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China's Top Chipmaker Reports Q2 Plunge In Profits

Leading Chinese chipmaker SMIC announced Thursday a sharp year-on-year drop in profits during the second quarter, as a domestic price war and technological rivalry between Beijing and Washington show no signs of abating.

International Business Times

U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team Finally Receives Gold Medals

U.S. figure skating team awarded gold after Russian doping scandal at 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Top News

Vanuatu presidential palace funded by China stirs debt fears

Beijing says ‘no strings attached’ to the complex unveiled last month amid wider concerns over loans the Pacific country owes to China

The Guardian - AU

Figure Skating at the Summer Olympics? No, Just a Long Overdue Medal Ceremony

It took more than two years for American skaters to receive their gold medals from Beijing after a Russian doping scandal. With the Eiffel Tower behind them, it was worth the wait.

Sports Illustrated

Chinese court upholds ruling against unmarried woman who sued hospital for right to freeze her eggs

A court in Beijing has ruled against an unmarried Chinese woman’s right to freeze her eggs, ending a fight for reproductive services that lasted six years and drew national attention

The Independent UK

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Ouster of Bangladesh's prime minister will test India's regional power, with Beijing’s on the rise

The dramatic resignation of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina poses a dilemma for India’s government, and the South Asian powerhouse could even see its influence in the region wane, according to experts

The Independent UK

China Launches Air, Sea Patrols Near Flashpoint Reef As US Holds Joint Drills

Tensions in the disputed waterway have spiked following a series of escalating confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels that have fanned fears of a wider conflict that could draw in the United States due to its mutual defence treaty with Manila.

Latin Times

Beijing, Manila and allies, launch drills near South China Sea flashpoint

Chinese military buzzes contested Scarborough Shoal, as Philippines runs war games with US and other Western allies.

Al Jazeera

China Launches Air, Sea Patrols Near Flashpoint Scarborough Shoal

China on Wednesday carried out a combat patrol to test "strike capabilities" near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, a flashpoint area also claimed by the Philippines.

International Business Times

Security, foreign designs, new power centres: Delhi’s Dhaka concerns checklist growing bigger

The unceremonious end of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League’s 15-year regime in Bangladesh has meant a delicate set of new equations in India’s northeastern neighbourhood.

Newslaundry

Patrick Holland’s hard-boiled drifter inhabits the strange beauty of lonely cities. Oblivion is both electrifying and too familiar

The unnamed narrator of Patrick Holland’s Oblivion begins the novel contently, if not happily adrift. An Australian nominally based in Beijing, he works in either trade or diplomacy, and spends his time travelling between Asian megacities.

The Conversation

Japan's defense minister begins visits to Cambodia and Vietnam, both under Beijing's shadow

Japan’s defense minister has held talks with senior officials in Cambodia, a top ally of China, as he begins a Southeast Asian trip that will also take him to Vietnam, whose relations with Beijing are complicated by maritime disputes

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China's Pacific push to 'support Taiwan reunification'

China is seeking to exert diplomatic influence in the Pacific to garner support for any eventual effort to "reunify" Taiwan under Beijing's rule, experts say.

The Conversation

China needs to pick a side, and it just might pick the west

For the Kremlin, its “partner of no limits”, China, isn’t doing enough to aid Russia’s war against Ukraine. So, Russia has signed a peace treaty with North Korea, hoping to pressure China into backing Moscow’s war effort further.

Cycling News

A trip through time: How the Olympic Road Race-winning bikes have changed since Beijing

From 2008 to 2021, what bikes and tech made it to the podium's top step, and what will we see in Paris?

The Independent UK

Hong Kong young people struggle to rebuild their lives after being jailed under Beijing's crackdown

Five years after Hong Kong's massive anti-government protests erupted, the lives of many young people who were jailed or arrested during Beijing’s political crackdown on the city's pro-democracy movement remain in limbo

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The Conversation

Chinese warships off Alaska and Cambodia highlight the role of near and far waters in sea power dominance

Chinese warships were recently spotted sailing close to the Aleutian Islands, just off the Alaskan coast. Meanwhile, naval boats have begun to dock at a Beijing-built military port in Cambodia.

The Conversation

One-third of Ukrainians would give up land for peace – but it’s not as simple as that

According to a recent opinion poll taken by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, almost one-third of Ukrainians are now prepared to make territorial concessions to Russia if this brings the Russian war of aggression to a swift end and preserves their country’s independence. But more than half of the…

TV Tech

Four-Day Total Viewing of Olympics up 77% over Tokyo

Paris Olympics Consumption on Peacock Tops Combined Total of Beijing and Tokyo Olympics

The Guardian - UK

Online security lapses led to data of 40m UK voters being hacked, says ICO

Watchdog reprimands Electoral Commission for not being up to date with security updates before hack in August 2021

France 24

Italy's Meloni visits China with trade high on agenda

On a five-day visit to China, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has vowed to "relaunch" economic cooperation with Beijing and "rebalance trade". She has also sought to position herself as a potential mediator between China and the EU as the two blocs butt heads, especially on the issue of Chinese…

Latin Times

Blinken Says US To Provide $500 Mn Military Funding To Philippines

Blinken was in Manila with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as part of an Asia-Pacific tour to strengthen Washington's latticework of alliances aimed at countering Beijing.

The Independent UK

Taiwan president urges democracies to unite at largest-ever gathering of foreign lawmakers in Taipei

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te welcomed he said was the “largest-ever” delegation of foreign lawmakers to Taiwan, even as Beijing pressured members of the delegation not to visit

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