China’s Xi to visit Kim in North Korea next week
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang next week, both countries announced Friday.
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China bans four New Zealand lawmakers after they visited Taiwan
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Five Eyes alliance warns that China is targeting personnel via fake job ads
China is targeting personnel linked to the English-speaking Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K and the U.S. - on job websites to get access to classified or sensitive information, the group said Wednesday.
Ballot shortage casts cloud over South Korean local elections once seen as a Lee victory lap
Local elections across South Korea Wednesday were expected to be a plebiscite on liberal President Lee Jae-myung, who has been in power exactly one year.
China shifts narrative in praising PLA for Tiananmen massacre
The Chinese Communist Party on Thursday will mark the 37th anniversary of its use of military force in the massacre of thousands of unarmed pro-democracy protesters in Beijing.
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A performance artist on Wednesday sought to display a thin red thread in downtown Hong Kong to remember the victims of Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, 37 years on from the event. But he was quickly stopped by police, in the latest sign of the city's shrinking freedom of expression.
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Exit polls suggested that South Korea's ruling liberal party was projected to win a landslide victory in Wednesday's mayoral and other local elections, a result that if confirmed would give President Lee Jae Myung a firmer political mandate to advance his agenda.
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South Koreans began voting Wednesday in mayoral and other local elections that are seen as a gauge of support for President Lee Jae Myung's year-old liberal government.
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Cambodia's government has filed notice under a U.N. agreement on maritime law for compulsory conciliation of a sea border dispute with neighboring Thailand, Prime Minister Hun Manet said Tuesday.
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The U.S. will prevent China from dominating the Indo-Pacific by enhancing military power and increasing backing from regional allies but with less confrontational rhetoric, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a speech Saturday.