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By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – China, Taiwan, and the United States all share a common interest in ensuring this week’s California stopover by Taiwan’s president gets the focus each thinks it deserves, but without setting off a new crisis. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is due in Los Angeles on Wednesday …

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UNITED NATIONS/KABUL (Reuters) – The United Nations has told all Afghan staff not to report to work in Afghanistan for 48 hours for security reasons while it seeks additional information from the Taliban authorities about a ban on Afghan women working for the world body, U.N. sources told Reuters on Tuesday. (Reporting by Michelle Nichols …

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By Zahra Matarani JAKARTA (Reuters) – Speaking in Japanese and bowing, 24-year-old Siti Maesaroh offers a tray with a mug and two bowls to a fellow student pretending to be an elderly person, before asking him if he wanted chopsticks and a spoon to eat with. The role play is an example of the type …

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NEW DELHI/BEIJING (Reuters) – India rejected on Tuesday the renaming by China of places in what India regards as its eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims as part of its territory. China and India fought a war along parts of their poorly demarcated 3,800-km (2,360-mile) frontier in 1962 and clashes in mountainous regions …

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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – The U.S. technological edge is eroding, an Australian intelligence chief said on Tuesday, as a Sydney conference was told the AUKUS alliance of Australia, Britain and the United States must collaborate on quantum and hypersonic technology to compete with China. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, chairman of the U.S. …

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By Laurie Chen and Ben Blanchard BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China warned U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday not to “repeat disastrous past mistakes” by meeting Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, saying it would not help regional peace and stability, only unite the Chinese people against a common enemy. The Republican McCarthy, the third-most-senior U.S. leader after …

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