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U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war has spurred the biggest market losses since the COVID-19 pandemic.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 5, 2025
Stocks slump again after China fires back in trade war with tariffs on U.S. goods
The trade war has spurred the biggest market losses since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Talks between the U.S. and China’s armed forces are a key indicator of the guardrails in place, even as the Trump administration and Beijing clash over a slew of issues.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 4, 2025
China and U.S. make first known military contact since Trump inauguration
Talks between the U.S. and China’s armed forces are a key indicator of the guardrails in place, even as the Trump administration and Beijing clash over a slew of issues.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Osaka in 2019. With his global tariffs announcement, Trump may have undercut his own China strategy.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 4, 2025
Trump's global trade war may defeat U.S. strategic goals on China
Tariffs could cause an economic moat to form around the U.S. that ultimately undermines Washington's strategic goals on Beijing, analysts warn.
Rescue teams from China and Belarus coordinate at the site of a collapsed building in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 3, 2025
With U.S. absent, China steps in for earthquake-hit Myanmar
The American absence shows how U.S. President Donald Trump's moves to slash the size of the government has hobbled its ability to act during disasters.
Balloons with protest slogans are seen outside the Legislative Council building during the anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 1, 2025
U.S. sanctions six Chinese and Hong Kong officials for rights abuses
The move is the Trump administration's first major move to punish Beijing over its crackdown on the city.
Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's CK Hutchison has entered into a deal with a BlackRock-led consortium to sell ports in Panama and elsewhere, putting his conglomerate’s flagship entity in the crosshairs of U.S.-China tensions.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 27, 2025
China pauses new deals with Li Ka-Shing family after Panama ports plan
The directive was issued to state-owned enterprises last week at the behest of senior Chinese officials.
An electronic billboard for TikTok in Times Square in New York, Jan. 24. ByteDance has an April 5 deadline to find a non-Chinese buyer for TikTok or face a U.S. ban.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 27, 2025
Trump says he may give China reduction in tariffs to get TikTok deal done
ByteDance has until April 5 to find a non-Chinese buyer for TikTok or face a U.S. ban, though the U.S. president has expressed a willingness to extend the deadline.
Max Lesser, a senior analyst on emerging threats at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, has uncovered a network of companies operated by a secretive Chinese tech firm that has been trying to recruit recently laid-off U.S. government workers.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 26, 2025
Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired federal workers in U.S.
Max Lesser, a researcher who uncovered the network, said the campaign follows "well-established" techniques used by previous Chinese intelligence operations.
The BYD logo is displayed at the Beijing Auto Show on April 25, 2024. The Chinese battery and carmaker saw a surge in revenue last year, a stock filing showed on Monday, surpassing the $100 billion mark and beating rival Tesla as the Shenzhen-based firm accelerates its overseas expansion.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 25, 2025
BYD sales top Tesla as tech focus wins over Chinese drivers
BYD has risen quickly to the top of China’s car market — the world’s biggest and most competitive for electric vehicles.
U.S. Sen. Steve Daines meets with Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 24, 2025
Xi must stop fentanyl flow before tariff talks, Trump ally says
Steve Daines laid out the condition in meetings with Chinese officials in Beijing over the weekend.
Workers at the Cosco Shipping Holding shipyard in Qidong, Jiangsu province, China, on Oct. 8, 2024
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 24, 2025
Billion-dollar U.S. levies on Chinese ships risk ‘trade apocalypse’
The levies could theoretically generate between $40 billion and $52 billion for U.S. coffers.
U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters in the White House on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 23, 2025
How Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts leave a vacuum that China can fill
When President Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States would move ahead with a long-debated project to build a stealthy next-generation fighter jet, the message to China was clear: The United States plans to spend tens of billions of dollars over the next decade, probably far longer, to...
Others in the running to buy TikTok are Microsoft, Oracle and a group that includes Internet personality MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 22, 2025
AI startup Perplexity confirms interest to buy TikTok
Perplexity in a blog post laid out a vision for integrating its AI-powered internet search capabilities with the popular video-snippet sharing app.
