WEEK IN REVIEW: China Has Announced Plans to Build a Giant Solar Power Space Station

**CHINESE MAINLAND, HONG KONG, MACAU AND TAIWAN OUT** A Long March-8 Y3 carrier rocket carrying the relay satellite Queqiao 2 blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang City, southernmost China's Hainan Province, 20 March, 2024. (Photo by Jiang Qiming / cnsphoto / Imaginechina via AFP)

U.S. President Joe Biden will have a trilateral telephone call with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. on Monday morning. The trio are widely expected to discuss closer cooperation in responding to Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE)

China appears to be taking actions to restrict Apple’s move to shift some of its iPhone production to India. Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest contractors, reports that Chinese authorities have prevented key personnel from leaving the country and halted equipment shipments to new factories in India. (REST OF WORLD)

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