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US Marines deployed across the western Pacific could struggle to sustain their forces, move missile batteries and secure permission to launch operations from allied territory in a conflict with China, according to assessments by Marine Corps officers and independent analysts. Writing separately in the November issue of the US Naval Institute’s Proceedings journal, retired lieutenant general Stephen Sklenka and serving Lieutenant Colonel Merritt Mitchell identified vulnerabilities in the...

The ancient palace would have been considered a crown jewel of its people. Foreigners would have admired it with awe, and locals would have held it in great esteem. Then, 5,000 years ago, the villagers deliberately buried it, and we do not know why. A team of scientists announced several updates in mid-October about their work at Nanzuo, an ancient capital city near Qingyang, Gansu, in northwest China. Most of the updates concerned a central palace that would have been the cultural hub of the...

Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser strikes bullish tone on expansion in China South China Morning Post