5 d. ago China’s No 2 general He Weidong expelled from the Communist Party

China’s second-ranked military general has become the latest in a series of top brass to come under investigation for corruption, China’s Ministry of National Defence announced on Friday. He Weidong, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and a member of the 24-man Politburo, was expelled from the Communist Party and the army, the ministry said. He is the first serving member of the present Politburo, the Communist Party’s top decision-making body, to face such an...

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5 d. ago China expels He Weidong, Miao Hua and 7 other generals from party and military

China’s second-ranked military general has become the latest in a series of top brass to come under investigation for corruption, China’s Ministry of National Defence announced on Friday. He Weidong, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and a member of the 24-man Politburo, was expelled from the Communist Party and the army, the ministry said. He is the first serving member of the present Politburo, the Communist Party’s top decision-making body, to face such an...

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6 d. ago Ericsson must cope with a sudden US slump and a China threat

Ericsson must cope with a sudden US slump and a China threat  Light Reading

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8 d. ago Trump says US strike on another alleged drug boat off Venezuela kills 6

The United States struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday. Those who died in the strike were aboard the vessel, and no US forces were harmed, the president said in a social media post. It was the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean as Trump’s administration has asserted it was treating alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants who must be met with military force. US Defence Secretary...

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8 d. ago DJI appeals inclusion on Pentagon’s ‘Chinese military companies’ list

Chinese drone maker DJI has appealed a US federal court’s decision that it should remain on the Pentagon’s blacklist of companies allegedly linked to China’s military. The Shenzhen-based company filed the appeal on Monday to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. DJI filed a lawsuit last October, arguing that it is not owned or controlled by the Chinese military and does not contribute to China’s defence industrial base. The drone manufacturer, which sells over half of all US commercial...

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8 d. ago Will China be a lower US defence priority? A new strategy report will soon tell

The Pentagon’s coming defence strategy report will contain major changes in the US’ plans to counter China’s military and economic strength, according to Chinese defence researchers. The new National Defence Strategy, a road map of defence priorities for each US president’s term, is expected to be released in the coming weeks. According to a Defence Department memo in May, the report will “prioritise defence of the US homeland, including America’s skies and borders, and deterring China in the...

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1 week ago Japan’s Nobel wins shine light on worrying brain drain to ‘generous’ China

Japan’s scientific community is celebrating two Nobel wins this week, but the accolades have also reignited concern over the country’s ability to retain its top researchers amid growing competition from overseas. The wins have renewed scrutiny of the country’s research system, with observers citing poor funding, job insecurity and rigid institutions as factors driving talent abroad – particularly to China. On Monday, the Nobel Assembly announced that Shimon Sakaguchi and two American colleagues...

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1 week ago How Japan’s twin Nobel Prize wins cast spotlight on its growing brain drain

Japan’s scientific community is celebrating two Nobel wins this week, but the accolades have also reignited concern over the country’s ability to retain its top researchers amid growing competition from overseas. The wins have renewed scrutiny of the country’s research system, with observers citing poor funding, job insecurity and rigid institutions as factors driving talent abroad – particularly to China. On Monday, the Nobel Assembly announced that Shimon Sakaguchi and two American colleagues...

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1 week ago China Influence Index: shedding light on Beijing’s invisible web – in Italy too

China Influence Index: shedding light on Beijing’s invisible web – in Italy too  Decode39

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2 w. ago China's light industry maintains solid expansion from 2021 to 2024

China's light industry maintains solid expansion from 2021 to 2024  chinadailyasia.com

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2 w. ago Embark on a Cultural Voyage in China: Fuzhou’s Minjiang River Night Cruises Light Up the National Day and Mid

Embark on a Cultural Voyage in China: Fuzhou’s Minjiang River Night Cruises Light Up the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival  Travel And Tour World

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2 w. ago China's drone light show ends in chaos: Crowd runs for life after UAVs catch fire, sparks fall on ground | Watch

China's drone light show ends in chaos: Crowd runs for life after UAVs catch fire, sparks fall on ground | Watch  Mint

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2 w. ago China's New 'Drone Light Show In A Box' Massive Swarm Launcher Speaks To Evolving Threats

China's New 'Drone Light Show In A Box' Massive Swarm Launcher Speaks To Evolving Threats  The War Zone

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2 w. ago China remembers ‘guiding light’ Jane Goodall’s wildlife conservation work

China remembers ‘guiding light’ Jane Goodall’s wildlife conservation work  The Guardian

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3 w. ago US records shed light on Western victims of Japan’s WWII human experiments

Sapphire Dingler was shaken as the dark past emerged before her. Dingler, a US master’s student in public history at Southern New Hampshire University, was sifting through newly digitised American archives when she stumbled upon testimony about a Japanese doctor’s grisly wartime experiments on Western prisoners in Tokyo. The doctor was Hisakichi Tokuda, a young and ambitious physician inspired by Unit 731, an imperial Japanese Army base in northern China infamous for biological warfare and...

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3 w. ago Beijing taps Conflux Network to explore offshore yuan stablecoins

Conflux Network, which claims to be the only regulatory-compliant public blockchain operator in mainland China, has been allowed to experiment with offshore yuan stablecoins as Beijing seeks to secure a position in the new global financial order, according to its founder. Conflux had received a tacit green light from Chinese authorities to explore the development of offshore yuan stablecoins, and was aiming to have up to 300 million yuan (US$42.1 million) worth of tokens issued on its blockchain...

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3 w. ago ‘Last line of defence’: military journal sheds light on China’s new LY

‘Last line of defence’: military journal sheds light on China’s new LY-1 shipborne laser weapon  South China Morning Post

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3 w. ago China’s JingDong Industrials eyes US$500 million in Hong Kong IPO

JingDong Industrials, a unit of Chinese online retailer JD.com, is seeking to raise US$500 million with a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) as soon as the end of October, two sources with direct knowledge said, after the firm cleared a key regulatory hurdle. The company, also known as JDi, refiled for a Hong Kong listing on Sunday after receiving the green light from China’s securities regulator last week, more than two years after it first notified the China Securities Regulatory...

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3 w. ago South Korea’s new US ‘Iron Dome’ air defence system seen as reply to China

The US has deployed a new air defence system in South Korea – dubbed America’s Iron Dome – in what analysts see as an effort by Washington to counter Chinese or North Korean drone operations in the event of a conflict in the region. On Thursday, the Pentagon’s Defence Visual Information Distribution Service uploaded photos of US Army Chief of Staff General Randy George’s visit to South Korea last Monday for an engagement with US Forces Korea (USFK) soldiers and meetings with South Korean...

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3 w. ago Drone maker DJI loses lawsuit against Pentagon claim of Chinese military ties

A US judge on Friday rejected a bid by China-based DJI, the world’s largest drone maker, to be removed from the US Defence Department’s list of companies allegedly working with Beijing’s military. In his ruling, US District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington said the Defence Department had substantial evidence supporting its finding that DJI, which sells more than half of all US commercial drones, contributes to the “Chinese defence industrial base”. DJI had urged the court to order its removal...

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