During his trip to China last month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk proposed introducing robotaxis into the country powered by his electric vehicle company’s autopilot technology. Chinese state media reported Wednesday that officials told Mr. Musk the country is looking forward to possible Tesla-backed robotaxi testing in China. According to reports, Tesla wants to start testing robotaxis in […]
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Defense Ministry insisted Wednesday that the monthslong presence of two Chinese warships in a strategically important naval base that is being newly expanded with funding from Beijing does not constitute a permanent deployment of the Chinese military in the country. Questions had arisen after the Center for Strategic and […]
LAOAG, Philippines (AP) — U.S. and Philippine forces, backed by an Australian air force surveillance aircraft, unleashed a barrage of high-precision rockets, artillery fire and airstrikes Wednesday and sank a mock enemy ship as part of large-scale war drills in and near the disputed South China Sea that have antagonized Beijing. Military officials and diplomats […]
China is working with American leftists to undercut U.S. energy security by seeking to control green energy sources, according to a new report by the Heritage Foundation. The report made public Monday is the first of a four-part study examining how, in the authors’ view, Beijing is deliberately co-opting the progressive environmental agenda to subvert […]
SEOUL, South Korea — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called Chinese military behavior “unacceptable” after a Chinese jet dropped flares in the path of an Australian helicopter. While much recent interest has been focused on clashes in the South China Sea, the recent confrontation took place over the highly strategic Yellow Sea off the coast […]
SEOUL, South Korea — Manila is turning Beijing‘s gray-zone tactics on their head as it shows off its own information warfare muscles in the intensifying territorial battles in the South China Sea. While China‘s much larger forces hold the physical advantage, the Philippines, which has held the legal high ground in its struggle against Beijing […]
I’ve written many times about China’s behavior in the South China Sea. Recently China has claimed that it had a “gentlemen’s agreement” with former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. The hitch here is that this alleged agreement was never written down and there’s no clear proof it existed at all. In a statement on Thursday, the […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan — For the first time, China has publicized what it claims is an unwritten 2016 agreement with the Philippines over access to South China Sea islands. The move threatens to further raise tensions in the disputed waterway, through which much of the world’s trade passes and which China claims virtually in its entirety. […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China on Friday launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side. It is the latest advance in China’s increasingly sophisticated space exploration program, which is now competing […]
The CIA is preparing for an “infinite race” with China for artificial intelligence and top technology, making getting the best tools a leading priority for America’s spies. CIA Director William J. Burns has made a giant pivot toward making technology a major intelligence objective, said Nand Mulchandani, the agency’s chief technology officer. In remarks to […]
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