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  • Blank 3D illustration brochure or magazine isolated on gray.<br>The cover of 18 April Guardian Weekly

    Advantage China? Plus saving British Steel

  • A person shopping at a wholesale market in Los Angeles where a majority of the products are imported from China.

    China tells US to ‘stop whining’ over tariffs as it reports GDP growth spurt

    China Daily, the Communist party’s English-language mouthpiece, says US ‘has been living beyond its means for decades’
  • Britain's energy secretary Ed Miliband sits at a table with UK and China flags

    China to snub UK energy summit amid row over infrastructure projects

    Exclusive: Absence of world’s biggest clean energy producer will be welcomed by US pushing oil and gas exports

  • Hong Kong halts postal service for US-bound goods over Trump’s ‘bullying’ tariffs

  • China’s Xi aims to ‘screw’ US on south-east Asia tour, says Trump

  • Indonesia dismisses report Russia seeking to base aircraft in country as ‘simply not true’, Australia says

  • Senior Labour figures call for review of Chinese investment in UK infrastructure

  • ‘The sky won’t fall’: China plays down Trump tariff risks as stock markets rally

  • ‘No winners’ in a trade war, says China’s Xi as he heads to Vietnam on charm offensive

  • ‘Invasion’ barges, subsea cable cutters and surprise naval drills: how China is testing Donald Trump

Asia Pacific

  • Ngāti Whātua occupation of Bastion Point in a 1978 photo by Robin Morrison

    New Zealand
    Fifty years on, New Zealand’s tribunal upholding Māori rights faces a turning point

  • National Bank of Tuvalu CEO Siose Penitala Teo tries out the Pacific nation’s first ATM machine

    Tuvalu
    Tuvalu marks ‘momentous occasion’ with unveiling of its first ATMs

  • Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing

    China
    Xi Jinping seeks to strengthen economic ties during tour of south-east Asia

  • Visitors watch a water and light display during a media preview of the 2025 Osaka Expo in Japan last week.

    Japan
    Japan’s World Expo: a positive vision of the future for our divided world?

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South & central Asia

  • A rhino walks down a road with houses on either side

    The age of extinction
    Sauntering on streets and grazing on lawns: what happens when rhinos move into town?

  • Vincent Oliver

    Film
    The Glassworker: Studio Ghibli’s legacy lives in Pakistan’s first hand-drawn feature

  • Guardian documentary - Atomic Secrets, by Zhanana Kurmasheva

    Nuclear waste
    Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future

  • Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan - formerly the Soviet Union's primary nuclear weapons testing site. He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how – more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned – the surrounding community is only beginning to comprehend radiation's lasting deadly effects. Against the backdrop of war in Ukraine and the long shadow of a nuclear conflict across the region, Dmitry debates Kazakhstan's nuclear future with its next generation
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    Nuclear waste
    Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future

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Pictures & video

  • Zelenskyy says two Chinese nationals captured fighting for Russia in Ukraine – video

  • China’s government says it will 'fight to the end' if the US continues to escalate the trade war, after Donald Trump threatened huge additional tariffs
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    China prepared to 'fight to the end' over US tariffs – video

    China’s government says it will 'fight to the end' if the US continues to escalate the trade war, after Donald Trump threatened huge additional tariffs
  • Kanlaon volcano in the Philippines has erupted, sparking health concerns over potential ashfalls on neighbouring villages
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    Philippine volcano erupts, shooting ash cloud kilometres into the sky – video

    Kanlaon volcano in the Philippines has erupted, sparking health concerns over potential ashfalls on neighbouring villages
  • Tariffs are 'a typical act of unilateralism, protectionism, and economic bullying,' says spokesperson Lin Jian
    0:49

    Chinese foreign ministry calls US tariffs 'economic bullying' – video

  • Suspended president removed after impeachment over martial law declaration, with acting leader Han Duck-soo to remain in office until election
    1:25

    Moment South Korean court removed Yoon Suk Yeol from presidency – video

  • A woman has been rescued from an earthquake-shattered building in Myanmar, 91 hours after becoming encased in rubble
    1:32

    'We have to go on': Bangkok pushes on with quake rescue despite 'no signs of life' – video

  • Woman was trapped beneath hotel building for nearly 60 hours after devastating earthquake hit country
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    Woman rescued from collapsed Myanmar hotel days after earthquake – video

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