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Key cities of Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dalian are under curbs again, amid protests and data showing factory slowdown
China has placed millions of its citizens under renewed lockdown after fresh outbreaks of Covid-19 as the government persists in its hardline policy on containing the virus in the face of more evidence that it is suffocating the economy.
The measures affected cities from the southern cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou to the northern port city of Dalian, and from the western metropolis of Chengdu to Shijiazhuang in central Hebei province.

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Chinese warships and warplanes are continuing "high-intensity" maneuvers around the island, a Taiwanese defense official said.

The denigration of Gorbachev in China underlines the lengths leader Xi Jinping has gone to forge a different path from the one taken by the reformist Soviet leader.

Shares in Chinese electric carmaker BYD plunged on Wednesday after its largest backer, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, reduced its stake amid speculation of a potential exit.

The move comes after top U.S. officials visited the Pacific nation to bolster ties and deliver warnings over its new security agreement with China.

Warren Buffett's company has trimmed its investment in Chinese electric car and battery maker BYD for the first time since it bought 225 million shares in 2008, an investment that has soared in value.

China hosted two major media forums aimed at promoting synergy between Chinese and foreign media organizations. Both forums highlighted the importance of training programs for journalists in the ...

Forest fires, droughts and heatwaves across the country is forcing provinces to reduce power consumption
There were still some streetlights on the Bund, one of the main roads in central Shanghai. But the decorative lights which light up the city skyline – blue, pink, and red – were turned off for two days to cope with the .
The power restriction imposed by the city authorities, was the first in Shanghai, the financial hub of China. But across the rest of the country similar restrictions have been put in place, as cities, notably in the south-western region, grapple with ongoing power shortages caused by devastating droughts this summer.

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Island country’s president says Taiwan could take ‘strong countermeasures’ if necessary
Taiwan fired warning shots at a Chinese drone that buzzed an offshore islet shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered Taiwan’s military to take “strong countermeasures” against what she termed Chinese provocations.
It was the first time warning shots have been fired in such an incident amid a period of heightened tension between China and , which Beijing views as its own territory. Taiwan strongly disputes China’s sovereignty claims.

The lawsuit, which a judge has combined with a similar suit by Latino and Black voters, will go to trial at the end of September, too late to affect this year’s midterm elections.