The country’s annual shopping extravaganza dwarfs the US’ Black Friday and Cyber Monday put together The Singles’ Day shopping festival in China has beaten expectations this year, with sales surpassing 1.1 trillion yuan ($154 billion) for the first time ever, according to the consulting company Syntun.

Washington insists that growing military ties with Seoul and Tokyo has nothing to do with Beijing The US is not working to create a “NATO for the Pacific” as a way to target China, the White House has claimed, after President Joe Biden declared a “new era” of security cooperation with South Korea and Japan.

Former president promises “tough” retaliatory measures to Lithuania for Kaliningrad blockade Moscow’s response to the Lithuanian ban on Kaliningrad transit could be tough enough to “cut off oxygen” to the Baltic countries, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has warned.