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As its domestic market shrinks, China’s long-running price war, fuelled by excess production capacity, will only intensify. Foreign carmakers will not be spared https://t.co/l9SqyLuKEL ...

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When Nepal’s Gen Z protests toppled the government, the question on everyone’s lips was: could they govern? On “The Weekend Intelligence” we go to Nepal to find out https://t.co/9XPNXgvXfI ...

For the thousands gathered at the book fair, it suggested Syria’s new rulers are keen—or at least willing—to create intellectual space that did not exist under Bashar al-Assad https://t.co/JbTx4DjlJm ...

For nearly a decade Emmanuel Macron has badgered European leaders with calls for “strategic autonomy”. They have responded with eye-rolling or indifference. Frustratingly for them, he appears to have been correct https://t.co/0J1UEoLYZV ...

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