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Import Tariffs: The Trump Card?

President Trump’s memorandum signed on March 22, 2018 has directly targeted China for its unfair trade practices. Trump has announced the U.S. will impose import tariffs up to $60 billion and this is only “the first of many” retaliatory steps to follow against China. China, on the other hand, has warned the U.S. about its ...

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The Walk From Brain Drain to Brain Gain

Before the onslaught of “Westernization,” India grappled with the severe consequences of “brain drain.” Many Indian students between 20 and 30 years of age, who had just received their degrees or training, chose to migrate to the U.S. or U.K. with prospects of better jobs and lifestyle. The result was a massive brain drain from ...

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Is China Prepared to Call In Its Chips?

President Trump’s decision to slap import tariffs to the tune of $60 billion on China has certainly put U.S.-China relations into a new context. It has also led to a global debate of whether or not the world is going to witness an international trade war. The U.S. president directly called out China for its ...

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The Real Victims of the Trade War

The current U.S.-China discourse over import tariffs is certainly heating up. As a result, the severity and the size of the “war” aside, a trade war is surely impending. The victims of this kind of wars aren’t individual nations. They are industries or sectors as a whole that go beyond borders and affect overall economies. ...

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The Fate of PayPal in India and China

In the advent of making Indians go cashless, PayPal is strengthening its foothold in the Indian market at the right time. While PayPal was recently launched for domestic operations in India in November 2017, it has been available for Indian users since 2011, albeit with a per transaction limit. On the other hand, PayPal was ...

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From Yard to Frying Pan: Fresh Sautéed Dandelions

Fresh sautéed dandelions are a very healthy and nutritious dish. Dandelions have a yin and yang relationship with humans. Some consider them a dreaded obnoxious weed to be destroyed at all costs, while others see them as an important food and herb with medicinal uses. Dandelions grow just about everywhere. Their yellow flower heads announce the arrival ...

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Dandelions.

Antibiotics Are Proven Ineffective for Coughs

As more research is done regarding so-called non-traditional healthcare, doctors and scientists are rediscovering old treatments that are increasingly supplanting today’s standard treatments with antibiotics for a number of conditions. That includes coughs that often accompany the flu or mild chest infections, according to a recently published study in the journal Lancet. Effectiveness of antibiotics has ...

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Cough medicines.

Stephen Hawking’s Warning: Artificial Intelligence Could End Mankind

Renowned British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died on March 14, 2018. The news generated an online view rate of nearly 500 million people in China. At the same time, almost 250,000 viewers responded to the news with comments and messages. According to Agence France-Presse, Stephen Hawking opened a Sina Weibo account two years ago and ...

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Stephen Hawking at work.

A Brief History of Vinegar

The history of vinegar is very interesting. Vinegar is one of the essential seasonings in food preparation. It is also good for health maintenance, as well as acting as a medicine. The raw materials for vinegar include glutinous rice, sorghum, rice, corn, wheat, sugar, and wine. According to historical records, brewing vinegar in China goes ...

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Chinese Bamboo Strips Revealed as First Known Multiplication Table

Scientists in China have aligned fragments of bamboo with Chinese calligraphic writing on it to recreate a mathematical device used 2,300 years ago, making it the world’s first known multiplication table. In 2008,  researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing received almost 2,500 decrepit bamboo strips from a donor, who had bought them at a market ...

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