Chile were already two goals up at half time but the second half was delayed as an electrical storm powered towards Soldier Field and drenched the stadium with rain. The teams came back to a waterlogged pitch and Colombia, who had a man sent off early in the second period, could not reduce the deficit. “We played well but Chile are a very strong side,” Colombian midfielder Juan Cuadrado said after the final whistle....
The Chinese Super League recently witnessed two high-profile additions as Argentine striker Carlos Tevez joined Shanghai Shenhua and Brazilian midfielder Oscar joined Shanghai SIPG for huge salaries. Media reports have suggested that Shanghai Shenhua paid 84 million euros ($89.66 million) for Tevez, who returned to Argentina last year after spells in England and Italy. Oscar joined local rivals Shanghai SIPG from Chelsea in a deal believed to be worth 60 million euros ($64....
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Thursday the report from The New York Times was “fake news” and a “very despicable” attempt to shift blame and divert attention from the conflict, the Associated Press reported. The Times’ story on Wednesday cited a Western intelligence report by credible officials that said senior Chinese officials asked Russia to hold off its invasion of Ukraine until after the Beijing games. The request was believed to have been made around the time President Vladimir Putin was in China for the Olympics opening ceremony....
The Chinese Foreign Ministry dismissed the allegations that Russia had asked China for drones and financial assistance to assist with its invasion in a statement to state-run news service China Global Television Network (CGTN). The claims were first reported in The Financial Times and The Washington Post, as well as other news outlets such as CNN. In a tweet, CGTN said: “The U.S. is spreading disinformation about China on the Ukraine Crisis, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in response to U....
In separate op-eds on Sunday and Monday, the newspaper accused Britain of wanting to “revive its past glory” and warned the country against sailing warships into “Chinese territory.” HMS Queen Elizabeth is on its maiden voyage to the Indo-Pacific while escorted by half a dozen warships and a nuclear submarine. The lengthy deployment is seen as a signal of the United Kingdom’s “tilt” and commitment to collective security in the region—part of its “Global Britain” foreign policy shift....
Did it work? A family surnamed Ding has lived in Da Kengkou ever since the spell was cast–and to this day, with just a few exceptions, 24 generations of Dings have had only one surviving male descendant each. The Hus and the Dings get along just fine. “I’ve never thought of leaving this town,” confesses the current patriarch, a retired postal worker named Ding Guanghui. His son, also a postal worker, seems content to stay put as well....
It wasn’t to be for China’s veteran figure skater duo Tong Jian and Pang Qing, who made their competitive swansong on Wednesday evening in the free program of the pairs competition. They started in 4th place after their short program, and that’s where they finished, despite a free program that was third best overall. Consolation prize for retiring? They now have time to get married. Russia finished 1-2, matching China’s finish from four years ago, and the Germans were third....
In the 27th leaders’ meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Xi said that he “will favorably consider joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership,” also known as the CPTPP, a trade agreement involving Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, according to a transcript shared by the state-run Xinhua News Agency. The accord is widely seen as the successor to the dozen-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an earlier proposed trade deal drafted in 2015, signed in 2016 but never entered into force with Trump’s withdrawal soon after entering office the following year....
Protests in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the COVID-19 pandemic and accusations China’s engaged in a genocide against the Uighur Muslims are sowing deeper divisions in an already strained relationship between China and the United States. With Beijing one of America’s top concerns, President Joe Biden has sought to strike a stern tone, while China sees much of America’s actions and comments to be an encroachment on its sovereignty. The increasingly confrontational rhetoric and military maneuvers coming out of the two countries have raised concerns about a potential war....
The charges were made against Chievo president Luca Campedelli and several of his directors for deliberately inflating figures in relation to transfer dealings with Cesena. Campedelli has been handed a three-month ban, although the FIGC prosecutor had requested a three-year suspension and 15-point deduction for Chievo. The penalty means the Flying Donkeys sit on minus-two points in Serie A, having taken one from their opening three games this season....
