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China is destroying Arab-style architectural features of mosques, such as domes and minarets. The tightened control on religion has been met with rare resistance.

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‘If it’s not in our national interest to do the deal, then we won’t
Murray Watt says Australia will walk away from the trade deal with the EU if it’s not in the national interest:
We would walk away if we can’t get the kind of agreement that we’re seeking. If we can’t get the kind of market access that we’re seeking. Then it’s not in our interest to do that deal.
Obviously our our strong preference is to have a deal reached to open up that market access for our agricultural producers and all sorts of other Australian goods and services producers. But if it’s not in our national interest to do the deal, then we won’t do it.
I actually spoke to Don Farrell, the trade minister, last night. He’s just finished two days of trade talks in Brussels … negotiations that he’s just undertaken have reached a difficult stage.
We’ve obviously been very clear about our position from the beginning of these negotiations that we really need to see some commercially meaningful expansion of new markets for our producers for this deal to be worth doing …

Dozens of Chinese fighters and bombers entered patrol area, says Taipei, in latest incursion by military
Taiwan activated its defence systems on Thursday after reporting 37 Chinese military aircraft flying into the island’s air defence zone, some of which then flew into the western Pacific, in Beijing’s latest mass air incursion.
China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has over the past three years regularly , though not into Taiwan’s territorial airspace.

How Wang, 35, and an outsize sisterhood of Asian American women got the name Connie provided the impetus for the most artful essay on representation I have ever read. Wang, a journalist born in China ...

Equipment that could be exploited by Chinese intelligence will be taken down, with CCTV brands Hikvision and Dahua among those flagged by MPs
Britain has announced the removal of Chinese-made surveillance equipment from sensitive government sites as part of plans to address concerns they could be used for spying by China.
The government told its departments last year to stop installing in sensitive buildings.

Taiwan detected 37 sorties by Chinese military aircraft into its air defense identification zone Thursday, the island's Defense Ministry said.

Austin Asian American Film Festival's official lineup is here, featuring undercover agents, love and loyalty, pandemic stories and more.

Exclusive: Former PM warned cabinet ministers over China, Pacific and US hegemony in lead-up to his pointed speech at National Press Club
At 10.45am on Wednesday 15 March, an explosive email landed in the inboxes of all of Anthony Albanese’s cabinet ministers.
“Dear cabinet colleagues,” wrote Paul Keating, the Labor luminary turned chief Aukus critic.

As keynote speaker at the second annual gala of the Organization of Chinese Americans’ San Diego chapter, Lee told the story of how she defied the wishes of her parents and became an award-winning ...

Ruling party accessed user data including Sim card ID and IP addresses, former executive alleges in legal filing
A former executive at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has alleged that the Chinese Communist party accessed user data from the social video app belonging to Hong Kong protesters and civil rights activists.
Yintao Yu, a former head of engineering at ByteDance’s US operation, claimed in a legal filing that a committee of Communist party members accessed TikTok data that included the users’ network information, Sim card identifications and IP addresses in a bid to identify the individuals and their locations.

Composer Huang Ruo's "Bound" is based on the true story of a teenage daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, who was jailed for truancy while working two jobs to help support her family.

Sunday’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Festival at Merriweather Park at Symphony Woods will feature cultural exhibits, live performances and food vendors, including Clove and Cardamom, ...