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标题：America is mighty—but becoming less dominant

Ahead of its 250th birthday, an empirical look shows the world’s leading country no longer stands so far apart

正文：Discussions of American power are prone to hyperbole. In his first inauguration speech, in 2017, Donald Trump lamented “American carnage”.In his second, in 2025, he declared that “America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on earth.” Americans themselves are gloomy about their country’s role on the global stage. Six in ten now think that, by 2050, their country will be “less important in the world”than today. But has America’s global po...

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标题：Donald Trump's $2.2bn windfall invites comparisons with global strongmen

正文：President Donald Trump flew to Medora, North Dakota, this week to dedicate the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. It was notable for being his first trip aboard the new $400mn Boeing 747 gifted to him by the Emir of Qatar. Trump flew out on the same day it was disclosed he had earned more than $2.2bn since his return to the White House, a windfall without precedent in US presidential history that has raised troubling questions about conflicts of interest in his administration.

知识点：dedicate v. /ˈdedɪkeɪt/
to officially open a building or monument to honor s...

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标题：The hottest college major hit a wall. What happened?

Computer science has been a top pick for 15 years. Enrollment data suddenly shows a big drop.

正文：A lot of students took the advice to learn to code. Since the Great Recession left technology as a rare spot of optimism in American industry, computer science has been among the fastest-growing college majors in the country,according to indispensable degree data from the National Center for Education Statistics. From 2008 to 2024, the number of four-year computer science degrees granted rose about fivefold. That’s more than double the pace of the next fastest-growing large majors: e...

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标题：Japan's men told to clean up at home, not just World Cup

正文：Japanese football fans once again drew worldwide attention after they stayed behind to clean the stands following Japan's 2-2 draw with the Netherlands at the FIFA World Cup in Dallas. FIFA lauded the supporters on social media platform X for their“impeccable manners,”posting footage of fans picking up garbage after the game and saying the reason for doing so is “respect.” Pictures of men in blue tidying up the stadium quickly proliferated online, earning widespread praise.

知识点：laud v. /lɔːd/
to praise someone or something highly 称赞；赞美
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标题：Strange new EV-makers keep appearing in China

If you can make a robo-vacuum, you can make a car

正文：Next year Dreame, a Chinese business better known for its robovacuums, plans to start selling sleek electric vehicles (EVs). It is not the only firm branching out from small household appliances to machines that can carry an entire household. Rox Motor, which started selling electric SUVs in 2023, was also founded by a vacuum tycoon. Xiaomi,which made its name producing cheap smartphones (and also makes vacuums, among other things), began selling sports cars a year later.

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标题：China is having another AI moment

A new model has narrowed the gap with America

正文：America’s lead over China in artificial intelligence may be at its smallest in over a year. When China disrupted the AI race in January 2025 with the release of DeepSeek R1, it erased $1trn from America’s capital markets.Nvidia, a chip firm, briefly shed 17% of its value; the Nasdaq sank by 3.1% in a day. American investors were troubled not only because Chinese AI was good, but because it was being given away free. The uproar soon faded.Since then, market valuations everywhere have hinged ev...

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标题：Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner

Green electricity means never having to say sorry for lowering the thermostat

正文：AMERICANS AND Europeans differ loudly on many issues, from health-care policy to gun-carrying etiquette. But a quieter division appears every summer when they visit each other’s continents. Europeans touring America complain that shops and restaurants are so frigidly air-conditioned as to require a jacket; step outside again and your glasses fog over. Yanks holidaying in Europe expect cool comfort, and grow surly on finding that many oldworld buildings require them to sweat and bear it.

知识点：differ loudly verb phrase /ˈdɪfə ˈ...

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标题：European heat wave brings in cool cash for Asian airconditioner makers as sales surge

正文：The record-shattering June heat that's baked Europe this week would have been“virtually impossible”just a few decades ago, according to a new analysis, which says the human-driven climate crisis is“unequivocally to blame.”

