China
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The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru review – British wartime tragedy told with potent empathy
This enthralling Chinese documentary about the torpedoing of a Japanese freighter carrying 1,816 British PoWs …
- Japan, US foreign policy, US news, North Korea, World news, Asia Pacific, China, Trump administration, Donald Trump, US politics
Japan to deploy long-range missiles able to hit North Korea and China
Planned missiles on Kyushu said to be part of ‘counterstrike capabilities’, as fears grow over US security pac…
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‘Bring me my tariffs’: how Trump’s China plan was 40 years in the making – podcast
Both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump’s political careers were shaped by their formative experiences in the 1980s –…
- Steel industry, Japan, US foreign policy, US news, Asia Pacific, China, Trump administration, Donald Trump
Trump and Japanese PM Ishiba talk tariffs and vow to stand against Chinese ‘aggression’
Leaders praise each other at White House but president warns Japan could face tariffs if it doesn’t cut US tra…
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‘Bring me my tariffs’: how Trump’s China plan was 40 years in the making
Both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump’s political careers were shaped by their formative experiences in the 1980s –…
- Japan, Economics, International trade, Global economy, Business, US news, World news, Asia Pacific, China, Shinzō Abe, South Korea, Trump administration, Taiwan, Donald Trump, US politics
Will Japan’s close ties with US survive the caprice and quirks of Donald Trump?
Japan’s complex defence alliances built up over years as protection against China could be put at risk in a Tr…
- Press freedom, Japan, Newspapers & magazines, Espionage, World news, Media, Asia Pacific, China, Newspapers
China sentences journalist to seven years on spy charges, family says
Dong Yuyu was detained in 2022 after meeting Japanese diplomats named agents of ‘espionage organisation’A vete…
- Japan, Joe Biden, Nuclear waste, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, Nuclear weapons, China, Second world war, Weapons technology, Russia, Donald Trump, US military
A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one
With Putin’s threats in Ukraine, China’s accelerated weapons programme and the US’s desire for superiority, wh…
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‘I wanted those 828 men not to be forgotten’: the Chinese documentary raising wartime ghosts
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru – rejected earlier this week as China’s official Oscars contender – recounts a …
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China test launches intercontinental ballistic missile for first time in decades
The ICBM, carrying a dummy warhead, was launched into ‘high seas’ of the Pacific OceanChina has announced the …
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China ‘testing us’ across the region, Biden tells leaders at Quad summit
US president is recorded on hot mic singling out Beijing, saying it ‘continues to behave aggressively’ in area…
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Xi’s ‘gunboat diplomacy’ risks driving his bullied neighbours into enemy hands | Simon Tisdall
Chinese aggression in the South China Sea forcing countries such as Japan to increase defences and talk up an …
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Tokyo demands answers over fatal stabbing of 10-year-old Japanese boy in China
It is unclear if the suspect targeted the boy because he was Japanese, but there is concern that the incident …
- Drug resistance, Fungi, Antibiotics, Japan, Environment, Society, Health, World news, Medical research, Asia Pacific, China, Microbiology, Biology, Science
Pathogenic microbes blown vast distances by winds, scientists discover
Living microbes that cause disease in humans and host antibiotic-resistance genes carried 1,200 milesMicrobes …
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Japan swelters through hottest summer while parts of China log warmest August on record
Climate scientists have already predicted that 2024 will be the hottest year everJapan has recorded its hottes…
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Japan says airspace violation by Chinese spy plane ‘utterly unacceptable’
Two-minute incursion by military surveillance aircraft comes amid regional tensions in Asia-PacificJapan has c…
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Japan broadcaster apologises after disputed Senkaku Islands called ‘Chinese territory’ on air
Unscripted remarks about the Japanese-administered islands were made during during a Chinese-language programm…
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Swimmer rescued 80km off Japan coast, 36 hours after being swept out to sea
Twenty-one year old spent two nights in the ocean before being spotted by a cargo ship A woman who was swept o…
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China’s tech firms vow crackdown on online hate speech after knife attack
Clampdown follows fatal stabbing of Chinese woman who tried to stop attack on Japanese mother and childChina’s…
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The quiet Japanese island paradise on the frontline of growing Taiwan-China tensions
Yonaguni is a tourist hotspot – but its location just 100km from Taiwan means residents must wrestle with the …