Opinion | Restoring Academic Ties With China Is a Matter of U.S. National Security
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Opinion | Restoring Academic Ties With China Is a Matter of U.S. National Security

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Then came the pandemic. China sealed itself off from the world, slamming the door on academic fieldwork in the country by foreign scholars as well as in-person exchanges with Chinese officials and other contacts. The Covid restrictions were finally lifted, but the landscape…

Why Scam Centers in Southeast Asia Keep Flourishing
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Why Scam Centers in Southeast Asia Keep Flourishing

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines There are usually no international flights out of the airport in Mae Sot, a town on Thailand’s border with Myanmar. But in recent days, hundreds of people here boarded direct flights back home to China. They had been rescued from Myanmar, where they…

Taiwan Watches Trump Undercut Ukraine, Hoping It Won’t Be Next
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Taiwan Watches Trump Undercut Ukraine, Hoping It Won’t Be Next

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, Taiwan’s leaders joined the United States and its allies in declaring solidarity with the victim. Taiwan and Ukraine were fellow democracies, they said, each imperiled by its hulking, authoritarian neighbor. Now, President Trump’s turn against Ukraine could fan…

Opinion | Tom Friedman on Just How Far Trump Could Push the World
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Opinion | Tom Friedman on Just How Far Trump Could Push the World

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Just Trump saying he talked to Putin for 90 minutes, drove the global benchmark crude oil price down at one point. So you can see where the market is going. They smell this. What is Trump doing with both the Russians and Putin?…

China Uses Public Shaming to Motivate State Workers
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China Uses Public Shaming to Motivate State Workers

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Chinese government workers have a lot to worry about these days. Cash-strapped local governments are struggling to pay their salaries. Political controls are tightening in the name of national security. A yearslong anti-corruption purge shows no sign of ending. Now, the workers also…

Opinion | Xi Is Making the World Pay for China’s Economic Blunders
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Opinion | Xi Is Making the World Pay for China’s Economic Blunders

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s readiness to use coercive tariffs presents a profound threat to the postwar economic and political order, introducing an unpredictability to global commerce that makes it difficult for trade partners to know how to react — and next to impossible for businesses…

Trump’s 10% Tariff on Chinese Goods Takes Effect
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Trump’s 10% Tariff on Chinese Goods Takes Effect

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s 10 percent tariff on all Chinese products went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, the result of an executive order issued over the weekend aimed at pressuring Beijing to crack down on fentanyl shipments into the United States. The Chinese government…

DeepSeek A.I. Is a Win for China, but a Danger to Party Control
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DeepSeek A.I. Is a Win for China, but a Danger to Party Control

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In 2017, China watched in awe — and shock — as AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence program backed by Google, defeated a Chinese prodigy at a complex board game, Go. The decisive loss to a foreign computer program, which had similarly trounced a South…

TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet
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TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Chinese social media app RedNote is full of cute, heartwarming moments after about 500,000 American users fled to it last week to protest the looming U.S. government ban on TikTok. Calling themselves “TikTok refugees,” these users paid the “cat tax” to join…

Biden Made a Global Push to Constrain China. What Will Trump Do?
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Biden Made a Global Push to Constrain China. What Will Trump Do?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Biden and his aides came into office with deep experience in trans-Atlantic affairs. But over four years, they focused too on the Pacific, where China strains to be the dominant player. Their main effort: building up alliances to counter China. President-elect Donald…