A South Korean Labor Leader Has Self-Immolated in Protest of Anti-Union Charges (jacobin.com)
Yet another scientist flees western xenophobia and joins China's hypersonic programme. Reminder that China is now the top scientific destination worldwide. (archive.is)
China pours cold water on bilateral meeting with US defence minister (archive.is)
Due to the U.S.A.'s mass-shooting frequency, Canada, the U.K., New Zealand, and Australia have issued travel advisory warnings. (www.miamiherald.com)
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 13, including 4 children (peoplesdispatch.org)
Russia returns to top-10 world's largest economies first since 2014 (www.uniindia.com)
Chen Zhoufeng, now a senior researcher at the Shenzhen Bay Lab, led an itch and sensory disorders centre at Washington University St Louis since 2011 (archive.ph)
Analysis-China's small steps on offshore use of yuan are starting to add up (archive.ph)
Arab League readmits Syria as relations with Assad normalise (www.reuters.com)
China, Russia pledge to boost ties, SCO cooperation (global.chinadaily.com.cn)
SCO adds Kuwait, UAE, Myanmar and Maldives as dialogue partners (www.financialexpress.com)
Climate change: Vietnam records highest-ever temperature of 44.1C (www.bbc.com)
Iraqi central bank to drop dollar for yuan in trade with China (archive.fo)
India's FirstPost published an opinion article stating "It is time to call the bluff on Europe’s moral posturing as the conscience-keeper of the world" (www.firstpost.com)
US debt ceiling crisis gives China more cause to cut Treasury bond exposure, promote yuan as world currency (archive.ph)
Burkina Faso interim leader hails Russia as a strategic ally (www.reuters.com)
China has one surveillance camera for every 2 citizens (www.firstpost.com)
When China abruptly relaxed its stringent zero-Covid policy in December last year, people who were stuck and returned to Beijing found cameras fixed right outside their apartment doors. They are now being watched at work, on the streets, on public transportation, when they leave their homes and when they return. The Chinese...
US and EU menace Malaysia over Huawei (archive.is)
Award-winning Chinese mathematician returns to Peking University from US (archive.ph)
South Korea, Indonesia c.banks agree to promote local currency transactions (www.reuters.com)
Russia is likely to resume buying foreign currency for its reserves as soon as this month as rising oil earnings stabilize public finances despite US and European efforts to squeeze Kremlin income (archive.ph)
‘Red scare’ in US causes multi-year flood of refugees with PhDs to China. (archive.ph)
US officials scramble to slow China’s advances. Beijing’s diplomatic and business gains this year have been so great as to prompt panic in Washington. (archive.ph)
24 Nations Align Against US Dollar As BRICS Looks to Launch New Global Currency (dailyhodl.com)
Young US Communists Meet with Cuban University Students in Havana (www.cubanews.acn.cu)
