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In a statement on Monday, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said that Canada has declared Toronto-based diplomat Zhao Wei "persona non grata", CNN reported. "I have been clear: we will not tolerate any form of foreign interference in our internal affairs. Diplomats in Canada have been warned that if they engage in this type of behaviour, they will be sent home," she added.

There is not much information about the space vehicle as China's space authorities have not released any pictures or technical data, and experts suspect it could be used to gather intelligence, South China Morning Post reported. The reusable experimental spacecraft was launched with a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan satellite centre in Inner Mongolia in 2020.

Ties between the two militaries stretch back years, with their navies and air forces holding bilateral exercises in each other's territory. Shangfu told Niazi, who was visiting Beijing, that the two countries' military relationship was a key part of bilateral ties, Geo News reported. "The two militaries should expand into new areas of exchanges, create new high points of cooperation to continuously enhance their ability to deal with all sorts of risks and challenges, and jointly maintain the security interests of the two countries and of the region," said Li, according to a statement on China's Ministry of National Defence website.

In the last year, a drive to insulate China's economy from dollar-based sanctions has emerged as possibly the most important incentive for decoupling from the dollar, as China looks to prepare for the possibility of conflict with Taiwan. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, one of the most powerful tools for inflicting economic harm.

The disclosure came as the US and other countries are facing immense cyber threats, particularly from China.To give you a sense of what we're up against, if each one of the FBI's cyber agents and intel analysts focused exclusively on the China threat, Chinese hackers would still outnumber FBI Cyber personnel by at least 50 to 1.

People aged 60 and older were allowed to pray in a local mosque under heavy police surveillance during Eid, Radio Free Asia reported. Since 2017, China has restricted or banned ethnic customs and religious rituals among the mostly Muslim Uyghurs in an effort to stamp out "religious extremism", RFA reported.During this year's Eid, the most important Muslim holiday, authorities in Xinjiang patrolled city streets and searched houses to prevent people from secretly praying inside their homes, sources said, RFA reported.

Chinese President Xi Jinping also appeared to pledge that China would remain neutral in the conflict, saying Beijing "will neither watch the fire from the other side, nor add fuel to the fire, let alone take advantage of the crisis to profit", according to China Central Television.

Trade Minister Reza Fatemi-Amin made the remarks to mediapersons on Tuesday when asked to comment on the agreement reached between Tehran and Riyadh to normalise bilateral relations in March, Xinhua news agency reported. On Sunday, Iran's Roads and Urban Development Minister Mehrdad Bazrpash announced.

"China creeps towards hegemony in Asia, threatens India's borders, and treats other countries as junior partners. The people of India now see China as their greatest military threat, not Pakistan," he said while delivering a speech on foreign policy at Stanford's Hoover Institution.

Dong Yuyu was detained in February 2022 after meeting with a Japanese diplomat who, it was reported at the time, was also taken for interrogation before being released, The Guardian reported. Dong's family members kept his detention a secret in the hope of securing his release, but last month they were told his case was progressing to trial.