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Google Bard seen on Google blog post with Google logo on mobile, in Brussels, Belgium.
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What We're Watching: Bard bot, Nigerian election heats up, Tibetan kids pulled away

Google's Bard vs. ChatGPT; Nigeria nears decision day; China is separating Tibetan children from families

COVID protests spread in China
Quick Take

COVID protests spread in China

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: All across China, demonstrations of the sort that we have certainly not seen under Xi Jinping's rule - about COVID, about zero COVID, and the loss of liberties that Chinese citizens have faced, but also increasingly moving towards demands for free speech and open media, and even Xi Jinping's removal.

What We're Watching: Biden-MBS fist bump, Xi in Xinjiang, Kenya-Somalia thaw
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What We're Watching: Biden-MBS fist bump, Xi in Xinjiang, Kenya-Somalia thaw

Did the UN accomplish anything in Xinjiang?
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Did the UN accomplish anything in Xinjiang?

UN human-rights chief Michele Bachelet finally visited China's northwest region. But critics say it was a bad idea.

What We're Watching: Texas mourns, Boris caught red-handed, lethal weapons sent to Ukraine, China’s human rights abuses leaked
US & Canada

What We're Watching: Texas mourns, Boris caught red-handed, lethal weapons sent to Ukraine, China’s human rights abuses leaked

What We’re Watching: Xinjiang at the Beijing Olympics, Boris in deep(er) trouble, Indonesia’s new capital
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What We’re Watching: Xinjiang at the Beijing Olympics, Boris in deep(er) trouble, Indonesia’s new capital

Would athletes be exempt from a Beijing 2022 Olympics boycott?
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Would athletes be exempt from a Beijing 2022 Olympics boycott?

Will Western nations boycott next year's Beijing Winter Olympics over China's human rights abuses in Xinjiang? Probably not, says the International Olympic Committee's Dick Pound. But some countries, he anticipates, may opt to only send their athletes — like his native Canada, which has a lot of diplomatic issues with the Chinese. Pound, a former Olympian athlete himself, spoke in an interview with Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

How political sports boycotts (really) work
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How political sports boycotts (really) work

US baseball has just stepped into a political minefield. It's the latest in a series of increasingly high-stakes sports decisions around the world that have a lot to do with politics — including some controversial boycotts.

A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past a graffiti on a wall, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, India, March 25, 2021.
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What We're Watching: India halts vaccine exports, principle vs profit in China, Nigeria's crypto fiasco

The stories COVID buried
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The stories COVID buried

While coverage of the pandemic dwarfed everything else in 2020, we have seen other huge political stories this year that will continue to shape the world for years to come. Your four Signal writers — Carlos, Alex, Gabrielle, and Willis — each chose one big story that, to one degree or another, went under the radar as the global health crisis took centre stage.






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