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The home team, who cannot qualify for the World Cup, could have been out of sight well before half-time but Clarke's team somehow weathered the storm and found their feet.

They identified the feature as the Jinlin crater, a bowl-shaped structure positioned on a hillside and protected within a thick layer of weathered granite.

It had weathered a bad stretch for its industry, in the late 1990s, during which several of its competitors collapsed.

The UK's biggest lender compared its employees' spending habits to the wider public to show if they weathered the cost-of-living crisis better.

But having weathered that storm, this year has seen the new U.S. administration put a longstanding military alliance in question and erect high barriers to trans-Atlantic trade.