By Florian Schneider September 2025 The rapid developments in generative artificial intelligence (genAI) have forcefully drawn attention to the challenges our societies face, especially when it comes to labour and work. These challenges are keenly felt in almost all industries,…
By Florian Schneider July 2025 LAC Director Florian Schneider has written a new LAC Short after visiting the 22nd Chinese Internet Research Conference in Beijing. He discusses the latest AI developments in China, particularly the use of ‘anthromorphised’ AI in…
While the recent NATO summit in The Hague focused primarily on internal alliance matters—and to a lesser extent on Ukraine—Asia was hardly mentioned. This omission is increasingly problematic. In a world where global power is shifting and the United States…
Florian Schneider May 2025 A looming amorphous blue blob greets me as I enter the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. Crouching on its pedestal, it looks down on me and the other expo visitors with its five rolling eyeballs and…
Daan Kingma December 2023 In the Dutch general elections on the 22nd of November, populist and anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom secured a landslide victory, marking an unprecedented shift in the Dutch political landscape. On the other side…
Sinds 2022 voeren China en de Verenigde Staten een woordenstrijd over de zeerechtelijke status van de Straat van Taiwan, met name over de vraag of de Straat van Taiwan juridisch als ‘internationale wateren’ moet worden beschouwd, zoals de VS betogen….
