Beijing has long been irked by Washington’s unofficial relationship with Taipei, and the island often features in high-level diplomatic conversations between the two sides.
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Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
The hiccup capped a series of communications mishaps that irked employees as the troubled retailer rolled out its first major restructuring in nearly a decade.
The two sides, now locked into competitive postures, might also simply grow exasperated with each another and announce new trade restrictions out of the blue.
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Mira Rapp-Hooper,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
Overcrowding and unsanitary conditions were already a problem, and the new inmates only exasperated them, according to court documents.
But those movements further irritated a rib injury that Hendrix first sustained during Wicked night.
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Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
The decision by Aaron Turner, Kuminga’s agent, to go on a media tour in recent weeks while negotiating publicly in hopes of landing a better offer for Kuminga, irritated some with the organization, according to league sources.
David Valadao Valadao, 48, has vexed Democrats for years.
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Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
Even the film‘s core concept of The Synchronizer, a baffling psychic invention from the script that not only vexed audiences but forced unionized crew members to debate whether the thing was a light or a prop.
Accompanied by her young son Israel, Owens went across the street to Lorincz's residence that evening to retrieve a tablet Israel claimed that Lorincz, who'd repeatedly hassled and called the police on the neighborhood children for years, had stolen from him.
—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
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