No country in the world has the right to act as a judge on the Taiwan issue and Beijing will not tolerate any foreign interference, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand
Author: Associated Press
Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral
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