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The Trump administration says its reviewing a deal to sell nuclear-powered submarines to Australia over concerns that the U.S. is not producing enough of its own.

After Beijing and Washington reached a truce in their trade war in May, a video of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party co-leader Alice Weidel surfaced in Chinese social media posts falsely claiming she said China was the only country that could force the United States to "sit down and negotiate".

China has leverage it can use by limiting access to its rare earth supplies, but it does not want to sacrifice its reputation as a reliable supplier.

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three times the size of the U.S. system.