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Every year the National Garden Bureau selects one perennial, one annual, one bulb, one houseplant, one shrub, and one edible, as their “Year of the” plant designations. Plants are chosen based on ...

Shortly before the new year, China staged military exercises simulating a blockade around Taiwan. Taiwanese government officials had warned for some time that China might carry out military exercises ...

Polymarket traders cut China–Taiwan invasion odds to 13% as shifting U.S. geopolitical dominance reshapes global risk expectations. Polymarket traders currently assign only a 13% probability that ...

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping addresses Chinese and foreign journalists at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing during the 20th Party Congress, Oct 23, 2022. Credit: ...

The Trump administration on Thursday warned China to halt military pressure on Taiwan, saying Beijing’s actions and rhetoric are raising tensions unnecessarily in the region. The State Department ...

Taiwan president determined to boost defend sovereignty Proposal to boost military spending stuck in parliament China's Xi says 'reunification' cannot be stopped U.S. urges China to halt military ...

Chinese war games around Taiwan "unnecessarily" spiked tensions in the region, the U.S. State Department said, calling on Beijing to "cease its military pressure." "China's military activities and ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to take Taiwan during his New Year’s Eve speech on Wednesday as he called reunification “unstoppable.” As Beijing concluded its latest intense military drills around ...

Chinese missiles were fired as part of Justice Mission 2025. PLA photo Chinese forces fired more than two dozen rockets and rehearsed port seizures on the second day of ongoing blockade drills around ...