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News producer for @AJEnglish. Former APAC editor VICE World News and Editor-in-Chief @sea_globe. Taiwan via Thailand and Cambodia.

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‘Spy turtles’ and ‘spy fish’ being used to monitor Chinese waters, Beijing claims

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By Alastair McCready
| Yahoo News UK Verified
China's ministry of state security has claimed that foreign espionage and intelligence agencies are using innovative new methods to monitor the country's waters, including deploying "spy" animals fitted with sensors.
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Greener pasture of a shepherd’s life lures Chinese workers penned in by ‘996’ jobs

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By Alastair McCready
| Inkl
Featuring a video of sheep frolicking in green pastures, the simple advert drew a huge response on social media when it was posted, garnering around 59m views on Weibo. Photograph: Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images A Chinese farm owner’s recruitment drive for shepherds has ended in success after his job advert seeking people to work on his Inner Mongolia ranch went viral, drawing the attention of city dwellers struggling to find work and highlighting growing strains in China’s labour market.
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‘Makes no sense’: experts doubt pause in US arms sale to Taiwan is due to Iran war

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By Alastair McCready, Yu-Chen Li
| Yahoo News UK Verified
The Trump administration’s war against Iran should have no impact on arms sales to Taiwan, experts have said, after a US official suggested a pause in the delivery of a key weapons package was due to the Gulf conflict. Analysts told the Guardian that a $14bn arms package left in limbo after Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping could take up to six years to process, and there was a “low likelihood” of any true connection between events in Iran and weapons delivery to Taiwan.
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