China's property sector is in dire straits as yet another developer reportedly runs into trouble

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A man walks outside a property agency featuring posters of the latest high-rise apartment buildings in Hong Kong February 13, 2015.

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Japan's military is thinking about how to drop long-range cruise missiles from its biggest panes

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A Japan Air Self-Defense Force Kawasaki C-2 drops a package on Angaur in Palau in February 2021.

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China's July exports contracted the most since the start of the pandemic. It shows a tough external market for the world's factory when it needs it the most.

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China's post-COVID has been hit by falling demand both domestically and internationally.

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Elon Musk's Chinese doppelgänger posted a new shirtless boxing video, and now the real Musk is once again wondering if his Asian lookalike could be a real person

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Elon Musk (left) and his Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma (right).
"Still don't know if real or AI-generated," Elon Musk (left) said in response to a video of his Chinese doppelgänger (right).

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A 2020 hack of the Japanese military was tied to cyberspies from China's People's Liberation Army

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Marching honor guards shout as US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford is welcomed by his Chinese counterpart, chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Gen. Fang Fenghui

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China's working population will shrink in the coming decades and keep the nation's economy from surpassing America's, research firm says

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A Chinese flag flying over Shanghai.

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China is telling economists not to talk about deflation or faltering growth, report says

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China's post-COVID economic rebound is fizzling out, with growth faltering and forecasters fretting about deflation.

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The most interesting part of China's stimulus announcement was the omission of a key phrase that ignited the 2020 crackdown on the real-estate sector

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Local residents look at a model of a Poly Real Estate Group housing project at a real estate showroom on May 25, 2023 in Sanya, Hainan Province of China.
China's once free-spending property buyers are now cautious about their real-estate purchases amid the country's post-COVID economic slump.

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Ron DeSantis is just a medium-sized version of Trump that China doesn't need to worry about: Chinese state media pundit

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Former President Donald Trump (left) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (right).
Former President Donald Trump (left) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (right).

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US Marines gearing up to defend 'key' terrain near China are about to get a first-of-its-kind ship-hunting missile

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US Marines fire a missile from a Navy/Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System in California on June 28.

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