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A large number of people potentially had access to the Pentagon intelligence documents posted on social media.

The People’s Liberation Army’s ships, planes and troops held three days of drills in a spectacle designed to warn Taiwan against challenging Beijing.

Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were detained after organizing a small seaside gathering of activists to discuss human rights. Their lengthy sentences point to Beijing’s intolerance of dissent.

A con game that undercover police use to obtain confessions in Canada secures convictions, but opponents say it’s a breeding ground for false confessions.

The rebukes came after overseas researchers discovered sequences that had not been previously shared.

Taiwan’s president visited the United States this past week and met with the House speaker, angering Beijing, which had threatened consequences.

The episode stirred anger not only for its shock factor, but also for the wider social problems it exemplified, and the government’s lack of transparency.

The authorities are determining who will take custody of Maria, 13, whose single father has been sentenced for “discrediting” the Russian Army.

The statement was issued after a three-day summit by Xi Jinping and Emmanuel Macron in China.

For Beijing, showing displeasure too openly carries risks, particularly of harming the chances for its preferred party in Taiwan’s coming presidential election.