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Beijing is showing it’s willing to go to war over Taiwan, and it’s preparing for the inevitable consequences behind the scenes By Timur Fomenko, political analyst Last week, William Lai was inaugurated president of the self-governing island of Taiwan. Lai, a pro-independence hardliner who advocates formal separation from China, made a provocative speech affirming the wayward…

The United Arab Emirates provided assistance in the swap, according to the Russian Defense Ministry A total of 75 Russian POWs who were “in mortal danger” in Ukrainian captivity have been returned to their homeland as part of the latest prisoner exchange between Moscow and Kiev, the Defense Ministry said in a statement on Telegram…