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Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 72

Last month marked six years since the Beijing-imposed national security law took effect in Hong Kong. The crackdown continued in June: an independent bookshop was…

Germany summons Chinese envoy over reported training of Russian troops

The Chinese ambassador in Berlin was summoned for urgent talks over media reports that Russian soldiers were being trained in China, the German foreign ministry…

Trump’s America just took a dangerous turn

America turns 250

Chinese investors flock to Hong Kong as trading curbs tighten

Soon after disembarking at Hong Kong’s train station, Chinese private investor Feng was opening a stock trading account at a nearby brokerage, hoping to evade…

China’s air-conditioned lesson for Europe’s killer heat wave

Europe’s scramble for Chinese air conditioners is not really a story about China, or even about trade. It is a story about what happens when…

China’s truck drone launcher hides airpower in civilian traffic

China’s mobile drone launcher is less a single weapon than a blueprint for dispersing airpower, exploiting civilian cover and exporting low-cost strike reach to states…

America’s AI war machine has no human stop rule

When the Pentagon made Palantir’s Maven Smart System a formal “program of record” in March, it did more than approve software. It gave long-term status…

‘This could have been me’: Chinese women throng Germany trials of ‘Driving School’ rape network

By Pierrick Yvon German courts have been trying a group of mostly Chinese men accused of running a sexual abuse network that drugged victims and…

They just realized America is broke

Trump’s American fair is worse than you think

‘Honebuto shock’: new term coined as Japan fiscal policy is probed

Japanese government long-term bonds briefly climbed to 2.81% on Thursday, July 3 – their highest level in thirty years – prompting one analyst to refer to it as the “honebuto shock,”…

Hyundai’s new steel mill sparks hopes and fears in Louisiana

On a drizzly March day last year at the White House, President Donald J. Trump stood behind a podium to make a ​“beautiful announcement.” Hyundai, the Korean industrial…

They’re saying you did this to yourself

China accuses critics of ethnic unity law of ‘spreading falsehoods’ as UN warns it threatens rights of minorities

China urged countries on Friday to “stop spreading falsehoods” about its new ethnic unity law, after US lawmakers, the United Nations and rights groups warned…

Hong Kong lawmaker William Wong resigns from Legislative Council after drink driving arrest

Legislator William Wong has stepped down as a lawmaker following his arrest on Monday over an alleged drink driving incident. His resignation was announced in…

2 autistic men plead guilty to secession over joining Hong Kong pro-independence group

Two Hong Kong men have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit secession over joining a Taiwan-based group that advocates independence for the city. Chan Tai-sum,…

They’ve given up

OpenAI begs Trump for bailout