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Some Asian American leaders are rooting for Kamala Harris to become the first Asian American president. But she is not widely known as Asian American, reflecting the complexity of the identity.

The U.S. secretary of state pressed China’s top foreign policy official on Beijing’s support for Russia’s efforts to rebuild its military industries during the Ukraine war.

Tension palpable as three Chinese swimmers cleared by Wada for doping offences in 2021 compete in the pool
There were cheers and squeals and fluttered flags, sustained and perhaps a little pointed, as Zhang Yufei walked out for the women’s 100m butterfly semi-final at 8.38pm inside the agreeably boisterous La Defénse Arena.
Zhang waved and smiled, always looking straight ahead, then reeled off a 56.15sec race to take second place and book a spot in the final. All Olympic athletes need to find that neutral space, to close out the noise, to create a kind of light around themselves. In Zhang’s case, as with 10 other Chinese swimmers in Paris, this will involve a note of additional defiance at a competition already charged with its own note of wider tension.

Here is what we know about the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s views on issues like migration and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

Caped Crusader,' Jamie Chung plays the first Asian American Harley Quinn. 'She is her own person. Twisted, twisted sick person,' she says.

Anne Applebaum’s book charts the rise of the world’s strongmen. Has the rules-based international order been defeated?
“There is no liberal world order any more, and the aspiration to create one no longer seems real,” Anne Applebaum writes in her new book, : The Dictators Who Want to Run the World.
In the eyes of many, US failure in Iraq coupled with the great recession discredited rules-based democracy. Parents of privilege shielded their children from war and economic downturn. The rest were not so lucky. The world’s current crop of rising strongmen are not operating on a blank slate.
Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World is by Penguin Random House

Perhaps the biggest story of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris is the massive doping scandal surrounding the Chinese swim team. Twenty-three Chinese ...

Heads of state and diplomats who have interacted with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee say she uses humor, and talk of food, to help leaven hard discussions.

As per The New York Times, Chinese firm 01.AI’s Yi-Large Global SOTA LLM, based on open-source technology, scored nearly as well as its American counterparts, like GPT-4o and Llama-3. Another AI tool ...

Officials insist China-based owner ByteDance must separate from its short video app in the US because it is a threat to national security and citizens’ data
The US justice department has asked an appeals court to reject legal challenges to a law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok’s US assets by 19 January or face a ban.
TikTok, parent company ByteDance and a group of TikTok creators have, which could ban the app used by 170 million Americans.

ATLANTA >> Asian American voters are among Georgia’s fastest-growing voting blocs, which could make the difference in helping to tip the state in favor of Democrats with Vice President Kamala Harris ...

Asian officials will press Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken about the former president and about Kamala Harris as he visits the region.