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CHINA

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 12, 2020
How China brought nearly 200 million students back to school
Under bright blue skies, nearly 2,000 students gathered this month for the start of school at Hanyang No. 1 High School in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Sep 12, 2020
Abe lays groundwork for strike capability, but leaves decision to Japan’s next leader
In his last full week on the job, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laid the groundwork for a plan to allow preemptive strikes on enemy bases.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Sep 11, 2020
Trump’s 2016 China-bashing playbook risks flopping against Biden
U.S. President Donald Trump is reviving tactics from his 2016 campaign playbook on attacking China, but running as the incumbent means defending a record of only limited success in rewriting the economic relationship with Beijing.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 11, 2020
ByteDance poised to miss U.S. deadline for TikTok sale as China intervenes
New regulations Beijing posted in late August prohibit the export of certain artificial intelligence technologies that TikTok uses.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 11, 2020
Meet the ‘shadow shogun’ behind the making of Japan’s next prime minister
Yoshihide Suga's rise to pole position in the race to succeed Shinzo Abe is largely the making of political operator Toshihiro Nikai.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 11, 2020
China starts testing coronavirus nasal spray vaccine
Some scientists hope a vaccine that gets sprayed through the nose may have a better chance of stopping the spread of the insidious virus through respiratory tracts.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 11, 2020
Her father in prison, Uighur activist wants Disney to apologize
'It would be actually great if Disney can publicly first acknowledge the existence of those ... forced-labor camps ... and that it's wrong,' she said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 11, 2020
China and India agree yet again to ease tension on Himalayan border
The stand off has been ongoing since May, with additional troops having been brought to both sides of the boundary.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 10, 2020
Hopes rise for reforms as China focuses on inward economic shift
Economists say further transformation is needed to help China evade the so-called 'middle-income trap,' a situation where an economy stagnates at middle-income levels.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 10, 2020
Chinese fighter jets buzz Taiwan for second day as tensions rise
Chinese fighter jets approached Taiwan on Thursday for a second day in a row, the island's Defense Ministry said, urging China to stop "destroying regional peace" in a further ratcheting up of tension across the sensitive Taiwan Strait.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 9, 2020
Australia raided homes of Chinese reporters in June, reports say
The Australian government questioned at least one Chinese journalist in Australia in late June, according to reports in Chinese and Australian media, amid heightened tensions between the trading partners.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 9, 2020
Taiwan reports multiple Chinese fighter jets to its southwest
Multiple Chinese fighter jets entered airspace to Taiwan's southwest on Wednesday, the island's Defense Ministry said, describing it as a destabilizing action that threatened regional peace.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2020
A bubble scarier than big tech is brewing in China
Much as Beijing has advocated investing in young hard-tech stocks, professionals are still apprehensive.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2020
Brave new words hint at a less democratic future
As China tightens its grip on Hong Kong, its vocabulary of hurt national feelings and threat is turning up in the territory.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2020
Why calls to boycott 'Mulan' over concerns about China are growing
Disney’s live-action remake of "Mulan” has drawn a fresh wave of criticism for being filmed partly in Xinjiang, the region in China where Uighur Muslims have been detained in mass internment camps.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2020
WeChat and TikTok taking China censorship global, study says
The popular Chinese-owned social media platforms are increasingly taking practices honed for years behind the Great Firewall to an international audience.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2020
'Mulan' reboot, once a sure thing, becomes a headache for Disney
It was supposed to be another $1 billion blockbuster for Walt Disney Co. — a live-action remake of a 1998 animated hit featuring an all-star Asian cast, breathtaking cinematography and plenty of martial arts.

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