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Anthony Albanese visits Hanoi to highlight Australia's growing economic ties to Vietnam

Over beers made from Australian barley, Anthony Albanese toasts Australia's growing trade relationship with Vietnam.

ABC News

First Uyghur restaurant in Ireland opens doors in Dublin city centre

Afanti's menu includes things like deep fried crispy chicken with naan, lamb skewers and hot chicken stew

Dublin Live

Hong Kong detains 8 people on eve of Tiananmen Square anniversary

Hong Kong police have detained eight people on the eve of the 34th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown

The Independent UK

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Senior U.S. State Department official visits China amid tense ties

A senior U.S. State Department official arrived in Beijing on Sunday with meetings planned for the coming week as Washington seeks to boost communication with China at a time of tense relations between the two countries.

Reuters

Pope Francis to visit Mongolia, home to just 1,300 Catholics

Pope Francis will travel in early September to Mongolia – a country with few Catholic faithful but that is strategically significant for the Roman Catholic Church due to its proximity to China.

Radio France Internationale

China censors protest site location

BEIJING: Chinese police beefed up their presence on Saturday at a bridge in Beijing where a rare protest last year shocked authorities and citizens alike.

Bangkok Post

India and China expel each other’s journalists as rivalry escalates

India and China have effectively booted out each other’s journalists amid reports of the cancellation of a regular summit that would have brought China’s president to Delhi for face-to-face talks.

Radio France Internationale

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U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin to pay 2-day visit to India from June 4

U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will pay a two-day visit to India beginning to discuss ways to further expand the bilateral strategic engagement ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Washington.

The Hindu

US to China: Let’s talk before the current chill becomes a new cold war

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says he's deeply concerned by China's unwillingness to engage on military crisis management

The New Daily

China blasts US after Washington says talks key to avoid ‘crisis’

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin tells Asian security summit that lines of communication with China are crucial.

Al Jazeera

US, allies clash with Russia, China over North Korea's failed military spy satellite launch

The United States and its allies clashed with Russia and China over North Korea’s failed launch of a military spy satellite this week in violation of multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions, which Moscow and Beijing refused to condemn

The Independent UK

US Defense Secretary Austin says Washington won't stand for 'coercion and bullying' from China

American Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says Washington would not stand for any “coercion and bullying” of its allies and partners by China, while assuring Beijing that the United States remains committed to maintaining the status quo on Taiwan and would prefer dialogue over conflict

The Independent UK

U.S., China trade blame as hopes for military dialogue fade

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin rebuked China on Saturday for refusing to hold military talks, leaving the superpowers deadlocked over Taiwan and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Reuters

China's snub of U.S. military leader highlights escalation risk

Brief smiles and handshakes by U.S. and Chinese military leaders at a luxury hotel in Singapore on Friday belie a deep freeze in communications between the two armed forces that is becoming a growing worry at the Pentagon.

Reuters

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US-China war not inevitable, Albanese says, urging countries to ‘prevent a worst-case scenario’

Prime minister also seeks to reassure regional nations wary about Australia’s reasons for acquiring nuclear submarines under Aukus pact

Radio France Internationale

Brics nations open to expanding bloc as Putin arrest warrant looms

As Brics foreign ministers meet in South Africa, diplomats from the bloc of major emerging economies say the group is open to enlargement. However their two-day conference has been overshadowed by questions over whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would be arrested if he attended a summit in August.

The Conversation

Dialogue is vital 'guardrail' in dealing with China, Albanese tells international security forum

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has told a regional security forum that dialogue is a vital “guardrail” in dealing with China, and praised US President Joe Biden’s effort to establish “reliable and open” US-China channels of communication.

ABC News

Anthony Albanese urges China and US to reopen high-level communication channels to prevent conflict

Tensions have again been rising between Beijing and Washington, prompting the prime minister to use his keynote address at a peak regional security summit to call for improved dialogue between the two powers as a precondition for peace.

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The Independent UK

Beijing expresses outrage after US agrees ‘comprehensive’ trade deal with Taiwan

Washington says trade agreement will ‘strengthen and deepen the economic and trade relationship’ with Taiwan

The Guardian - UK

British universities can no longer financially depend on foreign students. They must reform to survive

With spiralling deficits and little prospect of government support, higher education’s only long-term hope lies in radical change, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Chinese censors remove protest site Sitong Bridge from online maps

Amid usual scrubbing for Tiananmen Square anniversary, searches for bridge where protest was held in 2022 return no results

Reuters

Hong Kong businesses mark Tiananmen anniversary in face of pressures

Some Hong Kong shopkeepers are quietly commemorating the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown despite the spectre of a China-imposed national security law and pressure to stay silent on the episode that is censored in mainland China.

Reuters

Tiananmen vigils shift overseas as Hong Kong falls silent

As restrictions in Hong Kong have snuffed out what were once the largest vigils marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, cities like London, New York, Berlin and Taipei are left carrying the candle to commemorate the June 4 anniversary.

The Independent UK

Amid shrinking freedoms, Hong Kongers commemorate Tiananmen anniversary privately

As the 34th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown approaches Sunday, many in Hong Kong are trying to mark the day in the shadow of a law that prosecuted leading activists in the city’s pro-democracy movement

France 24

Taiwan-US trade agreement: ‘It’s not about economics anymore, it’s politics’

Taiwan and the US on Thursday inked the first part of a new trade pact. Negotiated under the beak of a hawkish China, the pact is hailed by involved parties as the most significant trade deal between Taipei and Washington since Taiwan joined the World Trade Organization in 2002.

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