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The new centre, staffed by Australians, will enable sharing of information and help Pacific island governments regulate important undersea cables
Australia is stepping up its attempts to limit China’s influence in the Pacific, with the establishment of a new “cable connectivity and resilience centre” designed to boost connectivity for Pacific nations.
The foreign Minister, Penny Wong, will announce the centre while in Japan for the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting alongside counterparts from the United States, Japan and India.

Hundreds of protesters marched from Foley Square to Cadman Plaza Park on Sunday to back a Brooklyn councilwoman charged with biting an NYPD deputy chief during a protest this month.

Raids at Ohio factory and 27 other locations come as Chinese business delegation visits US ‘to consolidate economic and trade cooperation’.

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Swift response by Renmin University to student’s post creates shockwave in a country where accusers are often ignored or sued
Public allegations of sexual harassment are rare in China. Swift responses to punish the accused are rarer still. So a recent case at one of China’s top universities, in which a student posted a video online accusing her supervisor of sexually harassing her, leading to his sacking, has created shockwaves.
On 21 July, a woman who identified herself as Wang Di posted an hour-long video on Weibo, in which she accused her PhD supervisor at Renmin University in Beijing, Wang Guiyuan, of physically and verbally abusing her for more than two years. The professor, a former Chinese Communist party representative at the university, threatened to block her graduation prospects, Wang Di said.

Chinese athletes say they compete "clean" despite positive drug tests in 2021 that were kept secret. Diplomatic tensions over the case continue to escalate as U.S. officials push for reform.

Some Asian American leaders are rooting for Kamala Harris to become the first Asian American president. But she is not widely known as Asian American, reflecting the complexity of the identity.

The U.S. secretary of state pressed China’s top foreign policy official on Beijing’s support for Russia’s efforts to rebuild its military industries during the Ukraine war.

Tension palpable as three Chinese swimmers cleared by Wada for doping offences in 2021 compete in the pool
There were cheers and squeals and fluttered flags, sustained and perhaps a little pointed, as Zhang Yufei walked out for the women’s 100m butterfly semi-final at 8.38pm inside the agreeably boisterous La Defénse Arena.
Zhang waved and smiled, always looking straight ahead, then reeled off a 56.15sec race to take second place and book a spot in the final. All Olympic athletes need to find that neutral space, to close out the noise, to create a kind of light around themselves. In Zhang’s case, as with 10 other Chinese swimmers in Paris, this will involve a note of additional defiance at a competition already charged with its own note of wider tension.

Here is what we know about the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s views on issues like migration and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

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Anne Applebaum’s book charts the rise of the world’s strongmen. Has the rules-based international order been defeated?
“There is no liberal world order any more, and the aspiration to create one no longer seems real,” Anne Applebaum writes in her new book, : The Dictators Who Want to Run the World.
In the eyes of many, US failure in Iraq coupled with the great recession discredited rules-based democracy. Parents of privilege shielded their children from war and economic downturn. The rest were not so lucky. The world’s current crop of rising strongmen are not operating on a blank slate.
Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World is by Penguin Random House