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This unusual alignment causes the bodies to start rotating around one another spontaneously -- a dynamic at the heart of these newly discovered rotating crystals.

The move is in alignment with the company’s strategy to sell noncore assets with lower returns, he says.

It’s a familiar pattern from Beijing’s earlier coercion campaigns against Japan, South Korea and Lithuania, each of which backfired, spurring greater resilience and alignment among partners.

Both powers see Russia’s current alignment with China as a national-security threat and would like to pull the two apart.

He reshuffled diplomatic alignments to buy time, giving the U.S. a stronger position by the following decade.