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By Antoni Slodkowski and Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – What a difference eight months makes: In March, shortly after the U.S. shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon, President Xi Jinping blamed it for challenges faced by China’s economy, complaining of “all-round containment”. Then on Wednesday, U.S. and Xi agreed to open a presidential hotline, …

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By Daewoung Kim and Jimin Jung SEOUL (Reuters) – Half a million South Koreans sat for the annual nationwide college entrance exam on Thursday, the first time in four years that the exam, often considered life-defining in the highly competitive society, has taken place free of pandemic rules. This year, nearly 505,000 high school students, …

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By Michael Martina SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -China is ready to be a partner and friend of the United States, and there is plenty of room for bilateral cooperation, President Xi Jinping told American executives in San Francisco on Wednesday, as Beijing looks to reassure global business and counter his country’s struggles to entice foreign investment. …

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By Francis Tang TOKYO (Reuters) -A man crashed a car into a barricade near the entrance of the Israeli embassy in Tokyo on Thursday, injuring a police officer. Police arrested the 53-year-old at the scene, local media reported. An official at the Israeli embassy said the matter was under police investigation and declined further comment. …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he intended to intensify political and diplomatic efforts to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan, Russia’s TASS news agency reported on Thursday. In late October, Pashinyan said he intended to conclude a peace treaty with Azerbaijan “in the coming months”. His comments came amid efforts to …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason WOODSIDE, California (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he had not changed his view that Chinese President Xi Jinping was effectively a dictator, a comment likely to land with a thud in Beijing after the two leaders held straightforward summit talks. Biden held a solo news conference …

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government slid to a record low, a poll conducted by Jiji news agency showed on Thursday, as Kishida’s tax cut plans to help cushion the blow of rising inflation left voters unimpressed. In the research conducted from Nov. 10-13, 21.3% of those polled said …

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