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South Korea's Lee Jae Myung snapped selfies with China's Xi Jinping as he pursues better ties with China in a four-day visit.

Perception that Chinese-made weapons could not stop a ‘decapitation strike’ may give Beijing pause for thought
The sight of a hostile regional superpower launching an overnight raid to depose the leader of a smaller neighbouring country could easily have sent pulses in Taiwan racing.
The US on Saturday revealed the details of a surprise raid to capture Venezuela’s leader, , who was whisked away to the US, where he was frogmarched into .

US ambassador defends attack as ‘law enforcement’ action against an ‘illegitimate’ leader, not an act of war

The US has faced widespread condemnation for a “crime of aggression” in Venezuela at an emergency meeting of the United Nations security council.
Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, Eritrea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and Spain were among the countries on Monday that denounced Donald Trump’s decision to , Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, to stand trial in the US.

Maduro had just affirmed ‘strong bonds of brotherhood’ with Beijing when US made its shocking intervention

Hours before his life and the fate of his country was changed dramatically, Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, was with a Chinese delegation in the presidential palace in Caracas.
On Friday evening, shortly before he was , Maduro wrote on Telegram of his meeting with China’s special envoy for Latin American affairs, Qiu Xiaoqi: “A fraternal meeting that reaffirms the strong bonds of brotherhood and friendship between China and Venezuela. Through thick and thin!”

Enhe was once home to thousands of ethnic Russians. Under Xi Jinping’s push for ethnic unity, little remains beyond nostalgia and props for tourists.

The plushies bring "emotional value" to Chinese youth navigating economic uncertainty.

Thousands have blown down in storms and tents from China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia found to be not waterproof
Thousands of tents supplied by China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia to shelter displaced Palestinians in Gaza offer only limited protection against rain and wind, an assessment compiled by shelter specialists in the devastated territory has revealed.
The assessment will undermine claims that Palestinians in Gaza are being supplied with adequate shelter. Fierce storms in recent weeks blew down or damaged thousands of tents, affecting at least 235,000 people, .

As the largest maker of electric vehicles in the United States, Tesla suffered more than other carmakers from the elimination of federal incentives.

A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine’s tough problems.

Exclusive: diplomats had to scramble to contain fallout with Beijing after Douglas Alexander’s trip to Taipei
China threatened to cancel high-level trade talks with the UK earlier this year over a government minister’s visit to Taiwan, the Guardian can disclose.
Beijing told the British government it would pull its first trade and economic dialogue with the UK in seven years after Douglas Alexander, then a trade minister, travelled to Taipei in late June.

British Chinese takeout bears so few similarities to its US counterpart that Americans have been sharing their surprise, and sometimes outright horror, on social media.

British Chinese takeout bears so few similarities to its US counterpart that Americans have been sharing their surprise, and sometimes outright horror, on social media.