US-China relations have grown tense with regular clashes over trade, security, human rights and China’s Hong Kong policies. Now, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is warning of Chinese meddling in Hong Kong’s upcoming Legislative Council elections. And, since 2002, a treaty allows Canada to turn back asylum-seekers who come to its border checkpoints and hand them to US officials, where they face detention. But a Canadian judge ruled on Tuesday that the treaty is unconstitutional. Plus, the British boy band One Direction are celebrating 10 years since their founding.
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