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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 4, 2022
Audi weighs green energy investment in China to slash emissions
Traditional manufacturers are facing the challenge of stepping up plans to replace gas-guzzlers with electric models that still generate lower profits than combustion-engine vehicles.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 4, 2022
U.S. lawmakers push to rename Taiwan's de facto embassy in Washington
Any change in the office's name could provide cover to smaller countries to take similar steps to boost engagement with Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 4, 2022
Winter Olympics opening gives China a chance to spin its image
But even with the advantage of viewers' general excitement, Beijing has an uphill battle as reports of human rights abuses and suppression of dissent linger in public memory.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 4, 2022
In Beijing, the subject on everybody’s mind but not lips
Political activism has surfaced at many international events, including the Tokyo Olympics last summer, but no other host nation has been as strict as China in policing political dissent.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 3, 2022
In clash with U.S. over Ukraine, Putin has a lifeline from China
China has expressed support for Putin's grievances against the U.S. and NATO, and joined Russia to try to block action on Ukraine at the U.N. Security Council.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 3, 2022
Does Japan’s human rights resolution on China go far enough?
Some say the China human rights resolution 'was born at last after a difficult delivery,” while others call it “too little, too submissive.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2022
The South China Sea’s environmental crisis
China's expansive assertion of offshore sovereignty is not only challenging others' territorial rights, it is also threatening a central feature of the Southeast Asian ecosystem — fishing.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 3, 2022
Japan should press China more on human rights, Kishida adviser says
Gen Nakatani, the prime minister's human rights adviser, says he wants to push China harder on the issue following a parliamentary resolution that called on Tokyo to probe alleged abuses.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2022
How China views the Ukraine crisis
The stakes for China are high, but Beijing has been extremely careful about showing its hand over the Ukraine crisis.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 2, 2022
China expected to reap record medal haul at Beijing Games, analysts say
The country is expected to beat its previous best of 11 medals, including five golds, from the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Feb 2, 2022
Beijing 2022 — A second pandemic Olympics
This Friday, the 2022 Winter Olympics kick off in Beijing, the second Olympics to be held during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the first ever to be held on entirely artificial snow.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 2, 2022
Asics defies Nike’s China underperformance in return to profit
Many foreign sports brands struggled in China last year as controversy erupted over cotton sourced from the Xinjiang region, making Asic's performance a surprise.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 2, 2022
As the U.S. pulls back from the Middle East, China leans in
States in the Middle East are increasingly looking to China not just to buy their oil, but to invest in their infrastructure and cooperate on technology and security.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2022
A normal supply chain? It’s ‘unlikely’ in 2022.
For those who keep tabs on the global supply chain, the very concept of a return to normalcy has given way to a begrudging acceptance that a new normal may be unfolding.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 1, 2022
Team Taiwan says it will be at Beijing Games' opening ceremony
Taiwan competes in most sporting events with the title 'Chinese Taipei' at the insistence of Beijing, which sees democratically governed Taiwan as part of 'one China.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2022
Dashed dreams for China Evergrande's showpiece resort island
Officials in Danzhou city have ordered 39 of Ocean Flower Island's towers to be demolished over environmental and construction violations.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 1, 2022
Japan preparing for possible Biden visit in late May, report says
The U.S. is looking into having Biden visit South Korea at the same time for talks with its new leader after current President Moon Jae-in's term in office finishes at the start of May.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 31, 2022
Hong Kong's 'COVID-zero' strategy is on the brink of collapse
Officials instead are pursuing what they call 'Dynamic Zero,” an approach that emerged from China and aims to work toward no new infections while acknowledging some may still occur.

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