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Man is known to have had unescorted access to large parts of the Westminster estate
MPs have reacted with alarm after it emerged that a parliamentary researcher with links to senior Conservatives and potential access to sensitive information had been arrested over allegations of spying for China.
The man, who is in his 20s and was arrested in March along with another person, is known to have held a parliamentary pass, allowing him unescorted access to large parts of the Westminster estate.

Kim Jong-un is reportedly planning to visit Vladimir Putin to discuss arms sales. The consequences could be widely felt
North Korea is adept at grabbing attention through both rhetoric and weaponry. On Friday it that it had launched its first “tactical nuclear attack submarine”, though the South Korean military said it did not appear to be operational. The most important development of recent days, however, is the that Kim Jong-un will soon visit Russia, to discuss weapons sales with Vladimir Putin. Moscow has also with China. An old but never easy three-way relationship is picking up again.
Mr Kim’s grandfather rose to power ; China’s close but fraught relationship with its neighbour is longstanding. Yet from 2006, Moscow and Beijing were sufficiently concerned about Pyongyang’s weapons programme to support a series of UN security council sanctions, even as their differences with the west on other matters mushroomed. Last year, however, they to tighten sanctions.

US president’s remarks came after after meeting in Vietnam with Communist party official to secure global supply chain
’s national security tour of south-east Asia reached Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday, where the president called for stability in the US-China relationship against an increasingly complex diplomatic picture in the region for his country.
“I don’t want to contain China,” Biden said. “I just want to make sure that we have a relationship with China that is on the up and up, squared away, everybody knows what it’s all about.”

Exclusive: Sino-Australian relations expert had phone confiscated and was asked to provide information during ‘heavy-handed’ and ‘counterproductive’ episode
A Chinese academic visiting Australia on a research trip had his accommodation raided by Asio and the Australian federal police, and was offered $2,000 in cash by a man purporting to be from “the federal government” for information on his networks and contacts in China.
The academic, an associate professor at a major Chinese research university, is an expert on Sino-Australian relations and was visiting Australia between July and August. His surveillance comes as Australia seeks to restore its relations with China, with a confirmed prime ministerial visit to Beijing later this year.

Joe Biden’s need to nurture alliances to contain China sees Ukraine perceptibly slipping down list of priorities
It took exhausted Indian diplomats 200 hours of non-stop negotiations, 300 bilateral meetings and 15 drafts, but in the end the G20 countries reached a consensus declaration on the war in Ukraine – one that largely retreated into generalised principles rather than the specific condemnation of Russia that the same group of leaders agreed when they met in Bali a year ago.
Moreover, no invitation was extended to Ukrainie’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to address the gathering, meaning the only direct combatant around the table was Russia, represented by its foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.

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The prime minister said he raised 'strong concerns' over alleged Chinese interference in the UK's parliament in a meeting with the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, following the arrest of two men in connection with g.

Speaking from Delhi, where he was attending a G20 summit, Sunak said: 'I raised a range of different concerns that we have an areas of disagreement and in particular my very strong concerns about any interference in our parliamentary democracy, which is obviously unacceptable'

PM expresses concerns over Chinese interference in UK parliament after two men arrested under Official Secrets Act
Rishi Sunak has challenged the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, over Chinese interference in the UK parliament, after two men were arrested amid allegations that a parliamentary researcher had spied for Beijing.
The prime minister met Li on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Delhi in an unplanned meeting hours after the Sunday Times revealed the researcher, who is understood to have had links to senior Conservative MPs, had been arrested along with another man.

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State Sens. Maria Collett and Nikil Saval introduced a bill to include Asian American and Pacific Islander curricula in Pennsylvania schools.