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The Latest Breaking News from China

China issues first national drought alert, battles to save crops

An estimated 66 rivers across 34 counties in southwestern region of Chongqing have dried up, China state media reports.

Al Jazeera

China Firmly Cautions Israel against Allowing US Pressure to Affect Relations

Senior Israeli Foreign Ministry sources said that one of China’s top diplomats last week warned Israel not to allow American pressure to harm relations with Beijing. Liu Jianchao, the head of the Chinese Communist Party’s international affairs department, reportedly conveyed the message during a meeting last week with the Israeli…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Martin Schram: The Putinization of President Xi

In this broiling summer, when we are shaken by threats that could shatter our most globally revered national monument — America’s cherished democracy — a menacing development suddenly occurred half-a-world away.

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Chinese city dims lights as record heatwave hits energy supplies

Highs of over 40C in Chengdu dry up hydropower reservoirs and raise demand for air conditioning

The Guardian - UK

The Yangtze River is shrinking as drought disrupts the world's No. 2 economy

The disruption adds to challenges for the ruling Communist Party, which is trying to shore up sagging economic growth.

WEKU

Weather tracker: flash floods as Europe’s heatwave ends with thunderstorms

Torrential rains hit parts of England, Italy, France and Belgium, while in China flooding leaves 18 dead

The Guardian - UK

Sunak calls on G20 to bar Putin from meetings until Russia halts war in Ukraine

Warns leaders can’t sit around a table with someone responsible for killing children ‘in their beds’

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Yangtze shrinks as China's drought disrupts industry

Ships are creeping down the middle of the Yangtze after China’s driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width

The Independent UK

China stands by sanctions on Lithuanian official after Taiwan visit

China said on Friday its sanctions on Lithuania's deputy transport minister were an appropriate and reasonable response to her recent visit to Taiwan.

Reuters

U.S. Air Force secretary: China's actions around Taiwan increase risk

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on Friday that China's actions around Taiwan increase the level of risk and he hoped that China's behaviour returns to the norms that were established before.

Reuters

Commentary: Biden administration needs to match rhetoric with action on Africa policy

Last week Secretary of State Anthony Blinken released the Biden administration’s long-awaited Africa strategy during his visit to South Africa. Perhaps the most notable shift in tone during Blinken’s five-day, three-country tour of the continent was his reference to African states as geostrategic players — a clear response to the…

Tribune News Service

Mahathir expects early polls, ruling party gains in Malaysia

Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad expects Malaysia’s graft-tainted ruling party will hold general elections in coming months — and could win big

The Independent UK

Asian Markets Drift as Investors Assess Fed Outlook

Stocks swung in Asia on Friday as investors tried to assess the Federal Reserve's plans for lifting interest rates to fight inflation, with mixed data and differing opinions by bank officials providing little clarity. The rally across markets from their June lows appears to have run out of steam this…

Asharq Al-Awsat

US opens trade talks with Taiwan to counter China’s economic dominance

The United States and Taiwan have agreed to start trade talks under a new initiative to reach agreements with "economically meaningful outcomes", with a Taiwan official saying China's "economic coercion" would be also be discussed.

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America Rejoins the Climate Fight

New legislation will reshape policy—and U.S. diplomacy.

Al Jazeera

Taiwan’s foreign firms weigh future amid China risk, COVID curbs

China’s ongoing military exercises have led some foreign businesspeople in Taiwan to consider relocating elsewhere.

Reuters

China issues first national drought alert, battles to save crops in extreme heatwave

China has issued its first national drought alert of the year as authorities battle forest fires and mobilise specialist teams to protect crops from scorching temperatures across the Yangtze river basin.

The Independent UK

China's response to Pelosi visit a sign of future intentions

China’s response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was anything but subtle — dispatching warships and military aircraft to all sides of the self-governing island democracy, and firing ballistic missiles into the waters nearby

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Al Jazeera

Montana flagged bugs in cow app exploited in alleged China hack

Montana Dept of Agriculture took USAHERDS database offline to allow developer to boost security, new documents show.

The Times of India

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin to attend G-20 summit in Indonesia, President Jokowi says

JAKARTA: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are both planning to attend a Group of 20 summit in the resort island of Bali later this year, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said.

The Guardian - UK

China Communist party’s 20th national congress explained – in 30 seconds

Xi Jinping is expected to secure a third term as leader at the CCP’s conference later this year

Benzinga

Alibaba, Other Hong Kong Stocks Show Optimism In Early Trade Even As Analysts Downgrade China Growth Projections

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index opened in the green on Friday, gaining 0.12% in opening trade, following a muted session on Wall Street. Investors also digested macro news from Japan where the headline inflation rose to 2.6% in July as compared to 2.4% in June.

Birmingham Post

North East diamond innovators Dyman Advanced Materials announce plans to create 100 jobs

Dyman Advanced Materials is hoping to cut a piece of the $14bn industrial diamonds market which is dominated by China

Reuters

'Indescribable' pressure: Taiwan thanks Navy amid China tensions

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has visited sailors in the island's navy to thank them for their efforts amid days of war games and military drills by China, calling the pressure they had faced "indescribable".

The Guardian - AU

Solomon Islands secures $100m China loan to build Huawei mobile towers in historic step

This will be the first loan from China since the Pacific country switched allegiance from Taiwan in 2019

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