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US-China Biotech Competition

The progress of China's biotechnology industry will create opportunities for Indonesia as long as we are smart enough and can take advantage of it. To this day, it is difficult to deny that the United States is the most powerful country in the world and still dominates technological advancements in various fields. However, recent developments indicate that US dominance is beginning to be threatened by China's technological advancements. In the digital technology sector, the popularity of TikTok has even led the US government to consider banning the application made by a Chinese company, unless its shares are sold to US entrepreneurs. Most recently, the artificial intelligence (AI) service from China, DeepSeek, has emerged and shaken the dominance of its predecessors, such as ChatGPT and Meta, products of US technology companies.

Persaingan Bioteknologi AS-China

Kemajuan industri bioteknologi China ini akan membangkitkan peluang bagi Indonesia sepanjang kita cukup cerdik dan bisa memanfaatkannya. Sampai hari ini, sulit dibantah bahwa Amerika Serikat adalah negara paling perkasa di dunia dan masih mendominasi kemajuan teknologi di berbagai bidang. Namun, perkembangan belakangan mengindikasikan dominasi AS itu mulai terancam kemajuan penguasaan teknologi China. Di sektor teknologi digital, kepopuleran Tiktok sampai membuat Pemerintah AS berniat melarang aplikasi buatan perusahaan asal China ini, kecuali sahamnya dijual kepada pengusaha AS. Paling baru, layanan kecerdasan buatan (AI) asal China, DeepSeek, muncul dan menggoyang keperkasaan pendahulunya, seperti ChatGPT dan Meta, produk perusahaan teknologi asal AS.

Consistency in Fighting Covid-19

Insensible people who blow Covid-19 conspiracy theories and loath vaccination are few, but loud. It can influence public opinion so that there is distrust in the government's handling of the pandemic. As we are desperately struggling to contain the devastating attack of the Delta variant of Covid-19, Europe is raucously partying in soccer games. Soccer fans are enjoying live broadcast of the Euro Cup 2020 matches with the audience almost filling up the stadium capacity. The spectators cheer and prance, and the majority of them look to be feeling comfortable without masks. To enter the stadium, apart from the tickets, local spectators simply need to show vaccination certificates while foreign nationals must show negative swab test cards. How could this happen? England and Hungary, which are two among a number of the hosting counties of the Europe’s biggest soccer championship, claim to have vaccinated more than 90 percent of their citizens.