China's trade with Russia is getting so difficult that payments can take half a year and most bank transfers are returned

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping side half-body shot against country flags.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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The US just showed it can stealthily sink an 820-ft ship with a low-cost bomb, and China is scrambling to say it's not impressed

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An aerial view of the decommissioned ship USS Tarawa.
The decommissioned ship USS Tarawa.

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Wargames show the US could burn through its ammo in 'as few as 3 to 4 weeks' in a war with China, commission warns

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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, while participating in Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2024, fires a naval strike.
A new review from a congressionally appointed commission on national defense warned that the US not prepared for war against China or Russia, let alone both at the same time.

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India and China joined Russia's Navy Day celebrations as Putin tries to project anti-Western group

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President Vladimir Putin stands in front of a microphone on the deck of a small boat during Russia's Navy Day celebrations on July 28, 2024, with both a modern and wooden warship visible in the water beyond him. This is a handout image.
President Vladimir Putin used some of his speech during Russia's Navy Day parade to lambast the US for plans to locate weapons in Germany.

Asia's governments think people not having sex or dating may be tanking their birth rates. That's not the full picture.

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Hospital staff attending to new born babies in the nursery ward of the Hospital in Misato city, Saitama prefecture on February 1, 2014.
Cities like Tokyo and Seoul have turned to radical ideas like launching a dating app and giving people money to reverse their vasectomies in order to bolster their declining birth rates.

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Apple just got another iPhone China warning ahead of results

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A customer tries out Huawei Mate 60 smartphone at a Huawei flagship store on September 4, 2023 in Shanghai, China.
The Huawei Mate 60 rivals the latest iPhone.

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China says Taiwanese working in the mainland 'need not worry' after it suggested a death penalty for 'independence die-hards'

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A Taiwanese noodle shop employee works next to a window bearing the Taiwanese flag.
China has said that Taiwanese workers in the mainland "need not worry" after it floated the death penalty and harsh prison sentences for "diehard" supporters of the island's independence.

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Retiring at 50 has long been a guarantee for parts of China's working class — until now

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Photo illustration of retirement.

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Inside the deadly hunt for "blood jade" marred by heroin and violence

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Myanmar's Kachin State is believed to hold up to 90% of the world's most valuable jade. Demand for it is growing in China, where the stone is considered sacred.

The luxury outlook in China just keeps getting worse

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Dior Hong Kong
China's luxury sales are tumbling as wary consumers spend less at home and more in Japan.

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