China
- Japan's Cabinet OKs record defense budget that aims to deter China - Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming year, aiming to fortify its strike-back capability and coastal defense with cruise missiles and unmanned arsenals as tensi
- Tariffs hit boots, bags and more as leather prices jump — and relief could be years away - Leather prices are expected to continue rising in 2026 as Trump's tariffs crimple a global supply-chain while domestic manufacturing and cattle herds are down.
- We're buying the post-earnings slump in a stock alongside Tim Cook. It's not Apple - We're scooping up shares of struggling company on a confidence-inducing signal from the board of directors that a bottom could be forming.
- The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China’s Batteries, Badly. - As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China’s battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.
- China Delays Plans for Mass Production of Self-Driving Cars After Accident - After years of planning for cars that would let drivers take their hands off the wheel and eyes off the road, China’s regulators have become more cautious.
- Trump Administration Oil Tanker Seizures Are Meant to Force Maduro Out, Officials Say - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the ship seizures were meant to force Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro from power.
- Mistrial in Case of N.Y. Official Charged With Working for China - Linda Sun was accused by federal prosecutors of selling her allegiance and being rewarded handsomely for influence peddling.
- How U.S. oil tanker seizures targeting Venezuela are linked to rising geopolitical tensions with China - U.S. seizures of vessels carrying Venezuelan oil may become a bigger strategic pressure point in the geopolitical battle with China, a major buyer of the crude.
- Hung jury ends trial of ex-New York governors’ aide accused of selling influence to China - A judge declared a mistrial Monday in the corruption case of a former aide to New York governors after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked and couldn't reach a verdict on charges she sold her influence to China and profited from a m
- China Vanke Gets Temporary Lifeline to Prevent Debt Default - Bondholders for one of China’s biggest real estate developers extended a grace period to negotiate a delayed repayment of a $285 million bond issue.