知识点：record-shattering adj. /ˈrekərd ˈʃætərɪŋ/
so extreme that it breaks the previous record 破纪录的；前所未有的
• The athlete delivered a record-shattering performance that stunned the entire stadium. 这位运动员交出了破纪录的惊艳表现，震惊了全场观众。
• Last summer saw record-shattering temperatures across multiple provinces. 去年夏天，多个省份经历了前所未有的高温。

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标题：U.S., Iran Carry Out New Strikes, Testing Fragile Ceasefire

The latest round of exchanges extends the biggest flare-up under Trump’s new agreement

正文：Bahrain said it came under attack from Iranian drones, and a tanker was hit Saturday while crossing the Strait of Hormuz, as fighting around the strategic waterway extended into a third day despite the agreement signed earlier this month to wind down the U.S.-Iran war. Iran didn't specifically claim responsibility for the attacks on commercial shipping. But state media said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had carried out strikes against American military targets in the...

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标题：U.S. Strikes Iran in Retaliation for Attack on Vessel in Strait of Hormuz

正文：The U.S. military said it launched strikes on Iran on Friday in retaliation for an Iranian attack in the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier, hours after President Trump called the Iranian action a“foolish violation”of the fragile cease-fire between the two countries.

知识点：fragile adj. /ˈfrædʒaɪl/
easily broken, damaged, or destroyed 脆弱的；易受损的
• The fragile cease-fire could collapse at any moment. 脆弱的停火随时可能破裂。
• Her health has been fragile ever since the surgery. 自手术以来，她的身体一直很虚弱。

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《早安英文-每日外刊精读》，带你精读最新外刊，了解国际最热事件：分析语法结构，拆解长难句，最接地气的翻译，还有重点词汇讲解。  
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标题：Japan spent billions to prop up the yen. Why is it still weak?

The US-Israel war with Iran has added fresh pressure on the yen

正文：The yen's weakness has become a growing issue for Japan's policymakers, given its impact on import prices and household costs.Concerns intensified in late April, when the currency slid to its weakest level since July 2024. Authorities responded by spending almost US$74 billion – a record amount for a month-lon period – to prop up the currency, triggering a sharp rebound. But the effect was short-lived, and the yen remains weak. By late June, the yen had tumbled further to around...

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标题：The Californication of middle-class Chinese diets

正文：DAI JIANJUN, an organic restaurateur in the eastern city of Hangzhou,was ahead of his time. For more than 20 years his buyers have obsessively sourced ingredients, paying farmers in Zhejiang province above- market rates not to use chemical fertilisers or pesticides. The trouble paid off: his Dragon Well Mano restaurant has a Michelin star. His grandmother believed that the first rich generation buys homes, the second knows how to dress and the third knows how to eat.

知识点：restaurateur n. /ˌrestərəˈtɜːr/
a person who owns or manages a restaurant 餐馆老板；餐厅经营者
· As a successful rest...

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标题：Argentinian national treasure Lionel Messi stands alone at goalscoring pinnacle

Missed penalty merely delayed the inevitable before forward scored the goals to go past Miroslav Klose’s World Cup goals record

正文：There stood 38-year-old Lionel Messi by the penalty spot, poised for yet another flashbulb moment in a career already overflowing with them. Just a few days removed from his first World Cup hat-trick – one that had thrust him into co-ownership of the all-time tournament goalscoring record – Messi had been gifted an opportunity to notch his 17th goal and stand atop the mountain alone. Calmly, coolly, he approached the ball. And then...

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标题：China's notorious university-entrance exam is changing

Demography and AI are set to transform the gaokao

正文： ON JUNE 7TH millions of young Chinese stepped into exam halls to take the gaokao, China's gruelling national university-entrance exam. The results will decide where they can study and thus the calibre of job opportunities that follow. For many, it will have been a once-in-a-lifetime shot to move up in Chinese society.

知识点：gruelling adj. /ˈɡruːəlɪŋ/
extremely tiring and demanding · 累垮人的；让人筋疲力尽的
· The soldiers went through a gruelling 48-hour training exercise in the desert. 士兵们在沙漠中经历了一场持续48小时的魔鬼训练。
· After a gruelling week of exams, she slept for nearly twelve hours straight. 经过一周累垮人的考试后，她一口气睡了近十二个小时。

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标题：Tournament of losers

The World Cup is a festival for corporate has -beens

正文： Money, it is often said, has ruined football. Staging the men’s World Cup mostly in America, a country that has produced so many great businessmen and so few good footballers, was supposed to mark the triumph of big business over the beautiful game. True, ticket prices are extortionate.The tournament even feels like a Silicon Valley conference circa 2016: referees have cameras strapped to their heads and each player has his own “digital twin”,whatever that means. Yet despite the pretences of the tournament’s organisers, the business o...

