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WTA releases updated 2023 calendar with Chinese events

The governing body of women's tennis revealed its calendar on Friday for the latter part of 2023, including the resumption of operations in China. As part of the calendar, China will host a WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing in September, marking the return of top-tier women's tennis to the country.

The Times of India

US CIA chief Burns visited China in May

CIA director William Burns visited China last month for talks with Chinese counterparts, two U.S. officials said on Friday as Washington seeks to boost communications with Beijing.

Reuters

CIA director made unannounced trip to Beijing last month

Biden has tasked Burns with several sensitive diplomatic missions.

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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.

ABC News

NATO official calls for transparency over nuclear weapons

A senior NATO official on Friday urged Beijing to be more open about its accelerating nuclear weapons build-up, saying that as a global power, China had a responsibility to improve transparency.

Reuters

India asks China to facilitate journalists after recent expulsions

The friction between India and China resurfaced this week after Beijing refused to renew the visa of one of the two remaining Indian journalists in China

The Hindu

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

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Elon Musk Concludes China Trip With Promising Talks As Tesla Expands In The Country

Tesla CEO Elon Musk left Shanghai on Thursday morning local time after his first visit to China in three years.

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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.

Reuters

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.

France 24

Taiwan: Hong Kong's political refugees continue their fight for political freedom

June 4 marks the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China. Usually, Hong Kongers take the lead in commemorating this event with massive candle light vigils. But, since China imposed its national security law in 2020, public criticism of the regime in Beijing has become dangerous. With their…

France 24

India opposition leader Rahul Gandhi takes a dig at Modi over China in US visit

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi's handling of relations with China, saying Beijing was "occupying our territory," while also taking a dig at the Hindu nationalist leader over the country's religious polarization.

Reuters

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrives in Singapore to address peak regional security forum

Mr Albanese will give the keynote speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in front of US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and China's Defence Minister Li Shangfu.

ABC News

China says its reporters in India ‘about to drop to zero’ amid mutual expulsions

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said it had taken the measures because “Chinese journalists have suffered unfair and discriminatory treatment in India.”

The Hindu

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Trial opens for 3 charged with aiding Chinese campaign to pressure expats into returning home

An American sleuth and two Chinese men are facing jurors in the first trial to come out of U.S. claims that China’s government has tried to harass, intimidate and arm-twist dissidents and others abroad into returning home

The Independent UK

China criticizes US plan for trade deal with Taiwan

China’s government has criticized the United States' plans to sign a trade treaty with Taiwan, calling on Washington to stop official contact with the self-ruled island democracy claimed by Beijing as part of its territory

The Independent UK

US defense chief calls China's refusal to meet unfortunate during visit to Tokyo for talks

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is stressing the importance of communication between Washington's and Beijing's defense authorities

France 24

Musk wraps up two-day China visit aimed at boosting Tesla sales

A private jet belonging to Tesla CEO Elon Musk departed Shanghai on Thursday, Chinese flight-tracking data showed, as the tycoon wraps up a visit to China that has seen him express hopes to expand business in the world's largest market for electric vehicles.

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China and key US partner Singapore agree to top-level defense hotline

China and Singapore have laid the groundwork for a hotline between the two countries that would establish a high-level communications link between Beijing and a close American partner in Asia at a time when Chinese tensions with Washington are high and dialogue has stalled

Bangkok Post

Taiwan, US to sign trade deal

TAIPEI: The United States and Taiwan will sign a trade deal on Thursday, Taipei said, in a move likely to stoke tensions between Beijing and Washington over the island.

Al Jazeera

Taiwan may tighten residency for Hong Kongers amid spying fears

Taipei reportedly considering tougher path to permanent residency to guard against Chinese spying.

The Times of India

For new frontiers, China is drilling 10,000-m deep into Earth's crust

BEIJING: Chinese scientists have begun drilling a 10,000-metre (32,808 feet) hole into the Earth's crust, as the world's second largest economy explores new frontiers above and below the planet's surface.

The Guardian - UK

UN experts express ‘grave concern’ over detention of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong

Communication sent to Beijing government says media mogul’s prosecutions relate to his criticism of China

ABC News

ASX tumbles as China slows and inflation rises to 6.8pc, Philip Lowe says interest rate hikes are working — as it happened

The Australian share market falls to a two-month low after China's manufacturing industry contracts and hotter- than-expected inflation raises the chances of a RBA rate increase next month. And RBA governor Philip Lowe faces a grilling at Senate Estimates.

Al Jazeera

Tesla boss Elon Musk kicks off high-stakes China trip

China’s foreign ministry quoted Musk as saying he wanted to expand business in China and opposed a decoupling.

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