Alibaba founder built wealth under Jiang Zemin's open policy

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Water is usually something you’d want to keep away from electronic circuits, but engineers in Germany have now developed a new concept for water-based switches that are much faster than current semiconductor materials.

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A country that prided itself on stability has seemed to be in free-fall. Whodunnit?

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