Manufacturing utilisation near a decade low, retail growth at a three-year trough, and Beijing answers with 'anti-involution', not a consumer bailout
Xi (China)
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Median-line crossings and joint air-sea patrols continue day after day while the opposition legislature keeps blocking Lai Ching-te's special defence bill
Doval and Wang Yi note 'gradual normalisation' and an 'early harvest' sectoral track even as the MEA calls CPEC infrastructure in the China-held Shaksgam Valley 'illegal and invalid'
21-gun salute for Min Aung Hlaing, a 'shared future' joint statement, RMB–kyat settlement and Kyaukpyu, Beijing legitimises a ballot that barred the opposition
Beijing pulls Kim back into orbit after Russia's courtship, 'good neighbour, good friend, good comrade', and silence on the bomb