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Taiwan's foreign minister on Sunday accused Honduran President Xiomara Castro of "harbouring illusions" over Chinese promises of financial aid, shortly after the Central American country cut ties with ...

House Republicans are pushing for an investigation of the Chinese Communist Party’s ties to the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank.

Move by Greater London authority comes after Chinese-owned app was blocked on UK parliamentary devices
London City Hall staff will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban imposed on the Chinese-owned social media app over security concerns.
The Greater London authority (GLA) said the rule was implemented as it takes information security “extremely seriously”.

Nobody, including the US government, has alleged that the involved employees leaked the information of the American reporters to the Chinese government. To date, there is no public evidence that ...

Militaries are racing to develop weapons that could one day directly assault or disable human minds. We ignore this broader context at our peril
suggest that warfare is shifting from destroying bodies to paralyzing and controlling the opponent’s mind. Making the Biden administration’s just the start of a protracted Whac-A-Mole game in a broader strategy to combat cognitive warfare – with the human mind as the battlefield.
While a TikTok ban may take out the first and fattest mole, it fails to contend with the wider shift to cognitive warfare as the operations under way, which includes China’s influence campaigns on TikTok, a mass collection of personal and biometric data from American citizens and their race to develop weapons that could one day directly assault or disable human minds. We ignore this broader context at our peril.
Nita Farahany is the author of The Battle for Your Brain: Defending Your Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology (St Martin’s Press 2023) and the Robinson O Everett professor of law and philosophy at Duke University

Nanaia Mahuta visited Beijing this week and says she raised issues including abuses in Xinjiang and the erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong
New Zealand’s foreign minister said she raised concerns about China’s human rights abuses and growing tensions with Taiwan in a meeting with her Chinese counterpart.
Nanaia Mahuta told the Chinese foreign minister, Qin Gang, of her government’s “deep concerns regarding the human rights situation in Xinjiang and the erosion of rights and freedoms in Hong Kong”, according to a statement issued on Saturday.

The prominent success of Asian and Asian American performers this award season is drawing new attention to the lack of recognition given to people of Asian descent in former years. The 95th Academy ...

A group of Republicans in the House of Representatives are sending a letter to President Biden demanding an investigation into the Chinese Communist Party's position in the recently-collapsed Silicon ...

Weather event also caused flooding, heavy rain and gusts of over 100mph this week
An unusually deep area of low pressure moved into California late on Tuesday. The low deepened quickly, reaching the threshold for “rapid cyclogenesis”, when a low deepens by at least 24 millibars (mb) in a 24-hour period (millibars measure the effective weight of the atmosphere pushing down on the Earth’s surface, due to gravity). A weather buoy in Monterey Bay reported a drop of 24mb in just 17 hours, with a minimum air pressure of 985mb recorded there.
A similar air pressure was recorded at San Francisco international airport, a March air pressure record for that site. The area of low pressure brought heavy rain to California, with , along with strong winds. A gust of 102mph (164km/h) was recorded over higher ground to the north of Los Angeles. The strong winds resulted in power outages, and were potentially caused by a sting jet, although the details are uncertain until further research has been conducted. Additionally, the low also produced tornadoes on Tuesday and Wednesday. A tornado in Carpinteria, near Santa Barbara, damaged mobile homes on Tuesday. The following day, one person suffered minor injuries from a tornado in Montebello, south-east of Los Angeles. The tornado also damaged building roofs and cars during its path of over half a kilometre in length.

Five Chinese nationals were taken away Monday, and the company, which does corporate investigations, and its law firm have been unable to contact them.

The Foreign Ministry rebuffed claims by U.S. lawmakers that TikTok could be a tool of surveillance for the Chinese government.