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Cheng Lei: Australian PM asks China to give journalist detained in Beijing access to her children

Chen Lei’s access to her family is ‘virtually nonexistent,’ her partner says

The Independent UK

BYD Targets 4 Million Plug-In Electric Car Sales In 2023

BYD is on a path of fast growth, which soon is expected to translate into millions of plug-in electric cars sold annually.

InsideEVs

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What can we expect from Liz Truss on foreign policy?

The strong stance on Russia and China, along with promises of increased defence spending, may lead to a more forward international role for Britain on Truss’s watch, writes Kim Sengupta

The Independent UK

Five in Hong Kong found guilty of sedition for 'anti-government' children's books

Five Hong Kong speech therapists were found guilty on Wednesday of a conspiracy to publish seditious children's books that were deemed anti-government, a decision denounced by rights campaigners as a blow to free speech in the China-ruled city.

Reuters

China reports ‘most severe’ heatwave and third driest summer on record

Average temperature in August was 1.2C higher than norm, which caused widespread drought

The Guardian - UK

Putin, Xi to Meet in Uzbekistan Next Week, Official Says

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet next week at a summit in Uzbekistan, a Russian official said Wednesday. The two leaders will meet at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, held in the Uzbek city of Samarkand on Sept. 15-16, Russian Ambassador to China Andrei Denisov…

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Amid financial turmoil, US backs Sri Lankan debt restructuring

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the US will support the restructuring of Sri Lanka's debt and will extend financing assurances to the country. This as Sri Lanka suffers its worst economic crisis in seven decades. We report on how fishermen are having to use oars instead of motors to…

France 24

East Timor’s Ramos-Horta presses Australia on stalled gas fields

Exploration has stalled due to maritime boundary disputes and whether the gas would be refined in Darwin or East Timor.

Al Jazeera

Nathan Law on the future for pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong

In the past 25 years since Hong Kong was handed over to China from British rule, the self-government and freedoms it was originally promised have gradually been eroded. After the Umbrella Movement in 2014, Beijing's controversial extradition law in 2019 and its equally controversial national security law a year later,…

France 24

China's trade with Russia picks up speed in August

Chinese shipments to and from Russia accelerated in August compared with a month earlier, contrasting with slower flows elsewhere amid weak global demand.

Reuters

EXPLAINER: Why is Xi Jinping's Central Asia trip important?

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a visit to the neighboring Central Asian nations of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan this month in what would be his first overseas visits since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in late 2019

The Independent UK

Beijing hounds Chinese church seeking safety overseas

Members of a Chinese church are seeking refuge in Thailand, saying they face state harassment and possible deportation

The Independent UK

US bans ‘advanced tech’ firms from building facilities in China for a decade

Move comes as Biden administration outlines plans to boost domestic production of semiconductors

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The Independent UK

Putin, Xi to meet at in Uzbekistan next week, official says

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet next week at a summit in Uzbekistan, a Russian official said Wednesday

ABC News

Two gibbon species declared extinct in the wild in China due to excessive 'human activities'

Chinese researchers say white-handed gibbons and northern white-cheeked gibbons are extinct in the wild, with no sightings for more than a decade.

Al Jazeera

China’s exports weaken, imports fall amid COVID curbs

Exports rise 7 percent from a year earlier to $314.9 bn, barely one-third of July expansion.

Reuters

Taiwan military shows off its mettle with latest combat drills

Tanks pounded targets and fighter jets roared overhead on Wednesday as Taiwan's military carried out its latest combat drills after weeks of sabre-rattling by giant neighbour China.

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FTSE 100 Live: China trade figures disappoint, mining shares fall

Stock markets are under pressure after China reported disappointing trade figures today.

The Guardian - UK

Pound falls to lowest level since 1985 against dollar – as it happened

IFS boss says Liz Truss’s plans to freeze energy bills ‘very poorly targeted’; Putin threatens to cut off energy supplies if price caps are imposed; UK housing market shows signs of slowing

The Independent UK

China earthquake deaths rise to 74 as lockdown anger grows

The death toll in the earthquake in western China has jumped to 74 with 26 people still missing

The Independent UK

China's export growth sinks in August, imports shrink

China’s export growth weakened in August and imports shrank as high energy prices, inflation and anti-virus restrictions weighed on global and Chinese consumer demand

The Guardian - AU

China using ‘cognitive warfare’ to intimidate Taiwan, says president Tsai

Tsai says in addition to intrusions by drones and aircraft, Beijing uses ‘false information to create disturbance in minds of people’

Reuters

On COVID alert, more Chinese cities advise residents to stay put for holiday

More Chinese cities advised residents on Wednesday to avoid unnecessary trips for the upcoming holiday long weekend, adding to COVID policies that are keeping tens of millions of people under lockdown and exacting a growing economic toll.

Reuters

EU, China trade barbs over failed G20 climate talks

The European Union and China are questioning each other's commitment to fighting climate change, following the failure of climate talks by the Group of 20 (G20) last week.

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