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A senior manager with Baidu's automotive robot department gives a presentation during the company's Apollo Day in Wuhan, China, in May 2024. Baidu’s ride-hailing platform Apollo Go, has since deployed driverless cars in major cities including Shanghai and Beijing.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2026
Driverless trucks show how to keep AI from killing us
By Thomas Black
Autonomous vehicles have a focused job and a coding trail, with a simpler model that provides a “sanity check” to prevent unsafe maneuvers.
Pakistani (left) and Indian border security soldiers take part in the now-famous daily parade at the Attari-Wagah border crossing, the primary international land route between the two nations. The elaborate ceremony has been held since 1959.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2026
The new India-Pakistan ‘cold war’
By Shashi Tharoor
India will return to the negotiating table only after Pakistan dismantles, comprehensively and verifiably, its state-supported terrorist networks.
Argentine President Javier Milei attends the launch of Brazilian Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign in Sao Paulo on July 25.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2026
Argentina’s economic chainsaw massacre
By Jeremy Adelman
Ahead of upcoming elections, Argentine President Milei has achieved an economic recovery and price stability but driven millions into destitution.
A Kawasaki Heavy Industries humanoid platform places a garbage bag in a trash can during an exhibition in Tokyo last December. Japan has long led in humanoid robotics and is well positioned to supply the components behind next-generation automation systems.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 26, 2026
The key to 91AV原创 growth strategy: ‘proactive’ economic security
By Eiki Tagami
The challenge is to turn ambition into sustainable growth by strengthening economic security and developing technologies that can compete globally.
Billboards feature Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party (left) and former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar Party (right), in the city of Kiryat Malachi, Israel, on Oct. 20.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2026
Is Israel strong enough to go it alone?
By Marc Champion
Opinion polls suggested this would be a tight race. And that was before the U.S. president put his hand on the scales by endorsing the incumbent.
Students attend a computer and information technology class at a learning center in New Delhi. AI is boosting productivity for experienced Indian workers while blocking young recruits from building the skills they will need to succeed in their careers.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2026
Quiet quitting comes to India. AI will make it worse.
By Andy Mukherjee
There is evidence that AI, while helping experts become more productive, is hollowing out the skills young people acquire early in their careers.
Demonstrators take part in a protest organized by student collectives and trade unions in Paris on Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2026
Will France’s mass protests and riots spread across the globe?
By Kuni Miyake
France’s waves of unrest reveal social and economic tensions while raising concerns that far-right forces could exploit public discontent elsewhere.
An internally displaced family sits at a makeshift shelter during a visit by World Food Program officials to assess the knock-on effects from the escalation of hostilities in the Middle East in Kahda district of Mogadishu on May 7.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
The U.S.-Iran war is making world hunger much worse
By Andreas Kluth
The combined scourges of undernourishment, child stunting and wasting have become worse, halting a two-decade trend of improvement.
The Portland Aluminium smelter in Portland, Australia. Closing power plants before replacements are ready has left the country with fewer options, which should serve as a warning to Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
Australia’s energy transition offers a warning to the world
By Stephanie Campbell
An energy-rich country is spending billions to keep its aluminum smelters operating. Its policy choices help explain why.
An attendee walks past signage for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group in Bangkok on Oct. 14.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
War, rates and a global economy that won’t break
By Daniel Moss
Today’s nominally solid scenario depends on policymakers not making any major mistakes.
Demonstrators angered over the high cost of living clash with police in Montpellier, France, on Oct. 17.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2026
Liberte, egalite, misere? Why France is burning
By Lionel Laurent
It’s not only France that’s feeling the heat. Anger about inflation, from energy prices to housing costs, has led to clashes in Italy and Portugal.
Police personnel and firefighters help evacuate people from a fake train station after a simulated attack by China during the annual Min An Civil Defense drills in New Taipei City in July 2022.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2026
Taiwan’s resilience must be built before a crisis
By Jonathan Berkshire Miller
Taiwan has focused heavily on military readiness against China, but it now faces a tougher question: how its society will deal with prolonged duress.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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