On Jan 31, Biegun said in a speech that the United States is seeking to achieve "a set of concrete deliverables" through working-level negotiations with Pyongyang ahead of the scheduled leaders' summit.
On Friday, Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin won 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society from the Clarke Foundation at the Sidney Harman Hall in Washington DC (local time Thursday evening).
On National Day, an all-out attempt was made to break Hong Kong society and test "Asia's Finest" to its limit. Very well-coordinated sudden eruptions of violence occurred in 13 different locations across the city, from Tuen Mun to Sha Tin to Wan Chai. Fires were started in multiple locations, buildings vandalized and the police force attacked with hitherto unknown savagery. When a police officer was attacked from behind by multiple masked "black-shirt" thugs, another officer tries to save his colleague and in the melee shot one of the protesters in the chest after warning him. It's worth pointing out that a typical US cop would empty his pistol's magazine for much less. It looks like the young "Blackshirt" will live to spend some years behind bars, so the hoped-for a martyr still has not materialized. Some commentators have shouted that this was a case of police brutality and expressed outrage that a live bullet was fired, but they clearly live in la-la land. Physical brutal attacks against police officers will cause a serious, but proportionate reaction anywhere in the world, even in Hong Kong where we are not used to these high levels of violence. Strangely enough, the recent deaths of two student protesters in Indonesia clearly have not attracted attention anywhere near what the international media have accorded our gunshot-wounded young Hong Kong rioter.
On Sunday morning, he was quoted as saying that the descent had gone "as planned and normal performance was observed till the altitude of 2.1 kilometers".
On March 4, the central government signaled resumption of production while expanding domestic demand. Consumption that was halted due to the epidemic should be reinvigorated, and new forms of consumption that emerged during the epidemic prevention and control should be encouraged to boom. This could be a "refill" for consumption of real material goods and services, and the central government's guidance pointed to the direction to take for the next phase of development of China's consumption.
On Saturday morning, the site of the first National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Shanghai was full of visitors eager to catch a glimpse of the first Chinese translation of The Communist Manifesto.
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On Sept 13, Sina Weibo, China's popular social media platform, began to remove a similar emoji of a smoker on its smartphone apps and computers. That was also at the suggestion of the association.
On Saturday, Trump tweeted that the US had been "ripped off by other countries for years on trade".
On Saturday, in the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, reports depicted a violent scene, in which white supremacists - and those demonstrating against them - threw fists, wielded sticks and shields and left each other bruised, bloodied and battered.
On March 19, Li Ganjie, minister of ecology and environment, said the ministry was working on a three-year plan to fight air pollution. He also vowed to significantly reduce the concentration of tiny PM2.5 particles.