Part of the America Rescue Plan passed by Congress in March, the credit is aimed at helping families pay for essentials as the country’s economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. Half of the credit paid out from July to December sees qualifying parents receive a check worth one-twelfth of the overall payment. The other half of the credit can be claimed as a lump sum on one’s taxes in April 2022....
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Pakistani Foreign Minister Mahmoud Shah Qureshi presided Thursday over the fourth trilateral dialogue between their countries and Afghanistan, a mutual neighbor where conflict has raged between a U.S. and NATO-backed government and the Taliban movement. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin described the forum a day earlier as “an important platform for the three parties to enhance mutual trust and promote cooperation.” This year’s annual meeting, hosted by China, is the first since President Joe Biden announced earlier this year that U....
In a recent state of the union address, Putin reminded Western leaders of the country’s nuclear arsenal and warned the West not to cross a “red line.” Any country that provoked threats to Russia’s fundamental security would “regret their deeds more than they have regretted anything in a long time,” according to Putin. When asked about Putin’s comment, foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said China and Russia will “continue to understand and support each other in safeguarding our respective sovereignty, security and development interests....
Petr Pavel, 61, an independent candidate voted into the top Czech post over the weekend, beat Andrej Babis, 68, the country’s populist former prime minister and a billionaire Euroskeptic. Like most countries in the world, the Czech Republic maintains official relations with China and only informal economic and cultural ties with Taiwan. Pavel’s call with President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday marked an unprecedented departure from decades of diplomatic practice....
If successful, the device could edge scientists closer to achieving the ultimate goal of nuclear fusion: near limitless, cheap clean energy. The device, called HL-2M Tokamak, is part of the nation’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak project, which has been running since 2006. In March, an official from the China National Nuclear Corporation announced it would complete building HL-2M by the end of the year. The coil system was installed in June and since then, work on HL-2M has gone “smoothly,” the Xinhua News Agency reported in November....
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....
A delegation led by Gov. Eric Holcomb landed in Taipei over the weekend as part of what his office has termed an “economic development trip,” making him the latest U.S. official to visit the island since China stepped up its military drills in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s high-profile stopover earlier in August. “The Taiwan question has always been the most important and the most sensitive issue at the heart of China-U....
Trump criticized China again on Tuesday in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He said Beijing was failing to keep the promises it made upon joining the World Trade Organization in 2001, instead engaging in predatory practices that undermined the economies of other nations. The president said China “has embraced an economic model dependent on massive market barriers, heavy state subsidies, currency manipulation, product dumping, forced technology transfers and the theft of intellectual property and also trade secrets on a grand scale....
This summer, Beijing and Washington began publicly airing conflicting viewpoints on the status of the waters, over which the former claims jurisdiction, but which the latter argues grants foreign commercial and military vessels a right to unimpeded use. The legal basis for China’s position revolves around its claim to Taiwan itself, which neither the United States nor Canada officially recognizes. The U.S. sails naval assets through the strait on a near-monthly basis to assert navigational rights....
Major General Chen Daoxiang, commander of the People’s Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison, said on state-run television Tuesday that his troops “firmly support” the draft Hong Kong national security law that is being debated at the third session of the thirteenth National People’s Congress in Beijing. The bill contains provisions designed to bolster the security apparatus of the semi-autonomous city. “This decision will help to curb and punish any attempt to jeopardize the national unity, deter separatists and foreign interference, and show our unwavering resolution of safeguarding the national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Chen said about the bill....
That’s probably because the crowd was chanting, “Long live China!” They had gathered in Tiananmen, as elsewhere across the country, to commemorate the victims of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake that killed at least 55,000 people in Sichuan province, perhaps many more. Yet if their purpose was different, their passion sharply echoed that of the students in 1989. Susan Shirk, author of “China: Fragile Superpower” and a professor at the University of California, San Diego, says the Sichuan quake is “going to be a memorable moment in their lives for many Chinese, like Tiananmen was, like the Cultural Revolution was....
The PLA’s Western Theater Command commissioned a new fleet of Shenyang J-16 strike fighters for its air force, which already has two J-16 combat units, Chinese Communist Party newspaper Global Times reported. The requisition of more multirole J-16 aircraft is understood to be part of a military build-up on China’s border with India, where violent melees in Ladakh along the 2,100-mile Line of Actual Control caused the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese troops this summer....
In May, President Joe Biden ordered a 90-day review of “two likely scenarios” about where the virus came from. One theory is that there was a lab leak in Wuhan, China, where the virus was first identified, at the end of 2019. The other theory is that the virus jumped from animals to humans. Although a joint WHO-China report published earlier this year said that a lab leak was “extremely unlikely” and that the animal-to-human theory was most likely, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in late March that “all hypotheses are on the table and warrant complete and further studies....
Addressing a regular press briefing Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang condemned the recent $2.2 billion sales of M1A2T Abrams Tanks and Stinger man-portable air defense systems to Taiwan. He called on the U.S. “to abide by the one-China principle and the three China-U.S. Joint Communiques”—through which Washington pledged decades ago to forego formal diplomatic contacts with Taipei in favor of Beijing and to decrease military ties. Based on this, Geng said the U....
Their start at the China tour, however, was with a 0-1 loss to hosts China in the inaugural match. The Blue colts still have a lot of positives to take away from the first match as they played really well against the U17 China team. The Indian defense was resolute and maintained their focus throughout the game. The Chinese team were constantly launching attacks from the flanks, but the defenders were up to the challenge....
Radio intercepts sent to Newsweek included at least 17 airborne warnings aimed at People’s Liberation Army (PLA) warplanes. The warnings were broadcast by Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) radio operators between 5:48 a.m. and 10:43 a.m. local time, but the precise number of intruding aircraft was initially unclear. Reached by Newsweek, the office of Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense spokesperson declined to comment on these developments. The department later announced that it had detected 28 Chinese military planes—a single-day record....
Grant Newsham, who was the first Marine liaison officer to the Japan Self-Defense Forces, told Stars and Stripes on Tuesday that the U.S. needed to clarity its intention to fight and even risk nuclear war on behalf of the democratic island claimed by Beijing. “Make it clear to the Chinese leaders that they will lose everything if they start a war over Taiwan,” said Newsham. “The U.S. also needs to take the lead and help Taiwan break out of 40 years of military and diplomatic isolation....
Patrick Mahomes is coming off another shaky performance against the Packers, but made the key throws without key mistakes to push the Chiefs back above .500. Derek Carr and the Raiders turned in a post-bye clunker in losing to the NFC East also-ran Giants. Mahomes and Carr need to be sharp in prime time against two exploitable defenses. Expect offense to be clean, balanced and explosive from both sides. Here’s how Sporting News seems the QB duel playing out:...
According to the City of Concord, on Tuesday, a camper notified a counselor at the Les Myers Summer Camp that a child had said they had a weapon inside their lunch box. This comes as the nation is on high alert after several acts of gun violence over the Fourth of July holiday, including a mass shooting in Illinois, and the shooting of two police officers in Philadelphia, prompting some to say, “America is a horror movie....
Kamiari Month began life as a crowdfunding campaign in 2019. After multiple attempts, the film received its funding and garnered a fairly impressive crew. The film was animated by Liden Films, the studio behind Terra Formars and Tokyo Revengers. In the director’s chair is Takana Shirai, who worked on the Berserk: The Golden Age trilogy among many other projects. RELATED: The Best Anime Movies On Netflix (January 2022) Child of Kamiari Month is the tale of a little girl named Kanna, who was a dedicated runner before the tragic loss of her mother one year ago....
