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Baseball players of Filipino descent were few and far between in California, but Southland teams now feature several standouts with WBC aspirations.

Baseball players of Filipino descent were few and far between in California, but Southland teams now feature several standouts with WBC aspirations.

Honduras becomes the ninth diplomatic ally that Taipei has lost to Beijing since pro-independence president Tsai Ing-wen first took office
Honduras has cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan, the Latin American country announced on Saturday, saying it recognises “only one China in the world”.
Honduras is the ninth diplomatic ally that Taipei has lost to Beijing since pro-independence president Tsai Ing-wen first took office in May 2016. The move leaves Taiwan recognised by only 13 sovereign states.

The Victorian premier will leave on Monday night for the first visit to China by an Australian state or national leader since the pandemic began
The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, will travel to China to meet with senior officials on education, trade and cultural issues.
The premier will leave on Monday night, visiting Beijing and the Jiangsu and Sichuan provinces before returning to Melbourne on Saturday morning.

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 ...

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.