2023 Issue 11

The Chinese Communist Party unveils a new initiative, ‘Digital China,’ to reset the global digital infrastructure along values favored by the Party; the PRC engineers the resumption of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran; the German government decides to ban Huawei and ZTE; academic freedom of Chinese professors suffers under the scrutiny of cameras and student informers; Wall Street Journal analysis of the upcoming launch of Baidu’s GPT (generative pre-trained transformer).