The only team in the top 5 leagues of Europe yet to hit double digits in points this season, Chievo are prime candidates for relegation considering the form they are in at the moment. They have won just 1 of their 22 matches in the Serie A, managing just 9 points in total. However, with just 9 points separating Chievo from safety, Domenico Di Carlo’s men can retain hope that a good run of results could propel them up the table....
Coco the Chihuahua was brought to South Jersey Regional Animal Shelter on February 18 after a local dog walker discovered her during a walk. The dog was found moving around and creating noise in fastened bags on the ground along railway tracks in Vineland, New Jersey. According to the shelter, the man’s own dog reacted to the moving bag, raising the alarm bell. “We are sickened by a blatant act of animal cruelty that occurred to a sweet and innocent little Chihuhua,” wrote the shelter in a social media post....
The South Americans suffered a 2-1 defeat against the Olympic Games-bound Copper Queens after strikes from Barbara Banda and Racheal Nachula helped the Africans to a comeback win last Thursday. The pre-Olympic preparation match in Santiago was in doubt from the moment Chilean health officials declared their decision regarding the Zambian travelling party. Four Zambia players tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday, after performing the antigen tests before cases were retested and again came out positive....
When Russian forces began bombarding Ukrainian territory on February 24, China’s Foreign Ministry bridled at suggestions that there already had been non-military casualties in the conflict. Its tone softened on Tuesday, after the Ukrainian government counted at least 352 civilian deaths, among them 14 children. “The current situation in Ukraine is a result of many complex historical and realistic factors. China regrets the casualties. The current situation is not what we wanted to see,” ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters at a daily press conference....
Indian media reports on Monday suggested that as many as 20 Chinese troops had been injured in hand-to-hand fighting on January 20, which would be the most significant resurgence in tensions between the two since dozens of troops died in fighting along the border north of India’s Ladakh region in June. China’s Global Times newspaper—a fiercely nationalistic publication run by the Chinese Communist Party—said on Monday the reports were “fake news,” citing an unnamed source....
Li Zhanshu, who is the No. 3 in China’s leadership, visited Moscow last week and pledged his country’s “understanding and full support” during a meeting on September 9 with senior Russian figures. They included Vyacheslav Volodin, chair of the Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament. Li, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, told the Russian lawmakers: “On the Ukraine issue, for example, the United States and NATO are expanding directly on Russia’s doorstep, threatening Russia’s national security and the lives of Russian citizens....
The Global Times newspaper—owned by the People’s Daily, which is the official publication of the Chinese Communist Party—said Monday that the series of coastal drills “is seen as a direct and strong response to the recent negative moves by Taiwan secessionists and the U.S.” China considers the democratic island nation of Taiwan a wayward province and has vowed to bring its 23 million people under Beijing’s control per its “One China” policy....
That, in essence, is where China is now. Until about 1500, China led the world in the sophistication of its culture, economy and society. Since then the Europeans–more recently, the American branch of that many-limbed family–have done so. But the United States is in gradual, if inevitable, decline from the position it had in 1945, when it accounted for fully half of the world’s economic output. And China is in far-from-gradual advance....
Even if the Chinese government did alter the results, it was unable to fully cover up China’s alarming demographic situation. According to the census results, the country’s total population in 2020 was 1.41 billion—a 5.4 percent increase over 2010, with an average annual increase of 0.53 percent, 0.04 percentage points lower than the average of the previous decade. According to the 2020 National Name Report released by the Ministry of Public Security, there were 10....
The article, released on Friday by the Chinese government’s official press agency Xinhua, dismissed any suggestion that the SARS-CoV-2 virus leaked from a Chinese lab, and said the theory had been “concocted by anti-China forces for political purposes.” The new COVID report was published by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) on June 9. The group was convened by the WHO last year to recommend further areas of study into the origins of COVID—and future pandemics—after previous investigations proved inconclusive....
