Homosexuality Can Be Deemed 'Mental Disorder' In China, Says New Court Ruling
After the Chinese Communist government previously decriminalized homosexuality in 1997 and removed it from the country's official list of things deemed mental...
James Holmes
Security, Asia
Japan has been working hard to maintain its edge.
Here's What You Need to Remember: Tokyo must put to sea “smaller, cheaper, more numerous, and redundant systems, including heavily armed missile craft,” to serve...
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Top U.S. officials are warning that countries around the world can no longer hide from the ramifications of an ever more ambitious and aggressive China. And they say Beijing is growing ever more comfortable flexing its military might farther away...
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Robert Farley
Security,
China has built a sophisticated anti-access/area denial system.
Here's What You Need to Remember: Just because flat-decked aircraft carrying ships will likely be with us does not mean that the Ford class, which...
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Mark Episkopos
Security,
Are they right?
The Su-57 completely 'trashes' the latest American fighters like the F-35—at least, according to Chinese media.
A few years back, Chinese defense news outlet Mil.news.sina published an analytical piece...
Related topics: Russia
Gone are the days of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance, but that hasn’t prevented the two nations from building significant military, political and economic ties in recent decades in the many fields where their...
Related topics: Beijing, Russia, Moscow, Military
Brendan McDermid/Reuters
US stocks were lower on Tuesday after Monday's rally led to valuation concerns.SEC nominee Gary Gensler said he would look to ensure retail investors get "best execution" for their trades.China's banking regulator warned US...
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(Paul Mirengoff) Suppose six former Secretaries of State wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed discussing the urgent need to recognize and establish diplomatic relations with Communist China. Their op-ed might make you think the former secretaries...
In a landmark visit to Tehran in January 2016, Chinese president Xi Jinping and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani signed a "comprehensive strategic partnership" that expanded bilateral ties and trade to US$600 billion over ten years and formally
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Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, China, February 7, 2021. | Photo credit should read Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
Globally, people produced more planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions in December than they did before the...
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James Holmes
Security, Asia-Pacific
China looms large in U.S. defense strategy.
Here's What You Need To Remember: HIMARS, then, may look like a humble truck. In reality, it is far more: a tactical implement commanding significant strategic...
The Biden administration's claim to use "all available tools" to take on so-called "China's unfair trade practices" reflects that the US government will not ease the crackdown on China extended from his predecessor Donald Trump and Biden may be even
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The Vertu Ayxta Fold 5G is finally here. There is really no big launch event but we know it’s ready and available. JD.com now lists the foldable phone with a very familiar design. The Vertu Ayxta Fold 5G is basically the Royole FlexPai 2...
Kyle Mizokami
Security, Asia
Until recently a naval war between Japan and China was not a serious proposition.
Here's What You Need to Remember: Increasingly, China has the ability to take on the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Adding more...
Related topics: Japan, Joe Biden
Kris Osborn
China Military, Asia
The Pentagon’s newly established China Task Force is now formally underway, a move that introduces the prospect of strategic and operational military adjustments in the Pacific intended to ensure stability and...
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David Axe
Security,
Forward-deployed U.S. forces in Japan and Guam would be a key target.
Here's What You Need to Remember: It would be risky, but U.S. forces are more vulnerable than you think.
The U.S. military must find ways of defeating any...
Related topics: Japan, Military
David Axe
Security, Asia
The Chinese air force is developing a two-tier fighter fleet.
Here's What You Need to Know: Despite China's rapid improvement of its fighter force, it's still smaller and less modern than is that of its main rival.
While...
At Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced that it will open a new datacenter region in northern China to meet the growing customer demand. This new datacenter region will deliver several Microsoft Cloud services including Microsoft Azure,...
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A group of researchers representing four countries summed up the results of a large-scale study of the academic performance of engineering students in Russia, China, India, and the United States. Supertest is the first study to track the progress of...
Related topics: Russia, India