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China launches three astronauts to Tiangong space station

The team will complete China’s first-ever crew handover in orbit on board the Tiangong space station, state media says.

Al Jazeera

China's lockdown protests and rising COVID leave Xi Jinping with '2 bad options'

Extraordinary street protests in some Chinese cities and campuses over the weekend put Xi Jinping's controversial approach to the pandemic under the spotlight.

WEKU

We built an algorithm that predicts the length of court sentences – could AI play a role in the justice system?

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to its deployment in courtrooms overseas. In China, robot judges decide on small claim cases, while in some Malaysian courts, AI has been used to recommend sentences for offences such as drug possession.

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Surgeons remove 3kg hairball after teen girl pulls out almost all of her hair and eats it

Surgeons in northwest China operated on the tragic teen, 14, earlier this week - retrieving a massive hairball weighing around 3kg from her stomach after her grandparents failed to notice she was becoming severely ill

Daily Mirror

China to increase nuclear warheads to 1,500, Pentagon warns

A new Pentagon report warns that China continues to rapidly modernize its nuclear force and is on track to have 1,500 active warheads by 2035

The Independent UK

China likely to have 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035: Pentagon

China will likely have a stockpile of 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035 if it continues with its current nuclear buildup pace, according to a report released by the Pentagon on Tuesday.

Reuters

China COVID-19 policy protesters reveal why they took to the streets and what they saw

Hundreds of mostly young Chinese people have risked imprisonment by taking part in widespread demonstrations against the government's strict COVID-19 policies and suppression of civil liberties. The ABC spoke to some of them about what they saw and why they took part.

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Biden's Support for COVID Protests Hinges on What Country They're in

The president has urged the Chinese government to respect the rights of anti-lockdown demonstrators. He actively encouraged the Canadian government to end the trucker protests.

Reason

Alibaba founder Jack Ma hiding out in Tokyo, reports say

Billionaire rarely seen in public since criticising attitude of China’s regulators towards tech firms in 2020

The Guardian - UK

'The U.N. Is a Massive Club for Dictators'

The Human Rights Foundation is mobilizing a global band of activists to fight authoritarianism in China, Iran, Russia, and beyond.

Reason

Air pollution linked to almost a million stillbirths a year

First global analysis follows discovery of toxic pollution particles in lungs and brains of foetuses

The Guardian - UK

致中国大陆的读者：跟我们分享您对反清零政策抗议的看法

我们想跟在中国大陆生活的人了解一下他们对抗争的看法及在中国大陆防疫措施下的的日常生活 We would like to speak to people in China about their views on the protests and what daily life is like with Covid restrictions

The Guardian - UK

Chinese astronauts board space station in historic mission

Three Chinese astronauts arrived on Wednesday at China's space station for the first in-orbit crew rotation in Chinese space history, launching operation of the second inhabited outpost in low-Earth orbit after the NASA-led International Space Station.

Reuters

China launches 3 astronauts to complete space station

China has launched a rocket carrying three astronauts to complete construction of space station

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The Times of India

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma living in Tokyo after China's crackdown against firms: Report

BEIJING: Chinese billionaire and e-commerce giant Alibaba founder Jack Ma who ran into trouble with the Chinese government over violating anti-monopoly regulations and kept a low profile since 2020 is now living in Tokyo for about six months, according to a media report on Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times

White House watches cautiously as protests over COVID restrictions roil China

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is treading lightly in response to demonstrations in China by citizens angry over the country’s harsh COVID-19 restrictions, drawing criticism from Republicans and democracy advocates who say the White House should act more forcefully.

The Independent UK

China ready for 'closer partnership' with Russia in energy

President Xi Jinping says China is ready to “forge closer partnership” with Russia in energy

Evening Standard

Sizewell C: China ‘bought out’ of new nuclear power station, Grant Shapps confirms

The Government is spending nearly £700m to help get the £20bn Sizewell C nuclear power plant project off the ground

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China, security concerns, and map issues: Explaining India’s interest in the Nepal election

India will be keeping a close eye on the emerging political landscape in Nepal, where the result of the general election for the national parliament and seven provincial assemblies will be formally announced later this week.

Evening Standard

MPs to visit Taiwan amid heightened tensions between UK and China

Foreign affairs select committee chairwoman says visit, which follows that of Nancy Pelosi in August, was ‘long planned’

The Conversation

White landowners in Hawaii imported Russian workers in the early 1900s, to dilute the labor power of Asians in the islands

On Feb. 19, 1906, the mail steamer China pulled into the harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. It had made the voyage from San Pedro, California, many times before, but this trip made front-page news. Local newspapers heralded the arrival of “one hundred and ten white men, women and children, the vanguard…

The Conversation

Is China ready to lead on protecting nature? At the upcoming UN biodiversity conference, it will preside and set the tone

As the world parses what was achieved at the U.N. climate change conference in Egypt, negotiators are convening in Montreal to set goals for curbing Earth’s other crisis: loss of living species.

Evening Standard

The Standard View: The Chinese Communist Party can try to deny reality at home, but the world bears witness to its repression

Following the most significant civil unrest in China since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, and the arrest and beating of a BBC journalist by police, a diplomatic row has broken out between Beijing and London.

France 24

On US state visit, Macron to draw the line on American protectionism

President Emmanuel Macron begins his three-day state visit to the US on Wednesday bolstered by shared bilateral visions on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific. But President Joe Biden’s latest Inflation Reduction Act has alarmed the EU, and the French leader will have to stake a…

The Independent UK

AP Interview: IMF chief urges targeted COVID policy in China

The head of the International Monetary Fund says it’s time for China to move away from mass lockdowns under its “zero-COVID” approach

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