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标题：Don't restrict Chinese biotech

Patients benefit from faster, cheaper treatments, wherever they are invented

正文： Someone whose life is saved by a new medicine is unlikely to care whether it was invented at home or on the other side of the world. Yet America's policymakers have begun treating China's biotechnology industry as the next front in the tech war. A bill before Congress would amend the COINS Act, which restricts American investment in sensitive technologies abroad, to include licensing Chinese biotech. Some want the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), America's drug regulator, to disregard clinical-trial data from China. Meanwhile, bipart...

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标题：Al has granted America vast new power

Its government is now the gatekeeper to frontier models-and most compute

正文： The news is full of how an ignominious peace deal with Iran exemplifies a decline in American power. That conclusion could hardly be more wrong. On June 12th the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to block foreigners from Fable and Mythos, its latest and most capable frontier AI models. In an instant, everyone learned that the American government can decide who may use the world's  most important technology. You don't get much more powerful than that.

知识点：ignominious adj. /ˌɪɡnəˈmɪniəs/
public...

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标题：Donald Trump gambles that Iran wants money more than power

The peace deal is all carrot and no stick

正文： Having failed to defeat Iran with bombs, can President Donald Trump salvage something with bribes? After weeks of haggling over how to end the war, he and his Iranian counterpart have signed a short peace memo. It amounts to the promise of lots and lots of money for Iran, so long as it can satisfy Mr Trump that it has abandoned any plans for a nuclear weapon. That is a huge and unlikely gamble and it leaves the countries of the Middle East...

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标题：40-year-old Cape Verde goalkeeper keeps favorite Spain to 0 goals at World Cup

It took Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha all of his 40 years on Earth to make his World Cup debut. The long, long wait was worth every fleeting second.

正文： Vozinha recorded seven saves Monday, holding Spain's star-studded lineup to a shocking 0-0 draw. The veteran keeper was everywhere as the Spanish team and its fans became increasingly frustrated,despite dominating possession and unleashing 27 shots. Not even the second-half entrance of young superstar Lamine Yamal could crack the code to get past Vozinha and the Cape Verde defense.

知识点：hold sb. to sth...

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标题：A trade war between the EU and China seems inevitable

Europe sees Chinese subsidies, China sees European weakness

正文： Thucydides thought rising powers tend to cause conflict. Had he been an economist looking at the explosion of Chinese exports to Europe, he might have expected a trade war. So do many analysts these days. The question is no longer whether Europe will pull up some drawbridges, but how many and how fast, and how it will deal with the consequences.

知识点：Thucydides /θjuːˈsɪdɪdiːz/n. 本义为 “修昔底德（古希腊历史学家）”，国际关系与经贸语境核心义为修昔底德（《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》作者，“修昔底德陷阱”权力转移理论的思想源头，本文用以类比新兴经济体崛起引发贸易冲突的逻辑）
核心搭配：Thucydides's trap、Thucydides' theory of power transition、the Thucydides thesis
・The Thucydides's trap refers to the pattern where a rising power challenges an established hegemon, often leading to military or economic conflicts.
“修昔底德陷阱”指的是新兴大国挑战既有霸权国、往往引发军事或经济冲突的规律。
・Scholar...

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标题：Donald Trump's blocking of Anthropic is capricious and chaotic

America's closest allies are shellshocked

正文：“IT IS TIME to go beyond transparency to more serious and binding regulation of AI,” wrote Dario Amodei, the boss of Anthropic, on June 10th.His firm had just released Fable, a constrained version of its world-leading Mythos large language model, capable of superhuman feats of hacking. Two days later, the Trump administration delivered a shock of its own.

知识点：go beyond phr. /ɡoʊ bɪˈjɑnd/
to exceed or surpass something 超越，超出
• The CEO called for rules that go beyond mere transparency. 那位CEO呼吁制定超越单纯透明度的规则。
• Her ambitions...

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标题：How artificial intelligence got better at building itself 

What does “recursive self-improvement” mean for the technology?

