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Syria: What Has Assad’s Fall Revealed About the Captagon Drug Trade?
BEIRUT (AP) – Since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, industrial-scale manufacturing facilities of Captagon have been uncovered around the country, which experts say helped flourish a $10 billion annual global trade in the highly addictive drug.
China’s New Tactic Against Taiwan: Drills ‘That Dare Not Speak Their Name’
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Beijing has unveiled a new tactic on Taiwan, the democratic island it claims as its own, officials and experts say: Large-scale drills with no fanfare to normalize a heightened military presence and let the U.S. know that China can act whenever it wants.
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