Taiwan’s president Lai Ching-te will travel to the Pacific with three of Taipei’s remaining diplomatic allies starting at the end of the month, his office announced on Friday ( Nov 22 ), but the government forewarned information on US transit stops. Taiwan’s presidents generally enrage Beijing by making what areContinue Reading
Conflict READY Kyiv immediately needs more air defenses to fight off the constant barrage of missiles that have targeted Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure and human areas, according to Han Kwon-hee of the Korea Association of Defense Industry. ” Counteroffensives require security in the back areas, which is why Kyiv has evenContinue Reading
As part of his second trip to Europe to strengthen relationships, Taiwan’s foreign minister Lin Chia-lung made an unannounced quit in Brussels this week to meet with members of the European Parliament. As Taiwan struggles to defend its place from an exceedingly forceful China, which claims the self-ruled political islandContinue Reading
In the midst of a surge in outbound tourism, Japan’s latest example of how it is grappling with misbehaving visitors became the victim of an American’s arrest for defacing a reverent Tokyo shrine.
Japan welcomed nearly 27 million visitors through September, a record pace, and their spending added 5.86 trillion yen ( US$ 37.5 billion ) to the economy. But instances of theft, public drunkenness, and “overtourism” at popular websites have sparked debate about how to handle the flood of customers and those who flout the rules.
A 65-year-old American was detained on Wednesday ( Nov 13 ) after being suspected of carving alphabetical characters into a Meiji Jingu Shrine’s pillar on Tuesday.
According to the Jiji information services, the suspect and his family made their way to Japan on Monday for sightseeing. According to Jiji, security camera footage led police to his hotel where he is suspected of infecting the wooden pillar with five letters, each representing a household name, with his finger.
A spokesperson for the US Embassy said employees were in the country and are providing consular help, but they declined to provide further information because of privacy concerns.
APEC, created in 1989 with the goal of regional trade liberalisation, brings up 21 economies that simultaneously reflect about 60 per cent of , world , GDP and over 40 per cent of global business. On Thursday,  , APEC , officials,  , including , US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, held their own conferenceContinue Reading
A man was given a 23-year and 10-month prison sentence by Hong Kong’s high court on Thursday ( Nov. 14 ) for being the mastermind of an alleged plot to bomb police with explosives during the city’s anti-China protests in 2019. Ng Chi-hung, 28, was accused of using explosives andContinue Reading
If Ishiba ca n’t rekindle public trust stifled by a scandal involving unrecorded donations to lawmakers, the less powerful upper house’s slim majority in Japan could also be in danger. Under pressure from citizens and opposition parties to increase spending on security and take measures to mitigate rising costs, hisContinue Reading
Shanghai is the only big city in the world with more than 1, 000 Coffee shops, according to Xie, who reminded the US of the existence of US businesses. ” The more success stories of mutually beneficial assistance, the better”, Xie said. China and the United States can work togetherContinue Reading
Abe, who was killed in 2022, stopped in New York to join with Trump during a hastily scheduled appointment at Trump Tower less than a week after the 2016 election.
The pair’s near relation, which developed over many days spent on the golf lessons, helped to resolve a number of issues that came up during his first term, including trade disputes between the friends.
In advance of the 2024 election, Chinese officials had been intensifying their efforts to renew relations with those close to Trump, concerned that he might impose tariffs on steel on the country and resend demands that it pay more for the cost of stationing US forces there if he was elected.
When I was questioned on Thursday about the latter matter, Ishiba claimed he did not talk about it in the phone call with Trump. ” Rather than rely on financial amounts, we would like to actively explore the increasing of the Japan-US empire from various perspectives”, he added.
Ishiba expressed promise in working with Mr. Trump to bring the Japan-US ally and Japan-US marriage to new heights when he congratulated Trump on Wednesday evening for his victory in the election.
Japan and the United States are each other’s best foreign investors, and 54, 000 US military officers are stationed in Japan, mostly in the southwestern area of Okinawa.
A Chinese official news called for a “pragmatic” tactic to China-US relationships in order to resolve their differences effectively while China praised the outcome of the US election and congratulated Donald Trump on his victory. Trump, a Republican who has promised to implement stiff tariffs, recaptured the White House withContinue Reading