- Fourteen of 16 convicted of subversion conspiracy***- Amnesty calls verdicts “near-total purge” of HK opposition******- Sentencing at a later date, life in prison possible******- Australia minister: ‘deep concern’ at verdict and jailed citizen***...
European Union foreign ministers decided on Monday to impose sanctions on Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service and on 19 Russians for human rights violations after the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a prison in February....
Poland will introduce restrictions on the movement of Russian diplomats on its territory due to Moscow’s involvement in what it deems a hybrid war against the European Union, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Monday....
- In 10 years, China aims to slash grains, soybean imports***- Outlook diverges sharply with US forecasts for China******- Lack of arable land, soil damage pose challenges******- China needs bigger farms to speed productivity growth***...
It didn’t take Russia’s misinformation machine long to settle on who was to blame for the first assassination attempt on a European national leader in more than two decades....
Human rights groups and emigre opposition factions expressed regret that Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi’s death meant he never saw justice for crimes they say he committed during decades as a leading figure in the Islamic republic.–...
- Beijing dislikes Taiwan’s new President William Lai and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which they see as pro-independence. It has ramped up military incursions around Taiwan’s waters and airspace since his election win in January....
When Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s President who soon leaves office after eight years and hands over to her successor William Lai, swept to power in 2016, she was dismissed as a dull bureaucrat. But she stood up to an increasingly authoritarian and aggressive China under Xi Jinping; she held on to a vital US alliance under Donald...
TLDR:****- China’s president Xi wants to maintain an alliance with Putin’s Russia, while also knowing that close ties with a pariah puts at risk his stable ties with the West which he needs to help his ailing economy....