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US secretary of state says Beijing’s ties with Moscow also discussed at alliance meeting after the two countries sent bombers into South Korean airspace
Nato allies are concerned about China’s rapid and opaque military buildup and its cooperation with Russia, and discussed concrete ways to address the challenges posed by Beijing, US secretary of state Antony Blinken has said.
“The members of our alliance remain concerned by the PRC’s [People’s Republic of China] coercive policies, by its use of disinformation, by its rapid, opaque military buildup, including its cooperation with Russia,” Blinken told a news conference on Wednesday after a two-day meeting of foreign ministers from the defence alliance.

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Educator Franklin Odo spent a career advancing ethnic and Asian studies across the country. He was the Smithsonian's first Asian Pacific curator.

The former president’s death drew tributes from Chinese people at a fraught moment for the current leader, Xi Jinping, who faces widespread criticism of his harsh Covid policies.

Plus China’s censors struggle to keep up with protests.

Announcements ordered the removal of ‘control orders’ and to designate areas as low risk
Authorities have abruptly lifted Covid restrictions in the Chinese cities of Guangzhou and Chongqing, where protesters scuffled with police on Tuesday night, as police searched for demonstrators in other cities and the country’s top security body called for a .
After days of extraordinary protests in the country that also prompted international demonstrations in solidarity, the US and Canada urged China not to harm or intimidate protesters opposing Covid-19 lockdowns.

After the pain of an energy crisis brought on by the Ukraine war, Europe is keen to reduce its strategic vulnerabilities to China, not to speak of other authoritarian governments.

Popular protests are more easily begun than ever before, but they are more likely to dissipate, too.

A binary reading of these remarkable zero-Covid protests does not help anyone understand their significance
Among the Communist rhetoric cleverly repurposed by China’s is a phrase that Mao Zedong : a single spark can start a prairie fire. When a political system is so rigid, observers can easily fall prey to one of two conflicting tendencies. The first is to seize upon any significant unrest as the first crack in the edifice, which could bring the whole system down – as when precipitated the Arab spring. Since such collapses are usually even if explicable in retrospect, the temptation to suggest that they really could be coming this time can be hard to resist.
The other tendency is to look at the and conclude that any dissent is not only doomed but futile. The party has spent years studying the demise of the Soviet Union to ensure that it does not suffer the same fate. It ruthlessly crushed the student-led protests of 1989, in which millions, not merely hundreds, took to the streets. It learned from that experience too, refining other means of repression. It is a sign of how limited the political space has become that these protests, attacking a policy attached to Xi Jinping by name, and in a few cases even calling for his departure, seem so utterly astonishing. Unlike in 1989, there are no signs of fissures at the top, dwarfs even China’s hefty military budget, and technological advances have made surveillance .

"As the attack happened, all I could think was, ‘Please Lord let me live, please Lord my daughters need me,’” the victim said in her impact statement read in court Tuesday.

The man pleaded guilty to punching an Asian woman over 100 times during a hate crime attack in Yonkers, New York.