech cold war drives further decoupling, China has an opportunity to make its “cyber sovereignty” vision a reality in many places around the world. https://bit.ly/32HhwBi
Why globalists and frontier-market investors love Vietnam: It is cheap, and a refuge from the Sino-American trade-and-technology war. https://econ.st/2E6wmaa
India, Jio, and the four Internets https://bit.ly/2OGhD7M
The changed EU landscape: The pandemic has altered the future of Europe, says Brunswick’s Sir Jonathan Faull. After a tumultuous year wrestling with the implications of a global pandemic, the “post-confinement” period we are entering brings a set of critical issues that together may shape the European Union for a generation or more. https://bit.ly/2WKzWNz
No one tried to protect the UK’s Brexit referendum from Russian interference, the long-awaited report shows https://bit.ly/3hnZbwX
Russia report in-depth: A worrying picture of UK’s vulnerability https://bit.ly/30Cubm2
“Russian influence in the UK is ‘the new normal’,” the report says. “There are a lot of Russians with very close links to Putin who are well integrated into the UK business and social scene and accepted because of their wealth. This level of integration — in ‘Londongrad’ in particular — means that any measures now being taken by the government are not preventative but rather constitute damage limitation.”
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall: The age of strategic instability: How novel technologies disrupt the nuclear balance. https://fam.ag/3jygygL
Free trade and decadence, old and new: The dignity of work is a theme that unites overlapping strands of nationalists and free-marketeers, just as it was in the Scottish Enlightenment. https://bit.ly/3jnM2WN
RIP cable TV: Why Hollywood is slowly killing its biggest moneymaker: As subscribers and viewers flee, media companies that once relied on cable TV are chasing streaming dollars instead. https://bit.ly/3fJdgEV
How Sarah Cooper trumped Donald Trump—without saying a word: TikTok’s favorite mimic knows the key to spoofing the president: Just let him speak for himself. https://bit.ly/3hiTxw0
The wonder wheel of GOOP: How to spin a single product into an empire. https://bit.ly/2WERv1w
Malls are dying, but Nordstrom has no intention of being dragged down with them https://bit.ly/3jtDvl6
Nostalgia reimagined: Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too. https://bit.ly/30wyO15
Aytekin Tank: Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists https://bit.ly/3eKcOFe
The sibling rivalry behind Adidas versus Puma https://bit.ly/3eHWDbf
The app of the summer is just a random number generator: TikTok is on the chopping block. Instagram is pointless in lockdown. The best we can do is a hokey piece of software that takes us somewhere unexpected. https://bit.ly/2BiJc3Y
Sarah al-Amiri: The woman leading UAE's Mars mission: DW reports, a dream was born when Sarah al-Amiri saw an image of the Andromeda Galaxy at the age of 12. In a region defined by turmoil, she never thought it would lead her country beyond Earth's stratosphere and toward Mars. https://bit.ly/39nVSTW
Matt Kandela: Why a calamitous 2020 will spark a design revolution https://bit.ly/3hlGQko
Here's a no-equipment 6-move workout: Use tempo and isometrics to improve your bodyweight routine. https://bit.ly/2ZIPSlo
