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By Eduardo Baptista GYEONGJU, South Korea (Reuters) -Taiwan’s representative to the APEC summit, Lin Hsin-i, said on Saturday he and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discussed supply chains and semiconductors during a meeting on the sidelines of the event in South Korea. The island’s exports to the United States, apart from semiconductors, are currently subject …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s military said on Saturday it monitored and tracked a joint patrol organised by the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea on October 30 and October 31. Washington and Manila have beefed up military cooperation, unveiling plans on Friday to form a new joint task force for areas including the South China …

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GYEONGJU, South Korea (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Saturday he hoped to cooperate with Asia-Pacific countries to tackle issues related to artificial intelligence and demographic changes at an annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. The APEC host nation has ambitions to become one of the world’s top-three AI …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Shenzhou-21 space rocket and its crew including the youngest member of its astronaut corps blasted off on Friday atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China, Chinese state media reported. It was the seventh mission to the permanently inhabited Chinese space station since it was completed …

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By Khanh Vu HOI AN (Reuters) -The death toll from the heavy floods in central Vietnam has risen to 13, the government said on Friday, as residents of the flooded Hoi An started clean-up operations as the water levels began to subside. Floods triggered by record levels of rainfall have inundated a large swath of …

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GYEONGJU, South Korea (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Friday the Asia-Pacific region was at a critical inflection point with a rapidly changing global economic order, as he chaired a leaders’ summit in the city of Gyeongju. Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined the annual summit of …

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