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1 week ago | 
rfa.org | Taejun Kang
Nvidia’s H20 was the most advanced AI chip legally exportable to China.
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1 week ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Yaroslav Trofimov |Taejun Kang |Lee Haye-ah |Kim Seung-yeon
Quotes of the Day:“The man of knowledge must be able to not only love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.” – Friedrich Nietzsche“The US intimidates certain countries, stopping them from doing business with us. But America is just a paper tiger. Don't believe it's bluff.
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2 weeks ago | 
rfa.org | Taejun Kang
The agreement was reportedly imminent before Trump imposed sweeping tariffs, including a 34% rate on China.
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1 month ago | 
rfa.org | Taejun Kang |Alan Lu
TAIPEI, Taiwan – No country should expect to suppress China and maintain good relations with it, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday, as he warned of a reaction if the United States tried to contain his country. But in response to questions about U.S. relations as President Donald Trump begins his second term, Wang also held out the prospect of a successful partnership between the world’s two biggest economies.
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1 month ago | 
rfa.org | Taejun Kang |Alan Lu
TAIPEI, Taiwan – China is increasing its 2025 defense budget by 7.2% to US$246 billion amid growing rivalry with the United States and tensions over Taiwan, marking the fourth consecutive year of more than 7% growth in defense spending. As China announced its defense budget on Wednesday, Premier Li Qiang reiterated “strong opposition” to those who push for Taiwan’s formal independence and their foreign supporters.
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2 months ago | 
rfa.org | Taejun Kang |Alan Lu
TAIPEI, Taiwan – China urged the United States on Monday to “correct its mistakes” after it removed wording on a State Department website stating that it did not support Taiwan independence. The U.S. brushed off the change as an update. The State Department’s latest “fact sheet” for Taiwan, a self-governing island claimed by China, used to include the phrase “we do not support Taiwan independence,” but that was dropped on Thursday.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
rfa.org | Tashi Wangchuk |Tenzin Pema |Taejun Kang
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Dozens of people were killed on Tuesday and many buildings destroyed when a powerful earthquake struck Tibet in western China, according to U.S. and Chinese agencies. Tremors were felt hundreds of kilometres away in neighboring Nepal and India.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Kim Seung-yeon |Yi Wonju |Taejun Kang |Eun Seol
Quotes of the Day:“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.” – Aldous Huxley“Noting will ever replace the human contact between learner and teacher.” – Wole Soyinka“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”– George Orwell, 19841. Sold for $270: The Silent Suffering of North Korean Women in China2. Will North Korean Troops Escape? 3. Stayin’ alive: How North Korea’s Kims have coup-proofed regime4.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Taejun Kang |Mun Dong Hui |Lee Chae Eun |Seulkee Jang
Quotes of the Day: “Man gives every reason for his conduct, save one, every excuse for his crimes, save one, every plead for his safety, safe one; and that one is his cowardice.” – George Bernard Shaw “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you, but answer, ‘He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would have not mentioned these alone.’” – Epictetus “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the...
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Taejun Kang |Cho Jinwoo |Kwak Yeon-soo |Seulkee Jang
Quotes of the Day:"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own." – H. G. Wells"You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
