“Bonding chatbots” simulate emotionally meaningful relationships with users, encouraging anthropomorphization and emotional attachment. This dynamic is not incidental: it aligns with the business model underpinning many of these apps.
If you want to understand economic war, you need to begin by understanding the difference between economic statecraft and economic war.
Raquel Garbers, CIGI visiting executive from the Department of National Defence, outlines the clear distinction between the United States’ actions to reset its trade relationship with its allies and the economic warfare conducted by China while highlighting the dangers of conflating the two.
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