the headlines: new evidence has shown extensive foreign project funding by china, much of it in the form of expensive loans concealed in government balance sheets, and much of the money supports the belt and road initiative, the attempt to build new trading routes around the globe. top generals in the us have told a senate committee examining the chaotic exit from afghanistan, they advised the president trump and biden that at least 2500 troops should stay in afghanistan, contrasting with earlier statements from president biden that he received no such advice. survivors of he isle mist military tax in paris in 2015 have been given the first opportunity in court, more of them a 300 accounts of the attacks outside the bataclan