Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called on the world to protect the current international rules-based order from the ambitions of the Chinese regime. On Oct. 26, the prime minister delivered a keynote address at a state lunch co-hosted by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “China has been explicit: it does not see itself as a status-quo power,” Mr. Albanese said. “It seeks a region and a world that is much more accommodating of its values and interests. This is where it is the responsibility of every nation that has benefited from the stability and prosperity of the international rules-based order through the last three-quarters of a century, to work together and protect it.”... Australian PM Calls on Nations to Safeguard Rules-Based Order Amid Beijing Aggression
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called on the world to protect the current international rules-based order from the ambitions of the Chinese regime. On Oct. 26, the prime minister delivered a keynote address at a state lunch co-hosted by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “China has been explicit: it does not see itself as a status-quo power,” Mr. Albanese said. “It seeks a region and a world that is much more accommodating of its values and interests. This is where it is the responsibility of every nation that has benefited from the stability and prosperity of the international rules-based order through the last three-quarters of a century, to work together and protect it.”... 
Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang has died of a sudden heart attack, according to China’s state-run media. Mr. Li, 68, was once the second most powerful political figure in China behind Chinese leader Xi Jinping. He was premier from March 2013 until March this year, when he retired. According to China’s state-run media, Mr. Li was taking a rest in Shanghai in the days before the sudden heart attack on Oct. 26. He passed away 10 minutes past midnight on Oct. 27, local time, after unsuccessful “all-out efforts” to revive him. Mr. Li was a member of a political faction in China known as “tuanpai,” or the Youth League Faction, in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)....
A Chinese video on social media has escalated into a hot topic of debate not only among Chinese netizens but also in South Korea, causing considerable public outrage. Numerous South Korean consumers of a popular Chinese beer have vowed to never purchase it again. On Oct. 19, a video surfaced on various Chinese social media platforms, including Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok) and Weibo, showing an employee scaling a fence to gain unauthorized entry into a malt storage facility at Tsingtao Brewery’s third plant. Once inside, the individual proceeded to urinate in one of its tanks. This video rapidly gained traction, becoming one of the top trending topics on Weibo and earning the name “The Tsingtao Beer Urination Scandal” on various Chinese media outlets....
The Pentagon’s cyberwarfare unit should go on the offense against hostile foreign hacking groups in response to a recent Chinese state-sponsored cyberattack that penetrated top U.S. agencies and stole tens of thousands of emails from officials, according to Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.). “America needs more than just a good defense—It’s far past time to go on offense. We must bring the fight to the front door of hackers who would do us harm, and most critically, state-sponsored hacking groups,” Mr. Schmitt told The Epoch Times. “Without adopting a strategy of forceful deterrence in cyberspace, state-sponsored actors will continue to run rampant with little fear of retaliation. Consistent and repeated shows of force by the United States in cyberspace will demonstrate to our adversaries that we are done with wrist slaps for major cyber provocations.”...