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The leaders of Russia and China have achieved absolute power over their countries, and are now bonding over their shared ambition to topple the US.

"We wanted them chasing ghosts," said a former official, who told Reuters that the campaign was meant to stir up the Chinese leadership's paranoia.

Taiwan has worked with China 17 times to save 119 people in the strait over the last three years, Taiwan's coast guard chief said.

China has curbed short selling and quant trading activities to support its flailing stock markets, but the moves could dampen investor appetite.

China now faces multiple challenges including a property crisis, deflationary pressure, a demographic crisis, and trade tensions with the West.

China's raft of financial and economic troubles appears to have spooked investors and businesses into pivoting to India instead.

China replaced its top markets regulator late on Wednesday following news Xi was to meet with the agency amid a deep market rout.

"I want to get along with China. I think it's great. But they've really taken advantage of our country," Trump told Fox News.

China says it doesn't interfere in the politics of other countries, but US intelligence recently found that Beijing sought to influence the 2022 midterms.

Xi Jinping's is purging Chinese officers who seem either unwilling or too corrupt to effectively fight a war, analysts told Business Insider.

China has recently been trying to bank on nostalgia from a friendly trip Xi made in 1985 to Iowa, where an American family hosted him in their home.

The Taiwanese government says that China began the investigation to pressure the boyband into supporting Chinese rule over the island nation.