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China’s strategic footprint is expanding across the globe. Now, it’s the Eastern Mediterranean region ~ at the maritime crossroads of Africa, Europe, and Asia and an important transit area for goods and people ~ which is in focus. Beijing, say experts, has recognised the region’s geostrategic value and is leveraging the fact that relations between regional countries have been complicated by long-standing rivalries and conflicts to get a foot in the door and more, as it were.

Typhoon Talim makes second landfall in China

Talim, the fourth typhoon of this year, made a second landfall in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Tuesday, after it first landed in the Guangdong province the previous night.