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Twenty-five newborn panda cubs from the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) and the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province made their first public appearance together on 23 January. The event featured two groups of panda cubs born in 2024 sending Chinese lunar new year greetings to people worldwide. Since its establishment in November 2023, the CCRCGP has focused on building a platform for panda protection and research. The centre and the Chengdu Research Base have worked together closely, promoting genetic diversity in the captive panda population

The Ng Shing Gung Museum is a replica of a Chinese temple built in San Jose in 1888. The museum showcases the rich history of Chinese Americans in San Jose and the South Bay Area.

In an interview with Sean Hannity, the president suggested China has better things to do than spy on the “crazy videos” American children are watching on TikTok.

Miri’s Moving Day” tells a story about blended heritage and the importance of grandparents for immigrant families.

From Europe to Africa and South America, countries reaffirm commitment to tackle crisis
World leaders, senior ministers and key figures in climate diplomacy have, one by one, reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris agreement this week, in response to the order by .
The prospect of the world keeping temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, as the treaty calls for, was damaged by the incoming US president’s move. Hopes of meeting the target were already fast receding, and , but the goal will be measured over years or even decades and stringent cuts to emissions now could still make a difference.

Deteriorating security environment and incidents in Baltic have forced military reassessment in northern Europe
Submarines normally operate in secret, lurking in the deep. So when the British defence secretary, John Healey, authorised a Royal Navy Astute-class attack sub to surface close to the Russian “spy ship” Yantar south of Cornwall , it was unusual enough.
What was even more notable, however, was that the minister went on to what he had done. It was, Healey said, conducted “strictly as a deterrent measure”, as was his decision to accuse the Kremlin of spying on the location of undersea communication and utility cables that connect Britain to the world.

Some pundits claim that this idea has proved false because the Democrats have lurched to the left, adopting a platform that some Latina/o community leaders in particular perceive as radical and out of ...

Some pundits claim that this idea has proved false because the Democrats have lurched to the left, adopting a platform that some Latina/o community leaders in particular perceive as radical and out of ...

Some pundits claim that this idea has proved false because the Democrats have lurched to the left, adopting a platform that some Latina/o community leaders in particular perceive as radical and out of touch.

The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.

The US president has singled out China during his complaints about the Panama canal – so what influence does Beijing have?
Donald Trump has repeatedly complained about the Panama canal and the fees being charged, calling the vital transport corridor a “foolish gift [to Panama] that should never have been made” and threatening to take it back.
But he has also repeatedly . At his inauguration Trump claimed without providing evidence that “China is operating the Panama canal and we didn’t give it to China. We gave it to Panama and we’re taking it back.”

Washington looks happy for the video app to harvest users’ data – as long as China does not reap the rewards

If the Chinese-owned TikTok is deemed definitively by the US to be a national security threat, it is hard to see how the UK or other western countries could conclude differently.
But the fact that Donald Trump has walked into the White House talking of a reprieve for the video-sharing network, which restored its service in the US after going dark for a day, suggests something simpler is at work – Trumpian geopolitics.