On September 8, 2024, the China-US "Working Group on Intensified Climate Action in the 2020s" meeting was held in Beijing. The meeting was co-chaired by Liu Zhenmin, China's Special Envoy for Climate Change Affairs, and John Podesta, Senior Adviser to the US President on International Climate Policy. The two sides continued discussions on addressing the climate crisis, including the implementation of their respective 2030 Nationally Determined Contributions and the preparation of their respectiv...
A recent Bankless podcast discussed the potential advantages of authoritarian regimes in the 21st century. Economist Noah Smith and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin elaborated on the potential of blockchain to enhance democratic resilience through secure, anonymous communication and verifiable voting. Vitalik Buterin emphasized that comparing the information environment to Thomas Hobbes' concept of war of "all against all", monopoly control narratives may become the only stable equilibrium. T...