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South Korea’s Military Shrinks Amid Demographic Challenges and Tech Shift
Mezha
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August 15, 2025
The decline in birth rates in South Korea had been brewing even earlier, but its implications for defense are becoming increasingly evident against the backdrop of rising regional risks and global challenges. Demographic shifts are pressing on the...
‘Under pressure’: can South Korea-Japan summit ease tensions with Trump?
South China Morning Post
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August 15, 2025
South Korea and Japan could use their coming bilateral summit to project stability to Washington, which was simultaneously imposing high tariffs on its allies while seeking their cooperation to counter China, analysts said. The summit, scheduled...
New evidence of historical Japanese germ-warfare unit released
China Internet Information Center
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HARBIN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- New evidence of Unit 731 -- a Japanese germ-warfare unit that operated during World War II -- was unveiled on Friday in Harbin, the capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The new evidence includes 3,010...
What Does China Think of Golden Dome?
Air & Space Forces Magazine
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August 15, 2025
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org America’s rival across the Pacific does not think highly of President Donald...
China unveils first high-speed jet drone makes every warship an aircraft carrier
South China Morning Post
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August 15, 2025
The sleek, runway-independent uncrewed aircraft can be launched from the decks of ordinary warships – even in rough seas – and transition seamlessly into a fast, long-range cruise flight. The drone, representing a radical departure from...
Xinhua China news advisory -- Aug. 15
China Internet Information Center
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BEIJING, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The following are news items about China to be covered or pursued by Xinhua on Friday: Wire Service: -- Xinhua Headlines: Once a symbol in poverty fight, Chinese town explores sustainable development -- Economic Watch:...
Documentary Recounts Postwar Sexual Abuse of Japanese Women
Nippon
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August 14, 2025
In the chaotic days at the end of World War II, Japanese remaining in the defeated empire’s mainland Asian territories faced brutal hardship. A documentary film unfolds the story of young women abandoned by Japan’s soldiers and forced to endure...
Beyond Sanseito: Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric in Japan’s Upper House Election
The Diplomat
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August 14, 2025
Japan’s upper house election in July 2025 drew widespread attention to Sanseito, a right-wing party that campaigned using anti-foreigner narratives. However, this trend wasn’t unique to Sanseito; some unaffiliated political candidates also used...
DoE allocates US$1bn to counter China supply chains
Azzet
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August 14, 2025
The United States Department of Energy has unveiled plans for nearly US$1 billion in funding to accelerate domestic critical minerals production, marking Washington's most aggressive push yet to reduce America's dangerous dependence on Chinese...
Filipino comfort women supporters demand Japan apology for war crime
The Mainichi
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Members of a group supporting Filipino women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II in the Philippines rally in Manila on Aug. 14, 2025. (Kyodo) MANILA (Kyodo) -- Groups supporting Filipino women who were forced...
StockTake: AZ9 grows presence in Mongolia with new acquisitions
Stockhead
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August 15, 2025
Stockhead’s Tylah Tully looks at news from Asian Battery Metals (ASX:AZ9), which has secured the rights to explore a promising copper-gold project in Mongolia. Located 8km from the company’s flagship Oval discovery, Maikhan Uuul is a volcanogenic...
1st LD-Writethru: China's industrial output up 5.7 pct in July
China Internet Information Center
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BEIJING, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's value-added industrial output expanded 5.7 percent year on year in July, official data showed on Friday. The growth slowed from a 6.8 percent rise in June, according to data released by the National Bureau of...
High Voltage: Lithium prices jump, but supply chain scares in Chile and China may just be a hiccup
Stockhead
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August 15, 2025
Lithium prices jumped this week as news of supply disruptions spread. Pic: Getty Images Lithium prices rise after Albemarle suspends Chilean operations due to an explosion China’s CATL also recently closed the Jianxiawo mine impacting sentiment...
China’s rare lending slump feeds worry on slower economic growth
The Business Times Singapore
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[BEIJING] China’s first contraction in outstanding loans since 2005 has crystallised worries about a deepening downturn for the world’s second-largest economy. Instead of putting money to work, households and companies are paying down their debt...
China Will Ask Firms Run By Central Government To Buy Unsold Homes
Zero Hedge
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Once upon a time, China's property market was - as this Goldman chart from 2020 shows - the world's largest asset class. Not any more. In fact, ever since the covid crash which saw a historic collapse in Chinese real estate prices and the...
Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage’ on Netflix, Where A Mysterious Medicine Seller Takes On Wrathful Spirits And Scheming Elites In Feudal Japan
Decider
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August 14, 2025
Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage is an animated supernatural psychological horror film that is streaming exclusively on Netflix globally after a March 14, 2025 original theatrical release only in Japan. The title is an adaptation...
Chinese canola tariff shocks Peace region chambers of commerce
Energeticcity.ca
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August 14, 2025
Dawson Creek and Fort St. John chambers of commerce are voicing concerns about the new Chinese 75.8 per cent tariffs on Canadian canola. The Chinese government is imposing a 75.8 per cent duty on Canadian canola seed. (Canva) FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. —...
Sydney car crash has all of China talking
Cairns Post
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August 15, 2025
The Chinese community has flocked to the case of a young woman who was allegedly drunk when she crashed her $1 million Rolls-Royce, as rumours swirl that she is related to a high-ranking official in China. About 100 Chinese Australians crowded...
Marcos, Lee agree to deepen PH-South Korea trade, defense ties
The Manila Times
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August 15, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung expressed their intention to expand their countries' collaboration in trade and investment, defense and security, and people-to-people exchanges. The two...
Samsung occupies 82% of smartphone market in Korea: data
Korea Herald
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August 15, 2025
Samsung Electronics has captured over 80 percent of the domestic smartphone market for the first time in its history, buoyed by strong sales of its latest flagship models, industry data showed Friday. According to market tracker Counterpoint...