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Your Thursday Briefing: Turkey’s NATO Block
Good morning. We’re covering Turkey’s move to stall NATO’s expansion, North Korea’s effort to follow China’s pandemic restrictions and China’s…
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World
War and Weather Sent Food Prices Soaring. Now, China’s Harvest Is Uncertain.
PINGGU, China — From village to village, the wheat crops in China have been inconsistent this season. One field on…
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Finance
Russia Could Sell More Energy to Asia, but Has to Slash Prices
BEIJING — Last year, the Grand Aniva, a Russian tanker with four spherical tanks for holding ultracold liquefied natural gas,…
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World
Inside China’s Zero-Covid Fortress, Xi Admits No Doubts
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, waved at crowds of giddily cheering students. He held meetings with Olympic Games officials, economic policymakers…
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Opinion
China and Russia Are Giving Authoritarianism a Bad Name
The last decade looked like a good one for authoritarian regimes and a challenging one for democratic ones. Cybertools, drones,…
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World
New Zealand Deal May Put Japan Closer to ‘Five Eyes’ Intelligence Alliance
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — As China moves to expand its influence in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan and New Zealand have…
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Opinion
Globalization Isn’t Over. It’s Changing.
“Deglobalization” is a word on many people’s lips these days — and understandably so. Russia has been largely cut off…
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World
Why a Chinese Security Deal in the Pacific Could Ripple Through the World
SYDNEY, Australia — When the Solomon Islands’ prime minister stood before Parliament on Wednesday to announce that his government had…
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World
China’s Covid shutdowns go far beyond Shanghai.
All it took was one confirmed Covid case among the 2.4 million residents of Wuhu, a city in the farmland…
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World
China’s Economic Data Hints at Cost of Zero Covid Strategy
BEIJING — Faced with its worst Covid-19 outbreak yet, China has been enforcing an expanding number of mass quarantines, strict…
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