• As China Plans Drills Circling Taiwan, U.S. Officials Fear a Squeeze Play

    WASHINGTON — For years the deliberate “strategic ambiguity” in Washington’s China policy has left unclear how the United States would respond to a full-scale, amphibious invasion of Taiwan. But an equally hard question — maybe harder, in the minds of many senior White House and defense officials — is how to respond to a slow…

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  • Ukraine Live Updates: Countries Across Europe Prepare for Winter Energy Squeeze

    A power plant run by CEZ Group in Chorzow, Poland, in February.Credit…Maciek Nabrdalik for The New York Times In eastern France, a dozen villages have been shutting off their streetlights at midnight. Barcelona is offering home efficiency assessments. Warsaw is subsidizing homes that replace fossil-burning stoves with heat pumps. With the war in Ukraine spurring…

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