Hints and tips:
...At a meeting in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov reinforced calls for their two countries to work more closely together against “hegemonism”....
...In other comments on Tuesday, China’s foreign ministry said Beijing would dispatch one of Xi’s senior lieutenants, Zhao Leji, to North Korea on a courtesy visit....
...China’s foreign minister Wang Yi met Greenberg and Orlins on Tuesday, and said bilateral tensions stemmed from the US “misperception” of China as a strategic threat....
...“Even if we continue to communicate, there’s no fruit, there are no results,” said Zhao. “Now it’s our turn to want to see results.”...
...It was announced last week that Qin Gang, a former spokesperson who went on to become president Xi Jinping’s ambassador to Washington, will succeed Wang Yi as foreign minister....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Li feared the worst, but the ticket collector merely waved him through, signalling his support for the protesters by making a V sign with his hand and smiling....
...“What India has done is to bring in the concerns and priorities of the global south and to try and move them beyond standard approaches to address the real issues,” said V Anantha Nageswaran, Modi’s chief...
...the trading for or on behalf of any other person or entity, whether by power of attorney or otherwise, in any account involving commodity interests and/or digital asset commodities as defined herein; (v)...
...Wang and Zhao, a married couple who arrived from China to carry out photovoltaic research at UNSW, returned to their native country in 2006 where they founded China Sunergy, now known as CSun....
...Puzzle 2518 Ding Liren v Wang Hao, Ningbo 2011. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Wang Tao, 52, a deputy dean at Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, died of Covid on December 30, the school announced....
...Besides Xi, anti-corruption tsar Zhao Leji and ideological guru Wang Huning remain on the Politburo Standing Committee but will be given new portfolios....
...Wang’s predecessors at the public security ministry, Zhao Kezhi and Guo Shengkun, were not considered to be particularly close to Xi....
...Wu Guoguang, who worked as an adviser to former Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang, wrote in a recent essay published by the China Leadership Monitor, a US research group, that a “new era of factional politics...
...Wang, Zhao, and Diao could not immediately be reached for comment. The Big Fund did not immediately reply to a request for comment....
...“The Chinese leadership has convinced itself that the west won’t voluntarily accept China’s rise unless China demonstrates formidable power,” said Zhao Tong of Tsinghua University in Beijing....
...Hours later came news that Bankman-Fried and Binance chief Changpeng Zhao had agreed terms for the larger exchange to buy out FTX and backstop its liquidity problems....
...Additional reporting by Xueqiao Wang in Shanghai, Edward White in Seoul and Ryan McMorrow in Beijing...
...This is Changpeng Zhao. He’s the CEO of Binance, which is at this point the last crypto exchange really standing, maybe other than Coinbase....
...Additional reporting by Xueqiao Wang in Shanghai, Oliver Barnes and Arjun Neil Alim in London, Andy Lin, Chan Ho-him, Gloria Li in Hong Kong, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York and Kana Inagaki in Tokyo...
...This helped pave the way for Xi to consolidate power by appointing longtime ally Wang Xiaohong as public security minister in June....
...“CZ” is Changpeng Zhao, crypto’s greatest tycoon. The 45-year-old Canadian-Chinese CEO of Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, is in many ways Bankman-Fried’s opposite....
...“The border has become a very live issue,” said Harsh V Pant, vice-president for studies and foreign policy with the Observer Research Foundation think-tank....
...In April, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi said a Pelosi visit would be a “malicious provocation”....
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