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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: regular;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Taiwan’s government in Taipei has had de facto independence since 1949, and Xi’s speech marked 40 years of rapprochement. But China has long maintained its right to take back control over the island. </p><br />
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: regular;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">“We make no promise to abandon the use of force, and retain the option of taking all necessary measures,” Xi <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/ldqjjychczjrmmmdrdzyqrfclkryyfhdqdmhkqnmknkkm_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">said</a>.</p><br />
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: regular;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b>Space:</b> New Horizons, a NASA spacecraft, <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/ldhjjychczjrmmmdrdzyqrfclkryyfhdqdmhkqnmknkkk_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">succeeded</a> in flying past Ultima Thule, an icy object orbiting the sun in the Kuiper belt beyond Neptune, on New Year’s Day. Located some 4 billion miles from Earth, it is the most distant body ever explored. Messages from New Horizons now take more than six hours to reach Earth. The spacecraft was <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/imgmmfqcqgmwyyybwbgfzwtqrhwfftcbzbychzdyhdhhv_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">launched</a> in 2006.</p><br />
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<p> • Somalia <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/xrrrrmqcqgrtdddptpgmstnqyvtmmncpspdcvsbdvbvvs_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">expelled</a> United Nations envoy Nicholas Haysom after he <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/mndnnkvpvwnlccctltwkslzvjqlkkzptstcpqsdcqdqqp_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">raised concerns</a> over the death of protesters at the hands of security forces. </p><br /><br />
<p> • For the second day running, the Democratic Republic of the Congo <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/tmjvvgrprwvklllbkbwgjkdrtzkggdpbjblpzjclzczhw_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">blocked</a> internet and SMS services in an attempt to suppress any post-election violence as the country awaits official results. </p><br /><br />
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<p> • Far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/incmmfqcqgmwyyybwbgfzwtqrhwfftcbzbychzdyhdhvy_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">assumed</a> the presidency of Brazil on Tuesday. In his inaugural address, he promised to crack down on crime and corruption. On Wednesday, he <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/tjwvvgrprwvklllbkbwgjkdrtzkggdpbjblpzjclzczhz_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">issued</a> an executive order making the agriculture ministry responsible for key decisions about lands claimed by indigenous groups.</p><br /><br />
<p> • On the 60th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, Raul Castro, the First Secretary of the country’s ruling Communist Party, <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/rwcggqblbjgpccckpkjqwphbsrpqqhlkwkclrwvcrvrnn_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">denounced</a> U.S. President Donald Trump and the United States for its ongoing embargo on Cuba. </p><br /><br />
<p> • U.S. Strategic Command, which is responsible for nuclear weapons, <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/dspccnwjwgcftttrfrgnsflwbpfnnljrsrtjpsmtpmphr_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">apologized</a> for tweeting: “#TimesSquare tradition rings in the #NewYear by dropping the big ball ... if ever needed, we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger.”</p><br /><br />
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<p> • Protests <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/asdhhwglgbhnmmmynybwsnvgcknwwvlysymlkspmkpkdh_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">broke out</a> in India after two women entered a Hindu temple in the state of Kerala. India’s Supreme Court ruled than women between the ages of 10 and 50 could no longer be banned from visiting the temple, despite tradition.</p><br /><br />
<p> • A law <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/omkwwvnqnfwdtttkdkfvmdcnpzdvvcqkmktqzmltzlzjl_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">came into force</a> in Vietnam allowing the government to require internet providers to remove content it does not like. </p><br /><br />
<p> • China issued lower crude-oil import quotas than it did for the same batch last year, Reuters <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/xsrrrmqcqgrtdddptpgmstnqyvtmmncpspdcvsbdvbvhj_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">reports</a>.</p><br /><br />
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<p> • Rescuers have <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/vmghhtzyzrhnfffknkrtmnqzcvnttqykmkfyvmgfvgvpm_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">discovered</a> 19 bodies in the rubble of a building that collapsed on New Year's Eve in Magnitogorsk, Russia. Twenty-seven people remain missing. </p><br /><br />
<p> • A train accident on a bridge linking two Danish islands <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/vmjhhtzyzrhnfffknkrtmnqzcvnttqykmkfyvmgfvgvpy_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">left</a> six people dead, according to police.</p><br /><br />
<p> • In a New Year's Eve address, French President Emmanuel Macron <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/lzhjjychczjrmmmdrdzyqrfclkryyfhdqdmhkqnmknkdz_vmgfpkkfrnfhkgkpjkjj.html">said</a> he would stick to his employment and pension reform programs, undeterred the widespread yellow-vest protests. </p><br /><br />
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