Asia & Pacific

China has banned four New Zealand MPs from entering China and its territories for a year after they travelled to Taiwan.

The Epoch Times obtained thousands of photos depicting the 1989 pro-democracy student protest movement in China’s Tiananmen Square.

Taipei seeks assurances that planned Japan–Philippines boundary talks will not affect Taiwan’s maritime rights.

The Chinese regime not only smuggles AI chips and materials through other countries, but is also recruiting U.S. AI engineers, insiders said.

Matthew Wale hopes to turn around ties with Australia and to eventually sign a ‘comprehensive security’ deal.

Arm CEO said the United States would struggle to ban AI-capable CPU exports to China because CPUs are too general purpose.

NCSIST said the systems could support reconnaissance, patrol, riot-control, and high-risk missions, but no order or deployment was announced.

The network of desert launch platforms host long-range missiles that can reach any U.S. city, but one expert cautioned that missile silos are sometimes fake.

The two countries also pledged to enhance flexible air deployment operations and continue strengthening force posture arrangements.

The two countries reaffirmed that peace and stability in the South China Sea are non-negotiable as they deepen defense and economic cooperation.

Authorities reviewed the probe requests under WTO rules and Japanese law and found enough evidence to launch formal investigations.

The chip family is designed to run personal agents natively in Windows instead of relying on cloud computing.

The gathering in Washington came ahead of the 37th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square massacre, also a taboo subject in China.

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi rejected accusations that Tokyo was pursuing a ‘new militarism’ and criticized China for expanding its military.

U.S. and Japanese defense chiefs called for allied burden-sharing, stronger deterrence, and expanded regional defense cooperation.

Groups have raised concerns that it could limit children’s access to information, communication, and social participation, and increase surveillance.

The group found that China’s state-owned enterprises received disproportionately high levels of government support.

Activists report intensified monitoring, travel bans, and ‘on post’ surveillance as Beijing marks 37 years since the 1989 massacre.