Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is exploring an opportunity to meet US President Donald Trump during her visit to the United States later this month, as Tokyo seeks to exchange views with
by Our Correspondent in Washington DC A new U.S. Congress-mandated report, spanning more than 700 pages, has issued its most forceful warning yet that China is constructing a covert maritime empire stretching
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Sheffield Hallam University’s decision to halt a major body of research into forced labour in China — first revealed in materials obtained by Professor Laura Murphy and originally reported by The Times
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For decades, the small island of Kinmen, just off China’s southeastern coast, witnessed one of the most unusual military stand-offs in history. From the 1950s through the late 1970s, the Chinese Nationalists
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China-founded TP-Link Systems Inc. is attempting to convince U.S. national security officials that it operates independently from Beijing, but its Vietnam factory highlights the challenges of that claim. The facility, which produces
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Editorial The latest rupture between Japan and China, sparked by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about the security implications of a Taiwan contingency, is more than a bilateral diplomatic quarrel. It is
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Chinese cruise lines that regularly sail to Japanese ports are urgently redrawing itineraries, redirecting ships to South Korea as tensions escalate following remarks by Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi. Her statement
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A Chinese investment firm has purchased a block of ByteDance Ltd. shares at a valuation of $480 billion, far above recent market levels, highlighting robust investor interest in the Beijing-based tech giant.
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The assessment comes from the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which released its annual report to Congress on Tuesday. The 700-page document includes an extensive chapter on Taiwan, stating that the
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Tsinghua University, China’s premier science and technology institution, is emerging as a powerhouse in artificial intelligence, translating academic excellence into a surge of startups, patents, and technological influence, Bloomberg reports. The campus,
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The West’s effort to establish a domestic rare earth magnets supply chain, heavily supported by the U.S., is hitting a critical obstacle: a shortage of heavy rare earth elements, according to multiple
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