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XI JINPING

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jul 14, 2021
Fifty years since Kissinger's secret visit, Sino-U.S. ties now fraying fast
The downward trajectory is unlikely to be altered any time soon, experts say, as top officials in both countries are buckling down for a long-haul competition.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jul 12, 2021
China's crackdown on its ultrarich set to reshape its most profitable sectors
With an age of unfettered gains now coming to an abrupt end, investors are likely to be more cautious.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 10, 2021
China’s youth are embracing Mao's message
The chairman's call for struggle and violence against capitalists is winning over a new audience of young people frustrated with long work hours and dwindling opportunities.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jul 9, 2021
China's Didi crackdown is all about controlling big data
The crackdown shows how big data is quickly turning into the next major battleground in a clash of superpowers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 8, 2021
An outside look at the Chinese Communist Party's 100th birthday
President Xi Jinping's speech marking the 100-year anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party was never going to win the hearts and minds of China's neighbors — including Japan's media.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 7, 2021
China's Xi takes dig at U.S. in speech to political parties around world
The Chinese leader urged political parties worldwide to oppose any country that engages in 'technology blockades,' an allusion to the U.S., which views China as its strategic competitor.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 7, 2021
China and U.S. can coexist in peace but challenge is enormous, White House Asia czar says
U.S. Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell said there are likely to be 'periods of uncertainty, perhaps even periods of occasional raised tensions' between the two powers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jul 6, 2021
When will China rule the world? Maybe never.
A combination of reform failure, international isolation and financial crisis could halt China before it reaches the top.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2021
Dire straits: Taiwan’s fragile status quo
War could be the result of a concatenation of events, misperceptions, and emotionally charged decisions, much like the outbreak of World War I.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 5, 2021
Europe’s diplomats to China push human rights and respect
Leading European diplomats in Beijing have stressed their commitment to human rights and appealed to China for mutual respect and understanding following a defiant speech from Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 3, 2021
China's foreign minister warns foes not to misjudge China’s will
Wang Yi showcased China's rising confidence and assertiveness in global affairs, while criticizing the U.S. and its allies for grasping to an outdated Cold War mentality.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Jul 3, 2021
Pride and concern marks anniversary of China's Communist Party
China's insecurity, rather than its very real problems, could be the greatest threat to the Chinese Communist Party.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 1, 2021
China's Xi pledges 'reunification' with Taiwan, drawing stern rebuke
While China has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control, Xi called for a process of 'peaceful reunification.'
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 30, 2021
Finding relevance in the Communist Party among China's Gen-Z
Party membership grew by a record 2.43 million in 2020, and as is typical, about 80% of new joiners were 35 or under.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2021
Coronavirus and China’s geopolitical rollercoaster
It seemed for a time that the pandemic could mark a moment of ascendancy in the “psychological balance of power” as China moved to supplant America's leadership role.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jun 29, 2021
China's ruling Communist Party censors its past as centenary nears
President Xi Jinping has spearheaded a campaign against 'historical nihilism,' defined as any attempt to use the past to question the party's leading role.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 28, 2021
Crossing the red line: Behind China’s takeover of Hong Kong
One year ago, the city's freedoms were curtailed with breathtaking speed. But the clampdown was years in the making, and many signals were missed.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 23, 2021
China and U.S. may hold diplomatic talks next week, report says
Any meeting would be a sign the governments of the world's biggest economies may be taking steps toward easing tensions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 20, 2021
The Chinese Communist Party is not forever
The fact that no other such party in modern times has survived for a century should give China's leaders cause for worry, not celebration.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 19, 2021
China is quietly stepping up its interventions in markets
China is resorting to increasingly forceful measures to contain risks to the financial system, in moves that could undermine Xi's pledge to give markets greater freedom.
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
Foreign residents closely follow Japan's election and party pledges
A police officer walks past posters of Liberal Democratic Party candidates, as well as one showing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, outside the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday. As Japan’s foreign population continues to rise, one of the talking points during Sunday’s election was how the country should deal with the increase of international residents.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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