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In New York last month, US-China talks on artificial intelligence opened up a path of cooperation. This was affirmed by the Xi-Trump summit in Washington where both presidents agreed to establish a formal AI dialogue and hotline. With the next AI meeting set to happen in November, it is imperative that both countrie…
An international space mission aiming to collect sand and rock from one of Mars's moons is expected to land in Australia once the sample is retrieved.
MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday urged the Philippines to diversify its export, investment and tourism markets to reduce its reliance on traditional trading partners, particularly China, amid shifting geopolitical conditions.
The Philippines has summoned China’s ambassador to protest remarks suggesting Beijing could easily defeat Manila in a conflict, escalating a diplomatic dispute amid tensions over the South China Sea.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday expressed ...
Students say tough negotiations at work require people, not artificial intelligence
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday expressed ...
Yonaguni Island near Taiwan to stage defense systems
Dozens of Air China passengers stranded in Cuba by successive cancellations were due to fly out on an extra flight on Monday, as a US oil embargo deepens the island’s energy crisis. The disruption has hit one of Cuba’s last direct air links to Europe, the Chinese carrier’s twice-weekly route between Beijing and Hava…
Chinese embassy urges passengers stranded by weeks of cancellations on the carrier’s Madrid route to board the flight on Monday night.
Honduran migration officials have summoned or placed under review 41 Chinese nationals after inspecting shops in the capital and a hospital being built by a state-owned contractor from China in the south of the country. Teams from the National Migration Institute, working with police and intelligence officers, inter…
Migration officials flagged 41 people in Tegucigalpa and at SFECO Group’s Choluteca site, while city hall threatens closures.
Beijing has proposed banning exports of the technology used to make next-generation solar cells, a move that could complicate United States technology guru Elon Musk’s plan to expand into space solar power. The ban, which covers production technology for perovskite and tandem solar cell modules, is part of a proposa…
19 October 2026, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.) While ‘news’-media have been loaded with opinion and ‘analysis’ articles about which of the major powers will gain and which lose from the Hormuz crisis, two think tanks have published serious actual analyses of it, and here are the findi…
China says a newly built airport in Laos will be used to train pilots for Laos's air force. However, observers have questioned whether it will have a greater strategic purpose.
For years, the idea of speaking forthrightly to China would evoke an admonition from the US State Department and most of the American policymaking class: “We can’t do that. They won’t like it.” They’d often add, “China has red lines, don’t you know?” There are things you are told you just can’t say – questioning […]…
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MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Erwin Tulfo on Monday filed a resolution urging the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to recommend declaring Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Jing Quan persona non grata over his remark that China could easily win if it resorted to force.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. State Department on Monday highlighted ...
DeepSeek is a powerful, popular and relatively inexpensive artificial intelligence model out of China.
The US State Department has added a “wrongful detention” warning to its travel advisory for China, alerting Americans to the risk of being detained arbitrarily under Chinese law. On Monday, the official China travel advisory added the “D” risk indicator for wrongful detention, while maintaining the country’s overall…
US State Department is updating its travel advisory to alert Americans of the risk of being detained arbitrarily under Chinese law.
Japan's central bank wary of sending mixed messages with government
The Australian Defence Force is participating in war games this week that simulate a regional conflict with China and how US submarines, as well as those to be acquired under AUKUS, would be utilised.
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Spokesman Jay Tarriela demands Chinese Ambassador Jing Quan to apologize from his earlier statement that China can “easily win” if they choose to use force.
Financial globalism has had a grand design for world hegemony for more than two hundred years. It has come down to a war by this financial ruling class against civilizational states such as Russia, Iran and China. These states have existed for thousands of years and they will not allow themselves to be conquered by […]
One of Japan's biggest stars, and a top free agent target this winter, is a step closer to the major leagues.
China's iPhone Flippers Face Losses Before Apple's Foldable Even Launches Apple's first foldable iPhone, the Duo, launches in mainland China and the United States this Friday, following an October 16 preorder opening. Yet days before the first handsets even ship, Chinese speculators who lined up to flip launch-day u…
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Vacancies reach 24% in China's commercial capital as international tenants withdraw
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched talks on Monday with key Central Asian states before heading to India on a tour to a region with vast natural resources and China as a key competitor.
TOKYO - Japan kicked off a joint military exercise with the United States on Monday that will see a type of long-range missiles deployed outside their base for the first time, as Tokyo’s ties with China languish at rock bottom.
BEIJING — China’s economy grew slightly more than expected in the third quarter, but Monday’s figures still came in at the lower end of the government’s full-year target, as the global energy shock and weak domestic demand counter surging exports.
Tokyo to urge finance, other key sectors to use secure infrastructure
Private equity firm aims for stable returns with carbon credits, timber income
Recent media reports projecting South Korea’s per capita GDP to surpass Japan’s have generated considerable excitement across the regional countries that see Korea as a role model. According to the IMF’s October 2026 projections, South Korea’s nominal GDP per capita could reach approximately $49,000 in 2027, compare…
China has updated its export rules on drones and industrial equipment, tightening restrictions on some parts and capabilities while easing requirements for less sensitive models. The changes could simplify overseas sales of consumer drones but increase compliance costs and delivery times for industrial models, analy…
The changes simplify export procedures for some models while tightening scrutiny on sensitive components and hi-tech capabilities, analysts say.
North Korea threatened Monday to resume propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts and deploy more weapons along the border with South Korea.
MANILA, Philippines — Defense Secretary Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro on Monday said China uses propaganda efforts aimed at influencing people and sowing division among Filipinos over the country’s territorial sovereignty. Teodoro, during the Senate hearing on the 2027 budget of the Department of National Defense and its …
Global recycling capacity far exceeds amount of discarded materials
New version said to outperform OpenAI, Anthropic models by some measures
Veteran para swimmer Ernie Gawilan delivers for the Philippines anew, winning the country’s first gold at the 2026 Asian Para Games in Japan
China’s recent milestone in extending its home-grown satellite internet coverage to polar regions has given the country “fully self-controlled polar communications”, ending its long-time reliance on foreign technology to achieve the same capability, according to state media and industry experts. The breakthrough cam…
The breakthrough came when scientists in the Artic established video links with China’s Qinling station in Antarctica using domestic satellites.
WASHINGTON, United States — Britain's Met Office says this year's El Niño is 'unprecedented.' Japan's weather agency has called it the strongest ever observed. US forecasters say it still trails the biggest events in its record books.
Beijing is using Hong Kong to showcase its financial gateway role ahead of November’s Apec leaders’ summit in Shenzhen.
