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Two guided-missile cruisers were the first to visit since China began extensive military drills after Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.

A Chinese think tank has issued a rare public disagreement with the ruling Communist Party’s severe “zero COVID” policy, saying curbs that shut down cities and disrupt trade, travel and industry must ...

The mechanics of the internet mean that blocks on access imposed by one country can be felt half a world away
When Myanmar’s military in February 2021, one Twitter user in Mumbai who was posting critically about the Indian government realised he had lost access to the social media platform. He sent a message on Signal to a friend: “Am I imagining this? I may be being paranoid, but why am I having access difficulties with Twitter?” He was not paranoid. Myanmar’s Twitter block had accidentally cut Twitter access to at least half a billion internet users. The same dynamic was repeated in March 2022, when Russia inadvertently cut access to Twitter across Europe .
The mechanics of the internet mean that blocks on access imposed by one country may leach over the borders on to neighbouring populations, or even be felt half a world away by users in different continents.

With the global economy also at a crossroads, Beijing’s leadership faces a perilous test of nerve on its lending crackdown and zero-Covid strategy
China has reached a point of no return in its battle to contain what could be the biggest property crash the world has ever seen, experts believe, creating a perilous moment for the country’s Communist leadership and the global economy.
As western countries stand on the edge of a potentially ruinous recession in the coming year, China is also facing a slump thanks to “total collapse” of confidence among ordinary people in the , the continued ravages of Beijing’s and an that is affecting the supply of power and food.

China’s military says it is monitoring the US ships, maintaining a high alert and ready to defeat any provocations
The US Navy said two warships were sailing through international waters in the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such operation since heightened tensions with China over the Taiwan visit of the US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi.
The guided-missile cruisers USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville were conducting a “routine Taiwan Strait transit”, the US 7th fleet said in a

Landlords who had taken financial hits when rental prices collapsed at the pandemic’s start were suddenly in pole position to charge more. The pandemic made so many people rethink their living ...

For Renton resident Kat Lieu, baking is about all of these things. She is giving a platform to a culture and a community whose diverse set of baking recipes and techniques have never been given a ...

The probable next prime minister attracts mixed reactions abroad, from dislike in Moscow to irritation in France to positivity in Australia and Japan
She has caused uproar by , Emmanuel Macron, is a trusted ally and pursued a that has upset the White House.
Should Liz Truss become prime minister on 5 September, she will come with some unhelpful baggage to the top table on the international stage at a fraught time.

Neha Narkhede is the co-founder of Confluent, an advisor to and investor in tech start-ups, an Indian-American founder, and an all-around wise, thoughtful, and successful leader. I’m so excited to get ...

Surveys reveal that up to 12% of the country supports unification with China, including five of its citizens in a Taipei restaurant
At a Cantonese restaurant in Taipei, Harry Chen and four old friends are shouting at each other over a Lazy Susan, stopping occasionally to toast each other with Scottish whiskey or translate their argument into English.
All are retired men in their 70s – the sons of Chinese nationalist soldiers – and were born or grew up in Taiwan during its .
This article was amended on 29 August 2022 to correct the type of whiskey and the surname of Jeremy Huai-Che Chiang

More than 20,000 Chinese Americans served in all branches of the U.S. armed forces — Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines — and in the Coast Guard and the Merchant Marine, in all WWII theaters of ...