China is intensively developing a fleet of special barges that can be used for an assault on Taiwan. New units observed at the Guangzhou shipyard feature long road bridges, suggesting their potential use in landing operations.

Taiwan is an ideal place for Chinese filmmakers to evade censorship. But the island democracy has its own restrictions on what Chinese films are allowed to air.

Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and Nonresident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. Hugo Bromley is an Applied History Research Fellow at the Center for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge.

CHINA’S cheap AI app DeepSeek gives chilling responses to questions surrounding human rights and Taiwan after rocking the tech world. DeepSeek surged to the top of Apple’s App Store in

Less than 750 kilometres from Taiwan and home to nearly 30,000 US troops, the Japanese islands of Okinawa would play a pivotal role should Beijing order the invasion of Taiwan.

U.S. officials have long called on Taiwan to dramatically boost its defense spending as the power gap across the Taiwan Strait grows.

China is intensely developing a fleet of special barges that could be used for an assault on Taiwan. Newly observed units at the Guangzhou shipyard have long road bridges, suggesting their potential use in landing operations.

That means Mr. Liang had a cornucopia of technical talent at his disposal, all galvanized by the challenge of doing AI without violating U.S. restrictions on the memory bandwidth of their Nvidia graphics processing units.

China shocked the West with its announcement of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence network capable of competing with OpenAI, Meta and Google.

When Marco Rubio arrives in Latin America this weekend on his first foreign trip as Donald Trump's secretary of state, he'll find a region reeling from the new administration's shock-and-awe approach to diplomacy.