正文：When Anthropic debuts on stock markets later this year in one of history’s largest initial public offerings, it will do so on the back of Claude Code. Launched in February 2025, this software-engineering agent has quickly become indispensable to developers worldwide. In fact, Anthropic’s own engineers now use it to write more than four-fifths of the company's published code, a staggering increase from the low single-digits recorded just a year prior. This rapid shift highlights a broader industry trend where artificial intelligence is dr...

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标题：The value of SpaceX rockets on its stock market debut

Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire

正文： It was the IPO that was never supposed to happen. On June 12th Elon Musk rang the Nasdaq’s opening bell from the Texas headquarters of SpaceX,his rocketry firm, as it made its public debut. At $135 each, the sale of 5% of the company’s shares raised $75bn, making it comfortably the biggest initial public offering of all time and Mr Musk the world’s first trillionaire.

知识点：be supposed to /bi səˈpəʊzd tuː/ 短语 本义为 “应该；被期望做”，财经商业事件
语境核心义为本应；按理应当；普遍预期会（本文特指市场与行业此前普遍认...

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标题：World Cup kicks off in Mexico with Shakira, dancing, and protests

正文：Thousands of fans arrived at the legendary Azteca Stadium in Mexico City with a real sense of excitement for the first World Cup on their home turf in 40 years. Despite concerns over security and logistics before the tournament,excitement dominated the atmosphere as football fans gathered for one of the biggest sporting events in the world. Javier Pérez, who attended the opening match with his family, described it as a once-in-a-lifetime experience.Having never attended a World Cup before, he said he simply hoped Mexico would “get off on the right foot” and sc...

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标题：Donald Trump's least bad option in Iran 

He must swallow his pride and accept a deal worse than the pre-war status quo

正文：Once again, Iran has been "completely defeated", said Donald Trump on June 10th. Confusingly, the "Bully of the Middle East", despite being "DEAD!!!",will have to "pay the price!!!" of not agreeing to Mr Trump's peace terms. In reality, despite more than 100 days of being bombed and blockaded by the world's top military superpower and its Israeli ally, the Iranian regime is emboldened. On June 7th, fighting between Israel and Iran briefly flared again as both sides traded missiles and...

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标题：The World Cup is an exception. Fun is more fragmented than ever

正文：With songs in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese, the theme tune of the men’s World Cup, performed at its opening ceremony on June 11th, seems designed to celebrate global unity. Nearly half the world is expected to watch the tournament before the final near New York next month.At first glance, the event appears to prove two things: that entertainment is becoming ever more global, and that America still sits at the centre of global culture. Yet both assumptions are increasingly outdated.

知识点：tune n. /tjuːn/
a melod...

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标题：America’s decaying Treasury market needs a fix

High debt, disjointed markets and pugnacious trade policy all threaten the world’s safe asset

正文：Since Richard Nixon broke the link between the American dollar and gold in 1971, global finance has floated on a sea of Treasuries. No asset is more important than America’s government debt. It provides a haven for investors at dangerous moments. Trillions of dollars of contracts and securities worldwide are priced with reference to Treasury bonds.

知识点：float on a sea of phrase 本义为 “漂浮在……的汪洋之上”，外刊财经语境核心义为建立在海量/巨量的……基础之上；充斥着大量……的（本文特指自布雷顿森林体系解体、美元与黄金脱钩后，全球金融体系高度依赖并建立在发行量极其庞大的美国国债之上，犹如在国债的汪洋中运转）核心搭配：float on a sea of debt、float on a sea of liquidity、float on a sea of cash 
・The tech startup boom floated on a sea of cheap venture capital. 这场科技初
创企业的繁荣建立在海量廉价风险投资的汪洋之上。
・During the pandemic, the global economy floated on a sea of government stimulus. 疫情期间，全球经济靠着巨量的政府刺激资金才得以维持运转。

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标题：Chinese teenagers' championship win reflects the spirit of the times:Global Times editorial

正文：Good news recently came from the Italian football field. The "Chinese Football Boy" U12 team won the championship in the final of Italy's Sigismondi Cup with a perfect record of 7 wins, becoming the first Asian team to win the tournament. The children demonstrated an excellent competitive spirit and a positive attitude. Images of overseas Chinese waving national flags and the children's innocent smiles as they celebrated with backflips quickly went viral on social media, igniting the passion of countless people.

