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As the latest Nobel Prizes spark debate on global research power, Chinese science communicator Yuan Lanfeng offers a key insight: while the Nobels honor past legacies, China's historic overtake of the U.S. in the Nature Index since 2022 reflects today’s momentum. Driven by long-term strategic vision and world-class research facilities, China is achieving systemic breakthroughs in fusion and AI, top global accolades will inevitably follow.thechinaacademy.org/what-this-rarely-reported-stat…

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15 years ago, in a debate with the proponent of of the 'End of History' thesis, Chinese scholar Zhang Weiwei argued that Western liberal democracy has 'genetic flaws' and may prove to be merely a brief interlude of human history. Today, as people across the West have begun to re-examine their model and Fukuyama himself concedes the limits of his theory, Prof. Zhang was invited to Athens, to share how China—a nation often labeled 'authoritarian' by the West—views democracy.thechinaacademy.org/how-this-chinese-scohlar-fores…

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Trump's latest threat: up to 300% tariffs on foreign companies that don't build in America. Eight months ago, Jeffrey Sachs said the belief that America runs the world is 100 years out of date. This is a country that can't even cover its own interest payments. And it's still acting like it runs the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdLDx...

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Brazil's October election could turn BRICS into RICS. If the Bolsonaros come back, Brazil would exclude itself, in whole or in part, from what has become its main platform for international cooperation. thechinaacademy.org/if-the-bolsonaros-come-back-br…

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Trump once pursued trade and technology wars against China, but repeated confrontation gradually changed his approach. The article examines how China’s strength and resolve helped establish a more reciprocal U.S.-China relationship and pushed Trump from “ready to strike tomorrow” toward honoring a six-month ceasefire. thechinaacademy.org/how-did-china-set-trump-straig…

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A Chinese blockbuster showed the Middle East without Hollywood's yellow filter — and crossed ¥1.2 billion in two weeks. A cook, a wok, and a question a century of cinema never dared to ask: who gets to be the protagonist of their own story?
After this episode, you will not see war movie in the old way any more.
https://youtu.be/Ee_HCdLH2iQ

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Recently, the head of the U.S. military has openly talked about preparing for Moon battles, while Trump has declared, “The Moon belongs to us.” Regarding such claims, Chinese scholar Victor Gao has been blunt: to prevent the Moon from being exploited for evil by the US, China must get there first and, on behalf of all humanity and for the sake of peace, assert sovereignty over the Moon.thechinaacademy.org/to-save-humanity-china-must-be…

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Why the Pinglu Canal, China’s Shortcut to Southeast Asia, Matters：Through the newly launched Pinglu Canal, the distance between China’s southwestern hinterland and ASEAN has been shortened by more than 560 kilometers.
thechinaacademy.org/why-the-pinglu-canal-chinas-sh…

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A U.S. think tank recently advised the U.S. government to consider bombing Chinese data centers to prevent China from catching up in AI. The advice has AI giants’ fingerprints all over it: using such extreme proposals to lobby for greater policy influence. thechinaacademy.org/bombing-chinese-data-centers-h…

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11 years after his last state visit, Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to return to the U.S.. Chinese scholar Victor Gao argues that, with China’s trade surplus surpassing $1 trillion, it is time for Beijing to set the U.S. agenda—to determine the issues to which Washington must respond. For Gao, this is the only way to achieve what he calls “inevitable peace” between the two countries. thechinaacademy.org/victor-gao-its-time-for-china-…

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