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American fast-food giants are going big on a China wager, betting they can get the country’s new middle class to love them back
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Indian foreign minister Jaishankar says “not closed to business from China”
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Beijing says US discriminating against Chinese biotech
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Sixty countries endorse ‘blueprint’ for AI use in military; China opts out
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