US needs a solution to China’s problem
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are both promising to preside over a manufacturing renaissance and whoever wins will have the wind at their back.
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Inside the US State Department’s weapons pipeline to Israel
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom..
The Washington Post’s witch hunt on Chinese Americans
A recent Washington Post article ran under the headline “How China extended its repression into an American city.”
Japan’s new leader expresses regret for governing party slush fund scandal, vows stronger defense
TOKYO (AP) — New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba opened his first policy speech in office Friday by expressing deep regrets over the governing party’s slush funds scandal that dogged his predecessor.
The long-feared Middle East war is here
When Iran fired more than 180 ballistic missiles at Israel this week in retaliation for the Israeli assassinations of the Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, some were surprised by Tehran’s forceful response.
The lost art of understanding the enemy
On October 1, 1970, China’s People’s Daily published a picture on its front page showing American writer Edgar Snow standing next to Mao Zedong on the Tien An Men gate tower. Snow, the author of the acclaimed “Red Star Over China”, had met Mao in Yenan in 1936, and while not himself a Communist, never hid his sympathies both for China and its new regime.
Japan calls Russia’s denial of alleged airspace intrusion ‘extremely regrettable’
Moscow had earlier claimed one of its military aircraft did not violate Japanese airspace near the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, with Maria Zakharova, director of the Russian foreign ministry’s information and press department, telling an online press conference on Wednesday that Moscow could not confirm the alleged flight over waters in the Sea of Japan by an IL-38 patrol plane on September 23.