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Winter Olympics day seven: skeleton, ice hockey, curling and more – as it happened

Ayumu Hirano won snowboard halfpipe gold, Suzanne Schulting defended her 1,000m short track title and Christopher Grotheer won the skeleton

The Guardian - US

Ai Weiwei: The Liberty of Doubt review – so dull and sentimental it’s offensive

The iconoclast’s opposition to the Chinese state has been admirably brave. But this edgeless, confused and mawkish show suggests his art is less so

The Guardian - UK

America and Australia Are Back on the Same Page

How Biden Revived the Alliance

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‘Reckless and desperate’: Malcolm Turnbull savages Peter Dutton for claiming China is backing Labor

Former Liberal prime minister says defence minister has undermined national security ‘purely for crass political advantage’

The Guardian - AU

Indonesia to buy Rafale fighter jets, as US approves F-15 plan

Indonesia – an archipelago of 17,000 islands – is modernising its military amid increasing regional challenges.

Al Jazeera

Albanese hits back at China poll claim

Labor leader Anthony Albanese says the head of Australia's counter-espionage agency hasn't raised concerns about any of his party's candidates.

AAP

Canada seeks to join EU challenge against China at WTO

Canada will seek to join the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia to be included in consultations as part of the European Union's dispute with China at the World Trade Organization over Beijing's alleged trade curbs on Lithuania.

Reuters

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China not living up to committments it pledged under Trump trade deal

U.S. exports to China since the deal was inked have only been 57% of what was pledged, an analysis finds.

Axios

SES AI Expands in South Korea

SES AI Corp (NYSE:SES) has incorporated its subsidiary SES Korea and plans to build a pre-production facility in South Korea. SES Korea will be SES's second major operation outside of the United States, after SES Shanghai. SES Korea expects to have approximately 50 employees by the end of 2022. SES Korea and SES Shanghai Giga…

Benzinga

In her weakest event, Jessie Diggins finds joy finishing 8th in 10-kilometer race

ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Jessie Diggins didn't expect to win a medal Thursday. By her own admission, the 10-kilometer classic is her weakest event.

Tribune News Service

Gold-medal performers: The Olympic robots of Beijing

China's zero-COVID policy has led to all kinds of brainstorming about how to limit transmission of the coronavirus. Among the solutions: Robots!

Tribune News Service

La Velle E. Neal III: In opener, Team USA wins easily but gets hit hard by China

BEIJING — Less then one minute into Thursday's game against China, Team USA got a glimpse of what it might face throughout the Olympics.

Tribune News Service

US approves major $14 billion arms sale to Indonesia

The Biden administration has approved a nearly $14 billion arms sale to Indonesia as the U.S. presses ahead with steps it believes will help counter China's increasing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific

The Independent UK

Omega's tribute to the Games

A close inspection is required to see how Omega has designed the Beijing 2022 Special Editions. Two watches mark the winter edition of the Olympics Games in China as well as its role as the Official Timekeeper for the 30th time in history.

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The Guardian - AU

Victoria’s ‘code brown’ to end; WA records second Covid death – as it happened

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Los Angeles Times

Youthful U.S. men's hockey team breezes past China to win Olympic opener

BEIJING — There were a lot of unknowns surrounding a young, largely untested U.S. men's hockey team heading into its first game at the Beijing Olympics.

The Conversation

As the Coalition plays up China fears ahead of an election, how might Albanese position himself?

Anniversaries come and go, but 2022 might come to be regarded as unusually significant in Australian election-year politics.

ABC News

Australia deploys diplomatic resources to fight Chinese and Russian 'disinformation' on AUKUS submarine deal

Australia is bulking up specialised diplomatic teams in Canberra and Vienna to win international acceptance for the AUKUS nuclear submarine project as it braces for a massive "disinformation" campaign from China and Russia.

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Reuters

Quad ministers address Indo-Pacific 'coercion', climate, COVID

The United States, Australia, Japan and India pledged on Friday to deepen cooperation to ensure the Indo-Pacific region was free from "coercion", a thinly veiled swipe at China's economic and military expansion.

Reuters

U.S. and China U.N. envoys trade barbs on Russia and Ukraine

The U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Thursday she hopes China will urge Russia to "do the right thing" on Ukraine, prompting her Chinese counterpart to quickly respond with a call for diplomacy and an end to "hyping up the tension."

ABC News

After two years, three countries and 80 COVID tests, Chris was finally about to see his son. Until the phone rang

An Australian man spends 36 days in quarantine in China as the country continues to pursue a policy of COVID-zero.

Axios

Olympian Eileen Gu: A tale of two nations

Olympians aren't typically at the center of a rift between the world's two biggest economies.

The Guardian - UK

Reality bites for China’s ice hockey ringers on Winter Olympic debut

China’s men suffered an 8-0 reverse against the United States in their first ever Winter Olympics ice hockey match

Benzinga

Restrictions Take Fourth-Quarter Bite Out of Rebounding Year for Yum China

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Australia Pacific presence growing: Payne

Foreign Minister Marise Payne says Australia's Indo-Pacific presence is "growing exponentially" as she meets with her US, Indian and Japanese counterparts.

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