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China’s Dispute With Taiwan Is Playing Out Near This Tiny Island

A fatal episode off Kinmen, a Taiwanese-controlled island, has become the latest occasion for Beijing to warn and test Taiwan’s president-elect.

Anti-tank fortifications line a beach on the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, several miles off China’s coast. Tensions with China have risen in recent months.

Good News and Bad News for Astronomers’ Biggest Dream

The National Science Foundation takes a step (just one) toward an “extremely large telescope.”

One of the two proposals for an “extremely large telescope” could involve construction on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

China Scraps Premier’s Annual News Conference in Surprise Move

The decision is a break from a decades-long tradition by the country’s No. 2 official and comes as Xi Jinping, the top leader, consolidates his power.

China’s leader, Xi Jinping, left, and Premier Li Qiang at a meeting in Beijing on Monday.

Divisions Among Finance Ministers Flare Over Seizing Russian Assets

France’s finance minister, Bruno LeMaire, said there was no legal rationale for giving the Russian central bank funds to Ukraine.

Comments made by France’s finance minister, Bruno LeMaire, about the legality of seizing Russian assets came a day after the U.S. Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, said that seizing the assets was a possibility.

Delegation Led by Mike Gallagher Says U.S. Support for Taiwan Is Firm

A bipartisan House delegation said the United States would stand by the island in the face of pressure from China, drawing connections between Taiwan’s cause and Ukraine’s.

Representative Mike Gallagher, Republican of Wisconsin, with Taiwan’s president-elect, Lai Ching-te, at the presidential palace in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, on Thursday.

In Taiwan, Voters Choose President as China Tensions Loom

The race pits the governing party, which has emphasized the island’s sovereignty, against an opposition that favors reviving engagement with China.

Vote counting at a polling center in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on Saturday.

Taiwan Party, Reviled by China, Faces Test of its Staying Power

The Democratic Progressive Party has transformed Taiwan into a bastion against Chinese power. Now it is promising a mix of change and continuity.

The Grand Hotel Taipei in Taipei, Taiwan, last month. The Democratic Progressive Party was formed in the hotel’s ballroom in 1986.

Taiwan Election: Why It Matters, and What It Could Mean for U.S. and China

Voters headed to the polls to choose a new president who could alter the complicated, risky balance between Taiwan, China and the United States.

A rally in Tainan, Taiwan, for the Nationalist Party’s presidential candidate, Hou Yu-ih. The presidential race on Saturday is expected to be close.

World Bank Warns of Energy Price Surge if Mideast War Spreads

A new economic report predicted a year of weak growth and said the world faced a decade of “wasted opportunity.”

An unfinished housing development in Shanghai. World Bank economists pointed to lingering weakness in real estate as evidence that China’s economy will continue to underperform this year.

2023 Was Hottest Year on Record by a Lot

Month after month global temperatures didn’t just break records, they surpassed them by far. This year could be even warmer.

U.S. Navy Officer Who Helped China Is Sentenced to 2 Years

Par : Mike Ives
Wenheng Zhao pleaded guilty to charges that he sent photos of American military installations and details of U.S. military exercises to an intelligence officer working for China.

Naval Base Ventura County in California. A Navy sailor at the Ventura County base has pleaded guilty to providing sensitive information to China.

The World in Stories: 13 Favorite Dispatches From 2023

Our correspondents ventured to some of the world’s most remote, and dangerous, locales to report stories that reveal a country’s culture and the human condition. Here are our favorites from the year.

Words of Wisdom

Readers share the best advice they received this year.

2023 Obituaries: A Host of Consequential, and Very Long, Lives Lost

Life expectancy averages may be falling, but you might not have been able to tell that from reading the obituaries about many luminaries this year.

Top row, from left: Sinead O’Connor, Daniel Ellsberg, Henry Kissinger, Rosalynn Carter, Harry Belafonte. Middle row, from left: Pervez Musharraf, Dianne Feinstein, Tina Turner, Sandra Day O’Connor. Bottom row, from left: Tony Bennett, Silvio Berlusconi, Glenda Jackson, Tori Bowie and Jim Brown.

The 8 Most-Read Travel Stories of 2023

A golden retriever convention, flight etiquette rules and great walks from around the world: Here’s what readers loved this year.

A guide to 36 hours in Paris was — perhaps unsurprisingly — one of the most-read travel stories of 2023.

The Best of Canada in 2023

Par : Vjosa Isai
Critics at The Times highlight their favorite movies, music and more each year, and Canadians and their works feature heavily in those recommendations.

Celine Song, the South Korean-Canadian director of the film “Past Lives.”

NOAA’s Arctic Report Card for 2023

Observations from researchers and residents, published annually in a report by NOAA, reveal a region grappling with rapid change.

Ice in eastern Greenland: The continent’s ice sheet has lost mass every year since 1998.

The Year in ‘Sensitive Content’

In 2023, Instagram served me images of dead and dying children, heightening social media’s contradictions to a horrific new level.

The Wild Card in Taiwan’s Election: Frustrated Young Voters

An important bloc for the governing party, the island’s youth are focusing on bread-and-butter issues and have helped propel the rise of an insurgent party.

Zhongshan District in Taipei, Taiwan. Many voters on the island, especially those in their 20s and 30s, say they are weary of geopolitics and yearn for a campaign more focused on their needs at home.

Climate Change Drives New Cases of Malaria, Complicating Efforts to Fight the Disease

The number of malaria cases rose again in 2022, propelled by flooding and warmer weather in areas once free of the illness.

A doctor tended to a malaria patient affected by flooding in a hospital in Sehwan, Pakistan, last year.

Behind the Book Review’s Best Books List

A conversation with the editors about the painstaking process of selecting the 10 Best Books of the year.

Taiwan’s Opposition Splits After Collapse of Unity Bid

The split over a proposed joint ticket bolsters the governing party candidate’s chances in the coming presidential election. That won’t please Beijing.

From left to right: Terry Gou, a presidential candidate; former President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan; and Hou Yu-ih, a presidential candidate of the opposition party Kuomintang, at a meeting open to journalists in Taiwan on Thursday.

Putin Bristles as G20 Leaders Criticize Aggression in Ukraine

For Mr. Putin, it was a rare interaction with Western leaders since the start of the war last year. It was also the first time he had to listen to direct public criticism at an international event.

President Vladimir V. Putin speaking via video conference at the G20 summit from Moscow, in a photo released by Russian state media.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 3 Quantum Dots Researchers

Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov developed and discovered quantum dots, particles whose size governs their properties.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates, from left, Alexei Ekimov, Moungi Bawendi and Louis Brus.
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