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China has a long-term Hong Kong challenge on its hands. If it wants to resolve the current impasse, hardline tactics are not sufficient. Both sides – Beijing and the protesters – must compromise. But there is little prospect of this happening in the current environment of escalating violence and hardening attitudes. As Adam Ni explains, China’s actions are sowing the seeds of future conflict.
And as Tunisia prepares for elections next month following the death of President Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi in July, Jonathan Powell and Clayton Besaw outline the prospects for democracy in the country.
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Beijing has a long-term Hong Kong challenge on its hands, one that in many ways is of its own making.
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Adam Ni, Macquarie University
The Chinese government has a multi-pronged approach to quell the protests –building support among business elites, putting pressure on companies and ramping up its misinformation campaigns.
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A military procession accompanies the coffin of the lateTunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi during his funeral in Tunis.
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Jonathan Powell, University of Central Florida; Clayton Besaw, University of Central Florida
In death, President Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi has left behind an unfinished revolution which now needs a new leader.
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Arts + Culture
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Ernest Yeboah Acheampong, University of Education; Ellis Kofi Akwaa-Sekyi, Catholic University College of Ghana
Football coaches can improve their chances of winning tournaments by choosing a team based on a unique combination of factors.
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Jenny Davis Barnett, The University of Queensland
Unicorns are a staple of social media. Today we might think of them as all magic and rainbows, but their past is one of ferocious beasts, religion, and mistranslation.
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Science + Technology
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Dan Lowry, Victoria University of Wellington
New research shows that ocean and air temperatures both contributed to the melting of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf in the past, but melting from below by a warming ocean became more important over time.
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Peter Banks, University of Sydney
Black rats are originally from India and brown rats are originally from China.
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Fatemeh Torabi Asr, Simon Fraser University
Using machine learning and natural language processing, researchers are developing an algorithm that can distinguish between real and fake news articles.
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Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, Universidade Federal de Goias; Michael Gavin, Colorado State University
Linguists have a lot of largely untested theories. Borrowing a tool from ecology, researchers built a model that didn't look for one worldwide explanation.
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