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WORLD
Oct 24, 2018
Alibaba expands cloud business to U.K. with new data centers
The cloud-computing arm of Chinese retail giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has opened its first data centers in the U.K., with two sites operational in London.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 24, 2018
Alibaba harnesses vast trove of shoppers' data to create 'spicy' Snickers bar
Brands spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year trying to figure out what consumers want.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 24, 2018
A U.S.-China great power competition?
Asian nations are anxious about Trump's aggressive approach toward China.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 24, 2018
Despite climate pledges, China struggles to break coal habit
In a former mining district in eastern China, authorities have shut dozens of pits and invested billions of yuan to resculpt the broken landscape, creating gardens, forest walks and wetland parks, as well as a small museum dedicated to coal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 23, 2018
Can Japan-China relations return to 'normal'?
The Abe administration understands that any sustained economic growth in Japan will necessarily include more, not less, trade and engagement with China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 23, 2018
China expresses 'serious concern' after U.S. sends two Japan-based warships through Taiwan Strait
The U.S. military has sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait for the second time this year as Washington ramps up its passages through the waterway amid tensions with China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Oct 22, 2018
China’s missile buildup — a threat to U.S. bases in Japan — likely a key factor in Trump plan to exit INF
U.S. President Donald Trump has pinned much of the blame for Washington's planned exit from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) on Russian violations of the landmark pact. But a closer look shows that China's buildup of its missile forces — which pose a grave threat to U.S. military...
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2018
China looks to historic foe Japan for lessons on handling Trump trade war
As China braces for the full impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war, it's seeking to learn from Japan's economic battles with Washington during the Reagan years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 22, 2018
U.S. Treasury chief Steve Mnuchin dismisses risk of contagion from China's economic slowdown
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin dismissed concerns that China's weakest economic growth since the global financial crisis could spill into other emerging markets and destabilise U.S. financial markets.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 21, 2018
Abe-Xi summit comes as Chinese leader looks to create united front amid U.S. trade war
At the upcoming summit in Beijing, President Shinzo Abe and Chinese leader Xi Jinping may form a united front in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's protectionist moves.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 21, 2018
Ahead of Abe's visit to Beijing a look at Japan-China ties through the years
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to China from Thursday, which will include the first formal summit between the two countries' leaders since 2011 and comes as they mark the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, is expected to cap a warming trend in once chilly Sino-Japanese...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 21, 2018
Trump claims China election meddling that cyberfirms don't see
U.S. President Donald Trump has said China is interfering with the November midterm elections, but the findings of top cybersecurity firms are casting doubt on his claims.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 21, 2018
Beijing says depression behind Macau representative's death in fall from building
China's top representative to Macau died Saturday night, after tumbling from the building where he lived "due to depression," the Chinese government said Sunday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 20, 2018
U.S. weighs new warship passage through Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions with China
The United States is considering a new operation to send warships through the Taiwan Strait, U.S. officials tell Reuters, a mission aimed at ensuring free passage through the strategic waterway but which risks heightening tensions with China.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 20, 2018
U.S. national security adviser could announce American withdrawal from landmark missile treaty during Moscow visit
U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, will visit Moscow next week for talks that may include telling Russian officials that the United States plans to withdraw from the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 20, 2018
At Asia-Europe Meeting, Abe issues appeal for upholding multilateral free trade system
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday delivered a full-throated appeal for maintaining the multilateral free trade system led by the World Trade Organization to counter U.S. protectionist policies and China's assertive approach to trade.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 19, 2018
Current U.S.-China frictions do not amount to a new 'cold war': ex-Australian PM Kevin Rudd
As tensions ratchet up between the U.S. and China over trade and security issues, many major news organizations around the globe have given a platform to commentators trumpeting the arrival of a new "cold war" between the world's two largest economic superpowers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 19, 2018
China urges investor calm while stopping short of market rescue
China's top financial officials moved to shore up confidence in the country's tumbling stock market, a rare show of coordinated verbal support as the government tries to prevent the deepest equity sell-off since 2015 from infecting the world's second-largest economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 19, 2018
China's third-quarter GDP growth slowest since global financial crisis
China's third-quarter economic growth slowed to its weakest pace since the global financial crisis and missed expectations as a multiyear campaign to tackle debt risks and the trade war with the United States began to bite.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 18, 2018
Amidst global upheaval, diplomats and experts eye greater role for Japan
Despite the fraught global environment — with U.S.-China animosity mounting alongside a bevy of regional security concerns — Japan appears to be viewing the situation as a glass half-full scenario, according to leading experts, as well as current and former officials.

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