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Dangerous Chinese harassment of a disabled Australian frigate—injuring sailors—may end up sinking Anthony Albanese, Australia’s pro-China Prime Minster.

The PBS short docuseries Spice Road may have whet your appetite. Now learn more about how perceptions about South Asian food are changing in America, and try some tasty bonus recipes, too.

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For the first time in years, a Chinese leader desperately needed a few things from the United States.

America’s corporate chieftains were thrilled to see China’s President Xi Jinping at Wednesday’s gala dinner in San Francisco. So thrilled that they gave him a standing ovation, according to Reuters.

Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled late Wednesday that China will send new pandas to the United States, calling them “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.” ...

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‘A ceasefire is where we need to get to,’ Zoe Daniel says
Asked by RN Breakfast host Patricia Karvelas if she supports calls for a ceasefire, Zoe Daniel says:
If you call for a ceasefire, you’re letting down the Jewish community, if you don’t you’re allowing death and destruction to happen in Gaza.
At the end of the day, if I say to you right now, yes, I support ceasefire, that will make zero difference to what is happening in in Gaza.
I’m a former foreign correspondent. I know the logistics of this, of course, a ceasefire is where we need to get to, but you have a terrorist organisation in the middle of this. If there’s just a ceasefire, and there’s no capacity there to try to dismantle Hamas, does that allow Hamas to regroup? What does that actually lead to? That said, I’ve said to you before, very clearly, and I still stick to the position that the Israeli government has to adhere to international law and the rules of war, and I think, in some ways, has not been.

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Man on trial for alleged foreign interference was trying to combat anti-Chinese attitudes with $37,450 hospital cheque, not influence Alan Tudge, court told
A businessman accused of using a hospital donation to gain political influence was trying to raise the money for healthcare workers and to combat anti-Chinese sentiment during the Covid-19 outbreak, his lawyer claims.
Di Sanh Duong, 68, faced the second day of a jury trial in on Friday over allegations he used a $37,450 donation, fundraised from members of the Chinese community, to gain influence with a federal minister.

At least 38 injured in the blaze at Yongju coal mine company in Lyuliang City, north China’s Shanxi province.
A fire that erupted in the office of a coal company in northern China has killed 26 people, state media said on Thursday, the latest in a series of deadly accidents in the coal industry.
At least 38 people were injured in the blaze, which broke out at the four-storey Yongju Coal Industry Joint Building in the country’s top coal-producing hub of Shanxi. Calls to the company by the Reuters news agency were not answered.

The fire, at a coal company’s offices in the province of Shanxi, also left at least 38 people hospitalized, the state-run news media reported. The cause was not immediately clear.