Feng Shanshan, who became China’s first major golf champion by capturing last year’s LPGA Championship, returns to defend her title at the $2.25 million event starting Thursday. Seventh-ranked Feng and the rest of the world’s top 50 players will take aim at a $337,500 top prize at Locust Hill Country Club, where Feng fired the best round of last year’s event, a five-under 67, on Sunday to win by two shots....
In mid-October, China’s pandemic performance helped justify Xi’s norm-breaking third term as leader of the long-ruling Communist Party. The pageantry took place as an estimated 200 million of China’s 1.4 billion people were in lockdown. As of late November, more than double that number were still living under restrictions, according to economists at Nomura. Collective action is common in China, but rarely is it about the central government. More often than not, isolated groups rally for labor rights, dispute land use or publicly out corrupt local officials....
Some Japanese and Taiwanese media reported that Pelosi, a California Democrat who is No. 3 in the line of presidential succession, planned to visit Taiwan after a trip to Japan this weekend. (On Thursday, a Pelosi spokesman said she has tested positive for the coronavirus.) Pelosi’s office did not confirm any plans for such a trip, which would be the first by a House speaker since 1997. China made it clear on Thursday that it would view such a high-profile visit as a provocation....
In an editorial published Sunday in the Global Times, China condemned Lithuania for opening a representative office for Taiwan on Thursday, and warned that it would take swift actions if other nations do the same. China views self-ruled Taiwan as its own territory under a ‘One China ’ policy and has continuously stepped up pressure for other countries to sever any relations that could threaten its claim. “If the island’s collusion with external forces gets out of control and it greatly adds costs for the Chinese mainland to maintain the one-China principle, then we will naturally make major adjustments to our policy toward the Taiwan Straits, including resorting to military means to resolve the Taiwan question at once,” the Global Times cautioned....
On track to surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest movie box office market, China uses its control regarding which foreign films enter its lucrative market, its investments in and co-production of Hollywood films and its acquisitions of U.S. film distribution and production studio assets to burnish its image and advance its ideological worldview. Movies create convincing narratives that directly impact what people believe. Xi is determined to use film to promote China “as a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development and an upholder of international order....
What worked against a Chargers team prone to late-game collapses likely won’t against Patrick Mahomes, who has never lost in the divisional round. The Chiefs are looking to launch their third run to the Super Bowl in four seasons, one year after their championship hopes came to a crashing halt against Joe Burrow and the Bengals. Trevor Lawrence has made a Burrow-like leap in year two and is hoping to capture some of the same magic here in these playoffs....
That’s what the Kansas City Chiefs are. They won two games last year. They fired their coach for the third time in four years. They got the first pick of last spring’s draft. They hired the very well-known, recognizable Andy Reid, who last month returned to his former home of Philadelphia victorious before a prime-time audience. At 3-0, they were the toasts of the league and had a huge spotlight trained on them....
ETAN PATZ, 6 MAY 1979: New York, N.Y. Disappeared during his morning walk to the schoolbus stop. He was never found. His Legacy: May 25, the day Etan was taken, became National Missing Children’s Day. He was the first child to have his photo on a milk carton. ADAM WALSH, 6 JULY 1981: Hollywood, Fla. Vanished during a trip to the mall. Weeks later, his head was found 120 miles from where he was taken....
Scottsburg City police officer Steven Herald reported that their photographs were “like nothing I had ever seen before.” The children’s mother, who ABC 7 Chicago identified as 26-year-old Shyanne Singh, has been charged with three counts of child neglect for allegedly failing to adequately prevent, manage, or treat the infestation. She was arrested on May 4 and remained in custody as of Friday. The children were admitted to the hospital on April 20 in such poor physical condition that child services contacted local police, according to The News & Observer....
Treatment of childhood obesity depends on several factors, these include: The child’s ageCo-occurring medical conditions (such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, or other obesity-related conditions) Treatment for childhood obesity may involve: Changes in the child’s diet and eating habitsAn increase in the child’s physical activity levelWeight loss surgery or medication (only under specific circumstances)Behavioral counseling What Is Body Mass Index (BMI)? BMI is a primary tool for assessing obesity in children (as well as in adolescents and adults)....
In their second such meeting, the senior diplomats from Afghanistan’s six neighboring countries and Russia gathered virtually and in person for a conference in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Wednesday in an effort to further align their views. They come together at a time when Afghanistan is facing imminent humanitarian, economic and security crises. Representatives were on hand from China, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Among the most concerning developments for these countries has been the rise of militant groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS) that have issued threats beyond Afghanistan’s borders....
According to local government figures, at least 25 people are confirmed to have died and seven remain missing in Zhengzhou, a city with more than 10 million residents in the Henan province, as parts of the country continue to experience record amounts of rainfall since the weekend. A statement by the China Railway Zhengzhou Group said train number K226/7 had been stranded just west of downtown Zhengzhou since 5 p....
Xi is said to have “stressed achieving the targets and missions of strengthening the national defense and armed forces for 2020, while maintaining effective epidemic control on a regular basis,” according to state media. The nation’s Xinhua news agency said Xi made the comments while attending a plenary meeting of the delegation of the People’s Liberation Army and People’s Armed Police Force. Reuters reports that state television detailed how Xi expressed concerns over the “profound impact on national security” of the coronavirus pandemic....
The port city of Tianjin, home to 14 million people, was put on a partial lockdown after 20 children and adults previously tested positive for COVID-19 with at least two confirmed as the Omicron variant. The first two reported cases in the region were the Omicron variant. A 10-year-old girl and a 29-year-old woman tested positive after they were both at an after-school center. Authorities tracked down and tested those who were in close contact with the two and on Saturday night and 18 others tested positive....
Still live on the YouTube-like platform Xigua, under an account run by the Baoji Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the video calls for Beijing to launch nuclear strikes on Japan if Tokyo intervenes in a Chinese invasion of democratic Taiwan. The five-minute clip was created by verified military commentary channel “Liujun Taolue.” The original was posted on Sunday and later deleted after amassing more than 2 million views—but not before it was reposted by the official party account in Baoji, Shaanxi province....
The move comes after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan earlier in August heightened tensions with Beijing, which responded by stepping up military exercises in the strait and the waters surrounding Taiwan. The USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville are conducting a “routine transit” through waters where “high seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law,” the U.S. 7th Fleet said in a statement....
Trump tweeted Monday that the U.S. economy would weather the storm of what he called the “Chinese Virus.” The president and others have come under fire for attributing the sickness to China. The outbreak began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and has since spread worldwide. There have now been more infections and deaths outside of China than inside the country, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University....
The “beautiful” Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has “long been portrayed as the darkest place in the world,” according to the People’s Daily. The report, produced by the paper itself, is entitled “Things to Know About All the Lies on Xinjiang: How Have They Come About?” The paper claims the “lies” about Xinjiang come from anti-China forces in the United States through academic institutions and experts “with no moral scruples.”...
President Xi was seated onstage with other government officials including Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, all of whom went maskless at the commemorative event in Shenzhen in south China’s Guangdong Province. The 67-year-old spoke for 50 minutes, praising what he called the “miraculous” development of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone on the border with Hong Kong. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the hi-tech manufacturing hub’s establishment in 1980....
The U.S. accused four Chinese nationals of working with the Ministry of State Security to steal U.S. trade secrets, technology and disease research. China denied blame for a hack of the Microsoft Exchange email system and complained their entities were victims of damaging U.S. cyberattacks. “The United States ganged up with its allies to make unwarranted accusations against Chinese cybersecurity,” spokesman Zhao Lijian said. “This was made up out of thin air and confused right and wrong....
