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You Might Like � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Cuba says 'human trafficking network' is sending its nationals to fight for Russia in Ukraine | CNN - CNN    Cuba says it has uncovered a human trafficking network operating from Russia that is recruiting Cubans to fight for their longstanding ally in Moscow's war in Ukraine. Cubans living in Russia and "even some in Cuba" had been trafficked and "incorporated into the military forces taking part in the war in Ukraine," the Cuban foreign ministry said Monday in a statement. The ministry gave few details about the alleged trafficking operations, but said that authorities were working to "neutralize and dismantle" the network. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Analysis: Xi reprimanded by elders at Beidaihe over direction of nation - Nikkei Asia    There are signs of turmoil in Chinese domestic politics. On Monday, it was announced that President Xi Jinping will not attend an upcoming summit of the Group of 20 major economies in India. Premier Li Qiang will take his place. This will be the first time that Xi has skipped a G20 summit, to which he has consistently attached importance as China's top leader. A precursor seems to have been this summer's Beidaihe meeting, the annual get-together of incumbent and retired leaders of the Chinese Communist Party at the seaside resort of Beidaihe, Hebei Province. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Huawei was driven out of China by European rivals, contrary to Desmond Shum's Congressional testimony -     In a Twitter video paid-promoted by the Voice of America that has been watched more than 1.1 million times, Desmond Shum told the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the U.S. Congress on July 13 In 1997, working for an American private equity firm, I invested in AsiaInfo. AsiaInfo was laying telecom cable network to help build China’s internet. It was subsequently the first NASDAQ-listed China technology company. That was when I first heard of Huawei. Huawei started its meteoric rise because state-owned telecom companies were ordered by the Chinese government to buy from local manufacturers, in exclusion of international telecom equipment providers, despite cost and technology deficiencies. Asiainfo went public on Nasdaq in March 2000, so Shum was looking back at events over two decades ago. The video received thousands of likes, retweets, and comments, with zero dispute - despite his description of the circumstances involving Huawei was demonstrably false. Continued here

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