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Christopher Wray says the FBI is investigating the existence of stations in New York, which could violate sovereignty
The United States is deeply concerned about the Chinese government setting up unauthorised in US cities to possibly pursue influence operations, FBI director Christopher Wray has said.
“I’m very concerned about this. We are aware of the existence of these stations,” Wray told a US Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee hearing, acknowledging the FBI’s investigative work on the issue but declining to give details.

Amid race for influence in Asia-Pacific region, Chinese president says no attempt to ‘wage a new cold war will ever be allowed by the people or by our times’
The Asia-Pacific is no one’s back yard and should not become an arena of big power rivalry, China’s president, Xi Jinping, has said, warning against cold war tensions in a region that is a flashpoint of competition between Beijing and Washington.
Xi’s remarks on Thursday came ahead of Friday’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Bangkok, and were an apparent reference to US efforts with regional allies and partners to blunt what they see as China’s growing coercive economic and military influence in the region.

Ahead of first meeting with China’s president in three years, New Zealand PM calls for environment where differences can be discussed
Jacinda Ardern has said she must be able to raise concerns with Beijing without prompting “retaliatory acts”, on the eve of her planned meeting with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.
The pair’s first in-person bilateral meeting since 2019 is due to take place on Friday evening on the sidelines of the Apec forum. It comes during a , where ideological differences – and New Zealand’s economic reliance on China as an export market – have continued to grow.

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Landmark decision described as ‘huge victory for freedom of expression and right to peaceful protest in Europe’
Activists who were accused of attempting to “pollute, damage and distort” the Acropolis after they hung a banner from the Athenian monument in protest against China’s policies in Tibet have been acquitted by a Greek court.
In a landmark decision described as a victory for human rights defenders globally, a three-member tribunal threw out the charge on Thursday. A public prosecutor had only minutes earlier pressed for a guilty verdict.

Four-month-old denied treatment as she tested negative for coronavirus and family was told case not urgent
The death of a four-month-old baby in central China has stoked public anger on social media as frustrations mount over Beijing’s stringent “” policy, which has confined millions to their homes and sparked angry protests.
The girl died after suffering vomiting and diarrhoea while in quarantine at a hotel in the city of Zhengzhou, according to a post by her father, Li Baoliang, on China’s Twitter-like platform Weibo on Wednesday.

A New York Times analysis examines the lengths China will go to eliminate Covid infections. Three years into the pandemic, China stands out in the harshness of its measures.

Developing countries demand agreement on loss and damage fund as leaders criticise gaps in climate draft

Government ordered Nexperia to sell 86% of its shareholding in company formerly known as Newport Wafer Fab
The UK head of a Chinese-owned semiconductor company has said the decision to reverse its takeover of Britain’s largest chip plant is “bad news” for workers and pledged to do whatever it takes to fight the order.
The business department late on Wednesday night in the company, formerly known as Newport Wafer Fab, which produces semiconductors in south Wales. The , which cited national security concerns, would reverse a .

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