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NPR also earlier reported that two American weapons packages to Taiwan, totaling about $14 billion worth of missiles, missile defense technology, and other weapons, had been held up.
That delay is amping up anxiety that China may push the U.S.
to make concessions on its diplomatic stance on Taiwan.
The family of Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu says his health condition is dire, and they're asking China to release the editor.
Dong is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence, with Chinese prosecutors arguing during his 2024 trial that his meetings with foreign journalists and Japanese diplomats were evidence of espionage.
Dong's family has always denied these charges, and they say the case is an example of sharply worsening conditions for foreign and domestic press in China.
Dong Sun says his father is forced to work long hours in prison making clothes and that doctors discovered a lung tumor recently.
Taiwan's defense budget is less than the $40 billion which Taiwan's president had hoped for, but it is an increase from years prior and one that China sharply criticized.
This budget approval was held up for months in Taiwan by partisan fighting, but its approval comes just before President Trump will meet with China's leader Xi Jinping.
He's expected to talk about everything from trade to Taiwan, a democratic island that China hopes to control one day.
NPR also earlier reported that two American weapons packages to Taiwan, totaling about $14 billion worth of missiles, missile defense technology and other weapons, had been held up.
That delay is amping up anxiety that China may push the U.S.
to make concessions on its diplomatic stance on Taiwan.
Nicknamed Gabi, meaning Buddha's mercy, the robot monk led prayer at a temple in central Seoul this week.
helping human monks chant Buddhist sutras.
Gabi was inducted into a prominent Buddhist order in South Korea, and its ordination was a bit of a novelty.
And it's a sign of how Asia's Buddhist communities have been trying to update and mainstream their faith practice.