World has to learn to live through closures

Why did Taiwan spend part of this month deliberately slowing down its own mobile internet? The civil defence exercises that opened in early August are testing what the island’s communications — reliant on undersea cables — would feel like under blockade, with bandwidth throttled on purpose to see how citizens would talk to one another […]

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Global investment rises 6% to $1.6 trillion, but development gains remain uneven

Global foreign direct investment rose 6% to $1.6 trillion in 2025, ending two years of decline. The recovery remains fragile and uneven: inflows to developed economies rose 11%, while developing economies recorded only 2% growth, reaching $901 billion. Much of the increase reflected a small number of megaprojects, especially in AI-related digital infrastructure. The world’s […]

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