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The 95-year-old sinologist gives his take on the superpower rivalry, the US advantage and Taiwan, and explains why the past is so important.
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Amber heat-stress warning remained in place despite scorching temperatures.
‘We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money,’ the US president was quoted as saying.
DFI plans to increase the number of mainland Chinese 7-Eleven outlets to 3,000 in ‘the next few years’, up from 2,000 now.
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Canberra is described as quietly confident in its resilience yet wary of Beijing’s overtures to go further and into new areas of activity.
The pressure is likely to mount after consumers in the two neighbouring markets of Mexico and Canada adopt Chinese EVs.
Polls show the Gaza plan is unpopular with Netanyahu’s right-wing base and far-right members of the PM’s cabinet have urged him to kill it.
Ukrainian drones killed 5 people in Russia’s border region of Belgorod while Russian missiles killed 2 in Kharkiv.
Police also said that last year a teacher had confiscated a BB gun, a type of air gun, that the boy took to school.
Scharf, who as staff secretary helped Trump secure approval for his US$400 million ballroom, will replace David Warrington on September 1.
Officials said the fire, which forced evacuations, might have been sparked by a car catching fire on a local road.
In a separate statement, Yemen’s military said the Houthis carried out missile and drone strikes on the Yemeni Red Sea port city of Mocha.
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The Bald Range wildfire has prompted British Columbia to declare a provincial state of emergency and evacuate about 18,000 people.
British consumers are currently spending around US$2.2 billion a year on subscriptions ‘they don’t actually want’, Downing Street said.
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