The mayor of Hamburg says Germany is defending its “national security and strength” by allowing China’s COSCO to take a stake in the city’s port

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BBC news leading with Rishi Sunak too busy to attend COP27 global climate summit (unlike Joe Biden), Liz Truss telling King Charles not to go. Britain represented by Alok Sharma, who Sunak has just demoted from the cabinet. Doesn’t exactly scream Vote Tory to younger voters

“They still haven’t learned their lesson,” a French official tells ⁦Michel Rose⁩ about the Germans and China. Add Paris to the long list of capitals that have been confounded by Scholz’s decision to push through the Cosco-Hamburg deal reuters.com/world/europe/b…

An online post about a newlywed in China, who was rung up by her local government asking if she was pregnant, garnered tens of thousands of comments before being removed, with many netizens saying they had experienced similar calls reut.rs/3U0Ms6R

Fresh out the oven: Three Arrests, Two Superpowers and a Secret Prisoner Swap. All the twists and turns behind the deal to free Meng and the Michaels, packed with fresh details. Incredible reporting by drew hinshaw Joe Parkinson Aruna Viswanatha Jacquie McNish
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Latest Aerial Views Of China's Artificial Islands In The South China Sea

Airfields, buildings, recreational facilities, and other structures are seen on the artificial islands built by China in these pictures taken on October 25, 2022 in the Spratly Islands, South China Sea.

Chinese cities from Wuhan in central China to Xining in the northwest are doubling down on COVID curbs, sealing up buildings, locking down districts and throwing millions into distress in a scramble to halt widening outbreaks reut.rs/3gG4JI9

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'Let's do nucleic acid tests together 🎶' A new Chinese children's song that was released by a local Jiangsu community is being shared a lot on WeChat today, the video shows kids reciting ancient poems while doing Covid19 tests. 'We've entered another level of madness,' some say.

«China Used to be a One-Way Street of Happiness and Rising Prosperity, But That’s Over Now» themarket.ch/interview/chin… via TheMarket talks to Joerg Wuttke

Talked to 美国之音中文网 about the Party Congress

Chinese continue to use the US for surrogacy even if they can’t go to US themselves. COVID controls make it hard for the new babies to get to China. Now entire houses in California are full of nannies caring for surrogate babies. I visited one of them:
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Joined BBC World Service to talk about China's new leadership bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…

Some background information about Cai Qi - one of the biggest surprises of today's announcement of the CPC Standing Committee 🧵

Xi’s 2022 communist party leadership of China has not a single woman in its ranks David Rennie 任大伟

Video by myself and Mickey Carroll A peaceful protest descended into violence outside, and then inside, the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester. Sky News has pieced together what actually happened news.sky.com/video/chinese-…

'Chinese censors on Friday scrubbed from the internet reports that a teenager had died in a quarantine facility after the case sparked anger and prompted citizens to question the country's 'zero-COVID' policy.' #China cbsnews.com/news/china-tee…