Day: February 3, 2025

Marco Rubio is making his first foreign trip as U.S. secretary of state to Panama, amid threats by President Trump to take back control of the Panama Canal. But Panama’s president and its people say that the key global waterway is not for sale.

China’s technology just took over the world!

Alibaba just launched Qwen 2.5-Max on Lunar New Year, claiming it outperforms DeepSeek-V3 and even OpenAI’s GPT-4! 🚀 But is this a real breakthrough or a response to DeepSeek’s meteoric rise?

China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, the Yellow Sea and the Taiwan Strait have been causing tensions with its neighbors. Our guests Alex Tan and Dennis Weng share their insights into the disputes.

The person in the video is Su Ji, the founder of Garage Café. After struggling to keep his business afloat, he turned to smuggling high-tech products from the US and created a platform called Kunlun Nest. In another video, Su Ji continued to boast about smuggling, explaining how he bypassed US sanctions to acquire 200 NVIDIA H200 graphics cards.

Also on East Asia Tonight, Taiwan offers to help its tech firms based out of Mexico and China to relocate to the US; Japan PM Shigeru Ishiba to seek reassurance from Trump at summit on Friday; US Secretary of State Marco Rubio asks Panama to reduce China influence or face potential retaliation; and South Korea plans Israel-style “iron dome”.00:00 Headlines01:40 Trump tariffs shake Asia markets08:01 Analyst David Daokui Li on China’s “restrained” response20:26 Taiwan offers relocation help to firms in China, Mexico31:14 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warns Panama36:13 South Korea plans “iron dome” to counter North’s growing threats45:35 China’s movie box office revenue surpasses US$1b over Spring Festival

Lockheed Martin unveiled a new model of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer at the 2025 Surface Navy Association (SNA) conference in Crystal City. The design features additional vertical launch cells specifically configured for AGM-179 JAGM missiles, enabling the ship to carry up to 24 reloadable missiles for counter-UAS operations and naval fire support. Revealed publicly for the first time at SNA 2025, the model showcases two banks of vertical launch cells, each containing 12 missiles, positioned forward of the 64-cell Mark 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS) module.Expanding missile capacity on existing surface combatants is a top priority for the U.S. Navy.In this video, Defense Updates analyzes Arleigh Burkes potentially getting AGM-179 JAGM.#defenseupdates #arleighburkedestroyer #AGM179JAGM Chapters:00:11 INTRODUCTION01:53 ADDING OPTIONS to ARLEIGH BURKES03:39 JOINT AIR-TO-GROUND MISSILE 06:50 ANALYSIS