🇨🇳 corporations are setting up shop in a host of relatively non-aligned third countries: shifting investment into relatively insulated countries such as Singapore, Vietnam, Ireland, Hungary, Mexico, etc, brings several advantages. One is access to large free trade areas with

Taiwanese activist Yang Chih-yuan (楊智淵), who was detained by authorities in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province on Aug 3, 2022, has been sentenced to a nine-year prison term on charges of separatism/secession by the Wenzhou Court. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"I did it because I wanted to kill someone. I started thinking about this about a year ago, so I took a kitchen knife out of my house." Sep 5: a 19-year-old 🇨🇳 man repeatedly stabbed and slashed a Japanese woman in her 20’s, whom he didn’t know, with a kitchen knife on a street

🚨 4 small-scale 🇨🇳 cloud providers charge local tech groups roughly $6 an hour to use a server with 8 Nvidia A100 processors in a base configuration. Small cloud vendors in the US charge about $10 an hour for the same set-up. The low prices are an indication of plentiful

In a 2-page document dated Feb 18, 2024 from 🇨🇳 Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Malaysia’s embassy in China, Beijing pointed out that Kuala Lumpur’s oil/gas exploration activities in the Spratlys “infringe” on China’s sovereignty in areas covered by its illegal 9-dash — now

Sep 5: 🇲🇾 Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that Malaysia will not bow to demands by China to stop its oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea as the activities are within the country’s waters. Anwar said Malaysia would continue to explain its stance following China’s

China would give Cambodia two newly built Type 56C corvettes, smaller vessels typically used for coastal patrols, next year at the earliest. apnews.com/article/china-…

🇲🇾 KD Sundang — a Keris-class littoral mission ship of Royal Malaysian Navy — is now moving to intercept 🇨🇳 Ke Xue San Hao (科学三号) research vessel, which is apparently conducting an illegal survey at Ardasier Bank, 150nm from Kota Kinabalu (within Malaysia's exclusive

Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry has called for a police investigation into a leaked diplomatic note from China over the South China Sea dispute. apnews.com/article/malays… Details of a Feb 18 diplomatic note from China’s Foreign Ministry to the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing was

The US is assembling an economic and security assistance package for Gabon in a bid to prevent China from establishing a military footprint in the strategically positioned Central African nation. The agreement will include training for Gabon’s special forces and $5 million in

Sep 6: US Departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, Agriculture and Homeland Security jointly issue a notice warning that US companies, academic institutions, researchers and members of the media should be wary of “new and heightened risks associated with actions undertaken by”

🇨🇳 national Wei Shishan (魏世杉) has been charged for allegedly offering a bribe of S$30 — as an inducement to let him enter Singapore — to an Immigration & Checkpoints Authority officer in a holding room at Changi Airport Terminal 2 Arrival Hall on Aug 8. No bribe offer was