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A Chinese path to peace on the Korean Peninsula
2+ hour ago (708+ words) South Korea and China have designated each other as their first summit counterparts of 2026. Media outlets in both countries have interpreted the meeting as a foregone conclusion that the decade-long chill in bilateral relations is nearing its end. Amid escalating…...
AI changing the face, surging the profits of crypto scams
8+ hour, 23+ min ago (1604+ words) In 2025, cryptocurrency scams received at least US$14 billion on-chain, a significant increase from the $9.9 billion we first'reported in 2024, which reached $12 billion at our recalculation as of this writing " a number that was broadly in line with our projected $12.4 billion for…...
China-Japan row signals new era of 'wolf warrior' diplomacy
8+ hour, 43+ min ago (787+ words) Japan's new prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, has triggered a diplomatic crisis with China by suggesting that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could prompt a Japanese military response. Beijing has reacted with an aggressive campaign that ranges from incendiary social media…...
China's Antelope Reef dredge deepens South China Sea tensions
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (950+ words) China's renewed construction at a little-known reef in the South China Sea is sharpening a deeper debate over whether US military power can still decisively roll back China's expanding maritime footprint in a high-end conflict. This month, Newsweek reported that…...
Trump’s 500% tariff threat is undeclared war on Global South
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (906+ words) There are wars that begin with missiles and those that begin with memos. Donald Trump's latest economic offensive belongs firmly to the second category. A 500% tariff threat on India'embedded in the so-called Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025'is not merely an…...
'Donroe Doctrine' puts Asia on a spheres-of-influence precipice
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (906+ words) Trump's bid to dominate the Western Hemisphere and seize Greenland is not just a Latin American or North Atlantic story. It is an experiment in 19th-century spheres of influence in a 21st-century, deeply interconnected world. For Beijing and the wider…...
See Trump foreign policy patterns in Art of the Deal health care
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (924+ words) President Trump is often derided for not having a health reform plan, or even his "concepts of a plan" he's talked about, or more narrowly, a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act and its enhanced tax credits currently under…...
South Korea walks a narrow bridge between China and Japan
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (1019+ words) South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is spending the first weeks of the new year attempting a feat of diplomatic engineering that would challenge the most experienced leader. He began the year in Beijing, the first official visit by a…...
How a sporting snub has rolled back India-Bangladesh relations
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (826+ words) On its face, the decision to ask Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to release Bangladesh's left-arm fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman from the 2026 Indian Premier League (IPL) appears a sporting controversy. But beneath that surface lies a deeper rupture in bilateral relations…...
New law bans China-based IT engineers from Pentagon cloud access
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (477+ words) Originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power, this article is republished with permission. US President Donald Trump has signed into law a measure that prohibits anyone based in China and other adversarial countries from accessing…...