8 d. ago China cites Biden’s message to Xi that Japan could build nuclear weapons ‘overnight’

China released an official report on Thursday stating that Japan “may already have produced weapons-grade plutonium in secret” and “has the technological and economic capabilities to achieve nuclear armament in a short period of time”. The report assessing Japan’s nuclear threat cited former US president Joe Biden’s direct message to Chinese President Xi Jinping that Japan had the capacity to have nuclear weapons “virtually overnight”. Biden first disclosed the information in an interview with...

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8 d. ago China Widens Attack on Japan ‘Nuclear Ambitions’ as Ties Worsen

China Widens Attack on Japan ‘Nuclear Ambitions’ as Ties Worsen  Bloomberg.com

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9 d. ago Beijing: Japan's growing nuclear ambitions serious threat to world peace

Beijing: Japan's growing nuclear ambitions serious threat to world peace  chinadailyasia.com

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9 d. ago North Korea’s Kim expected to cling to nuclear security blanket after Venezuela operation

The United States’ decapitation operation against Venezuela will reinforce North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, an aspiration that will continue to draw China’s “tacit tolerance”, according to analysts. After the US military abducted Nicolas Maduro during an attack on Venezuela on Saturday, Pyongyang criticised Washington’s actions as “wildly” violating the sovereignty of Caracas. It was one of a slew of countries that issued swift criticism of the US move. In a statement on Sunday, the North Korean...

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9 d. ago Research report on Japan's nuclear ambitions released in Beijing

Research report on Japan's nuclear ambitions released in Beijing  Xinhua

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1 week ago Another Chinese quant fund joins DeepSeek in AI race with model rivalling GPT

Another Chinese quantitative trading firm has entered the race to develop large language models (LLMs), unveiling systems it claims can match – and in some cases surpass – the performance of US rivals such as OpenAI’s GPT-5.1, following the global rise of DeepSeek. Beijing-based Ubiquant said it released a series of open-source code-focused LLMs last week that outperformed leading closed-source models on multiple benchmarks despite using far fewer parameters. The IQuest-Coder-V1 family is...

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1 week ago Beijing to Washington: Release Maduro immediately ᐉ News from Fakti.bg

Beijing to Washington: Release Maduro immediately ᐉ News from Fakti.bg - World  fakti.bg

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2 w. ago Bank of Japan Outlook, Beijing Economic Report Roil Asian Stock Markets

Bank of Japan Outlook, Beijing Economic Report Roil Asian Stock Markets  marketscreener.com

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3 w. ago South Korean president set to visit China next month, with North Korea high on agenda

Lee Jae-myung is set to become the first sitting South Korean president to travel to China since 2019 with a visit scheduled for early January. Analysts said Lee was expected to engage Beijing on security issues, including North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and the enforcement of international sanctions, while seeking to build on his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in October. Neither side has confirmed the visit, but preparations are under way, highlighted by a recent strategic...

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3 w. ago Beijing tells travel agencies to cut group tours to Japan by 40pc: report

Beijing tells travel agencies to cut group tours to Japan by 40pc: report  The Standard (HK)

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3 w. ago Economic ‘pragmatism’ powers Indonesians’ positive view of China, survey finds

China has emerged as a broadly positive partner for Indonesia in the public mind, according to a new survey, driven by visible economic engagement and investment on the ground, even as public support stops short of seeing Beijing as a full strategic partner. The 2025 China–Indonesia Survey, released on December 18 by Jakarta-based think tank Centre of Economic and Law Studies (Celios), suggests Indonesians increasingly view ties with Beijing through a transactional lens, welcoming economic and...

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3 w. ago North Korea fires warning over Japan’s ambition for nuclear weapons

North Korea said Japan’s ambition for possession of nuclear weapons should be “thoroughly curbed”, state media KCNA reported on Sunday. Japan is showing the intention to possess nuclear weapons explicitly by saying it needs to review the three non-nuclear principles, KCNA said, citing a commentary of North Korea’s foreign policy official. Japan began making such comments actively as soon as the United States approved a request from South Korea for building a nuclear submarine, KCNA...

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3 w. ago North Korea warns ‘mankind will face great disaster’ if Japan gets nuclear arms

North Korea said on Sunday that Japan’s nuclear ambitions “must be prevented at any cost” after a Tokyo official reportedly suggested the country should possess atomic weapons. Pyongyang’s reaction came after the unnamed official in the prime minister’s office was quoted by Kyodo News on Thursday as saying: “I think we should possess nuclear weapons.” The official was reported to have been involved in devising Japan’s security policy. The Kyodo report also quoted the source as saying: “In the...

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4 w. ago China urges Japan to stop challenging international bottom line with its nuclear ambitions

China urges Japan to stop challenging international bottom line with its nuclear ambitions  news.cgtn.com

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4 w. ago China urges Japan to stop challenging bottom line with its nuclear ambitions

China urges Japan to stop challenging bottom line with its nuclear ambitions  chinadailyasia.com

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4 w. ago China urges Japan to stop challenging int'l bottom line with its nuclear ambitions

China urges Japan to stop challenging int'l bottom line with its nuclear ambitions  China Daily

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