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Republican legislators argue that the Biden administration has been ill-equipped and unmotivated in a technology fight with Beijing.

International Federation of Journalists says 68 killed covering Israel-Gaza war, more than in any other conflict in over 30 years
A leading organisation representing journalists worldwide has expressed deep concern at the number of media professionals killed around the globe doing their jobs in 2023, with more journalists killed during Israel’s war with Hamas than in any other conflict in more than 30 years.
In its annual count of media worker deaths, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said 94 journalists had been killed so far this year and almost 400 others had been imprisoned.

Biden and China’s president, Xi Jinping, met in November and pledged to stabilize their relationship as they showcased modest agreements to combat illegal fentanyl and reestablish military ...

Duke Energy told Military.com that it disconnected the lithium batteries produced by the company CATL from the North Carolina installation's energy infrastructure after "some concerns about this ...

This story about Asian and Asian American films is part of Home, Made, a collection of stories honoring Asian diasporas creating vibrant communities by weaving their heritages with their American ...

This story about Asian and Asian American films is part of Home, Made, a collection of stories honoring Asian diasporas creating vibrant communities by weaving their heritages with their American ...

The U.S., which said the Chinese spy balloon had violated American territorial sovereignty, shot down the craft off the South Carolina coast in early February. Beijing said it was an errant weather ...

Ben Lewis, an independent defense analyst who tracks regular warplane sorties by the Chinese People's Liberation Army into Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ)—a buffer area declared over ...

Chinese military aircraft including 12 fighter jets also detected in Taiwan’s air defence zone in past 24 hours
Taiwan’s defence ministry has said that a Chinese balloon crossed the Taiwan Strait median line on Thursday, about a month before Taiwan’s presidential election.
The ministry of national defence (MND) earlier described it as a “surveillance balloon” but the defence minister, Chiu Kuo-cheng later told reporters at parliament: “our initial understanding is that it was a sounding balloon”.

After announcing that she would not return to Hong Kong from Canada, the pro-democracy activist says she fears China’s global reach
In August this year Agnes Chow crossed into mainland China filled with fear. The young activist was in the company of five national security police, taking her from her home in Hong Kong, on what she says was a “propaganda tour” organised by authorities in return for her being allowed to study overseas.
Police had told her the tour was mandatory if she wanted them to return her passport, which they’d confiscated years earlier as part of her bail conditions. Chow is a key figure in Hong Kong’s most significant pro-democracy movement in the last decade, pushing back against Beijing’s .

The changes have allowed for new course listings, programming, and research opportunities for students across all disciplines.

San Francisco will begin making it more difficult for candidates to use self-submitted Chinese names if they can’t prove they were born with the name written, or if the name is widely known and ...