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Lionel Laurent

Lionel Laurent

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A domino effect in Africa, embarrassment in Paris

What Emmanuel Macron calls an "epidemic” of coups in Francophone Africa is spreading. Not since the Arab Spring have Paris and other Western...

08.09.2023 90

The Japan Times

Lionel Laurent

French riot deja vu is raising the stakes for Macron

A teenager killed by police in a Paris suburb. A wave of anger that morphs into widespread rioting and opportunistic looting. A tough law-and-order...

05.07.2023 90

The Japan Times

Lionel Laurent

The AI gold rush will take humanity to some dark places

Scanning humanity’s eyeballs in exchange for cryptocurrency and assigning the encoded results to a blockchain is the kind of dystopian idea that...

31.05.2023 90

The Japan Times

Lionel Laurent

On the U.S. and China, Macron says the quiet part out loud

Three years after describing NATO as “brain dead,” Emmanuel Macron is once again playing trans-Atlantic irritant. After a recent trip to China...

13.04.2023 30

The Japan Times

Lionel Laurent

Blocking the Louvre won’t defuse France’s pension bomb

The French word of the month is chienlit, a centuries-old term literally meaning to soil the bed; it’s used today to describe the havoc in the...

28.03.2023 10

The Japan Times

Lionel Laurent

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