The US’s trade ban on Huawei is the most likely to blame for the delayed release. This prevents Google from granting the Mate 30 Pro an Android licence, therefore the device can’t come pre-installed with Google apps and services like the Play Store, Gmail, Chrome and Google Maps.

As with the Trump administration’s demand for a revised North American trading system, Canada will have to find a response to each that is positive enough to appease, but also robust enough to maintain the core of national sovereignty.

The first issue on the new U.S.-Canada agenda is America’s need for water.

New and more strident demands for U.S. access to Canada’s “surplus” of this vital resource is certain to be presented.

The Canadian position remains that water is not a tradable commodity. So far, the U.S. government has neither agreed nor contested that view.

The Arctic climate is changing faster than anywhere else. Waters previously unnavigable are now becoming sea lanes

U.S. policy is slated to become far more restrictive. Two shifts in particular will have dramatic implications for Canadian refugee policy.

In effect this means that any Central American refugee in the United States will feel entitled to claim asylum in Canada.

the United States simply cannot ever be expected to remain at arms’ length in our national life.

On Aug. 22, 2019, Seoul announced its withdrawal from the General Security of Military Information Agreement, an intelligence-sharing pact between Japan and South Korea signed in November 2016. Recently, the relationship between these two neighbors has deteriorated to its lowest point since the end of World War II.

These past efforts to mend ties make the downward trajectory of the relationship between the two U.S. allies even more puzzling.

Some observers have argued that Seoul and Tokyo tend to set aside differences and cooperate when the U.S. security commitment to the region appears weak. But while this may be true, the size of the gap to be bridged continues to widen, due to the rise of China and the Japanese and South Korean reactions to increasing great power tension.

"It's not about how women do their work. The company... values the women's appearance as being feminine and that's opposite to someone who wears glasses," Prof Nemoto said.

Thus, in overturning a California loitering law that required persons who wander or loiter on the streets to provide “credible and reliable” identification in Kolender v. Lawson (1983), the Supreme Court explained that “the void-for-vagueness doctrine requires that a penal statute define the criminal offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory treatment.”

These examples undoubtedly were known to early American commentators and jurists, who often reiterated the importance of clarity in criminal statutes. James Madison in Federalist No. 62 warns of the “calamitous” results if laws are “so incoherent that they cannot be understood. . . .” In an early federal court case, United States v. Sharp (1815), the Court argued that laws that “create crimes, ought to be so explicit in themselves, or by reference to some other standard, that all men, subject to their penalties, may know what acts it is their duty to avoid.”

Ambiguity exists when a term can reasonably be interpreted in more than one way, for example, the word “bank” can refer to a financial institution or a riverside. Vagueness occurs when the boundaries of a word’s meaning are not well defined, as in the word “tall”5. Vagueness also exists when a word or phrase reduces the level of information contained in a statement, as in stating that an action “may be appropriate”; this phrase reduces the clarity about whether or not the action should be performed.

The importance of context on the interpretation of vague terms was shown by Mapes who conducted a study in which physicians were asked to assign a numerical value to the phrase “side effects with [this drug] are rare” in two different contexts: beta adrenergic blocking agents and antihistaminic drugs11.

Creating a controlled vocabulary of vague terms has the potential to reduce variable interpretation. Researchers have found hundreds of vague terms used in the medical literature, and reducing these to a manageable set of terms is a viable solution.

Researchers have noticed that a rank order of vague terms relative to one other was maintained across studies, despite wide variability in the interpretation of specific terms in the individual studies. This finding indicates it might be possible to create an ordinal scale of ranked vague terms from which authors could select when deliberately using vague terms.

Emotions: as ethereal as air and as dangerous as sulfur 

Emotions are subjective experiences that induce you to act. They emerge basically from our perceptions of the world, instead of from an actual reasoning.

Many human behaviors depend on emotions. Emotions have a great effect on the decisions we make. In fact, usually, they are crucial.

In theory, emotions are not decisive, but in reality they can be very decisive. They are intrinsic to human beings and seep into all our judgments and deliberations in life. It is not about denying them, but rather about identifying them and learning to channel them for our own good.

Emotions usually obey unknown causes.

Emotions give way to certain thoughts, and thoughts, in turn, give birth to emotions.

Emotions that have barely been thought out lead to a distorted perception of reality.

In the same way, imagining purely emotional actions, without even a pinch of reason, is more or less absurd.

Emotions are not prancing and runaway horses that we should “take the reins of.” They make us who we are as human beings. They help give meaning to our world. They do not have to be “eradicated,” nor denied or undervalued. Quite the contrary: being able to feel means being able to be human. Only on the basis of emotions can love, sacrifice, big dreams and great deeds be built.

If our emotions are accompanied by correlative judgements, then the cognitivist theory can explain dispositional emotions as simply lacking their physiological accompaniment.

One expresses a very different response to the world if a judgement is declared with anger, than if one speaks without apparent emotion.

In the light of this acknowledgement of the partial autonomy of emotions and their political import, the traditional idea of emotion needing to be dominated by reason is also exposed as hopelessly biased. Of course reason must regulate wayward emotions and -prejudicial feelings, but equally emotion must regulate reason in order that accepted forms of interpretation and rationality do not brutalise and deny people’s emotions, forbidding them their due interpretation, their meaning, and their political significance.

“Imagine what the world would look like if China was setting standards,” he said. “Over time, that means we have fewer levers to shape what the US wants to do, both from a global technology standpoint and also what are the values that are highlighted around the world as ones to be looked up to.”

Chinese experts have rejected the claim by a senior Pentagon official that the US is lagging behind China in some key dual-use technologies.

But, Brown warned, for China to set the pace for these technologies would be “game-changing”.

For the past 50 to 80 years, the US had led the way and set the standards in almost all important technologies and industries,

Huawei, China’s telecommunication giant has won contracts to construct the 5G infrastructures for many countries, despite the US campaign to ban Huawei equipment over security concerns.

The mining industry has traditionally supported Morales.

“The interim OAS (Organisation of American States) mission report has identified substantial shortcomings of the electoral process, notably the unexpected interruption of the publication of the voting results, that undermine the necessary credibility and transparency,”

your memories are sequential, like symbols on a ticker tape. They are designed to be read in a certain direction and in order.

your memories are nested. Every action and thought is made up of smaller actions and thoughts.

The basic structure and functioning of the human brain is hierarchical. This may not seem intuitive at first. It sounds like how a computer works.

Emotion and reason each have somewhat different, but complementary and interlaced roles. They both provide information and guide behavior.