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Happy New Year! Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a Chinese cyberattack on the U.S. Treasury Department, the latest U.S. security assistance to Ukraine, and a state of emergency in Trinidad and Tobago. A ‘Major’ Breach The U.S. Treasury Department said on Monday that Chinese state-sponsored actors had hacked into some department […]
News of China’s latest warplane, widely believed to be a sixth-generation model, has triggered a debate in India about how best to respond amid warnings of a growing “strategic gap”. The aircraft, believed to feature cutting-edge stealth and endurance capabilities, surprised the world when details first emerged last week. The aircraft’s capabilities could mean a […]
Microsoft purchased nearly half a million of Nvidia’s flagship Hopper chips in 2024 TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, and Tencent bought almost as much This is more than Meta, Tesla/xAI, Amazon and Google Chinese cloud giants Tencent and TikTok’s parent company ByteDance were the major buyers of Nvidia‘s flagship AI chips in 2024, coming second only […]
The Treasury Department said in a letter to Banking Committee leadership that it was informed of the breach on Dec. 8, but did not clarify when the breach itself occurred. WASHINGTON (CN) — The U.S. Department of the Treasury said on Monday that Chinese-backed hackers had breached its workstations and gained access to unclassified documents […]
It was a year of transformation. In 2024, change was everywhere, from Japanese politics and international security to daily life. Thanks to you, our valued readers, our weekday editorials column also reached new milestones in popularity in 2024. In our editorials, we shared the best of Japan’s varied perspectives on some of the biggest social, […]
In the late 1990s, I came to the United Kingdom as one of those overseas Chinese students with delusions of grandeur, thinking I would become a concert pianist with a career in Europe. I was one of four young women with “yellow skin” in the class – two from Singapore, one from Hong Kong, a […]
The FBI said most of the people targeted by the hackers are “primarily involved in government or political activity.” WASHINGTON (AP) — A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of […]
As footage and images of what might have been the maiden flight of China’s sixth-generation fighter jet went viral on Thursday, the country’s official military media appeared to tacitly confirm the rumours. A mysterious aircraft bearing a triangular tailless design was seen flying over Chengdu in southwestern Sichuan province in broad daylight, flanked by a […]
Beijing has stripped two more generals in the People’s Liberation Army of their lawmaker status, as China continues a wider anti-corruption drive into the country’s military. A notice on Wednesday by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) confirmed that Lieutenant General You Haitao, former deputy commander of China’s army, and Lieutenant General […]
HONG KONG, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) — A spokesperson for the Commissioner’s Office of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Wednesday expressed strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to fallacious remarks regarding the HKSAR’s judiciary by officials and politicians from a few Western countries. The remarks came from officials and […]