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US President Donald Trump has said the Taiwan issue was “up to” Chinese leader Xi Jinping, as he sought to draw a sharp distinction between the self-ruled island and Washington’s recent military action in Venezuela. In an interview with The New York Times published on Thursday, Trump rejected suggestions that his audacious operation targeting the…
Indonesia’s Bali is weighing a regulation that would require foreign tourists to disclose how much money they have had in their bank accounts over the past three months, the island’s most far-reaching proposal yet in a drive to deter low-spending visitors and promote what officials call “quality tourism”. Governor Wayan Koster said the measure would…
I attended a memorial service last month for victims of the Nanking massacre, held at the Hong Kong government offices in Admiralty. Such occasions are solemn reminders of history’s darkest moments, forcing us to pause and reflect on the scale of the tragedy that unfolded after the city was seized on December 13, 1937, and…
Venezuela released citizens and foreigners from its prisons on Thursday in what a top government official described as a gesture to “seek peace” less than a week after former President Nicolas Maduro was captured by US forces to face federal drug-trafficking charges in New York. Jorge Rodriguez, brother of Acting President Delcy Rodriguez and head…
TOKYO — The year is off to a dreadful start for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Asia’s No. 2 economy. Though it’s not the first blow, news on Tuesday that China is imposing curbs on more than 40% of the goods Japan Inc. exports to Xi Jinping’s economy is quite sobering. The move by…
While the world’s eyes were on Venezuela, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung traveled to Beijing to open a new era of cooperation with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Lee also reiterated South Korea’s commitment to the One China policy. Lee led a delegation that included about 200 economic officials and representatives of South Korean business, including…
A Hong Kong social worker has been jailed for two years and three months for having sex with an underage girl five times and filming one of the illegal acts. The District Court on Thursday sentenced Wong Lok-tin, 39, for the crimes he committed when the teenager was 13 to 14 years old. The court…
The sanctioned head of Cambodia’s Prince Group — which the United States has dubbed a “transnational criminal organization” — has been extradited to China, officials said in a statement today. Prince Group Chairman Chen Zhi was arrested on January 6 along with two other people, Cambodia’s ministry of interior said in astatement. The arrests came…
The US decision to raid Venezuela, detain its President Nicolas Maduro and bring him to the United States, ostensibly on drug trafficking charges, will have serious downstream effects, but of what variety? US President Donald Trump has already sent ominous warnings to other Latin American countries whose leaders oppose all or parts of his agenda…
Jensen Huang, CEO of the tech behemoth Nvidia and the eighth-richest man in the world, says he is “perfectly fine” with a grassroots push in California to impose a one-time wealth tax on the state’s billionaire residents. In an interview withBloomberg on Tuesday, Huang said: “We chose to live in Silicon Valley, and whatever taxes,…
