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Taiwan weighs extending compulsory military service beyond 4 months

Taiwan is considering extending compulsory military service beyond four months, Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said on Wednesday, as the war in Ukraine renewed discussion about how best to respond to China's military pressure.

Reuters

Black box found as search for China Eastern Airlines plane crash victims goes on

Chinese authorities say one of the black boxes from an airliner which dived vertically into a hillside with 132 people on board has been found, but in a severely damaged condition.

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Understanding hypersonic weapons

How are these manoeuvrable weapons different from traditional missiles? Does India have a hypersonic weapons system?

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A run through the snow, PCR tests and no guests: a wedding in China’s Covid lockdown

Amanda Liu Chang and Jia Shihan were due to get married on 19 March when Jia’s apartment building was locked down – but they didn’t let that stop them

The Guardian - AU

Shanghai denies lockdown rumours as daily COVID infections near 1,000

Authorities in the Chinese city of Shanghai have denied rumours of a city-wide lockdown after a sixth straight increase in daily asymptomatic coronavirus cases pushed its count to record levels despite a campaign of mass testing aimed at stifling the spread.

Reuters

Terrain, rain hampering search at site of China plane crash

Rough terrain and rain are hampering the search for clues into the cause of a China Eastern plane that inexplicably fell from the sky and tore into a remote mountainside, presumably killing all 132 people on board

The Independent UK

Evergrande delays publishing annual results over ‘drastic change’ in prospects

Chinese property giant will reveal how it will restructure its $300bn debt by July, amid confusion about how banks seized $2bn from one its divisions

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China finds first black box from crashed jet, U.S. discussing quarantine for investigators

Chinese emergency workers found on Wednesday one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed with 132 people onboard, but U.S. efforts to join the investigation are on hold because of COVID-19 quarantine rules.

Reuters

China searches for victims from plane crash with cause still unclear

WUZHOU: Rescuers in southern China searched for victims from a China Eastern Airlines jet on Tuesday after it crashed with 132 people on board and authorities said severe damage to the aircraft would make it difficult to establish the cause of the crash.

Bangkok Post

Data Analytics Vital for Understanding Asian Video Streaming Market

Overview of Taiwan’s VOD market in 2021 Q3, YouTube continues to be the leading platform, reaching approximately 15 million viewers per month. The audience profile of online video is about half male and half female, and more than half are over 45 years old.

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A Cavalcade of Paranoia

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Reason

Harrowing images from Chinese Eastern plane crash site show charred personal belongings

Dozens of rescuers rummaged through the rubble today, on the remote Chinese mountainside where China Eastern Flight 5735 mysteriously fell from the sky, carrying 132 people

Daily Mirror

Frustrations mount in Shenyang as China locks down another city of nine million people due to COVID-19

China locks down another city of 9 million people overnight as frustration grows over the nation's "zero-COVID" strategy for battling an Omicron outbreak.

ABC News

New Cadillac CT6 Spied On The Street Looking Large And In-Charge

For China, anyway.

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U.S. NTSB will support Chinese probe into Boeing 737-800 crash

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will support a Chinese probe into the crash of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 jet, a spokesman for the NTSB said on Tuesday.

Ukraine: lessons for Taiwan, and for China too

Almost a month in, China is still being extremely coy about its attitude towards the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The regime is acutely aware that there are many parallels between the Russian-Ukrainian relationship and the Chinese-Taiwanese one, and that the Russian attempt to conquer Ukraine is failing, or at least…

Bangkok Post

Will Putin's war slow China's economic growth?

On March 5, China announced a GDP growth target for this year of about 5.5%, the lowest target since 1991. But that should not come as a surprise. In 2013, World Bank economists and the Chinese State Council projected that China's annual growth rate would decline to 5% by 2030.…

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To counter China influence, U.S. names envoy to lead Pacific Island talks

The United States on Tuesday named former senior diplomat Joseph Yun to lead languishing talks with three tiny but strategically important Pacific Island countries, a signal that countering China remains a U.S. priority despite Russia's war in Ukraine.

Benzinga

Is Tesla The New Ford? How To Trade The Reaction To Elon Musk Opening Giga Berlin

Tesla, Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) shot up over 8% on Tuesday, after Elon Musk cut the ribbon at Giga Berlin, the EV maker’s first manufacturing plant outside the U.S. and China.

The Independent UK

Kansas researcher accused of secret China work goes to trial

Federal prosecutors told jurors that a Kansas researcher illegally kept his work with a Chinese university secret, while the defense contends contends he was merely “moonlighting.”

Tribune News Service

US threat to sanction China is spooking other Asian nations

U.S. President Joe Biden’s warning of unspecified consequences if China supports Russia has smaller Asian nations worried they’ll be subject to similar penalties for maintaining neutrality over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war.

ABC News

The Loop: Ukrainians going on offensive, China shuts down a city as Omicron surges, and how coughing into your phone could detect COVID

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Benzinga

Here's How Alibaba's Buyback Boost Could Win Back Investors In China's Internet Sector

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) share buyback boost&

The Hindu

A blow to equitable access to essential medicines

The ‘compromise outcome’ at the WTO could see India and South Africa losing their lead theme in the COVID-19 fight

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