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Trump tries to ban transactions with Chinese payment apps

President Donald Trump signed an order banning U.S. transactions with eight digital Chinese payment platforms including Ant Group’s Alipay in 45 days, when he’ll no longer be in office. The order is the outgoing administration’s latest bid to use national security powers against China’s technology companies, but it will be up to President-elect Joe Biden to decide […]

‘A curfew in o’clock is Similar to Shutting restaurants’: To the French, the Most Recent COVID Steps cross a Lineup

Measures from Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral remains among the town’s oldest pubs, Au Vieux Paris D’Arcoleand also a Medieval stone whose rock walls and ribbons (as well as nice cuisine) have wowed traffic for years. But after almost 500 decades, the restaurant is currently fighting to live the latest calamity: The pandemic. Following a yearlong nationally […]

The unfinished business of stakeholder capitalism

Good morning. There’s a new book out today, The Six New Rules of Business, from Judy Samuelson, who started the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society program in 1998 and remains there today. From that perch, she has watched the evolving role of the corporation over the last two decades. Her book looks at fundamental changes that […]