知识点：in the final of phr. /ɪn ðə ˈfaɪnl əv/
in the la...

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标题：Why Is It So Hard to Be Ordinary? 
It’s what most of us are, most of the time. Shouldn’t it be enough?

正文：My son' s Little League season started not long ago. A few games in,asign appeared, mounted to a chain-link fence at the ballpark. Under the heading "Please Remember," it offered a five-point list: These areKIDS. This is a GAME. Coaches are VOLUNTEERS. Umpires areHUMAN. No scholarships will be handed out today.

知识点：Little League/ˈlɪtl liːɡ/ n.
本义：（美国）少年棒球联盟，特指针对儿童和青少年的正式棒球联赛组织，通常有严格的年龄分组、比赛规则和教练指导。
外刊人文哲思语境核心义：隐喻一种“过早认真、过度竞争”的青少年活动体系。它不仅仅是棒球比赛，更代表一种将成人社会的竞争压力、对卓越的追求、以及成绩焦虑投射到孩子身上的文化现象。文章借此引出核心问题：青少年活动到底该多“认真”？平凡是否可以被接受？
核心搭配：Little League season（少年棒球赛季）、Little League game（少年棒球比赛）、the heavy vibes of Little League（少年棒球联盟的沉重氛围）
• My son’s Little League season started not long ago.  我儿子的少年棒球赛季不久前开始了。
• The heavy vibes of Little League have many causes.  少年棒球联盟那种沉重的氛围，背后有许多原因

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标题：Ukraine is not a charity case
 
Europe needs its help just as badly as the other way round

正文： Give Europe credit for stepping up when many doubted it could. Since D.T. cut American military aid to Ukraine, Europe has managed to fill the breach. It is accelerating the flow of money and arms eastward, while stiffening sanctions on the Russian aggressor. Partly as a result of European help, Russia’s grim losses on the battlefield are putting pressure on Vladimir Putin. With American diplomatic efforts to end the war fizzling, some in Europe are asking whether it is time for them to take the...

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标题：America's Social Security trust fund is disappearing.
 
Legislators have just six years to fix things.

正文：America’s social Security trust fund for the country's elderly citizens is now more than old enough to be drawing a pension itself. When the programme launched in 1940, its future must have seemed assured. Lots of money went in and little came out: for each retired person drawing benefits, more than 150 workers were contributing to the fund, which invested in Treasury securities.

知识点：drawing /ˈdrɔːɪŋ/v.（动词 draw 的现在分词形式）
本义为 “画；拉；吸引”，外刊财经社保语境核心义为 领取（养老金、福利等）（本文特指符合条件的美国退休公民从社会保障信托基金中按月领取养老金福利）
核心搭配：draw a pension、draw benefits、draw unemployment benefits、draw a salary、draw allowance
・America's Social Security trust fund is now old enough to be drawing a pension itself. 美国的社会保障信托基金如今都已经到了该领养老金的年纪了。
・Millions of elderly Americans rely on drawing Social Security benefits to cover t...

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标题：India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world

It is not just rich places that are becoming less fertile

正文：For decades, India's rulers sent citizens a blunt message: stop having so many children. In the 1960s school walls carried slogans urging families to limit births. By the 1970s the government took an even harsher turn,overseeing the sterilisation of millions of mostly poor young adults, many against their will. Yet when Indian textbooks are reprinted this summer, they will carry a startlingly different warning—not about too many babies, but about too few.

知识点：blunt adj. /blʌnt/
direct and s...

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标题：How to make football more exciting

The World Cup is wonderful. It could be even better

正文：Football is the beautiful game. But it’s often also the boring game.The World Cup, which starts on June 11th, is being hosted by America,Canada and Mexico, the international equivalent of going to a dinner party and hearing the hosts rowing in the kitchen. The tournament will feature 48 teams playing 104 matches over the course of six and a half weeks. Although watching matches that feature your own nation is dependably exciting, for neutrals the average game is likely to be pretty drab. The stakes at a Wo...

