He got caught in China's biggest and longest Covid lockdown. It was supposed to last four days, then another four, then another. Soon, the hotel staff stopped telling him. Conservative MP George Freeman, who earlier pledged his support for Penny Mordaunt, says he will now be voting for Rishi Sunak to be the next prime minister. irannews.ru In 1989 - as the Soviet Union was breaking up - China's hopes for change were crushed by tanks and automatic gunfire. Ukrainian vehicles are repaired at the side of the roads. Personnel carriers and tanks occasionally roar back and forth from the direction of Kherson city. Turkey accuses US of ‘bullying’ Saudi Arabia over OPEC+ oil cuts False flag? Russia says Ukraine plans to detonate a ‘dirty bomb’ It was at this time - during a trade war between China and the EU over textile quotas - that I got a rare invitation to interview the commerce minister. Such interviews with top Chinese officials were excruciatingly dull, but this was the opposite. "I think the party elders must have had a touch of buyer's remorse," Mr McGregor says. Destroyed home in Kherson region