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Trump says the US owns the Strait of Hormuz and might just keep it. Iran's military calls that a lie and says the waterway remains under complete Iranian control. Between these two irreconcilable claims sits a genuine Oman-brokered negotiation, a global oil market burning through its buffers, and a war with no clear endpoint.
Hui Ka Yan went from Asia's second-richest man to a life sentence in a Shenzhen courtroom, five years after Evergrande's collapse first shook China's economy. The verdict closes one legal chapter, but the deeper structural crisis in Chinese real estate that Evergrande symbolized is far from resolved.