SEATTLE – A former U.S. Army sergeant stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington pleaded guilty to attempting to share classified military secrets with the Chinese government. WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 6: The Department of Justice seal and logo are displayed before U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi arrives for a news conference at the Department…
A man rides through a flooded street in Zhongshan, in China’s southern Guangdong province on June 17, 2025. (Photo by AFP) Nearly 70,000 residents in southern China have been evacuated due to severe flooding triggered by Typhoon Wutip, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday. Vast areas of Zhaoqing city in Guangdong province were submerged, with…
Beijing has begun moving its citizens in Iran to safety. On Tuesday, buses carrying Chinese nationals departed the capital, Tehran, heading toward Turkmenistan, the state-run China News Service reported on Wednesday. According to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 791 Chinese citizens have so far been brought to safe areas, and more than 1,000 others are…
There is a lot of discussion in Washington and Beijing about the implications of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, but no clear consensus on how AI advances will impact how the world’s two leading powers relate to each other. In the following collection of short essays, Brookings scholars from different disciplines offer their forecasts on…
MILAN (Reuters) -The United States’ “confrontational” trade stance towards Europe is a consequence of U.S. efforts to give Russia a seat in international forums and weaken its ties with China, a top European Central Bank policymaker said on Wednesday. ECB Governing Council member Fabio Panetta told … Source link
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia will hold joint military exercises with China in 2025. (Reporting by VLadimir Soldatkin; editing by Guy Faulconbridge) Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters. Source link
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world. You might not realize it, but everything from AI chatbots and autonomous driving systems requires literally trillions of data points to train. My colleague Emily Feng and I were curious about the…
After an urgent meeting last Friday convened by the United Nations Security Council after Israel attacked Iran last Friday, another meeting has now been requested from Iran’s end, with support from Russia, China, and Pakistan. This UNSC meeting will be held on Friday, and the Israel-Iran agenda will be the primary one on the table,…
China’s central bank chief Pan Gongsheng has pledged to expand the footprint of the digital yuan, reaffirming the country’s vision for its central bank digital currency (CBDC). According to a Reuters report, China is creating an international operations center in Shanghai for the digital yuan, also known as e-CNY. Pan made the remarks at the…
The second Central Asia-China summit wrapped up on June 17 with the signing of the Treaty on Eternal Good-Neighborliness, Friendship, and Cooperation, marking a major milestone in deepening mutual trust and strategic collaboration between China and the five Central Asian nations. The summit established new benchmarks for advancing relations among the six countries and outlined…