The newly-crowned world champion has stirred the hopes of the country anew with her spectacular performance in Basel. No wonder the expectations are sky-high from the Indian contingent as they head to China to play in the third and last BWF Super 1000 event of the calendar in Changzhou. The spotlight is once again on the women’s half of the tournament with both PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal leading the charge....
China’s plans for a military response, as well as its placing of the Chinese military on high alert, was reported by Reuters, which cited the country’s defense ministry. It was not immediately clear what the operations would entail. Any statements or announcements on the plans did not appear to be publicly available on the website of China’s defense ministry by Tuesday afternoon. When Newsweek reached out to the ministry for comment using an email address listed on its website, the message would not be delivered....
New data procured by the Australian-U.S. cyber security firm Internet 2.0 found that there was a buy-up of polymerase chain reaction testing equipment (PCR) by nearly 50 percent throughout 2019. PCR tests are widely used to determine if an individual is infected with COVID-19 as it allows scientists to amplify DNA samples to check for disease or other genetic material. According to the new findings, in 2019, there were 135 contracts containing PCR equipment issued by Wuhan laboratories, up from 89 in 2018 and 72 in 2017....
On Wednesday, Turkish health minister Fahrettin Koca said his country had ordered 50 million doses of the CoronaVac vaccine produced by China’s Sinovac Biotech pharmaceutical company, with the first shipment set to arrive on December 11, according to a statement. Turkish labs will assess the safety of the vaccine and initial results from Phase III clinical trials, with an emergency use authorization possible soon, he said. “If developments continue positively as we expect, Turkey would be among the first countries in the world to begin vaccinations in the early phase,” Koca said....
Life has been unusually tense in the past few months for officials like Hu and their underlings. On Oct. 15, more than 2,000 select Chinese Communist Party cadres will gather for a pivotal meeting at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. Participants’ careers could soar or stall, depending on political currents far outside their control. Although president and party leader Hu Jintao (no relation to the Youth League chief) and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao are slated to keep their jobs until they retire in 2012, the No....
The move comes as a report from Reuters indicated Washington is preparing to impose fresh sanctions on Beijing over its interference with democracy in Hong Kong. Citing four anonymous sources, the Financial Times reported on Friday that Washington had stopped plans for the diplomat to travel to Tianjin after China refused to agree to a meeting with her counterpart, Le Yucheng. China, instead, offered a meeting with Xie Feng, the number five foreign ministry official who is responsible for U....
The warrior god Guan Yu was commemorated as a 190-foot tall monument, in Jingzhou, Hubei Province, in 2016, but work is underway to remove the statue piece by piece. Currently the bronze effigy, weighing around 1,200 tons, is headless, as the relocation process began earlier this month. It’s being transferred to a new site, Dianjiangtai, some five miles away, where Guan Yu is said to have drilled his troops....
While a cold medicine may be labeled “for kids,” that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s safe for every kid. In addition, just because a child has a cold doesn’t mean they need cold medicine. This article explains when cold medicines for kids are helpful and what their limitations are. It also outlines the active ingredients used in different formulations, including their possible side effects and risks. When to Give Kids Cold Medicine Colds need to “run their course,” and children’s cold and cough medicines don’t make the process go any faster....
Biden’s remarks were made during an interview with Norah O’Donnell of CBS Evening News, which aired the segment in full on Sunday. Beijing’s retort came soon after in the form of an unsigned op-ed published by the Chinese Communist Party’s nationalistic tabloid Global Times. The president told O’Donnell his administration would take a different approach to former President Donald Trump, on whose presidency Beijing has blamed the historic downturn in bilateral ties....
Seven Russian warships were spotted moving southward off the coast of Japan’s northmost island, Hokkaido, on Thursday and Friday, according to the Japan Times, passing by the uninhabited Izu Islands. Japan’s Joint Staff confirmed that the foreign vessels were monitored by ships and aircraft from the Maritime Self-Defense Force. Prior to Thursday, Russian warships had not been spotted near Japanese waters since October. At that time, a total of 10 vessels from Russia and China were spotted making their way around the country, raising alarms about the foreign countries operating near Japan....
