Narendra Modi, the current Prime Minister of India, used to serve as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from October 2001 to May 2014. In 2014, he defeated the Indian National Congress in the Indian general election and was elected as the 14th Indian Prime Minister. He was re-elected in 2019. Modi's political actions and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s ...

Following the widespread use of the internet during the 1990s of the 20th century, global venture capital became a volatile, high risk-reward entity. A majority of the American companies in the fields of semiconductor, software, internet and consumer electronics such as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and the likes of many major biotech companies ...

In 2019, China's year-on-year economic growth rate in the first three quarters was 6.4%, 6.2%, and 6.0% respectively. If such trend continues, it is highly probable that in the fourth quarter the economic growth rate will fall below 6%. Now, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee has just concluded, and the basic guiding ideology th ...

Research of facial recognition technology has been ongoing since the 1960s. In recent years, this technology is increasingly mature and has similarly been applied in various fields. At present, facial recognition technology in Germany, Japan, the United States, and other places have made good development, and has been applied in many fields. In China, the de ...

On October 30, 2019, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera suddenly delivered a televised speech to announce the cancellation of the APEC summit and the climate conference to be held in the capital Santiago. Originally, the summit was to be attended by the leaders of the world's major countries, being such a notable political event outside of the Unite ...

As the most crucial grand strategy of China in the 21st century, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has reached its sixth year since its revelation in 2013. Although its influence continued to grow, the challenges are also prominent for the Chinese central government. Compounding such challenges is the Chinese opaque policy-making process which led most rese ...

Present Value offers insights from our Beijing-based think tank partners ANBOUND. Researcher Wei Hongxu and Senior Researcher He Jun give us their thoughts on state and local government policy in China, comparing it to government policy in the U.S. In America, there is currently an ongoing debate on raising the highest marginal federal income tax rate to 70 ...

The 21st China Hi-tech Fair concluded in Shenzhen City, south China's Guangdong Province on Sunday, according to the organizer. The five-day event exhibited a total of 2,077 new products and 701 new technologies in 5G, block chain, artificial intelligence chips and other fields, the organizer said. Themed "Invigorating the Greater Bay Area through Open ...