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Employees prepare food for customers in China's first official Hello Kitty-themed restaurant in Shanghai in April 2016.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 9, 2026
China’s hard power keeps undermining its soft power
China undoubtedly has real soft power. Yet its behavior repeatedly undermines it.
China’s Baotou Rare Earth Industrial Development Zone in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is the country’s only national-level development zone dedicated specifically to the rare-earths industry.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 29, 2026
China’s rare-earth success offers lessons in economic security
Japan and its partners must build alternatives without replicating Beijing’s state-directed model.
President Xi Jinping’s sweeping purge of China’s military has concentrated power in his hands and raises the risk of aggression toward Taiwan, meaning the U.S. must be ready.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2026
Xi’s military purges make U.S. deterrence more urgent
President Xi Jinping’s sweeping purge of China’s military has concentrated power in his hands and raised the risk of aggression toward Taiwan.
Bottles of Dongpeng Beverage Group's Bushuila electrolyte drink featuring French football star Kylian Mbappe on the packaging are displayed at a convenience store in Beijing on Tuesday.
SOCCER
Oct 27, 2026
Mbappe dropped by Chinese brands for ‘offending national sentiments’
In China, jokes about Mao Zedong, the country’s founding leader who died in 1976, are considered disrespectful and remain a social taboo.
Demonstrators take part in a protest organized by student collectives and trade unions in Paris on Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2026
Will France’s mass protests and riots spread across the globe?
France’s waves of unrest reveal social and economic tensions while raising concerns that far-right forces could exploit public discontent elsewhere.
Chinese President Xi Jinping gives a toast at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sept. 30
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / EXPLAINER
Oct 24, 2026
What to know about the Chinese Communist Party’s Fifth Plenum
Chinese President Xi Jinping and others will meet in Beijing on Monday for a gathering that could hint at the country’s next generation of leaders.
Demonstrators attend a "Free Tibet" protest against Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to the U.S. outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington on Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2026
Tibet’s advocates need to reach China’s majority
Growing Han Chinese awareness and activism poses the only pressure Beijing cannot ignore on Tibet.
Chinese President Xi Jinping during a military parade in Beijing in September of last year.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 23, 2026
China’s purges of top military commanders spur questions about war-waging ability
The crackdown is likely to have strengthened Xi Jinping’s grip on an institution that is a key source of power for the Communist Party, analysts say.
Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong on Jun. 21. The city’s new five-year plan marks a shift toward modern industrial policy as it embraces state-led incentives to reshape its economic future.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2026
Laissez-faire Hong Kong meets the five-year plan
What Hong Kong is attempting to do is better understood as industrial policy.
Gen. Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and the military, according to an official announcement on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 22, 2026
China expels two top generals from party and military, alleging disloyalty
Zhang Youxia, the vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, and Liu Zhenli, a member of the commission, were also accused of corruption.
China’s AI-driven industrial automation is reviving Marxist hopes that abundant, cheap goods could transcend capitalism’s wealth-extraction trap.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2026
AI is reviving Chinese Marxist economics
China’s Marxist economists argue that AI-driven automation could eliminate the rent trap and undermine capitalism’s foundations.
With Huawei’s history of security concerns in mind, China is causing concern as it pushes technologies that could lock other countries into long?term dependence on its infrastructure.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2026
Tiny technology deepens the geopolitical divide
Adoption of particular technologies — reflected to some degree in brands and standards — will determine with which side a country aligns itself.
A woman rides her scooter past the late Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong's statue in Shijiazhuang, China, on Aug. 19.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Sep 6, 2026
China’s memories of Mao fade to nostalgia 50 years after his death
Mao ushered in collectivized ownership hoping to drive industry and unite the country, but his drastic policies are blamed for mass starvation and millions of deaths.
Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, attends a U.S.-backed photo exhibit highlighting missing Uyghurs or those alleged to be held in Chinese-run camps outside the United Nations in Geneva in September 2021.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2026
China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ law is already harming Uyghurs
China’s new ethnic?unity law is already driving forced assimilation at home and enabling repression abroad, prompting urgent calls for global action.
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the driving force behind China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, takes questions with U.S. President Bill Clinton during a joint news conference in Washington in April 1999.
EDITORIALS
Aug 14, 2026
Zhu Rongji, China’s misunderstood reformer, dies
Zhu will be remembered as the man who masterminded China’s entry into the World Trade Organization.
Chinese President Xi Jinping might secure a precedent-defying fourth term during next autumn’s Chinese Communist Party leadership congress.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 13, 2026
Xi’s secretive graft purges spawn underground market for leaks
The groups are flourishing a year before the leadership congress where Xi could secure a precedent-defying fourth term.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and others attend a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Beijing on Sept. 3.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2026
What the ‘Chinamaxxing’ crowd doesn’t get
When survival and success depend on pleasing the party boss rather than the consumer, honest innovators are weeded out.
A Buddhist monk passes by the Jokhang Temple during a government-organized tour in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, in March 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 15, 2026
China’s erasure of Tibet is accelerating
In recent years, the international community has stood idly by while China has systematically eradicated Tibetan culture and identity.
Xinjiang Party Secretary Ma Xingrui attends the Xinjiang delegation meeting during the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in March 2025.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 14, 2026
China purges third Politburo member in deepening anti-graft drive
Xi Jinping’s yearslong fight to root out corruption has ensnared senior officials of the Communist Party, government and military.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, during a welcoming ceremony before talks at the Kremlin in Moscow in May 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 25, 2026
Scarier than fiction: ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ comes to life
The objective is not to promote authoritarianism directly, but to corrode the trust that sustains democratic societies and international cooperation grounded in rule of law.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Man arrested over theft of watch that was returned days later to Tokyo mall
A 30-year-old man who is believed to have stolen a luxury wristwatch in Tokyo last month reportedly told police he was the one who had sent it back with a handwritten apology.
Japan not immune to public backlash against data centers, experts say
An apartment resident displays a model of a data center currently in development next door in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in May.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
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