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At 100, Henry Kissinger met with China’s top diplomat as well as its defense minister, who last month rejected an invitation to meet with the U.S. defense secretary.

US climate envoy is in Beijing for talks with Chinese officials amid strained Washington-Beijing relations
John Kerry has said the climate crisis is a “universal threat” and must be separated from politics during talks between the US and China.
Kerry, the US climate envoy and former secretary of state, is in Beijing for . It is hoped the talks can help repair relations between the two sides – the world’s two largest economies and carbon emitters – before the Cop28 climate talks in Dubai at the end of the year.

From gas emissions to electric vehicles, here is how the world’s two biggest economies — and polluters — compare on taking steps to confront climate change.

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Minister for education Jason Clare said increasing access to a Commonwealth-supported place at university will cost $34m over the next four years – “That’s a pretty good investment”.
He said on ABC RN this morning:
If you’re a young Indigenous person today, you’re more likely to go to jail than you are to university.
The cost of having somebody in jail every year is about $120,000. The cost of a university place is $11,000.
Tuna sushi.

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Thirteen countries, including the US, Japan and Indonesia, are part of the two-week training exercises, which have logistics as a key focus
The Australian defence force expects that Chinese intelligence will seek to monitor Talisman Sabre, a military training exercise involving 30,000 personnel from 13 countries including the US and Pacific neighbours.
There is precedent for such monitoring attempts. In 2021, the Australian government said it was Tianwangxing as it approached Australia’s east coast in the run-up to Talisman Sabre.

The Chinese government doesn't allow American companies to test autonomous tech, and Congress members think the U.S. should enact a similar ban ...

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met China’s top diplomat in Beijing on Wednesday following a meeting with the country’s US sanctioned defense minister the day before. The meetings with ...

A new report investigates how Chinese state-linked Twitter accounts are broadcasting news to the Latin American audience while obscuring their sources.

Four Chinese people and a real-estate brokerage that serves Chinese clients filed a lawsuit and sought an injunction after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the law (SB 264) in May.

The extreme heat wave choking China has become a talking point for John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, in his meetings with officials in Beijing.