Computer science graduate Alain Saas is hoping a fourth time is the charm to make his China dream come true. As a young man growing up in the small town of Selestat in eastern France, the distant Asian country seemed magical. But the dream has been elusive and trying to land a job in China…
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Asian stocks on Friday tracked Wall Street’s sharp drop in skittish trading, with the region’s major benchmarks erasing the previous day’s gains. The future for the S&P 500 was up 0.3% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged 0.4% higher. Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 2.4% to 48,625.88 as worries…
Japan’s export of lethal weapons sent an “extremely dangerous signal” indicating expanded military capabilities, Chinese observers and media said on Thursday as relations between the two countries continued to nosedive. The assessment followed Japanese media reports on Wednesday that Japan had exported domestically produced Patriot surface-to-air missile interceptors to the United States. The US would…
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Washington should tighten its export controls by adding inspection staff and plugging loopholes to slow Beijing’s chipmaking advances and curb evasion efforts with support from allies such as the Netherlands and Japan, US lawmakers and experts said on Thursday. Such actions should be deployed, including empowering the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to close…
Greater Bay Airlines has become the first Hong Kong carrier to explicitly offer refunds for Japan-bound flights following Beijing’s travel warning to Chinese citizens. The announcement on Thursday came a day after the city’s flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways and its budget arm said they would provide flexible arrangements for passengers in the wake of…
Taipei — Images of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te holding a plate of sushi were posted on social media on Thursday in a show of support for Tokyo after reports that China will halt Japanese seafood imports. The row between Japan and China was triggered by new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggesting this month that…
Amid a heated diplomatic row between Beijing and Tokyo which has shown no signs of cooling off, several employees of China’s state-owned enterprises have been advised to scrap their immediate travel plans to Japan, they told the Post on condition of anonymity. One of them, an engineer at a state-owned firm in the central Chinese…
China stepped up its economic war with Japan on Wednesday as a dispute between Asia’s two biggest economies intensified over a remark by Tokyo’s new leader about a Japanese response to any Chinese military move against self-ruled Taiwan. Newsweek has contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the U.S. Department of State for…
Diplomatic dispute deepens between Tokyo and Beijing over Taiwan remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. China will again ban all imports of Japanese seafood as a diplomatic dispute between the two countries escalates, Japanese media report. Japanese public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News agency said on Wednesday that the seafood ban follows after China…