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UAE to order 12 L-15 planes from China as it diversify suppliers - news agency

The United Arab Emirates plans to order 12 L-15 light attack planes from China, with the option of purchasing 36 more, the UAE state news agency WAM reported on Wednesday.

Reuters

Could The QJ Motor SRT 600 Hint At A Future Benelli Sport-Tourer?

The QJ Motor SRT 600 has been released in China, and is powered by the same inline-four engine found in the Benelli TNT600.

RideApart

Grumbling grows as Hong Kong sticks with zero-COVID policy

Hong Kong residents are becoming increasingly annoyed with the administration’s insistence on sticking to Beijing’s zero-COVID strategy as the city posted another record number of new cases

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China’s Big Data Catches Another Livestreamer Evading Taxes

An e-commerce livestreamer with 24 million followers fined nearly $10 million for tax evasion, Guangzhou tax bureau announces

Caixin Global

Gangubai Kathiawadi controversy: Bombay High Court scraps pleas against use of certain words including Kamathipura in Sanjay Leela Bhansali film

Mumbai, The Bombay High Court on Wednesday refused to grant any relief and dismissed three petitions filed seeking deletion of the words 'Kamathipura', 'Kathiawadi' and 'China' from the Hindi movie "Gangubai Kathiawadi" slated for release on February 25. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice M S…

The Times of India

China's child-rearing costs far outstrip US, Japan

SHANGHAI: The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed.

Bangkok Post

Donald Trump hails ‘genius’ Vladimir Putin

The former US President also claimed ‘China will be next to launch an invasion’ during the interview

Evening Standard

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Greg Cote: Phil Mickelson’s support of Saudi golf league sadly mirrors sports’ blind eye to human rights

MIAMI — Phil Mickelson did it. He did it with a perfect precision to equal the finest golf shot he ever sculpted. With one comment, he pretty much explained why the sports world is clueless on how to deal with the real-world matter of human rights.

Miami Herald

Commentary: How Nixon’s fabled trip to China, 50 years ago this week, led to today’s Taiwan crisis

Fifty years ago Monday, President Richard Nixon landed in Beijing for the historic weeklong trip that effectively ended the United States’ long isolation from the People’s Republic of China.

Los Angeles Times

China says US creating 'fear and panic' over Ukraine

China is accusing the U.S. of creating “fear and panic" over the crisis in Ukraine, and calling for talks to reduce tensions

The Independent UK

China moves a step closer to national pension system

NEW DELHI: China has taken another step toward setting up a national pension system, beginning the ‘balancing’ of its main retirement fund to help regions with older populations continue to make payouts.

The Times of India

China Says Taiwan Is ‘Not Ukraine’ as Island Raises Alert Level

Taiwan is "not Ukraine" and has always been an inalienable part of China, China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday, as Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called for the island to beef up vigilance on military activities in response to the crisis. The comments come after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson flagged…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Olympics Say Goodbye to Asia after a Star-Crossed Run

The Olympics have said goodbye to Asia after a star-crossed run, and it's unclear when they'll be back after the continent hosted four of the last eight Games. The earliest the Summer Games could return is 2036, and the favorite could be the world's most populous country — not China,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hong Kong unveils $22bn budget as ‘zero COVID’ hammers businesses

Finance chief admits businesses facing ‘intense pressure’ amid restrictions that have shut down much of the city.

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Covid live: Poland, Slovakia and Iceland latest countries set to end most coronavirus restrictions — as it happened

Move comes as case numbers and deaths continue to fall in many nations

Caixin Global

Fisher: Why U.S. Rate Hikes Won’t Whack the Yuan — or Chinese Stocks

Rate hikes alone don’t drive currency movements, and currency zigzags don’t dictate stocks’ direction

Caixin Global

China’s Largest Private Tutor Sinks $907 Million Into the Red After Transformative New Rules

New Oriental ceased all tutoring of K-9 academics, laid off tens of thousands of staff in second half of last year

Reuters

S.Korea presidential frontrunner seeks to 'reset' China ties with extra THAAD missile system

Plans by South Korea's leading opposition presidential candidate to buy an additional THAAD U.S. missile system risks economic retaliation from China, his top foreign policy adviser said, but that would provide a chance to "reset" testy diplomatic ties.

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Al Jazeera

‘Shared resentments’ but Russia ties could be ‘awkward’ for China

Russia and China’s leaders have met more than 30 times since 2013, but the Ukraine crisis will test the relationship.

The Guardian - US

Dwight Chapin on his former boss: ‘Richard Nixon was not a crook’

The former secretary to the disgraced president talks about his new memoir and what it was like to go to prison for Nixon

Caixin Global

Shanghai Composite Index Rose 0.93% on Wednesday

Shenzhen Component Index closed up 1.9%

Reuters

China's child-rearing costs far outstrip US, Japan

The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than in the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed.

The Independent UK

Olympics say goodbye to Asia after 4-year star-crossed run

The Olympics have said goodbye to Asia after a star-crossed run, and it’s unclear when they’ll be back after the continent hosted four of the last eight Games

Reuters

Taiwan casts wary eye at China amid Ukraine crisis, but no immediate alarm

Taiwan is nervous that Beijing may take advantage of a distracted West to ramp up pressure on the island amid the crisis in Ukraine, but there have been no unusual manoeuvres by Chinese forces in recent days, officials in Taipei say.

Bangkok Post

China temporarily detains Japanese diplomat

A diplomat at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, China, was detained temporarily by Chinese authorities on Monday, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

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