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This aerial photo shows workers harvesting tea leaves at a tea garden in Xihu District, Hangzhou, east China s Zhejiang Province, March 28, 2023. Recently, workers are busy in harvesting and processing tea leaves ahead of the Qingming Festival to produce the Mingqian (literally "pre-Qingming") tea, which are made of the very first tea sprouts in spring and considered to be of high quality. ....
By Ryan Martinson A Chinese fishing vessel appears in a sensitive location near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, a South China Sea reef, or just offshore from a U.S. military base. Is it an “ordinary” fishing boat, or is it maritime militia? This straightforward question seldom yields straightforward answers. China does not publish a roster of maritime militia boats. That would undermine the militia’s key advantages secrecy and deniability. Nor is it common for Chinese sources to recognize the militia affiliations of individual boats. Analysts can gather clues and make a case that a vessel is ....