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Documents among those shared by alleged leaker raise questions over island’s military readiness
China would probably establish air superiority very rapidly in any attack on Taiwan, according to leaked US intelligence assessments that raise disturbing questions about the self-ruled island’s military readiness.
The documents, part of a series allegedly , emerged as G7 foreign ministers met to discuss a common China strategy and Beijing briefly halted flights over part of the East China Sea on Sunday.

Kelvin Yu, who adapted Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel, American Born Chinese, for Disney+, said Yang’s characters belong with the other legends in the Disney pantheon. That includes Disney’s own ...

Kelvin Yu, who adapted Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel, American Born Chinese, for Disney+, said Yang’s characters belong with the other legends in the Disney pantheon. That includes Disney’s own ...

Several mahjong instruction sites are online. For those who prefer in-person instruction, public libraries are a possibility—the Waianae branch recently held classes—and in the Chinese community, the ...

China’s leader is gathering autocratic regimes to his banner, Europe and the US are divided over how to respond, and the French president just lobbed a grenade onto the field of international diplomacy
It is perhaps no surprise that Emmanuel Macron is in the middle of another big international row. . It is his penchant, his trademark foible. Re-elected in 2022 despite a disappointing first term, he has four years left to make a difference. After that, political oblivion beckons – and Macron will still be under 50 in April 2027. Maybe this ticking clock helps explain why he courts danger like a bare-chested surfer riding the waves on the beach at Biarritz.
At home, Macron has caused uproar in recent months by pushing through controversial pension reforms opposed by two-thirds of the population. The row has contributed to a , down to 30% this month. Facing a confidence vote in March, his government survived by bypassing parliament. The reforms are under legal challenge, while . Yet insouciant Macron seems almost oblivious at times.

Our immigration of yesterday and today is fraught with discrimination. My Chinese sons deserve to be taught that.

Our immigration of yesterday and today is fraught with discrimination. My Chinese sons deserve to be taught that.

Our immigration of yesterday and today is fraught with discrimination. My Chinese sons deserve to be taught that.

If Xi Jinping is serious about the country’s role as global peacemaker he must persuade Kim to calm down
North Korea’s scary test launch of a newly developed, solid-fuel, nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile caused on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido last week. It also added a note of urgency to today’s in Japan’s hot-spring resort of Karuizawa, where the Pyongyang regime’s escalating threats will be high on the agenda. Even so, the key to the North Korea conundrum may lie hundreds of miles away, in Beijing.
Two questions will dominate G7 deliberations. Why is Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s dictator, deliberately ratcheting up tensions with South Korea, Japan and the US, their ultimate protector? And what can the allies do in response? Hailing the launch, the latest in more than 100 tests since last year, Kim gave an insight into his paranoid thinking. The new missile would “reinforce our nuclear counter-attack” and induce “the enemy to give up its idle strategy”, he said. Until then, he promised only “”.

China-based apps have been known to report on your activity back to the Chinese government. Here are some apps you need to stop using now.

Leaked U.S. military documents include Pentagon assessments that Taiwan may be poorly equipped to hold off a Chinese air attack, The Washington Post reports. The assessments say Chinese air power ...