Asia

A decades-long debate at the heart of Taiwan's identity and history is roiling once again: whether to remove hundreds of statues of former authoritarian leader Chiang Kai-shek.

South Korea’s military said it detected some 260 balloons which were floated over the border from North Korea, loaded with trash. It represents an escalation in a battle of balloons between the two.

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National Zoo officials say D.C. will get two new adolescent pandas by the end of the year. The last bears departed in November, bound for China on a FedEx cargo plane, with no agreement in place to secure a new pair.

Taiwan has developed a large language model artificial intelligence chat bot to compete with a product from China because of fears regarding national security. And North Korea sends garbage-filled balloons over the border into South Korea, escalating a long-standing balloon battle between the Koreas.

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Taiwan aims to build its own ChatGPT-like model. Researchers say it is essential for national security -- highlighting how geopolitical competition over data and computing power is heating up.