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Symptoms of childhood dementia may include confusion, loss of memory, or the inability to communicate. The symptoms are progressive, meaning they get worse over time. Symptoms may progress quickly or slowly depending on the cause. This article will provide an overview of childhood dementia, including its symptoms, causes, and treatment options. Types of Childhood Dementia Childhood dementia is usually related to neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL), a group of rare, fatal genetic conditions....

After a downturn in bilateral relations with China during the presidency of Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s administration now finds itself in an intense, full-spectrum rivalry that includes everything from political governance and trade to technological decoupling and military hard power. Last month, Beijing signaled its willingness to meet what U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken termed “competition” between the two countries. But at a 4-and-a-half-hour meeting in Luxembourg on Monday, senior Communist Party official Yang Jiechi told U....

U.S. President Joe Biden is expected this week to announce the partial boycott, which wouldn’t bar athletes from competing but would prevent U.S. dignitaries from attending the games. The U.S. and other nations have long followed a tradition of sending top delegations to every Olympics. First lady Jill Biden, for example, attended the Tokyo Olympics with a group of dignitaries this past summer. Then-President George W. Bush traveled to see the opening of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, AP reported....

On Sunday, health officials in California confirmed three additional cases of the virus, bringing the total cases in the U.S. up to 11. In the two weeks since the virus was first identified in America, U.S. officials evacuated citizens from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak, issued the highest level of travel advisory and imposed restrictions on inbound flights from China. On Monday, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters America’s actions have “unceasingly manufactured and spread panic,” according to Reuters....

The People’s Daily, the CCP’s official publication, published a Monday piece which accused U.S. politicians of “fabricating lies and pushing rumors” to mislead the American public about Chinese human rights violations. The state-controlled outlet said the U.S. government is utilizing the “twisted logic of a robber acting like a cop” as Washington lawmakers try to hide COVID-19 deaths and millions of civilian casualties caused by the U.S. military abroad. Last week, China’s United Nations envoy penned a note which urged member countries not to attend this week’s planned event on China’s repression of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang....

The 15-year-old’s name began trending on Weibo, China’s main social media platform, after Russian newspaper RBC indicated that she had tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine before the 2022 Games. The metabolic agent, which is used to treat angina, is prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for its potential endurance-enhancing effects on athletes. The International Olympic Committee has refused to comment on the speculation surrounding the teenager who won gold in the figure skating team event on Monday, sparking further questions....

But neither declared a preference for President Donald Trump or his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden. COVID-19 marked the beginning of a tumultuous year, and U.S. foreign policy was not spared the resulting chaos. Perhaps no other country had its relations with the U.S. shaken as much as did China. Amid disagreements over the spread and handling of the pandemic and an intractable trade war, the Trump administration applied resolute pressure on the People’s Republic, calling on the international community as a whole to rethink its relationship with Beijing....

The National Health Commission (NHC) said all of the new confirmed infections were imported cases, with 11 in the Sichuan province. A further three cases were confirmed in Inner Mongolia, while two more were recorded in Guangdong province. However, the Chinese mainland recorded no new cases of suspected infections or COVID-19 related deaths as of Sunday midnight, according to the country’s health department. “Three patients were released from hospital after being cured,” the NHC said in an update published Monday morning....

Of the latest new infections, 22 were reported in the Chinese capital of Beijing, where a new cluster of cases has been linked to the Xinfadi wholesale food market. The sprawling food complex is over 20 times larger than the seafood market in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the outbreak was first reported late last year. Figures from the recent outbreak of new cases in Beijing, the capital’s first in several months, have surpassed the peak numbers seen in early February, Reuters reported....

The most visible and, for U.S. defense planners, most troubling evidence of China’s military advance comes in the form of hypersonic missiles, commonly known as “carrier killers.” Beijing claims the weapons can hit surface vessels like aircraft carriers, and though that hasn’t been proved, Pentagon planners worry. Hypersonics are much faster than cruise missiles and fly at different trajectories than ballistic missiles. They glide. That makes current U.S. missile defense systems, aimed at identifying and knocking down ballistic missiles during their parabolic flight paths, useless....

As reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was considering traveling to the disputed island next month stirred an uptick in tensions between Beijing and Washington, Xi “highlighted that the historical ins and outs of the Taiwan question are crystal clear, and so are the fact and status quo that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same China,” according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s readout of his call with Biden....

In separate editorials on Monday, Xinhua and Communist Party newspaper China Daily were highly critical of the United States and Taiwan, which they suggested accused of using humanitarian assistance as a pretext to provoke the Chinese government. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Chris Coons (D-DE) landed at Taipei’s Songshan Airport in a military transport plane early Sunday and announced the Biden administration’s intention to donate 750,000 U....

The foreign ministers of the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand issued their statement Sunday condemning China for disqualifying a raft of pro-democracy candidates for the Legislative Council elections in Hong Kong and for postponing the poll. Authorities said the election was postponed for a year over coronavirus concerns, but critics have argued that Beijing is using the pandemic as an excuse to suppress the region’s pro-democracy movement, prominent members of which may now face long prison terms under Hong Kong’s new controversial national security law....

Hu Xijn tweeted his disdain at the piece written by Capt. Walker D. Mills, from the U.S. Marine Corps in the latest edition of Military Review. In the piece, Mills says that the regional balance of power in East Asia is shifting away from the United States and Taiwan and towards mainland China. In his view, this meant that the U.S. needed to consider basing ground forces on the island “if it is committed to defending Taiwanese sovereignty....

Javaid Rehman said Monday that an additional 250 people or more were executed in 2020, including at least four child offenders, the Associated Press reported. While speaking to the U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee, Rehman said that Iran continues to leverage the death penalty “at an alarming rate,” adding that “the absence of official statistics and lack of transparency around executions means that this practice escapes scrutiny resulting in serious abuses preventing accountability....

The hospital has been the targeted after the publication of an article “based on the incorrect statement” that doctors at the hospital perform hysterectomies on minors, Boston Children’s said in a statement posted on Twitter. The hospital said the age of consent for the gender-affirming procedure is 18. “Boston Children’s does not—and will not—perform a hysterectomy as part of gender-affirming care on a patient under the age of 18,” the hospital’s statement said....

Moscow has repeatedly rejected the notion that it is planning to attack its neighbor, and Beijing has joined in cautioning against hyped-up potential war scenarios. “Disseminating disinformation and creating an air of tension is not conducive to resolving the Ukraine issue,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters Thursday. “Clamoring for bloc confrontation and wielding the big stick of sanctions will only impede dialogue and negotiation.” As diplomacy continues to play out, albeit with little signs of progress so far, Wang said Washington should do more to take Moscow’s concerns seriously....

When in May 1994 Lee, en route to Central America, landed at Honolulu for refueling, the Clinton administration, out of deference to Beijing’s sensibilities, ordered him restricted to the airport. But in November 1994 the U.S. elections elevated Republican supporters of Taiwan to positions of power in Congress. By then American and Taiwanese money had been gathered to endow a professorship in Lee’s honor at Cornell, where in 1968 he earned a Ph....

Moscow and Beijing’s history lends itself to complex ties between two geopolitical powerhouses that have both worked with and against one another in the modern era. Today, they find themselves at the dawn of what many analysts are calling a multipolar world in which Washington feels its post-Cold War dominance is threatened, and that may just be the case, but only if working together remained in its two top challengers’ best interests....