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Subtle swing: South Korea’s center-left opposition Democratic Party won a landslide victory, increasing its number of seats in the 300-seat National Assembly from 156 to 175. Analysts viewed this as a referendum on conservative People Power Party leader Yoon Seok-yeol, who was in the second year of his five-year term, who won 108 seats. The upstart liberal opposition party Rebuild Korea, founded by former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk a month before the election to make former Prosecutor General Yoon a lame duck or even a dead duck, won 12 seats. It was the only other party to gain seats.…

As we discussed with guest Finbar Birmingham in the last episode, the EU and US are stepping up pressure on Chinese-made electric vehicles. In this episode we take a closer look at how China has come to dominate the global electric vehicle market. Chinese electric vehicles account for 60% of global sales and a third of global exports. The leading Chinese brand, BYD, is now consistently trailing Tesla in car sales. How much of a role do subsidies play, compared with other factors like rare earth controls and low labor costs? Is there really an overcapacity problem that suggests the…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made a surprise visit to Beijing on Monday, where Chinese President Xi Jinping called for global efforts to push Russia and Ukraine towards a “ceasefire” and praised Orban’s diplomatic efforts, which have come under sharp criticism from the West for pressuring Kiev to give up territory that Russia seized through brutal force.Ukraine says it cannot agree to any ceasefire as long as Russian forces occupy about a fifth of its territory and missiles and bombs fall on its cities every day. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called for a complete withdrawal of Russian troops, including at…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping called on countries around the world to help. Russia and Ukraine He will resume direct dialogue when he meets Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday, state CCTV reported.Prime Minister Orban made a surprise visit to China. A similar trip last week He visited Russia and Ukraine to discuss prospects for a peaceful resolution to the war that has lasted for more than two years. Hungary assumes rotating presidency This month, the country left the European Union and Prime Minister Orban embarked on a peace mission. It does not have the support…

English cricketing exceptionalism has a long history. Until the 1950s, England paid its Ashes Test players highly, a sign that England did not attach equal importance to all international matches. Until the 1960s, England regularly sent weaker teams when touring countries other than Australia. England’s abysmal record in one-day international cricket from 1992 to 2015 was underpinned by a sense that one-day international cricket was less important than Test cricket, an attitude that was out of sync with the rest of the world.English cricket culture continues to be driven by a tendency to view single-series performance as a barometer –…

TTributes flowed from across the literary world following the death in May of Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro at age 92. Munro is considered the perfectionist of the modern short story, but her many admirers are now grappling with a darker side to her legacy that is only just beginning to come to light.In a heartbreaking essay published Sunday, Munro’s youngest daughter, Andrea Robin Skinner, now 58, said: Toronto Star In a related piece published by the paper, Skinner revealed that she was sexually abused from the age of nine by her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, Munro’s second husband, and…

Cheering broke out in the streets of Paris late on Sunday after the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) was projected to win against the far-right National Rally (RN) in France’s early parliamentary elections. Huge crowds later gathered in the capital’s Republic Square to celebrate their left-wing coalition winning the most seats in parliament, chanting “Young people destroy the National Front”, a popular left-wing slogan. A voter leaves a voting booth at a polling station in Lyon, France, on Sunday, July 7. Laurent Cipriani/AP The NFP is a grouping of several political parties, ranging from the far-left Indomitable France party to…

France’s left-wing coalition won a surprise victory in the second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday, with the newly formed New Popular Front expected to defeat President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition and Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rally National party.The new coalition’s electoral victory came as a shock to many after decades of the French left being marked by deep divisions, but the strong showing of Le Pen’s anti-immigration campaign in the first round of voting provided a catalyst for uniting the country’s diverse left-leaning factions.The New Popular Front was a last-minute alliance formed out of recognized necessity, uniting two moderate-left…

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced a prize fund of Rs 1.25 crore for India’s T20 World Cup winning team, led by captain Rohit Sharma and coach Rahul Dravid. From this hefty prize money, 15 players, including three who did not play a single match – Yashasvi Jaiswal, Yuzvendra Chahal and Sanju Samson – will each receive Rs 5 crore, according to a report in the Indian Express. Dravid, whose tenure as India’s national team coach ended with the T20 World Cup, will also receive Rs 5 crore from the prize money, while reports said…

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said she was concerned about the growth of separate trading blocs.Article informationauthor, Jonathan Josephsrole, BBC News Business Reporter5 hours agoGlobal trade is “not in the best shape at the moment.”This is acknowledged by Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO): “Protectionism is on the rise, some of the WTO rules are being eroded, and some of this is leading to fragmentation,” she told the BBC.”We are concerned about global trade because it is the lifeblood of countries’ resilience and underpins growth.”Those divisions have come to the fore in recent…