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China underwent scrutiny of its human rights record at a key U.N. meeting on Tuesday, with Western countries calling for more protections for Xinjiang Uyghurs and greater freedom in Hong Kong while Beijing said it had made historic progress. The review at the U.N. in Geneva is the first since the global body's top rights official released a report in 2022 saying the detention of Uyghurs and other Muslims in China's Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity.

Kyiv will be asked to change its strategy and consider a scenario of ending the war through negotiations. But there is another approach.

This year, the financial press made a hobby out of forecasting low growth in China. The country had set itself a growth target for 2023 of around 5 per cent, and many commentators said that due to problems in the housing market and low consumption it would not be met.

Some Western countries, even those that support confiscating the assets, have expressed concerns over the wider implications of the seizure.

Western countries are preparing for a possible hybrid attack on NATO's eastern flank, said to Pavlo Klimkin, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, in an interview with Radio NV on Jan. 16.