Today on Pearls and Irritations
An eagle for Xi, pandas for America and a changing world order
Trump gave Xi a bald eagle. Xi promised America two pandas. Behind the diplomatic symbolism sits a larger shift: China’s international standing is improving as trust in the United States declines.
Storming the ramparts of legacy media
Tens of thousands of AI incidents expose a growing control problem
‘Too much wind and solar’? Ten years on, South Australia tells a different story
A new Washington-Beijing compact
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