2025-05-29
23 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Artificial intelligence has a long academic backstory.
in which early promises weren't kept, enthusiasm faded,
and the field entered what was called the AI Winter.
Recently, of course, it resurged, but once again,
in the business world, disillusionment is spreading.
And as our subscriber-only series The Prince showed,
understanding President Xi Jinping's background and beliefs is really hard.
The host of that series says a new book all about Mr. Xi's father is a startlingly revealing look into his life.
First up, though.
religion number two love I don't know we got to put that number three I guess right and then it's tariff imported packages tied up with strings tariffs are one of Trump's favorite things it's a revenue source sure but we don't have to tell you that the arithmetic doesn't stand up More than that,
though, Mr. Trump uses them as leverage, a means to secure favorable trade deals.
In February, it was the so-called fentanyl tariffs slapped on America's nearest neighbors,
ostensibly for doing too little to stop the flow of drugs and migrants.
And then, in April...
My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day, waiting for a long time.
With Trumpian branding and a game show-style table of tariffs in hand,