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Top 5 Aviation Accidents and Incidents That Shocked The World: Air India, Malaysia Airlines and More

The flight, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, crashed just seconds after take-off from Ahmedabad in June, killing all but one of the 242 people on board.

International Business Times UK

Lions, horses and things of value: Other gifts given to US presidents as Trump faces heat over $400m jet

Poised to accept a $400 million Qatari jet, Donald Trump isn’t the only U.S. president who has been sent gifts from foreign leaders, writes James Liddell

The Independent UK

Is Trump trying to pull Putin away from China – and can it work?

Observers say Trump wants to pull off a ‘reverse Nixon’ by deepening ties with Russia, but is that even possible?

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Forget alignment: Here's where Baldur's Gate 3's companions fall on the real-life political compass

No, I'm not interested in discussing how long this took me.

PC Gamer

Menu signed by Mao Zedong brings a quarter million dollars at auction

An official menu for a state banquet signed by former Chinese leader Mao Zedong has been auctioned for $275,000

The Independent UK

Kissinger, Giant Of Statecraft, Molded Post-war US History

Brilliant, abrasive and ruthlessly ambitious, Henry Kissinger towered over post-World War II US foreign policy like no one else and shaped a fateful new course for the world's relationship with China.

International Business Times

Can Anthony Albanese catch the dragon’s tail to defrost and reboot Australia-China relations?

In an international landscape that is fluid and dangerous, the PM knows relationship-building could be the key to global stability

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Ping-pong diplomacy: Australian table tennis players return to China, five decades after historic tour

This week, two of the original members of Australia’s 1971 “ping-pong diplomacy” team are returning to Beijing to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations.

The Conversation

Prigozhin precedents: a history of assassinations by plane crash

Yevgeny Prigozhin joins a long list of figures suspected to have been killed by attacks on planes

The Guardian - UK

Isabel Crook obituary

Canadian anthropologist who joined Mao Zedong’s rural revolution and stayed on to build a ‘new China’

The Guardian - UK

Xi Praises Kissinger’s ‘Historic Contribution’ to U.S.-China Ties

The president met the former U.S. Secretary of State in the same villa where the veteran diplomat met then-Premier Zhou Enlai in July 1971

Caixin Global

What the sci-fi blockbuster Wandering Earth II can teach us about China's global and local aspirations

A prequel to the 2019 film Wandering Earth, the Chinese blockbuster hit Wandering Earth II opens on a futuristic dystopia where the dying Sun is about to explode and engulf Earth.

The Conversation

50 years after Gough Whitlam established diplomatic relations with China, what has changed?

In the annals of Australian foreign policy, it is arguable that no moment in history has been as significant as December 21 1972. With the possible exception of the ANZUS Treaty of 1951, no other document matches the formal agreement establishing full diplomatic relations between Australia and China 50 years…

The Conversation

Xi Jinping and the Paradox of Power

What Mao’s failures reveal about centralizing control.

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Tiananmen Square: An enduring symbol of the Chinese Communist Party's illegitimacy

This week the Communist Chinese Party is holding a congress at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. The purpose of the congress is to cement Xi Jinping's genocidal, imperialist autocracy. This post explains the centrality of Tiananmen Square to the Chinese dictatorship, and to the Chinese…

The Independent UK

Japanese leader's trip to China in '72 was diplomatic gamble

The Japanese leader who normalized relations with China 50 years ago feared for his life when he flew to Beijing for the high-stakes negotiations at the peak of the Cold War

The National (Scotland)

Michael Russell: Liz Truss clashes glaringly with Queen’s sense of duty and purpose

THE 20th-century Chinese premier Zhou Enlai, when he was once asked about the effect of the 18th-century French Revolution, replied that it was…

The Conversation

Has Xi Jinping miscalculated in aligning himself with Vladimir Putin?

As Russia’s attempt to intimidate Ukraine and, presumably, install a puppet regime stumbles into its second week, it is clear the Kremlin has miscalculated on several fronts.

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