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San Mateo City, California, is still mayor-less as two new councilmembers continue to block an Asian American councilwoman from taking the seat as part of the city’s 128-year-old tradition.

San Mateo City, California, is still mayor-less as two new councilmembers continue to block an Asian American councilwoman from taking the seat as part of the city’s 128-year-old tradition.

Joseph Wu says that communication with China has become more difficult after a purge of some factions within the Communist party
Taiwan’s government believes China is preparing to find another “pretext for practising their future attack” on the island, its foreign minister has said, after a record-breaking year of military threats and incursions.
Joseph Wu also suggested cross-strait communications may diminish even further now that Xi Jinping has secured his third term, with last month’s extraordinary political purges of rival Communist party members severing the few unofficial ties remaining.

Chinese equities — which have languished this year due to the economic fallout from Beijing's whack-a-mole approach to quashing COVID-19 outbreaks — are rebounding strongly as 2022 draws to a close, ...

Foreign secretary to announce ‘pragmatic’ partnerships with countries likely to be more influential over next 30 years
The UK will target a group of about two dozen middle-level countries for long-term diplomatic partnerships in what marks a downgrade of a commitment to human rights as a prerequisite for close relations with the UK.
The new policy being outlined in a speech by the foreign secretary, James Cleverly, is an attempt to set realistic ambitions and criteria for Britain’s future relations post-Brexit. It is an implicit admission that the phrase “global Britain”, coined by Boris Johnson, may have set expectations that British diplomatic resources and status cannot match.

A Hollis state representative says he's the first Chinese-American in the New Hampshire State House. Fox Weather ...

TONIGHT WE’RE HEARING FROM A REAL ESTATE WHO SAYS HE’S THE FIRST CHINESE-AMERICAN AND THE NEW HAMPSHIRE HOUSE. BEN MING JUST WON HIS SPOT AND THE 2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS. HE HE FIRST RAN IN ...

"You've got to stick with friends, you got to stay with your partners, and you must push back against your adversaries." ...

Low rate of vaccination of elderly and a lack of natural immunity mean country may be in for a bumpy ride
Beijing’s abrupt dismantling of zero-Covid controls has been welcomed by economists, even as the country braces itself for the human impact of letting the disease spread through a vulnerable population.
The leadership’s abrupt U-turn on how it handles the pandemic appears to have been triggered by against controls that began last month, a nationwide show of discontent on a scale China had not seen in decades.

A sluggish economy continues to leave many young people unemployed, with few job prospects or hopes to tap into the rising incomes their parents enjoyed during boom times.

Recent meetings have eased tensions, but ongoing differences mean there’s still a long way to put relationship on solid footing
Hundreds of people are gathered on the back lawns of the Chinese embassy in Canberra. Chinese and Australian flags surround a podium set up for speeches marking the imminent 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations.
But towards the back of the garden, where members of the Canberra diplomatic corps, businesspeople, academics and journalists are milling about, stands a striking image. A large oil painting depicts a 1973 meeting between Gough Whitlam and Mao Zedong in Beijing. Whitlam was the Australian leader who opened diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China on 21 December 1972.

Moscow provides Germany with power, and the Chinese buy the company’s cars in their thousands, but now war and global tensions are darkening the diplomatic weather
A brand new, gleaming Mercedes vehicle rolls off the production line roughly every three minutes at the carmaker’s Rastatt plant in south-western Germany.
A total of 185,000 of its upmarket A-Class, B-Class and all-electric EQA cars were assembled here last year in the factory, close to the French border. They are then taken by road, rail and ship to their new owners, perhaps to zip through European capitals, Chinese cities, or along California’s coastal roads.