Thomas L. Friedman Says We’re in a New Epoch. David Brooks Has Questions.

By David Brooks and Thomas L. Friedman Produced by Derek Arthur We’re living in a strange moment. According to the columnist ...
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Why Chinese takeout in America is its own distinct (and important) cuisine

There's this weird guilt trip many people seem to have when they order orange chicken or crab rangoons. " True enough. Walk ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

What’s in the U.S. weapons package for Taiwan and why China is angry

The Trump administration has approved the largest single package of weapons sales to Taiwan in U.S. history. Many of the ...
Science Daily

This “mushroom” is not a fungus, it’s a bizarre plant that breaks all the rules

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in ...
Time Out

Strange Inventions

French graphic artist Jean Jullien, the mastermind behind the playful atrium installations at Ginza Six shopping centre in 2022, is returning to Tokyo. His cute collaboration pop-up with Doraemon is ...
The New York Times

Japan Has Changed How the World Must Think About Taiwan

Mr. Singleton is the senior director of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. A single word can crack the facade of a great power’s confidence. That’s what happened last ...
Al Jazeera English

China warns foreign interference in Taiwan will be ‘crushed’

China has warned it will “crush” any foreign attempts to interfere on behalf of Taiwan, after Japan announced plans to deploy missiles near the democratically-governed island. “We have a firm will, ...
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Hide the corpse: Gusimir Mansion - Official trailer | Upload VR Showcase Winter 2025

Check out the latest Hide the Corpse trailer for a tour of Gusimir Mansion in this new DLC for the comedy action strategy VR game. Explore a bizarre haunted manor full of strange inventions, taxidermy ...
collider

Benedict Cumberbatch Knows When We'll See Doctor Strange in the MCU Again [Exclusive]

Even though it's only been three years since the movie was released, it feels like it has been an eternity since we last saw Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Stephen Strange in Doctor Strange in the ...
NBC News

Trump wades into China and Japan's escalating dispute over Taiwan

HONG KONG — President Donald Trump has spoken with the leaders of U.S. ally Japan and rival superpower China amid the pair’s escalating dispute over Taiwan. Trump’s surprise call Monday with his ...
Sky

Taiwan to prepare for combat by 2027, president says - as he warns China is preparing to take the country by force

Taiwan will prepare itself for combat within the next two years amid "intensifying" threats from China, the nation's president has declared. Lai Ching-te held a news conference on Wednesday morning ...
Reuters

China criticises Japan's plan to deploy missiles on island near Taiwan

Japan says plan to deploy missiles near Taiwan 'steadily moving forward' China calls the plan an attempt to 'provoke military confrontation' Taipei says Japan has the right to protect Japanese ...