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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 18, 2020
Biden should look to Obama's Asia-Pacific trade strategies
As president-elect Joe Biden prepares for his inauguration, the international community is anticipating how the incoming administration will approach free trade.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 17, 2020
Bringing the MSDF to Ishigaki Island amid China’s ramped-up territorial ambitions
Ishigaki Island voters have a keen awareness of national security needs. This is especially true in recent years as China's territorial ambitions toward the Senkaku Islands
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 17, 2020
U.S. trade czar's advice for Biden on China: 'Hold their feet to the fire'
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden should keep pressing China to stick to the phase one trade deal and use tariffs as leverage, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said, adding that Beijing has done a "reasonably good job" at implementing parts of the deal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Dec 17, 2020
How to adapt to Biden's trade and climate policies
With just weeks to go until the president-elect steps up, Japan needs to examine how to react to his proposed policies on key issues.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Dec 17, 2020
China's move toward monetary tightening attracts influx of capital
People's Bank of China Gov. Yi Gang has vowed to normalize policy, widening a divergence with other large economies in ways that will shape global capital and trade flows.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 17, 2020
As China tracked Muslims, Alibaba showed customers how they could, too
The discovery could thrust one of the world's most valuable internet companies into the storm of international condemnation surrounding China's treatment of its Muslim minorities.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 17, 2020
Biden likely to keep using sanctions weapon but with sharper aim
Biden is expected to make clear that sanctions will remain a central instrument of U.S. power — although it will no longer be deployed with the 'America First” bravado.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 16, 2020
Can Hong Kong return to the situation before the national security law?
In the current political climate, it is difficult to see China reversing its current course of greater integration of Hong Kong into the mainland.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 16, 2020
Australia to challenge China at the WTO as tensions escalate
Australia will challenge China at the World Trade Organization over Beijing’s decision to impose hefty tariffs on its barley exports, a further sign of deteriorating relations between the two key trading partners.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 16, 2020
How China's coal industry is fighting to survive in a greener world
Before long, an uncomfortable truth could push to the forefront: China's national target of reaching net-zero emissions might not be compatible with another generation of coal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 15, 2020
Trucks in China are watching if drivers doze, speed or slack off
Beijing-based G7 aims to monitor all steps along a product's logistics journey, from warehouse to delivery, remotely.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 15, 2020
China's November industrial output steps up as recovery gathers pace
China's industrial output grew in line with expectations in November, expanding for the eighth straight month as the economic recovery gathered pace and global demand picked up.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 15, 2020
Australia ‘deeply troubled’ by report on China coal import ban
Australia’s Trade Minister Simon Birmingham says he is "deeply troubled” by reports that China has formally banned imports of Australian coal, in the latest sign the dispute between the nations is worsening.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Dec 14, 2020
China’s combative nationalists see a world turning their way
China's Communist Party, under its leader, Xi Jinping, has promoted the idea that the country is on a trajectory to power past Western rivals.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 14, 2020
Chinese dams under U.S. scrutiny in Mekong rivalry
Beijing has dismissed U.S. research saying Chinese dams have retained water to the detriment of downstream nations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2020
Taiwan on track to apply to join trans-Pacific trade pact
The island's government says that informal talks with other CPTPP members, in line with application procedures, are ongoing.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Japanese man broke into 1,000 homes to 'relieve stress'
Fukuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters in Fukuoka. Police took a 37-year-old man into custody on Monday on suspicion of trespassing on a property in Dazaifu City.
Wild boar injures six at Himeji child care facility
Hyogo Prefectural Police headquarters. A wild boar attacked children and staff at a child care facility in the prefecture on Tuesday.
Russia says it will respond if U.S. places missiles in Japan
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a news conference in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in June
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.

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