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    As U.S. warships conducted war games off the Korean coast, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waded into other troubled waters this week, declaring at a regional summit in Vietnam that a multilateral resolution of age-old disputes in the South China Sea was in the U.S.'s "national interest." Such a call, though seemingly benign, rankled China, which claims the sea in its entirety and is irked by the U.S.'s continued regional primacy.

    * | What They're Seeking in Kenya: A team of Chinese archaeologists arrived in Kenya on July 26 to begin a three-year mission in search of a nearly 600-year-old shipwreck. The vessel is believed to have been part of the trading armada led by Ming-dynasty admiral Zheng He. According to DNA analysis, a few survivors may have swum to shore and formed a medieval Afro-Chinese community.

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