Ukraine war latest: Russia's largest oil terminal in occupied Crimea is still on fire

Hi, this is Jared Goyette reporting from Kyiv on day 1,329 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: ...
China Daily Global Edition

Ancient grottoes in Southwest China survive, thrive via innovative measures

Hailed by scholars as the pinnacle of China's late-period grotto art endeavors and the definitive example of southern Chinese ...

Archaeologists uncover ritual platforms that helped pave the way for Chinese unification

Archaeologists have excavated three c. 3,000–2,400-year-old ritual structures in Shandong Province, China, indicating that ...
Wall Street Journal

Pentagon Pushes to Double Missile Production for Potential China Conflict

China is building what is believed to be the world’s biggest military command center. WSJ explains how this new base could reshape the global security landscape. Photo: Illustration: Xingpei Shen The ...
Reuters

Ancient skull from China may shake up timeline of human evolution

Skull from Hubei Province is about a million years old Researchers conducted digital reconstruction on skull Study has implications for Homo sapiens lineage timeline Sept 25 (Reuters) - In 1990, an ...
New York Post

Chinese drone experts have been working with Russian state-owned arms maker on weapon development: report

Chinese drone experts have flown to Russia to conduct technical development work on military drones at a state-owned weapons manufacturer that is under Western sanctions, according to two European ...
The Hill

The window for US-China nuclear weapons negotiations is shrinking

At an August meeting with South Korea’s president, Trump again expressed his vision for drawing down U.S., China and Russia nuclear stockpiles. A few days later, the Chinese foreign ministry balked at ...
Wired

China Turns Legacy Chips Into a Trade Weapon

While the Trump administration was trying to make a TikTok deal happen during a meeting with China last weekend, Beijing was busy adding its own bargaining chips to the table. Actual chips, in ...
Wall Street Journal

China Hardens Military Stance Against U.S. With Nuclear Weapons and Tough Talk

China sells billions of dollars worth of military equipment to more than 40 countries. But for Beijing, arms trade is not just a lucrative business. Photo: Huang Wei, Rao Aimin/Zuma Press ...
Sun Sentinel

Congressman says TikTok serves as Chinese ‘weapon’ sowing discord among young Americans

TikTok is not the benign source of entertainment and information that its audience of young fans believe they’re getting, Congressman Jared Moskowitz warns. Rather, he warns, it is a dangerous ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Was Venice’s Iconic Winged Lion of St. Mark’s Square Made in Ancient China?

The lion may have been brought from China in the mid-1260s and modified in Venice between 1270 and 1290. Wolfgang Moroder via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 For hundreds of years, an iconic ...
Defense One

The big threat left out of Xi’s parade: China’s weaponized AI startups

China’s massive military parade this week featured a who’s who of well-dressed dictators, a fleet of laser-armed trucks, new hypersonic weapons, beach landing craft and, of course, thousands of ...