Labor costs encourage the transition to robots, industry professionals said, and Beijing’s policy aims to accelerate it.
HIMARS have a range of around 190 miles and capability of hitting coastal targets in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian.
‘I have no assets in China, and I have no plans to go there,’ Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said earlier this month.
Seoul says North Korea is still producing material for new weapons.
After the judges left the courtroom in Bangkok, one of the defendants, Yusufu Mieraili, said, ‘I did not receive justice. … I ask Thai people to help me.’
Seventy-nine Chinese warplanes were detected, and a coast guard standoff occurred near Pratas Island as global executives flock to Taipei.
Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang, is visiting the United States.
Manila released images and a timeline showing a small occupied platform, buoys, and other objects inside Scarborough Shoal.
Rising price pressures could strengthen expectations of further Bank of Japan rate increases.
Consultancy firm Will Power Architects Company, and the main contractor, Prestige Construction & Engineering Co., have been charged with manslaughter.
Japan encouraged the United States to pursue multilateral talks to help avert a nuclear arms race and address concerns about nuclear testing.
A Senate hearing was told the arms were delayed due to the conflict with Iran. President Trump called the sale a ‘good negotiating chip’ in China talks.
The Philippine military said it will not allow Beijing to turn Scarborough into another island base.
The Chinese regime is manipulating rhetoric to downplay China’s persistent unemployment issue, Chinese observers said.
China’s teapot refiners cut output because of a weak economy and reliance on stockpiles that won’t last.
Taiwan’s Coast Guard said Chinese vessels hailed ships flagged in Singapore, Liberia, and Benin and made jurisdictional claims around Taiwan.
Pyongyang continues producing nuclear material capable of making roughly 10 to 20 nuclear weapons per year, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said.
The cabinet’s passage of a Special Act formalizes the creation of a state-backed investment corporation to implement the reciprocal trade agreement.
The designation prevents the Pentagon from procuring from the listed firms.