↑ China China Will Hold Live-Fire Military Exercises Around Taiwan - The exercises ended months of relative calm across the Taiwan Strait, and came after the Trump administration announced plans for arms sales to the island.China's LandSpace gears up to take on Elon Musk and SpaceX - China's rocket startup LandSpace has made no secret about drawing inspiration from Elon Musk's SpaceX. Earlier this month, the Beijing-based firm became the first Chinese entity to conduct a reusable rocket test. Even though LandSpace's Top diplomats of China, Cambodia and Thailand meet as Beijing seeks to strengthen role in dispute - Foreign ministers from Cambodia and Thailand convened with their Chinese counterpart on Monday as the Beijing government, building on its expanding presence in the world diplomatic arena, sought to play a stronger mediating role in the violWeek in review: The S&P 500 kept hitting records, and an AI giant went back into the Bullpen - The Club added an old stock to the bullpen and bought more shares of another. China revises aviation law to regulate drones, tighten safety rules - BEIJING, Dec 27 (Reuters) - China passed a revised law that for the first time formally regulates unmanned aircraft, a move set to reshape the country's fast-growing drone and low-altitude economyArchaeologists uncover Bronze Age Chinese secret to brewing red rice wine - Rice wine was consumed ceremonially by Mogou people in second millennium BCJapan'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 tensiTariffs 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.