America’s Drone Ecosystem at a Crossroads: The Dual Approach to Boosting Domestic Industry and Addressing Chinese Platforms

The United States is now taking its broadest, most coordinated action yet to shape the future of its drone ecosystem. Through a mix of regulatory restriction—the “stick”—and an array of market-building incentives—the “carrot”—federal agencies and...

How homosexuality was accepted, even celebrated, in ancient China

Hong Kong’s Registration of Same-sex Partnerships Bill, introduced to the Legislative Council in July, proposes the establishment of a legal framework to register overseas same-sex marriages and civil partnerships. The bill grants limited rights,...

From the Other Side: A Small Business Owner on the Potential Impacts of a Ban on Chinese Drones

The Stakes for America’s Future There’s no quick fix for a Made-in-America drone solution. The ecosystem that exists today is not the enemy; it is the foundation. As the FAA Safety Team Lead Representative Drone Pro for Virginia, I’ve trained, and...

Latest Trump Moves on China Are Not Concessions

A recent Washington Post report suggests a concerning “softening” in the Trump administration’s approach to Beijing, highlighting what it views as dangerous concessions on Taiwan and technology driven by a singular focus on a trade deal. However,...

ASIA/CHINA - Request to open the Cause of Canonization of the Salesian Gaetano Nicosia, apostle among the lepers of Macau

Friday, 1 August 2025 Oclarim Macau (Agenzia Fides) – A request has been made to open the Cause of Canonization of the Salesian missionary Gaetano Nicosia, originally from Sicily and who died in Hong Kong at the age of 102. The announcement was...

GOP senator calls for no more Iranian, Chinese student visas, says America is ‘educating our own demise’

Dual-use bridge: subway trains, cars run side-by-side on SW China bridge

Xinhua News | China's central bank pledges stronger support for innovation, consumption in H2

‘Like me? Approach me directly, okay?’: Inside a matchmaking event for China’s wealthy

BEIJING – A woman in a light blue dress twirled gracefully across the dance floor; a man in a white polo tee, hair slicked back, belted out a Cantonese ballad, 1874 by Eason Chan. This was no talent show but a matchmaking event at a five-star...

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EU energy policy trapped between US gas and Chinese green tech

The European Union’s lavish pledge to buy $750 billion of U.S. energy by 2028 risks exacerbating the bloc’s already outsized dependence on American gas, just as it finds itself increasingly reliant on Chinese technology to power its energy...

US defense industry vulnerable to China, government watchdog warns

The U.S. defense industrial base and all branches of the U.S. military depend heavily on materials produced by China to make and use critical weapon systems, creating national security risks, a government watchdog warned in a recent report. The...

China says US spies exploited Microsoft Exchange zero-day to steal military info

China has accused US intelligence agencies of exploiting a Microsoft Exchange zero-day exploit to steal defense-related data and take over more than 50 devices belonging to a "major Chinese military enterprise" for nearly a year. In a Thursday...

Chinese caviar producer Kaluga Queen plans IPO in Hong Kong

China’s PLA turns 98, celebrates reform achievements

The Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution in Beijing has received countless visitors this summer. In the exhibition hall, young children could be seen gathering around a display case containing a rusty bolt-action rifle. Known as...

All-out thaw: can India and China unfreeze icy ties at last?

When Indian pilgrims set foot in Tibet again this summer, their arrival heralded a new beginning for India and China, five years after a deadly Himalayan clash plunged the two bitter rivals into a diplomatic deep freeze. But with the machinery of...

Iron ore heads for weekly loss as hopes fade for China stimulus

Iron ore futures prices traded little changed on Friday but were set for weekly losses, as expectations of more stimulus from top consumer China for the struggling property sector faded, dimming demand prospects for the steelmaking ingredient. The...

China Advances Toward Economic Partnership Agreement, Zero-Tariff Deals

News Investigators/ China has expressed its readiness to work closely with Nigeria to sign the Agreement on Economic Partnership for Shared Development and fully implement a zero-tariff policy on Nigerian products. Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria,...

Federal Ministers ‘Disappointed’ With BC Ferries Over China Vessel Orders, Won’t Cancel $1B Loan

Minister of Transport and Internal Trade Chrystia Freeland prepares to appear at the House of Commons transport committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Aug. 1, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld Federal ministers told MPs they are “dismayed” and...

LIVE NOW: Think Tank Holds Webinar on ‘Is China Entering a Post-Xi or Post-CCP Era?’

The Consilium Institute, a think tank specializing in China issues, holds a webinar at 10 a.m. ET on Aug. 2. Piero Tozzi, director for the Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC), and Gordon G. Chang, the author of Plan Red: China’s...