Focus: HealthTech, PrivacyTech and Generative AI Davos, 2024 https://leadingbeyondboundaries.github.io/davos24.html MIT Professor Alex Pentland, a BGF Board Member, played a significant role at WEF Davos 2024. HealthTech Roundtable: Creating a preventive and...
Minh Nguyen is the Editor of the Boston Global Forum and a Shinzo Abe Initiative Fellow. She writes the Four Pillars column in the BGF...
Inside the European Parliament. The European Parliament has approved the first rules on cybersecurity for the European Union. This will force businesses to strengthen defenses against cyberattacks -- and to promptly report to regulators when they do happen. This...
The United Kingdom's apparent decision to leave the European Union could be very bad news for China. The U.K. has been its biggest economic ally in the E.U. Further, Chinese investments in the U.K. itself may suffer. The British have long pushed within the...
In the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. It might surprise many readers to learn that the U.S. has put, for the first time, sanctions on North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un for his regime's brutality toward his own people. Ten other high officials were also put on the...
In Kaliningrad. Here's a look at how the geography and tangled history of the Baltic region make everyone nervous as a more aggressive Russia probes NATO defenses in the region. Kaliningrad, a key Russian naval hub and leftover from World War II, is at the epicenter...
China has strongly criticized Japan over a scramble of military aircraft from the two countries amid a dispute over islands in the East China Sea. Japan is in an old dispute with China over ownership of a group of islands northeast of Taiwan, known as the Senkakus...
In the wake of the British vote to leave the European Union, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia are prepared to push back against the efforts of Germany for more integration of EU. member states. The push-backers are worried about being marginalized...