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The Niya ruins are located in Minfeng county in the Hotan prefecture, about 115 kilometers north of the modern-day Niya town.

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But one of Trump’s best proposals from the campaign trail deserves more attention: building ten new “Freedom Cities.” As Trump described it, the cities, erected on federal land, would spark ...

I don’t know if DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial-intelligence system, is as smart as people keep saying. If it is, it’s a brilliant satire designed to demonstrate the idiocy of communism ...

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he is in “no rush” to speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping despite expectations they would meet the same day, as trade tensions increase after both ...

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, Feb 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is in no hurry to speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping to try to defuse a new trade war between the world's ...