During a daily press conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said, “As the culprit and the leading instigator of the Ukraine crisis, the US has led NATO in pursuing five rounds of eastward expansions in the next two decades or so since 1999.” “NATO’s membership has increased from 16 to 30 countries and the organization moved over 1000 kilometers eastward to somewhere near Russia’s borders, pushing the latter to the wall,” Zhao added....
Speaking at a daily press conference on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said his country “always oppose and condemn acts of gun violence, and express our sympathies to the injured and their families.” And while he also confirmed that the Chinese consulate in New York has received no reports of Chinese nationals being among up to 23 people injured when a perpetrator was said to have detonated a smoke bomb and opened fire on the R train during the Tuesday morning rush hour of the most populous borough of the largest city in the nation, he urged “Chinese citizens in the U....
No EU member state has formal relations with the island, but MEPs (members of European Parliament) have been vocal in their support for the East Asian democracy. Late on Wednesday they adopted a report that compels the bloc to forge closer economic and diplomatic relations with Taipei within its own “one China” policy, under which Brussels will not recognize Taiwan’s statehood. The People’s Republic of China claims Taiwan is one of its provinces, despite having never governed it since the PRC’s founding in 1949....
Boxing was banned in China under Mao Zedong because it was deemed too Western and too violent. But if top promoter Bob Arum gets his way — and he usually does — the country will be the future of the sport. “For any serious business person… it’s a country of 1.4 billion people and it’s a country that’s emerging economically to be a real super power,” said Arum, founder and chief executive of Las Vegas-based Top Rank promotions....
The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan’s “independence” on Monday as the last U.S. personnel flew out of Kabul to meet the August 31 deadline. It marked a frenzied end to two decades of U.S. and NATO intervention in the country, made worse by an ISIS-K terror attack that killed nearly 170 Afghan citizens and 13 U.S. service members. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the U.S. Embassy in Kabul would suspended all operations on Tuesday local time, with services being relocated to Doha, Qatar....
“We’ve seen an alarming increase in the number of unsafe aerial intercepts and confrontations at sea by PLA aircraft and vessels,” Austin said at the Shangri-La Dialogue defense summit in Singapore. During the summit, he took aim at China for its tension with Taiwan and for its “coercive and aggressive” approach towards its territorial claims in the South China Sea. ‘Dangerous intercepts’ “In February, a PLA Navy ship directed a laser at an Australian P-8 maritime patrol aircraft, seriously endangering everyone onboard....
The government eased restrictions in 2015 to allow couples to have two children when many were previously permitted only one. In the 1960s, Chinese mothers were having more than six children on average, and the number fell to under three in 1980, according to the World Bank. “When you have a kid, you take pregnancy leave, but will you still have this position after you take the leave? Relative to men, when it comes to work, women have to sacrifice more,” He Yiwei, who is returning to China after receiving a master’s degree in America, told the Associated Press....
Family is the bedrock of Chinese society, at least in theory. But three decades of gut-wrenching change are testing those old bonds. More kids than ever are leaving their hometowns—even the country—in search of jobs. This generation is the first to grow up under the one-child policy, rolled out in 1979. They are “more likely to be spoiled and self-centered,” says demographics expert Cai Feng. “As adults, children of this generation lack the inclination to support their parents....
Here in China, animals do fall victim to bad pet food—and a lot worse. Such as pets as food, which animal lovers apparently discovered earlier this year at a market in Tianjin. Many cats sold in the Hebei District pet market are bought by entrepreneurs who ship them to the southern province of Guangdong, where the felines wind up as restaurant fare. (Guangdong residents are notorious for eating “anything with four legs, except for the kitchen table,” as a proverb goes....
At a signing ceremony here on Thursday, both FIBA and Wanda announced that their long term partnership will start with immediate effect and cover all FIBA-sanctioned activities including the men’s and women’s World Cups, Continental Cups as well as the Youth World Championships, reports Xinhua. “This strategic partnership is of significant importance to us,” said FIBA secretary general Patrick Baumann, also a member of the International Olympic Committee. “It is another tangible result of FIBA’s ambitions to accelerate the growth by unlocking the true potential of national team basketball, bringing the game to a new level globally and tapping into emerging markets in Asia, US and Africa....
