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Over the past three years, PLA air force and naval air force warplanes have steadily increased the number of training flights conducted in Taiwan’s air defense identification zone. In August 2022—the month that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stoked Beijing’s displeasure by visiting Taipei—Chinese aircraft flew 446 sorties into the ADIZ, according to Taiwanese defense ministry statistics. This brought the total flights in 2022 to 1,071, higher than the 972 Taiwan reported in the whole of 2021 and nearly three times as many as the estimated 380 in 2020, according to a database compiled by U....

Beijing and the nearby city of Zhangjiakou won the right to host the Games in 2015. The only other city bidding was Almaty in Kazakhstan, after other competitors dropped out, citing costs and other worries. While Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Games to wide acclaim, its bid for the Winter Games was dogged by concern over numerous issues, such as corruption, the city’s notorious smog, a lack of snow and China’s poor human rights record....

China Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin made the remarks during a press conference, where he also urged the U.S. to “face up to its own serious human rights problems,” according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Wang continued, “Considering its irrefutable misdeeds on human rights, what qualifies the United States to lecture others?,” according to AFP. The remarks by Wang come in response to Blinken issuing a statement saying that the U....

According to the website Gun Violence Archive, which tracks shootings for law enforcement, government, media and commercial sources, there were 991 gun-violence deaths among people 17 or younger in 2019. Experts said COVID-19 pandemic-related idleness and stress, combined with access to guns, have led to disputes that often end with gunfire. Through Monday, shootings had claimed 1,179 young lives and left 3,292 youths injured. On September 28, the FBI released a report showing homicides among people ages 19 and younger rose more than 21 percent in 2020....

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that Washington had no standing to accuse Beijing of breaking international law, adding that it waged its own post-9/11 wars that killed more than 800,000 people in Asia and Africa. He also dismissed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s accusations that Beijing was attempting to establish a “maritime empire” in the disputed South China Sea as an attempt “to smear and attack China” during a press conference Tuesday....

China Airlines made the announcement at a conference in Taipei on July 27th. The reveal of the new airplane design was made not just by China Airlines staff, but by Pikachu itself dressed in a pilot uniform. China Airlines said that they wanted to create an airplane that would welcome people back to the skies after a few years of not traveling due to COVID, and excite everyone about the prospect of traveling again....

In a notice issued in the hours after President Vladimir Putin formally recognized the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, the Chinese Embassy in Kyiv asked citizens to avoid “unstable areas” and to monitor official information out of Beijing. However, the embassy and its consulate in Odessa, on the Black Sea, remain open. “Improve awareness of safety precautions and stock up on daily necessities such as food and drinking water in due course,” the bulletin read....

The central bank digital currency (CBDC) could be used for international trade, and almost certainly won’t be linked to the global financial system. Vital commodities such as oil and copper are priced in dollars. The Bank for International Settlements says the greenback is now used to complete about 88% of international foreign exchange trades, compared with about 4% for the yuan. At home, the new digital yuan will allow China’s authoritarian government to track financial transactions of its people in real time, creating an efficient way to enforce the “social credit” system Beijing uses to limit internal travel and other activity for those deemed undesirable....

On Saturday, the country’s National Health Commission said there were only two suspected cases in mainland China, one in Shanghai and one in the Jilian province in the northeast of the country. Meanwhile, the number of asymptomatic cases fell from 35 to 28, Beijing officials said. The lack of new confirmed cases in China will come as a break for Beijing after earlier this month Wuhan reported its first cluster of cases since the outbreak began, prompting local authorities to test the city’s 11 million residents....

Pelosi’s trip makes her the highest ranking U.S. official to visit the island in 25 years and has been met with a strong response from Chinese authorities. Relations between China and Taiwan have long been strained, as Taiwan claims independence but China insists that it controls the island. The trip from Pelosi, a California Democrat, has made relations between the U.S and China more tense in recent weeks. China deployed 150 J-20 fighter jets, considered to be China’s most powerful fighter jet, to the Taiwan Strait in June 2021 amid tensions with Taiwan, according to a report from the South China Morning Post....

That newfound fascination with China may be the best thing that could happen to the stormy marriage between Japan and the United States. At the least, it provides an alternative to a dangerous obsession. Japan’s unwillingness to lower trade barriers and its inability to shrink its trade surplus have dominated U. S. headlines for a decade. Bill Clinton’s promise to make trade policy “results oriented” (translation: to set numerical targets for U....

If the answer is a resounding “No,” as it should be, then it is hard to see the American academy as anything other than insane—and dangerously so—when it comes to China and its Confucius Institutes, as a bombshell report from the National Association of Scholars (NAS) makes clear. The report demonstrates that news of Confucius Institutes’ death in America has been greatly exaggerated. The story of Confucius Institutes in America is a cautionary tale illustrating the ability of China to weather efforts to combat its malign machinations, and the corruption of the very institutions that ought to be standing as bulwarks against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)....

During a virtual address from Beijing for the annual BRICS Business Forum, China’s president repeated his view of the world as undergoing changes “unseen in a century.” He used the occasion to push back against U.S. alliance-building in Asia, as well as the West’s sweeping sanctions against Russia, which Xi warns may have unintended consequences. “In the past century, humanity has gone through the scourge of two world wars and the dark shadow of the Cold War....

President Joe Biden has said that he wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which is supported by the European Union, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia and China. Former President Donald Trump withdrew from the international accord—the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—in 2018, reimplementing sanctions on the Persian Gulf nation. Wang on Saturday delivered remarks during the U.N.-backed Conference on Disarmament, urging the U.S. to change its position on Iran....

The official Chinese Military Online website reported Monday that the first batch of emergency medical supplies provided by People’s Liberation Army facilities in Liaoning and Shandong provinces arrived Sunday at the Hankou railway station in Wuhan city, Hubei Province, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus epidemic plaguing the world’s most populous nation. Among the aid was “10000 sets of class-C protective clothing and 3760 bottles of ethyl alcohol,” officials reported on the site....

American officials see China as the top threat to the United States with regard to the economy, cybersecurity and military. President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday that cybersecurity attacks could lead to physical confrontations with a country and said standing up to China requires the U.S. to maintain pace without unnecessarily increasing hostilities. The Times editorial board attributed Biden’s remarks that a significant cyberattack could lead to a “real shooting war” to a “threat of war against China and Russia....

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian decried the sale of three advanced weapons systems to Taiwan. He called it a violation of the longstanding agreements by which Washington has foregone direct ties with Taipei in favor of Beijing. “The United States has seriously violated the one-China principle, and the provisions of the three China-U.S. joint communiqués, especially the August 17 communique,” Zhao said, “by selling arms to Taiwan, seriously interfered in China’s internal affairs and seriously harmed China’s sovereignty and security interests....

The news should come as a relief to some U.S. soybean farmers, a group that has seen the market for their products decimated by President Donald Trump’s trade war since July 2018. The latest United States Department of Agriculture data on exports to China showed that soybean sales declined precipitously from 2018 to 2019. In 2018, the U.S. exported about 25 million metric tons of soybeans to China between January and September, but only shipped 14 million tons during the same period in 2019, a 44 percent drop....

Juve were beaten 3-1 by Barcelona in the 2015 showpiece, with Chiellini missing out through injury as his side were outclassed in Berlin. However, the Bianconeri knocked Barca out at the quarter-final stage of this season’s competition and the experienced centre-back is optimistic of their chances in Cardiff, despite Madrid’s class. “Our start to the match will be crucial,” Chiellini told a news conference. “We have to be organised – that’s essential in a one-off game and it gives you the best chance of reading the play....