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A sample of gallium. China is still restricting the rare earth elements that the U.S. needs to produce its own permanent magnets and other products, market participants say.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2025
U.S. rare earth buyers still see China curbs despite Trump deal
The reduced trade highlights continuing tensions in the U.S.-China relationship in the months since Trump and Xi hammered out a truce.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers a speech in Tokyo Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 25, 2025
Takaichi says door remains open for China communications
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said the door to communications with China remains open and Tokyo’s goal of building a constructive, stable relationship with Beijing has been consistent through her two months in office.
Peng Peiyun, the former head of China’s one-child policy, in Beijing in 2005
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Dec 25, 2025
China social media thrashes one-child policy after population control czar dies
China’s near-universal mandate of just one child per couple from 1980 through 2015 prompted local officials to compel women to ‍undergo abortions and sterilizations.
Asia’s economic growth in 2025 was sluggish, central banks acted cautiously amid low inflation and political pressures and the full impact of U.S. tariffs and policy choices will become clearer in 2026.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 25, 2025
Easy money defined Asia in 2025. It gets harder now.
If predictions are hazardous at the best of times, they are more fraught today.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may visit the United States in March to hold talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 25, 2025
Takaichi weighs first U.S. visit in March for talks with Trump
The prime minister is believed to be aiming to coordinate with Trump on policy toward Beijing ahead of a U.S.-China summit.
Honduras presidential candidate of the National Party Nasry Asfura gestures as he casts his vote in Tegucigalpa on Nov. 30.
WORLD
Dec 25, 2025
Trump-backed Nasry Asfura wins Honduras presidency after disputed election
The country finally declared a victor of the Nov. 30 presidential election after weeks of delays, technical problems and allegations of fraud.
An employee inspects integrated circuit boards at a factory in Suzhou, China. The U.S. has declined to impose additional tariffs on chip imports despite accusing China of engaging in unfair trade practices in the semiconductor sector.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 24, 2025
U.S. holds off on new Chinese chip tariffs amid Trump-Xi truce
The U.S. government has floated the possibility of future ones.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's refusal to yield to China’s demands to retract her remarks on Taiwan represents a rare pushback against decades of Beijing's rule-breaking and impunity.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 24, 2025
China has always done as it pleased — until now
China suffered no tangible consequences from any U.S. President, regardless of political party, for breaking its commitments.
Electrical infrastructure for servers at Meta’s data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Data centers can use as much electricity as a small city, straining local power grids.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 24, 2025
The Pentagon and AI giants have a weakness. Both need China’s batteries, badly.
Long a problem for industries such as auto manufacturing, Chinese battery dominance is now being seen as a national security threat.
Koichi Hagiuda, a senior figure in Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has described Japan-Taiwan relations as "the best they have ever been,” according to a statement from Taiwan’s Presidential Office.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 24, 2025
Flurry of Japanese lawmaker visits to Taiwan sparks China’s anger
Visits by Japanese lawmakers to Taiwan are not unusual, but the current round comes at a time of heightened tensions between Japan and China.
A container ship departs the Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai. U.S. President Donald Trump's trade wars only serve to drive up global emissions.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 24, 2025
Trade wars destroy the planet
If trade tensions reshape industrial structures in China and the U.S., the shift toward more energy-intensive activities will raise the weighted-average carbon intensity.
While China has made rapid advances in artificial intelligence, its structural constraints remain significant.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 23, 2025
Why China can’t win the AI-led industrial revolution
No industrial revolution has ever emerged outside advanced democratic capitalism, and that is no accident.
Hisashi Matsumoto, minister in charge of cybersecurity, holds a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 23, 2025
Japanese government adopts new cybersecurity strategy
The new system will enable the police, the Defense Ministry and the Self-Defense Forces to work together in neutralizing critical attacks.
A giant screen broadcasts news footage of a fighter jet assigned to the Chinese military's Eastern Theater Command participating in large-scale joint exercises around Taiwan, at a shopping area in Beijing in April, 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 23, 2025
China replaces military commanders overseeing Beijing and Taiwan operations
Chinese leader Xi Jinping installed new military leadership for its central and eastern regions amid an unprecedented purge of the top defense echelons. 
The draft resolution was submitted by the U.S. House of Representatives members including Republican Young Kim, who heads the Foreign Affairs Committee’s East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 23, 2025
Draft resolution by U.S. lawmakers blasts China’s coercion against Japan
The bipartisan group of lawmakers urged President Donald Trump to work with Pacific allies to counter Beijing.
China Eastern Airlines is the biggest operator of flights between China and Japan, leaving it more exposed than China Southern Airlines and Air China to a pullback in demand.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 23, 2025
Chinese airlines see profit hopes dim as Japan tensions dent demand
China ordered curbs on flights to Japan and other economic retaliatory measures after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made comments related to Taiwan.
Military vehicles carrying DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missiles travel past Tiananmen Square during a military parade in Beijing in 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 23, 2025
China likely loaded more than 100 ICBMs in silo fields, Pentagon says
Beijing has described reports of a military buildup ​as efforts to “smear and defame China and deliberately mislead the international community.”
A Chinese H6 nuclear-capable strategic bomber flies over the Miyako Strait on Dec. 9.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 23, 2025
China’s recklessness risks a security crisis with Japan
China’s normalization of reckless and bullying behavior presents major risks to peace and security.
Soil containing rare earth minerals is prepared for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, in October.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Dec 23, 2025
China, rare earths and ‘weaponized interdependence’
China has long understood the strategic value of its dominance in rare earth production.
Koichi Hagiuda, deputy secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (left), and Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te meet in Taipei on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 23, 2025
LDP exec Hagiuda and Taiwanese President Lai agree to boost ties
Hagiuda told Lai that he hopes to continue deepening what he described as the best-ever relations between the two sides.
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
Osaka trumps Tokyo as both ranked among world’s top 10 most livable cities
Osaka’s infrastructure earned higher marks than Tokyo’s in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Global Liveability Index.
Japanese teen arrested for booting users off streaming service
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly creating a malicious program and canceling subscription accounts on the Bandai Channel.
Japanese payment processor’s collapse hits banks and restaurants
Zentoshin served around 200,000 shops, many of which rely on early payments to maintain cash flow, raising concerns over their financial stability following the disruption.
Long-stalled maglev line finally gets green light from Shizuoka Prefecture
Environmental concerns relating to the construction of Central Japan Railway’s high-speed maglev line had contributed to years of delays for the project.
The beating heart inside ‘Human Vapor’
Different forms of love and connection form the emotional backbone of Netflix’s “Human Vapor,” says actor Shun Oguri, who plays troubled detective Kenji Okamoto.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.
Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan
Takashi Nishihara, the director of "Now and Then," in Tokyo on Wednesday. The director has spent 10 years traversing politically charged terrain while exploring youth-driven grassroots political movements that scrutinize the status quo.
Okinawa’s prized seaweed under threat as oceans warm
Local harvesters gather <i>mozuku</i> during low tide at Hyakuna Beach in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture. As the planet warms, rising ocean temperatures are placing increasing pressure on the seaweed industry.
Japanese nail salons are tourists’ new obsession
Tourists in Japan have always been interested in quintessentially Japanese approaches to modern culture, and, increasingly, visits to nail salons have become the new hot thing.

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