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Instead of Russian and Chinese naval vessels in Havana Harbor, we could have cruise ships there with thousands of visiting American tourists.

The American Heart Association issued a statement regarding cardiovascular disease risk in Asian American adult patients.

Beijing will go to any lengths to harass the Hong Kong diaspora and its allies. But we will keep speaking out
We are from two different backgrounds and political traditions – you’d think we might have little in common. Yet China has sought to silence us both, and we have seen at first hand how the state is trying to exert more and more power abroad.
Finn Lau woke up in London on Tuesday morning to the news that he had received an arrest warrant, and that the Beijing-controlled Hong Kong authorities were for any information that could lead to his arrest. Seven other Hongkongers who fight for democracy around the world simultaneously received similar warrants and bounties.
Finn Lau is a political activist from Hong Kong. Tim Loughton is MP for the Conservative MP for East Worthing and Shoreham
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Warner Bros says map is ‘child-like’ after Vietnam accused film-makers of depicting China’s nine-dash line in South China Sea
Warner Bros has described a map that appears in its coming Barbie movie as a “child-like crayon drawing” with no intended meaning, after after claiming the map depicted the disputed South China Sea.
The Barbie movie provoked controversy in both Vietnam and the Philippines over its inclusion of the map that apparently features China’s “nine-dash line”. The line marks China’s claim to much of the South China Sea – a demarcation opposed by Vietnam and other south-east Asian countries and which was repudiated by an international tribunal in The Hague in 2016.

Arrests comes days after Hong Kong issued warrants for eight overseas-based dissidents
Hong Kong police have arrested a fifth person accused of supporting overseas activists who allegedly endangered national security, in a further expansion of a government crackdown on pro-democracy dissidents.
Police detained a 24-year-old man at the city’s airport on Thursday, a day after four other people were arrested for allegedly using companies, social media and mobile applications to receive funds for the overseas activists.

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A yearlong freeze in climate talks appears to be ending as the United States and China, the world’s biggest polluters, resume discussions.

A Chinese nationalist pundit known for his inflammatory criticism of the United States has attracted ridicule online after he was shown attending a party celebrating Independence Day at the US embassy ...

Several new voting laws in mostly Republican-led states impose criminal penalties or fines for helping people register to vote ...

For a century, the League of Women Voters in Florida formed bonds with marginalized residents by helping them register to vote — and, in recent years, those efforts have extended to the growing Asian American and Asian immigrant communities.