In early June 2023, Global Enlightenment Mountain, an initiative as a new Silicon Valley model, will convene a series of discussions with leaders from the banking industry in the US, Japan, India, Europe, and Vietnam. The objective is to collaboratively develop new...
On June 2, 2023, Director of the AIWS Leadership Program, Harvard Professor Thomas Patterson, a Global Enlightenment Leader, introduces the Program: Equipping Leaders to Meet the Challenges & Opportunities of the Digital Age with pioneering “Remaking the World –...
Rodrigo Duterte, the new president of the Philippines, has called the U.S. ambassador to the country, Philip Goldberg, a ‘'gay son of a whore'’. He made the comments Aug. 5 during an address to Filipino military officials, sparking, of course, a diplomatic row. To...
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council has ruined hopes for a recall referendum on leftist President Nicolas Maduro this year. Electoral council chief Tibisay Lucena announced several procedural details that would clearly push the referendum into 2017. The...
The leader of Poland's conservative ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, met on Aug. 9 with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The meeting of two right-wing and nationalistic leaders raised some concerns in more liberal parts of Europe about the growing right-wing...
Japanese Emperor Akihito, in a rare televised address to the nation, talked about his ill health and cast doubts on his ability to carry out his duties as emperor much longer. He said that he wanted an orderly imperial family succession. Observers speculated...
This week's show trials of lawyers who had the courage to defend those campaigning for human rights in the increasingly tough dictatorship of Chinese President Xi Jinping may be in the short-term interest of the Chinese government, but it will hurt the regime...
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