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Complaint by basketballer Jeremy Lin about the hotel where he was quarantining in China under Covid rules. He was later fined $1,400 by the Chinese Basketball Association for “inappropriate remarks” that violated the league’s disciplinary guidelines, the Wall Street Journal reports. Lin, 34, plays for Guangzhou Loong Lions. He won fame in 2012 for a heroic season with the New York Knicks.

Chinese astronaut Deng Qingming, who finally made it into space as one of three crew on the Shenzhou 15 mission on Tuesday. Qing, 56, has been waiting for a space mission for a quarter of a century and will now spend six months at the Tiangong space station.

Sung Wen-ti, a political scientist at Australia National University, on Xi’s meetings at summits this month with counterparts from the US, Australia, France, Holland, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Sung told CNN that Xi’s meeting with Joe Biden also sent a message to his domestic audience that the “era of ‘G2’ has arrived”.

Comment made by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the G20 summit in Bali. He added that China “unequivocally” posed a “systemic challenge” to British interests and that it was “undoubtedly the biggest state-based threat to our economic security”. A scheduled meeting between Sunak and President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 event was later cancelled.