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Bamboo viper surprise on my walk home. Think it was dead, but I didn’t get close enough to find out

WSJ: Panama is paying a price for its involvement in the great superpower competition between China’s government and the Trump administration. Chinese authorities have detained nearly 500 Panamanian-flagged ships for safety reasons in Chinese ports since January www.wsj.com/business/log...

Panama Infuriated China. Now It’s Paying the Price.Beijing is pressuring the Central American country with measures that have disrupted its vital shipping industry, thwarting its ambitions to become a global logistics hub.www.wsj.com

Iran International: A newspaper close to Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran's chief negotiator with Washington, is asking whether China quietly neutralized Tehran's most feared economic weapon: the oil shock through the Strait of Hormuz that never came www.iranintl.com/en/202607297...

Greenfield Book Store, one of the independent Hong Kong outlets targeted in a police raid earlier this month, says it will close when its lease expires after 50 years in operation www.facebook.com/greenfieldbo...

Wartime disruptions at two shipping chokepoints in the Middle East are sending shock waves through global markets. China has still found a way to get oil from the region www.wsj.com/world/china/...

One Megabuyer—China—Finds a Way to Get Mideast OilBeijing’s longtime position as both a financial lifeline to Iran and a customer for its foes has helped it work around blockades.www.wsj.com

During his short speech at the German Bundestag, Zhang Yabo began to choke back tears, Li Yuan writes. Zhang had served for nine years as a police officer in Xinjiang, enforcing China’s campaign to surveil, detain and indoctrinate that region’s Uyghur population. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...

He Served China’s Police State of Xinjiang. He Says It Imprisoned Him, Too.After nearly 10 years carrying out Chinese government repression in Xinjiang, a former police officer is now seeking asylum in Germany.www.nytimes.com

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Tokyo lodged a formal complaint with Beijing on Tuesday over a live-fire drill carried out by a Chinese warship in waters near Japan’s southernmost atoll, the latest point of contention in the tense relationship between the two countries. www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

Chinese Destroyer’s Live-Fire Drill Draws Protest by JapanTokyo lodged a formal complaint with Beijing, the latest point of contention in the tense relationship between the two countries.www.wsj.com

"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending" www.dimsumdaily.hk/retired-resi...

Retired resident in Singapore reports dozens monthly for littering and parking offencesA 68-year-old retiree in Tampines has drawn mixed reactions after spending years documenting and reporting littering and parking violations in his housing estate, with some residents praising his vigi...www.dimsumdaily.hk

NYT: The Trump administration sought the phone records of several Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter’s mother — in its effort to unmask confidential sources who provided information about security capabilities of Trump’s new Air Force One www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...

Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their RelativesThe government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.www.nytimes.com

The expulsion of even more American reporters from China seems inevitable once the US implements these new restrictions on foreign journalists, particularly those from China www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump administration drastically cuts length of foreign journalist visasVisas will be shortened to 240 days, down from five years, and Chinese journalists will be limited to 90 dayswww.theguardian.com

The ICE officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told The AP apnews.com/article/ice-...

AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records sayThe Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...apnews.com

WSJ: Speaking FRIDAY at an AI conference, Chinese leader Xi cast China as a champion of openness and equality, implicitly criticizing U.S. moves to protect its lead in AI semiconductors and models www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chin...

China’s Xi Touts Open-Source AI and Takes a Swipe at U.S. DominanceBeijing leader woos developing countries as superpowers jockey for technology lead.www.wsj.com

NYT: Voter data is in many cases freely available to download on the internet, and in other cases can be purchased. Possessing such data could reveal insights about American voters, but would not allow votes to be manipulated www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...

Trump Released Documents on China and the 2020 Election. Here’s What We Know.President Trump claimed that China had tried to acquire American voter data. Possessing such information would not allow votes to be manipulated.www.nytimes.com

President Trump gave an extraordinary prime-time address alleging the U.S. election system had been compromised, attempting to sow doubts about his 2020 loss, raise skepticism about the coming midterms and pressure lawmakers into passing sweeping voter-ID legislation www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Trump Ramps Up Effort to Sow Doubt About 2020 ElectionThe president’s extraordinary prime-time address comes ahead of the November midterm elections, with Republicans at risk of losing their majorities in Congress.www.wsj.com

Since Beijing began tightening its grip on Hong Kong, the authorities have targeted publishers and bookshops as part of its effort to stamp out dissent. This week police raided two more independent bookstores for what authorities branded as seditious books 🎁 link: www.wsj.com/world/china/...

China Wields Security Laws to Cow Hong Kong’s Once-Free Literary SceneHong Kong once published books on topics such as the Tiananmen crackdown. But new arrests show Beijing intends to bring the city’s booksellers and publishers to heel.www.wsj.com

FT: Ukraine will be allowed to spend funds from an EU loan on Chinese drone components, exposing Europe’s reliance on Beijing for critical parts as it struggles to build its own defense industry www.ft.com/content/f6cf...

Xi appears to understand Soviet heavy-handedness toward China as the “younger brother” helped fracture an earlier alliance. For now, Xi is careful to treat Putin with respect in public even as he seeks to extract concessions in private By Lingling Wei and Thomas Grove www.wsj.com/world/x-puti...

Putin Was Xi’s Role Model. Now He’s the Junior Partner.Four years of war and economic isolation have reduced the Russian president to a supplicant in a relationship growing more imbalanced.www.wsj.com

Fascinating The Insider/Le Monde/Der Spiegel investigation with documents revealing Sino-Russian military cooperation on plans to take out Starlink, missile defense systems and drone training theins.press/en/inv/294635

Shooting Starlink: The “no limits” partnership between Russia and China is taking aim at Elon MuskSecret documents from a series of clandestine Russian-Chinese military forums reveal a joint plan to defeat Elon Musk’s Starlink and a weapons development…theins.press