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Proof: Zheng Yongnian on battling for the upper hand ahead of the next China-US summit

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bdb6e9efaafe3431b51377783b8c98885b46057e2154369eb140b37a07b7df5d

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969913, mined 2026-10-04 22:44 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-04 22:12 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-04 22:13 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-bdb6e9efaafe.json prints bdb6e9efaafe3431b51377783b8c98885b46057e2154369eb140b37a07b7df5d. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-bdb6e9efaafe.json and headline-bdb6e9efaafe.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-bdb6e9efaafe.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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