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标题：AI super-apps are remaking China's internet

Welcome to the agentic era

正文：To have a coffee delivered to an office in Shanghai, users can ask one of China's artificial-intelligence super-apps to choose a drink, press “confirm” and wait for it to arrive. Delegating such decisions carries risks. When one user asked for a “special coffee”, he received a rose-petal-vinegar-flavoured one.Yet the speed at which such services are spreading in China is remarkable.More than 600m people are thought to have used some form of agentic app. China is moving rapidly towards a future in which AI chooses,purchases and delivers many goods and ser...

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标题：Why the world needs more franchises

From pizza to Pilates, franchises mint millionaires and make customers happy

正文：How do you get rich in today's America? Founding an artificialintelligence startup may look tempting, but most fail. Getting an advanced degree and slogging it out as a corporate lawyer or financier was once a reliable path to wealth, but now looks threatened by AI. Perhaps you should look instead to the company that has plausibly created more millionaires than any other in history: McDonald's. Most of its outlets are franchises, run by independent firms that pay royalties to the brand—and often make a fortune...

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标题：How East Asia should respond to its China shock 

As they deindustrialise, South Korea and Japan must reform

正文：America’s artificial-intelligence boom has put the rich economies of north-east Asia into overdrive. In the past year operating profits at South Korea's makers of memory chips have risen by over 500%. Even sluggish Japan is benefiting—though it long ago lost its title as the world's pre-eminent chipmaker. In 2025 all three countries enjoyed record exports and current account surpluses.

知识点：overdrive/ˈəʊvədraɪv/（英） /ˈoʊvərdraɪv/（美） 名词本义为 “（汽车的）超速挡、加速传动装置”，外刊经济产业语境核心义为 全速运转、超负荷运转、进入加速冲刺状态（本文特指美国人工智能热潮推动东北亚发达经济体全面进入产能全开、高速增长的状态，是外刊描述行业爆发式增长的生动表达，比 “rapid growth” 更具画面感和冲击力）
核心搭配：put sth into overdrive、go into overdrive、kick into overdrive、the industry is in overdrive
・This luxury sedan is equipped with a smooth six-speed automatic transmission with overdrive. 这款豪华轿车配备了带超速挡的平顺六速自动变速箱。
・The global battery industry has gone into overdrive to keep up with the 
explosive demand for electric vehicles. 全球电池行业已全速运转，以跟上电动汽车
爆发式的需...

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标题：Smart tech is making war a dumber choice

Smaller, weaker countries can defend themselves more easily with cheap,deadly kit

正文：Bullets and bombs killed nearly three-quarters of a million people in wars between 2021 and 2024. Many more died from the indirect effects of conflict, such as hunger and disease. Combat deaths in the past four years have been the highest since the end of the cold war. And for what purpose？Not even the leaders who started recent wars can be pleased with the results.Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has become a humiliating quagmire for Vladimir Putin. President Donald T’s wa...

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标题：Attacking Cuba would be a huge mistake

正文：Only hours after American special forces grabbed Venezuela’s dictator from Caracas on January 3rd, Donald Trump said that Cuba was “going down” next. Since then he has leant on Venezuela’s new ruler, who wishes to avoid being kidnapped like her predecessor, to cut off the supply of cheap oil to Cuba. As the island suffers blackouts, Mr Trump is urging its regime to make a deal with him “before it is too late”.

知识点：dictator n. /ˈdɪkteɪtər/
a ruler with absolute power, especially one who has gained it by force and rules oppressively...

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标题：The world comes to China

Foreign officials have flocked to China's leader this year, boosting Beijing's efforts to portray itself as a pillar of stability

正文：World leaders have been beating a steady path this year to see China.Through the first five months of 2026, 21 heads of state or government visited the country,according to Financial Times calculations based on foreign ministry data and state media. They included the leaders of Turkmenistan,Uruguay and Mozambique, as well as Germany’s Friedrich Merz, Spain’s Pedro Sánchez, Canada’s Mark Carney and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. US President Donald Trump and Ru...

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标题：Nvidia chief Jensen Huang to join board at prestigious Beijing university

Chipmaker boss's move to join Tim Cook-chaired board underlines push to maintain ties with China

正文：Jensen Huang has agreed to join the advisory board of a prestigious Chinese university that counts Apple's Tim Cook as chair, as the Nvidia chief pushes to maintain ties with Beijing. Huang, who accompanied US President Donald Trump on his recent visit to China, has accepted an invitation from Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management to join its advisory board, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The appointment has not yet been...