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Gene Luen Yang explains how Chinese mythology and the superhero genre are similar in his show American Born Chinese. Disney has heavily expanded their output of more diverse storytelling ...

President has made escalations against foreign powers more common amid drive to beef up People’s Liberation Army
A rush of Chinese military activity across the region this month has capped off a year of increased aggression, as President Xi Jinping displays China’s increased military might despite economic struggles and the impact of the zero-Covid policy and its sudden end.
This month the People’s Liberation Army – the Chinese Communist party’s military wing – has broadened its aerial incursions into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (Adiz), come to blows with Indian troops in the Himalayas, run military drills near Japan and participated in major joint exercises with Russia.

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Private hospitals nurses to walk off the job for first time in decades
Staying in NSW, nurses at two major private Sydney hospitals will walk off the job later today.
The Australian market regulator and the cap price that people pay for electricity will make their announcement in February about what bills people will pay for next year. And we expect that the move will feed directly through to that and see downward pressure of up to $243 on electricity bills of what it was previously going to be.
How much of a philosophical jump was it for you as a Liberal, to intervene in the market in this way and cap the prices?
Well, it wasn’t a jump at all to stand by people following the illegal war in Ukraine, which is pushing up electricity bills. The government is there to protect the people – not the other way around.
And that’s exactly what we did. We looked at a range of measures to support people to deal with these high electricity prices. And this is the one that the commonwealth government asked us to do and, obviously, our No 1 priority is standing by the people of New South Wales using our balance sheet to support families and businesses. And that’s exactly what we’re doing.

One of the largest U.S. financial ratings agencies routinely gives lower "risk" ratings to Chinese firms with ties to government-sanctioned human rights abuses than American companies.

A senior TikTok executive was asked some hard questions about China’s human rights record in a recent interview, and his response was quite telling and concerning. On Tuesday, Michael Beckerman, ...

The Pacific Northwest likes to read, and what better way to get book suggestions than to ask around? This month, longtime activist Betty Lau.

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Officially there are relatively low numbers of intensive care cases but ‘anecdotally ICUs are filling up’
China may be struggling to keep a tally of Covid-19 infections as it experiences a big spike in cases, a senior World Health Organization official has said, amid concerns about a lack of data from the country.
Official figures from China have become an unreliable guide after the country of 1.4 billion people this month began dismantling its unpopular zero-Covid lockdown and testing regime.

as hate crimes against Asian Americans spiked in New Jersey and across the U.S., Chinese American teachers joined together to form this group as a resource for school districts and colleges ...

Exporters optimistic as Penny Wong raises trade with her Chinese counterpart but many are also wary of being ‘burned again’ by volatile diplomatic relations
Australia’s lobster industry is cautiously optimistic that China could soon remove trade restrictions, but exporters are wary of being “burned again” by sanctions and volatile diplomatic relations.
Many businesses have been paying close attention to foreign affairs minister this week – the first by an Australian minister in three years – where she discussed “trade blockages” with her counterparts.