India ramps up nukes while China, Pakistan probe for holes

India’s nuclear buildup is sharpening its deterrent, but Pakistan and China are turning the space below nuclear war into the real battlefield. Last month, the…

Hong Kong court adjourns 2 men’s terrorism conspiracy case to October

Two Hong Kong men charged with conspiring to commit terrorist acts under the Beijing-imposed national security law have had their case adjourned to October, as…

Plaza Accord 2.0 talk won’t fix anybody’s China problem

TOKYO — Enter German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as the latest to suggest a Plaza Accord 2.0 is needed to knock China’s export competitiveness down to…

Pilot who hit Beijing tower wrote about ending life, gov’t says

The pilot who died after crashing a small plane into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper, injuring 13 people, had mental health issues and had written about suicide…

Why they’re suddenly exiting

2 Chinese military warships sail into Hong Kong for 5-day visit to mark Handover anniversary

Two People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy warships have sailed into Hong Kong for a five-day visit that will allow residents to board the vessels, a…

Japan’s gray-zone resilience runs through civilian industry

This article first appeared on Pacific Forum and is republished with permission. Read the original here. KDDI’s cable-laying and repair capacity, Japan’s intervention in the Makino…

The universe isn’t as uniform as we thought

Modern cosmology rests on a simple assumption: if we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed evenly, with no preferred direction within the…

Europe’s Gulf drift has run out of road

On June 29, France thought it had found its way back into the Strait of Hormuz. Hours after French President Emmanuel Macron and Oman’s Sultan…

Japan rallies tech-giant alliance to build sovereign AI

Japan is throwing its industrial weight behind a homegrown challenger to US and Chinese dominance in artificial intelligence. The government announced this week it will…

Hong Kong lawmaker William Wong arrested on suspicion of drink driving on Chinese University campus

Hong Kong lawmaker William Wong has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving and three other offences linked to a car accident on Chinese University…

China’s EV fleet is world’s most underestimated AI asset

History has a habit of concealing its most consequential turning points inside the mundane. The invention of the shipping container did not announce itself as…

China ethnic unity law comes into force despite overseas criticism

A new ethnic unity law came into effect Wednesday in China despite warnings from Taiwan, the United Nations and rights groups that it could threaten…

Hong Kong Observatory hoists T1 storm signal, will consider T3 on Friday

The Observatory (HKO) hoisted the T1 storm signal at 7.45am on Thursday, as a tropical depression approached China’s Hainan Island. “According to the present forecast,…

Lawsuit shows it’s past time for Samsung and SK Hynix to speak up

For a quarter of a century, consumer technology was the most dependable disinflationary force in the world economy. Each year, the device in the hand…

Beginning of the end for the AI bros

They’re talking all out war

The logical case for admitting Bangladesh into ASEAN

For decades, Bangladesh’s foreign policy operated on a predictable, singular axis. Under the sixteen-year tenure of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Dhaka’s strategic and economic…

CPEC gave Balochistan roads and power. CPEC 2.0 must deliver jobs

In 2015, Balochistan had power outages lasting 16 to 18 hours daily, according to provincial records at the time, roads that petered out into gravel…

Gen Z is about to hit in Congress