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Cleaner, smarter, big data: the PLA’s bet on ‘sunshine’ military recruitment

The Chinese military is mining big data to get better recruits and stamp out corruption in the march towards its centenary next year. As part of an overhaul called “end-to-end sunshine” recruitment, the People’s Liberation Army has been commanded to use data-driven systems across the the enlistment process to build a military “focused on war readiness”. The orders came this month from the general…

Cleaner, smarter, big data: the PLA’s bet on ‘sunshine’ military recruitment

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Shrines, hot springs and Zen: Following Donald Keene on Basho's 'Narrow Road'

After leaving Kanazawa, Donald Keene's late-spring 1955 journey following the route described in Matsuo Basho's "Oku no Hosomichi" (translated by Keen

  • Donald Keene journeyed along Basho's Oku no Hosomichi route in 1955
  • Keene visited Tata Jinja shrine with Saito Sanemori's helmet and brocade robe fragments
  • Keene stayed at Yamanaka Hot Springs, Basho's haiku gathering destination

The midterms complicate Trump's search for an Iran deal

The midterms complicate Trump's search for an Iran deal newspress_en Sat, 11/14/2026 - 04:00 Politics Democratic control of Congress will increase scrutiny of the war and its economic costs, but could also make the concessions needed for a lasting agreement with Tehran more difficult to deliver.

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