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Appeals court strikes down Trump's tariffs as illegal but leaves them in place The Washington PostAppeals court strikes down many Trump tariffs, saying he overstepped his authority CNNWhat's next for Donald Trump after US appeals court rules many of his global tariffs are ‘illegal'? Hindustan TimesMost of Trump's tariffs are illegal, federal court rules The Guardian
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EARLIER this month Peking University played host to perhaps the grandest global gathering ever of the higher-education business. Senior figures from the world's most famous universities—Harvard and Yale, Oxford and Cambridge among them—enjoyed or endured a two-hour opening ceremony followed by a packed programme of mandatory cultural events interspersed with speeches lauding "Xi Jinping thought". The party was thrown to celebrate Peking University's 120th birthday—and, less explicitly, China's success in a race that started 20 years ago.
In May 1998 Jiang Zemin, China's president at the time, announced Project 985, named for the year and the month. Its purpose was to create world-class universities. Nian Cai Liu, a professor of polymeric materials science and engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, got swept up in this initiative. "I asked myself many questions, including: what is the definition of and criteria for a world-class university? What are the positions...Continue reading
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