Whether the tension between President Trump and China is an all-out trade war or just political sparring, much of the country is behind the president’s call for trade reform.
“To Trump, it appears, the choices are starkly clear: as the most powerful nation in the world today, the U.S. can either wait for death with a thousand cuts, or court death with a fighting chance of renewal,” says Z. John Zhang, Wharton marketing professor and director of the Penn Wharton China Center. U.S. consumers are active players in the economy, which is bracing for an economic downturn in jobs, wages, and the overall financial forecast. Despite Trump’s praise of tariffs as an easy way to win trade wars, the outcome is far from clear.
The U.S. is currently in retaliatory trade moves with China, while making NAFTA a potential target for reform. Zhang and his colleagues at Wharton share their predictions for the effects tariffs will have on the economy. Despite the current tension, says Zhang, “there is no sign that the U.S. economy is about to contract due to the onset or threat of trade wars.”
OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Google vary widely in identifying hate speech
Neil Fasching and Yphtach Lelkes of the Annenberg School for Communication have found dramatic differences in how large language models classify hate speech, with especially large variations for language about certain demographic groups, raising concerns about bias and disproportionate harm.
Understanding order to disorder at the atomic scale opens possibilities for next-generation electronic devices
A Penn team has developed insight into the chemical and geometric mechanisms underlying the synthesis of new 2D materials, paving the way for next-gen devices, biomedical applications, and cleaner, quicker energy conversion and storage.
(From left) Kevin B. Mahoney, chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System; Penn President J. Larry Jameson; Jonathan A. Epstein, dean of the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM); and E. Michael Ostap, senior vice dean and chief scientific officer at PSOM, at the ribbon cutting at 3600 Civic Center Boulevard.
Reimagined Penn Medicine facility set to usher in a bold new era of Immune Health discovery
3600 Civic Center Boulevard will bring together key researchers and technologies in Immune Health, the Colton Center for Autoimmunity, and infectious diseases to drive breakthrough science.
