China urged Japan to play a constructive role in maintaining and promoting peace, stability, development, and not act as a "vanguard" of NATO's Asia-Pacific expansion, following Japan's new defense white paper, which delivers its strongest words yet on Taiwan island. Observers said that such narratives smearing China expose Japan's real intention to demonize the Taiwan […]

China’s Foreign Ministry (FM) on Friday announced sanctions on six US military companies and five senior executives over arms sales to China’s Taiwan region, freezing all their movable and immovable properties, and other types of assets within China. These individuals will also be denied visas and entry into China, including its Hong Kong and Macao […]

Birthing and caring for a newborn can be hard on a mother’s bones. Estrogen, which helps regulate bone growth, drops precipitously after birth, and lactation saps the skeleton of calcium. Yet nursing moms somehow maintain strong, dense bones. A hormone released from the brain may be the reason why, a study in mice suggests. When […]