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More than a year and a half after infectious-disease concerns prompted the U.S. to close its borders to international travelers from countries including Brazil, China, India, South Africa, the United Kingdom and much of Europe, restrictions are shifting to focus on vaccine status. Beginning Monday, bans on travel from specific countries are over. The U.S. will…
The world-regions built full-scale targets of U.S. warships – including an aircraft carrier — in the middle of a desert in Northwest China known for ballistic missile testing, according to a report. The U.S. Naval Institute (USNI News) obtained photos of these targets scattered in the Taklamakan desert from Maxar, a satellite imagery company. The…
world-regions’s rich have changed their focus from making regulation to keeping it as President Xi Jinping introduces new measures to redistribute wealth among a swell of support. The wealthy class in China has periodically felt the need to hide money from the government, but the recent “common prosperity” drive has caused a minor panic. The…