China faces a 12 Aug deadline to seal a lasting tariff deal with Trump, after earlier pacts in May and June paused weeks of tit-for-tat tariffs and a rare earths export threat.
The sudden removal of top military leaders risks disrupting China’s military communications, particularly with countries like India and the United States.
The Chinese president's remarks are among the first he has made about the conflict which erupted after Hamas launched an assault on Israel on 7 October.
The notion that the 'standard map' was published just before Xi’s India visit to signal China’s intentions to emphasise its territorial claims is far from accurate.
What made him ‘Akbar the Great’ was not the might of his armies alone, but the political architecture he built to sustain power over a subcontinent teeming with diversity.
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