China will implement more proactive policies in 2026 aimed at supporting long-term expansion, Chinese President Xi Jinping says, with its economy expected to meet Beijing’s growth target of about 5% in 2025. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/31/asia-pacific/xi-china-macro-policies-2026/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #xijinping #china
A group of about 200 Japanese executives has put a visit to Beijing planned for Jan. 20 on hold, a sign that a diplomatic feud is chilling commercial ties between Asia’s two largest economies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/31/ceo-japan-china-trip/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #china #chinajapanrelations #sanaetakaichi #taiwan
Japan on Wednesday joined Australia, Britain, France and Germany in conveying concern over escalating tensions following China’s recent large-scale military exercises around Taiwan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/31/japan/china-military-exercises-taiwan-japan-europe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #china #taiwan #pla #us #uschinarelations #donaldtrump #sanaetakaichi #defense #chinajapanrelations #foreignministry
The latest deterioration of Japan-China ties has highlighted that a dangerous new equilibrium between the two countries is emerging — one that will test each other’s resolve, especially in the year ahead. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/31/japan/politics/japan-china-relations-2026-analysis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #china #chinajapanrelations #usjapanrelations #xijinping #sanaetakaichi #taiwan #taiwanjapanrelations #donaldtrump #defense #sdf #pla
Taiwanese tech titan Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract maker of chips, has started mass producing its cutting-edge 2-nanometer semiconductor chips, the company announced. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/31/tech/tsmc-production-2nm-chips/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #tsmc #chipmakers #taiwan #china #us #computers #tech
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will make a state visit to China from Jan. 4 to 7 and meet his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, the Blue House said, as it aims to keep up momentum to restore ties. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/31/asia-pacific/politics/south-korea-lee-visit-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #southkorea #china #leejaemyung #xijinping #supplychains
China’s museum boom, take two.
Once-empty halls now heave with visitors—and treasures.
Today, China is again in the grips of a museum boom. But this time it means something else: a giant increase in visitors and a big leap in exhibition quality, especially of ancient splendours.
"Security autism" isn’t a moral failing; it’s a cognitive one. Just as individuals on the autism spectrum struggle with social cues and environmental awareness, nations can lose the ability to read geopolitical signals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/30/japan/beware-of-security-autism/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #us #china #usjapanrelations #chinajapanrelations #defense #sdf #northkorea #donaldtrump
Jan :rust: :ferris:
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Dear #China, you have left me with no choice but to ban you from my entire network.
After months of scraping my Wikiless, Invidious, Nitter, Redlib and Forgejo, compromising the performance of my servers by requesting commits, blames, bulk PR changes, and even repeatedly cloning my repos over HTTPS, and even bypassing captchas and Anubis, all at peak rates of 20-25 requests/second, I have decided that I’m done.
See you again when you stop abusing the Internet.
And I don’t even know which network admin I should report these episodes of network abuse to, when the abuse comes from ALL the Chinese subnets (Huawei, Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Unicom, and even networks allocated for mobile devices), and the desperate race to win the #AI war has apparently turned the whole country into a giant botnet.
6GB of nginx logs collected just on my Forgejo server only in the past week, from tens of thousands of Chinese IP addresses. At least I have a comprehensive list of subnets to blacklist.
A small but growing number of parents in China are rethinking the country’s rigorous education system and switching to homeschooling, despite a current ban on the practice. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/asia-pacific/society/china-homeschool-students-youth/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #china #education #eastasia #children #schools
Thailand has accused Cambodia of violating a newly agreed ceasefire, reached after weeks of deadly border clashes, by flying more than 250 drones over its territory. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/asia-pacific/politics/thai-army-cambodia-drones/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #thailand #cambodia #borderclashes #drones #asean #us #china
The Chinese military on Tuesday conducted long-range live-fire drills in waters around Taiwan, part of a second day of 'major' exercises focused on blockading the island and deterring aid from Taipei’s partners. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/asia-pacific/china-taiwan-military-exercises-missiles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #china #pla #taiwan #donaldtrump #sanaetakaichi #xijinping #us #usmilitary #defense #missiles
Dear #China, you have left me with no choice but to ban you from my entire network.
After months of scraping my Wikiless, Invidious, Nitter, Redlib and Forgejo, compromising the performance of my servers by requesting commits, blames, bulk PR changes, and even repeatedly cloning my repos over HTTPS, and even bypassing captchas and Anubis, all at peak rates of 20-25 requests/second, I have decided that I’m done.
See you again when you stop abusing the Internet.
And I don’t even know which network admin I should report these episodes of network abuse to, when the abuse comes from ALL the Chinese subnets (Huawei, Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Unicom, and even networks allocated for mobile devices), and the desperate race to win the #AI war has apparently turned the whole country into a giant botnet.
6GB of nginx logs collected just on my Forgejo server only in the past week, from tens of thousands of Chinese IP addresses. At least I have a comprehensive list of subnets to blacklist.
China's highest-altitude arch dam, the Yebatan Hydropower Station, has begun generating power. This major project on the upper Jinsha River features a 217-meter dam, saves 3 million tons of coal annually, and powers Central China with clean energy, marking a breakthrough in high-altitude, green engineering.
At the start of 2025, western economists predicted "lost decades" for China due to structural problems like deflation, debt, and demographics.
China defied these expectations, hitting a record $1T trade surplus despite US tariffs. Even though Chinese exports to the US tumbling 19% due to trade wars, China successfully pivoted to other markets and internal innovation.
Western elites underestimated China's resilience due to ideological aversion.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-12-23/repeat-after-me-never-ever-underestimate-china
Beijing says Thailand and Cambodia plan to rebuild mutual trust and gradually consolidate a ceasefire after weeks of border clashes, following talks in southwestern China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/asia-pacific/politics/thailand-cambodia-ceasefire-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #thailand #cambodia #china #borderclashes #wangyi #donaldtrump #anwaribrahim #asean
Barely a decade after President Barack Obama announced a “pivot” to Asia, the United States' commitment to the region is as tenuous as the days of the Vietnam War. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/29/world/asia-adrift-alone/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #trade #defense #china #southkorea #vietnam #southkoreajapanrelations
LandSpace, the first Chinese entity to conduct a reusable rocket test, is now preparing to go public to fund its future projects, as U.S. rival SpaceX considers its own IPO. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/29/landspace-spacex-competition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #landspace #china #eastasia #space #rockets #elonmusk
Growing Chinese auto giant BYD stands poised to officially surpass Tesla as the world’s biggest electric vehicle company in annual sales. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/29/companies/byd-overtake-tesla-2025/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #tesla #byd #electricvehicles #elonmusk #donaldtrump #china #europe #northamerica
On the diplomatic stage, Chinese President Xi Jinping projected strength, but beneath the diplomatic victories, he still has plenty of worries at home — from structural economic vulnerabilities to a personnel purge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/asia-pacific/politics/xi-trump-china-troubles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #xijinping #trade #uschinarelations #tech