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Microsoft asks hundreds of its China-based employees to consider relocating.

Plus Russian work on a weapon that could destroy hundreds of satellites

raises alarm in Washington, and falling birth rates go global.

It's happening across every income group, every education group, every demographic group.

We are looking now a period when the global population will have topped out and started decline.

It's Thursday, May 16th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,

and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving

your world today.

In the latest sign of mounting US-China tensions, we are exclusively reporting that

Microsoft has asked hundreds of its China-based employees working on AI and cloud

computing to consider transferring out of the

country. We report those staff are mostly of Chinese nationality and were

offered the chance to transfer to the US, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

Yoko Kubota is the journal's deputy Beijing Bureau Chief.

It's interesting to take a look at the timing of this move.

And it comes as the Biden administration is seeking to put

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