China and Japan are in a war of words over Taiwan – what happens next? | Japan

Tokyo and Beijing are embroiled in a deepening row over Taiwan after Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, suggested that her country could potentially become militarily involved in the event of an attempted... Read more »

China Trend Watch: Japan Tensions, Nexperia Fallout, Yunnan’s ‘Wild Child,’ & “Modern Opium”

  🔥What’s Trending in China This Week (Week 42, 2025)? Stay updated with China Trend Watch by What’s on Weibo — your quick overview of what’s trending on Weibo and across other... Read more »

Inside Trump’s scramble to reduce US dependence on Chinese rare-earth metals | Critical minerals

Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, returned from South Carolina last week brandishing a small piece of metal, proclaiming that it was the first rare-earth magnet made in the US in a... Read more »

China sends coast guard to Senkaku islands amid row with Japan | China

China has sent its coast guard through the waters of the Senkaku islands and military drones past outlying Japanese territory as Beijing ramps up tensions over the Japanese prime minister’s remarks on... Read more »

First Thing: Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon during 2018 pro-Trump media campaign | Steve Bannon

Good morning. The convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein apparently served as a behind-the-scenes adviser to the former Trump official and Maga influencer Steve Bannon during an August 2018 media campaign to defend... Read more »

CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for October 2025, Part One

CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the... Read more »

AI firm claims it stopped Chinese state-sponsored cyber-attack campaign | Artificial intelligence (AI)

A leading artificial intelligence company claims to have stopped a China-backed “cyber espionage” campaign that was able to infiltrate financial firms and government agencies with almost no human oversight. The US-based Anthropic... Read more »

London businessman jailed for life after filming his sex attacks on women | Crime

A businessman has been jailed for life for drugging women then subjecting them to sexual attacks which he recorded for his pleasure, as well as committing hundreds of other sexual offences. The... Read more »

Global markets fall after tech sell-off and fears over Chinese economy | Stock markets

Global markets have fallen after a tech sell-off that fuelled Wall Street’s worst day in a month and weak economic data from China showed an unprecedented slump in investment. The FTSE 100... Read more »

China and Saudi Arabia among nations receiving climate loans, analysis reveals | Climate finance

China and wealthy petrostates including Saudi Arabia and UAE are among countries receiving large sums of climate finance, according to an analysis. The Guardian and Carbon Brief analysed previously unreported submissions to... Read more »