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XI JINPING

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi holds talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Tokyo on Oct. 28. Japan can no longer rely on the U.S. because American leaders are now seeing the alliance through cost and convenience rather than shared history.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 13, 2026
Japan can no longer afford strategic confusion
While Japan’s central challenge is often framed in terms of China’s rise, that is only part of the story.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (left) met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in late October, the first sign of warming ties following a series of diplomatic spats between Ottowa and Beijing in recent years.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 12, 2026
Carney’s visit to Beijing could reset Canada-China ties
The Canadian prime minister and Chinese President Xi Jinping will likely try to dial down trade tensions between their two countries, which are heavily targeted by U.S. tariffs.
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control.
WORLD
Jan 9, 2026
Trump says Venezuela does not give China a Taiwan precedent, but ‘it’s up to’ Xi
The U.S. president added that he would be “very unhappy” with a change in the status quo between China and Taiwan.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reacts as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks, aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier during a visit to the U.S. Navy's base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Oct. 28.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 8, 2026
Trump looms large over host of diplomatic challenges facing Japan in 2026
Japan is especially concerned that the U.S. president could try to seal a deal with China that divides the region just as relations between Beijing and Tokyo plummet to fresh lows.
Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrives at the Wall Street heliport ahead of his appearance in federal court in New York on Monday.
WORLD
Jan 8, 2026
Trump opens new front against China with brazen arrest of Maduro
Codified in the National Security Strategy released last month, the plan asserts a unilateral U.S. right to deny rival powers the ability to control “strategically vital assets.”
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung takes a selfie with Chinese leader Xi Jinping after a dinner at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 6, 2026
Xi pushes Lee to make ‘correct’ choices amid China-Japan row, but Seoul unlikely to bite
The Chinese leader’s outreach on Japan is unlikely to resonate with the South Korean president as Tokyo and Seoul put aside long-standing history issues.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and his wife Kim Hea Kyung depart for China from Seoul Air Base on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 4, 2026
South Korea’s Lee lands in China, hoping to sidestep Taiwan tensions
Lee is the first South Korean leader to visit Beijing in six years and his four-day trip comes less than a week after China carried out massive military drills around Taiwan.
An ingot of neodymium and praseodymium, two rare earths with powerful magnetic qualities, in China, in October 2013.
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jan 3, 2026
Inside China’s six-decade campaign to dominate rare earths
From Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping, generations of Chinese Communist Party bosses and military leaders invested in a strategic but heavily polluting industry.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping, accompanied by his wife, Peng Liyuan, meets with his North Korean and Russian counterparts, Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin, during the military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Beijing in September.  
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2026
Buckle up for a volatile year of Trump-Xi, Taiwan and Kim
Asia in 2026 is not on the brink of war. But the region will be more volatile than it has been in recent memory.
Demonstrators hold Chinese and South Korean flags near Gimhae International Airport in Busan in October.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 2, 2026
China’s Xi to host South Korea’s Lee next week amid Japan tensions
The visit marks the second meeting between Xi and Lee in just two months, an unusually short interval that signals China’s keen interest in reinforcing ties with Seoul.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te delivers a New Year's Day speech at the Presidential Office in Taipei on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 1, 2026
Taiwan’s Lai vows to defend sovereignty after China’s military drill
The international community ​is watching to see whether the Taiwanese people possess the resolve to defend themselves, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung walks with Cabinet members as he visits the National Cemetery in Seoul at the beginning of the new year on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 1, 2026
China seeks South Korean support on Japan and Taiwan before Lee’s visit
President Lee Jae Myung’s inaugural visit to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping comes as tensions simmer between China, Taiwan and Japan.
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a news conference in Beijing on Dec. 4. Xi said on Wednesday China will implement more proactive policies in 2026 aimed at supporting long-term growth.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 31, 2025
China will push more proactive macro policies in 2026, Xi says
China’s economy is expected to ‌meet its growth target of “around 5%” for 2025
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum meeting in South Korea on Oct. 31.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 31, 2025
Dangerous new equilibrium awaits Japan-China ties in 2026
The deterioration of ties after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on a possible Japanese military intervention in a Taiwan crisis will test both Tokyo and Beijing’s resolve.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (right) will travel to Beijing in early January for a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Lee's first visit to China since ‍he ⁠took office in June.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 31, 2025
South Korea’s Lee to visit China from Jan. 4-7 as Seoul seeks to restore ties
Lee Jae Myung’s first trip to China since taking office in June will see him discuss plans to ‍reach concrete outcomes in areas such as supply chains and geopolitical issues.
Chinese soldiers fire rockets during military drills on Pingtan Island, in eastern China's Fujian province — the closest point to Taiwan — on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 30, 2025
China fires rockets during military exercises simulating Taiwan blockade
The Chinese military held a second day of large-scale exercises on Tuesday focused on isolating the democratic island and deterring aid from Taipei’s partners.
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.
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 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. 
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with the leaders of Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia after the ceremonial signing of a ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 26. Hostilities between the two countries have since resumed.  
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 16, 2025
White House 2025 Asia upheaval set to continue in 2026
Will the Trump administration learn from its counterproductive actions in Asia in 2025? It seems unlikely.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
Japanese-language education is at a turning point
The country is gradually transforming Japanese-language education from a volunteer-driven system into a professional, government-supported network to better serve its growing foreign population. 
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Japan plans to sharply raise fees for residence permits from October
Foreign tourists walk on the path leading to the Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in May.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.

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