🇨🇳🇺🇸 As US President Joe Biden is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the upcoming APEC Leaders' Summit in San Francisco next week, it remains to be seen what will come out of it.

While China seems to be expecting some “serious good faith efforts” from the US at this point, the United States instead seems determined to dish out “nice words” and play the “good cop, bad cop” game, says scholar and journalist KJ Noh.

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📹 Russian artillerymen hit the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with Msta-B howitzers in the Zaporozhye area

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🇩🇪 Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition agrees to double military aid to Ukraine in 2024 to 8 billion euros, Bloomberg reports

Should the bill be approved by parliament where Scholz’s coalition has a majority, the boost will be higher than the goal of 2% of GDP set by NATO members.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli forces kill more than 60 members of Lebanese Hezbollah movement since beginning of hostilities in Gaza Strip, IDF says

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 The IDF has dismantled more than 150 underground tunnels and complexes in the Gaza Strip used by the Palestinian movement Hamas, spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said.

Such underground structure is a "backbone" of Hamas’ combat capabilities, as the movement uses it to hide and come out unexpectedly, he added.

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🌾 Ukraine may face new economic conflicts with EU countries that defend the interests of national producers, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak says

He adds that such conflicts are “normal” for EU countries and Kiev will have to learn to resolve them during the negotiation process.

Polish-Ukrainian relations have deteriorated significantly in recent months over an influx of Ukrainian grain into the European Union. Poland, alongside Slovakia and Hungary, unilaterally extended a ban on duty-free Ukrainian grain imports after EU-imposed curbs lapsed on September 15.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Latest updates on the Palestine-Israel conflict:

▪️Over 850 trucks with humanitarian aid have entered Gaza Strip, the IDF said

▪️The IDF killed about 20 senior Hamas members

▪️About 150 underground tunnels used by the Palestinian Hamas movement was destroyed, the IDF claims

▪️The WHO has lost communication with Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza amid ‘horrifying reports’ of the hospital facing repeated attacks

▪️The IDF killed more than 60 members of Lebanese Hezbollah movement since the beginning of hostilities in the Gaza Strip

▪️Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would not continue to build Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian drone operators eliminate Ukrainian forces in concealed positions in the Zaporozhye area

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian forces wipe out group of Ukrainian servicemen in Klescheyevka area

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🇨🇳🇺🇸🇮🇷 Joe Biden reportedly to urge Xi Jinping to exert influence on Iran

During his forthcoming one-on-one with the Chinese President, Joe Biden “will underscore [the US] desire for China to make clear in its burgeoning relationship with Iran that it is essential that Iran not seek to escalate or spread violence in the Middle East,” a senior US administration official told Politico.

Biden is also reportedly to convey a warning that any “provocative actions” on the part of Tehran will be met with an immediate US response. The relationship between China and Iran will be an inherent part of the agenda of “tough conversations” between Biden and Xi on the sidelines of the APEC Summit on 15 November.

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian forces hit Ukrainian tank with anti-tank guided missile in Kupyansk area

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Scott Ritter: It’s high time for the US to discard Zelensky and end the Ukraine-Russia conflict

According to the former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, “Zelensky lost the war.” Current developments on the front lines demonstrate Kiev’s utter impotence to tip the scales in the conflict. Plus, Ukraine’s top General Valery Zaluzhny recently admitted that Ukraine’s counteroffensive has failed spectacularly, and the conflict has reached the level of a “stalemate,” with “no deep and beautiful breakthrough.”

Furthermore, "there is a growing reluctance in the US Congress to continue providing billions of dollars in support of a losing cause. Europe is likewise exhausted," Ritter said. Given the volatility in the Middle East, the Palestine-Israel conflict is a convenient excuse for the US to turn away from Ukraine.

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