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, at the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 22, 2025
Trump rejects idea that Musk should have access to top-secret China war plans
The U.S. president also denied a report that such a briefing had been planned to be held at the Pentagon on Friday.
U.S. President Donald Trump with Elon Musk and his son at the White House this month. The Pentagon is scheduled on Friday to brief Musk on the U.S. military’s plan for any war that might break out with China, two U.S. officials said Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 21, 2025
Musk set to get access to top-secret U.S. plan for potential war with China
Providing Musk with access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets would bring into sharp relief questions about his conflicts of interest.
A rare earth open-pit mine in Mountain Pass, California. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that taps the Cold War-era Defense Production Act as part of an effort to domestically process a range of critical minerals.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 21, 2025
U.S. moves to curb China’s grip on critical minerals
Trump invokes emergency powers for more U.S. mining, citing economic and security concerns.
The Pentagon's disbandment of the Office of Net Assessment ends a key institution that provided long-term strategic analysis, leaving the U.S. vulnerable to future geopolitical challenges.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 20, 2025
A sad day for U.S. strategic analysis as the Office of Net Assessment is disbanded
While most focused on the military, ONA was the only group to conclude that winning the Cold War relied on economic means, not troop numbers.
The Voice of America building in Washington on Sunday, a day after more than 1,300 of the employees of the media broadcaster, which operates in almost 50 languages, were placed on leave
WORLD / Politics
Mar 18, 2025
China and Russia eager to fill void as Trump axes U.S.-funded media
Trumps moves come after years of efforts by Beijing and Moscow to promote their own worldview on the global media landscape.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, marked by betrayal and disregard for relationships, has weakened America’s global alliances, prompting countries to consider alternative allies.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2025
America is surrounded by enemies — that it created
This is not just a Trump problem; America’s whole reputation is shot.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 15, 2025
U.S. hits Thai officials with visa sanctions over deportation of Uyghurs to China
The move appeared intended to discourage Thailand — a U.S. ally — and other countries from such deportations.
Transport ministry issues warning to Haneda Airport operator
The operator of Tokyo's Haneda Airport has been warned by the government over its inappropriate transactions.
Xi defiance pays off as Trump meets most China trade demands
Then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visits a school in South Gate, California, in February 2012. Experts say Xi won big in his standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Nissan shares surge as carmaker set to cut 20,000 jobs in huge overhaul
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cars and car parts imported to the U.S. have been painful to most global brands, but crippling in Nissan’s case.
Japan might be playing long game in U.S. tariff talks
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House earlier this year. Ishiba said Monday that farmers won't be sacrificed for automakers in Japan's tariff negotiations with the U.S.
More details emerge about stabbing near Tokyo University metro station
Yoshitaka Toda, the suspect in Wednesday's knife attack at Todaimae Station on the Tokyo Metro Nanboku Line, leaves a police station in the Japanese capital the same day for a pre-detention medical examination.
Japan set for bigger role in Philippines after SDF’s debut in key drills
Philippine Army Brig. Gen. Michael Logico, who was involved in managing the latest iteration of the Balikatan U.S.-Philippine drills, told The Japan Times that he expects military ties with Japan to surge even further once Tokyo ratifies a key visiting-forces agreement with Manila.
In China’s ‘Michelin Guide,’ Tokyo leads overseas listings with 30 entries
China's Black Pearl Restaurant Guide held its award ceremony overseas for the first time, picking the dining capital of Singapore to promote its brand to an international audience.
Who could become Japan's next prime minister?
Clockwise from top left: Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi
With a new Shibuya studio, Apple Music bets big on Japan
Apple Music personalities (from left) Ebro Darden, Kentaro Ochiai, Zane Lowe and Mino came together for a special recording in late April to discuss music and celebrate the newly opened Apple Music studio in Tokyo.
Escalation fears rise in Japan following Chinese moves near Senkakus
A Japan Coast Guard vessel sails in front of the Uotsuri islet, one of the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands. Concerns are growing in Tokyo after a Chinese government helicopter violated Japan's airspace around the uninhabited islets.

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