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YANGON, Myanmar — As Myanmar’s staggered national elections drew to a close on Sunday, a process widely dismissed by rights groups as a tightly choreographed exercise to entrench military rule, one major

BEIJING — China’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday that Gen. Zhang Youxia, the country’s highest‑ranking uniformed officer and one of President Xi Jinping’s closest longtime allies, is under investigation for suspected “serious

China’s latest manoeuvre on the international stage has once again underscored the country’s willingness to test the boundaries of global norms. While officials in Beijing frame their actions as pragmatic steps toward

BEIJING — China’s ruling Communist Party has spent the past decade trying to reverse the demographic collapse it once engineered. But its latest move — taxing contraceptives for the first time in

At least two fistfights broke out last week between employees of PDD Holdings Inc., the parent company of Temu, and Chinese regulators conducting checks at the e‑commerce giant’s Shanghai offices, according to