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Employees gather during an event next to a test rocket body for the Zhuque-2 program at LandSpace’s factory in Huzhou, China, on Dec. 17.
BUSINESS
Dec 29, 2025
China’s LandSpace gears up to take on Elon Musk and SpaceX
The first Chinese entity to conduct a reusable rocket test is now preparing to go public to fund its future projects, as rival SpaceX considers its own initial public offering.
BYD Dolphin Surf electric cars in Berlin. With profitability in China weighed down by price-wary consumers, the company has sought to strengthen its foothold in foreign markets.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 29, 2025
China’s BYD poised to overtake Tesla in 2025 EV sales
Based on sales data so far this year, there is almost no chance the American company will retain its leadership position.
U.S. President Donald Trump with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30. Beneath a series of diplomatic victories this year, Xi still has plenty of worries at home — from structural economic vulnerabilities to a personnel purge that’s reached deep into the military and party elite.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 29, 2025
Xi’s triumphant year staring down Trump belies troubles in China
China was peerless in confronting Donald Trump’s renewed trade war, but beneath such victories, he has plenty of worries at home, such as structural economic vulnerabilities.
At the time of the joint Chinese-Russian bomber exercise on Dec. 9, the U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington was conducting drills with the Maritime Self-Defense Force in waters south of the Kanto region.
JAPAN
Dec 28, 2025
China may have tested Japan and U.S. readiness in Pacific
The Liaoning and Chinese and Russian bombers turned back in the Pacific Ocean near the coasts of Shikoku and the Kii Peninsula.
Intercontinental missiles of a new type are paraded through Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Sept. 3.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 2025
China and America must get serious about AI risk
As AI capabilities advance, they could be used for cyberattacks on infrastructure, creating bioweapons, shaping disinformation campaigns, targeting lethal drones and more.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec. 9. The United States may have done more than any other country to create the conditions for robust economic growth and relative peace after World War II, but nothing lasts forever.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 2025
Filling America’s shoes
The United States may have done more than any other country to create the conditions for robust economic growth and relative peace after World War II, but nothing lasts forever.
A Chinese tourist group stands near the Sensoji temple, a popular sightseeing spot in Tokyo's Asakusa area, on Nov. 18.
JAPAN
Dec 27, 2025
China orders travel agencies to slash group tours to Japan as dispute festers
One agency has been told to lower the frequency of such tours to about 60% of previous levels, while another has been urged to cancel all sales.
A prototype of a Rapidus 300mm wafer displayed at the Semicon Japan exhibition. The industry ministry has earmarked ¥150 billion for state-backed chip venture Rapidus, bringing the cumulative government investment in the venture to ¥250 billion.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 26, 2025
Japan to quadruple spending support for chips and AI in budget
The jump in chips and AI spending comes at as Japan is trying to strengthen its capacities in frontier technology, and the U.S. and China race ahead.
Although the Year of the Wood Snake promised subtlety and adaptation, the U.S., China and Japan delivered strategic blundering, authoritarian overreach and geopolitical instability instead.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 26, 2025
Good riddance to the year of the serpent that roared
As 2025 comes to a close, the Indo-Pacific’s three great powers have delivered the exact opposite: strategic blundering, diplomatic bombast and economic turbulence.
A Toyota dealership in Beijing. Toyota’s global sales and production fell in November, weighed down in large part by a sharp drop in China.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 26, 2025
Toyota posts rare sales drop in November, dragged down by China
Global automakers are facing greater uncertainty as they navigate an environment of trade tensions, regulatory changes and uncertain economic outlooks.
U.S. approval of Nvidia’s advanced AI chip exports to China risks accelerating the PLA’s military AI capabilities and eroding America’s technological edge at a critical moment in the U.S.-China strategic rivalry.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 26, 2025
Will Nvidia turbocharge China’s AI military?
The deal could give China access to Nvidia’s second-most powerful AI processor, which is roughly six times more capable than the H20 chips previously available to it.
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.
China’s demand for Soviet-style apartments shows limits to revival
Apartments built during a Soviet Union-inspired construction drive in the 1970s and 1980s tend to suffer from poor insulation and outdated plumbing, but they are seeing a revival in interest due to their attractive locations.
Japanese scientists identify neural mechanism that may explain why we dislike people
The aggressive mouse (left) used in the experiment and a mouse defending itself
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.
Over 70% of accommodations in Japan say they are understaffed amid tourism influx
The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a high of 42.68 million in 2025.
Lenders seek $700 million after Japanese payments firm’s collapse
The financial failure of Osaka-based Zentoshin has left 63 creditors with claims totaling ¥115.16 billion, according to Tokyo Shoko Research.
Japan’s largest exhibition of women photographers rights a wrong in cultural history
Miwa Yanagi’s “Elevator Girl House” series skewers the superficiality of gender roles through staged images.
Over 70% of accommodations in Japan say they are understaffed amid tourism influx
The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a high of 42.68 million in 2025.
‘Princess Mononoke’ comes alive in Super Kabuki staging
The “Princess Mononoke” adaptation was created under Shochiku’s Super Kabuki initiative, a modern form of kabuki with more technology in staging and open to pop culture collaborations.
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.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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