This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareChinese authorities have been trying for three years to reverse the devastating imbalances of their one-child policy and coax couples to have more children.They’ve told couples that it’s their patriotic duty to have two babies. They’ve dangled tax breaks and housing subsidies. They’ve offered to make education cheaper and parental leave longer. They’ve tried to make it more difficult to get an abortion or a divorce.None of this has worked. China’s and men greatly outnumber women, creating a demographic crisis that could...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareChinese authorities have been trying for three years to reverse the devastating imbalances of their one-child policy and coax couples to have more children.They’ve told couples that it’s their patriotic duty to have two babies. They’ve dangled tax breaks and housing subsidies. They’ve offered to make education cheaper and parental leave longer. They’ve tried to make it more difficult to get an abortion or a divorce.None of this has worked. China’s and men greatly outnumber women, creating a demographic crisis that could...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareHigh up in the western Himalayas, where China and India meet, soldiers pelted each other with stones and brandished iron rods and sticks at each other at Pangong Lake earlier this month. Dozens were injured, Indian media outlets reported.There was a similar faceoff in Sikkim, more than 1,000 miles away, a few days later in a patch of border in the eastern part of the Himalayas that had not previously been a flash point.What prompted the clashes at 14,000 feet — ­where parts of the border are disputed, and it is common for...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareHigh up in the western Himalayas, where China and India meet, soldiers pelted each other with stones and brandished iron rods and sticks at each other at Pangong Lake earlier this month. Dozens were injured, Indian media outlets reported.There was a similar faceoff in Sikkim, more than 1,000 miles away, a few days later in a patch of border in the eastern part of the Himalayas that had not previously been a flash point.What prompted the clashes at 14,000 feet — ­where parts of the border are disputed, and it is common for...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareChinese officials appeared to shrug off President Trump’s latest slaps against Beijing and struck back with their own rhetorical punch Saturday: highlighting the growing street clashes triggered by the police custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.Trump on Friday ordered the United States to begin the process of revoking Hong Kong’s special status under U.S. law in response to Beijing’s plans to exert greater controls over the territory.Trump also vowed to bar an unspecified number of Chinese nationals from entering...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareChinese officials appeared to shrug off President Trump’s latest slaps against Beijing and struck back with their own rhetorical punch Saturday: highlighting the growing street clashes triggered by the police custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.Trump on Friday ordered the United States to begin the process of revoking Hong Kong’s special status under U.S. law in response to Beijing’s plans to exert greater controls over the territory.Trump also vowed to bar an unspecified number of Chinese nationals from entering...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareBEIJING — China on Friday ordered the United States to shut its in response to the American closure of China’s equivalent branch in Houston, another escalation in the dispute between the world’s two largest economies.While analysts in China called the retaliation measured, they said there was no end in sight to a conflict that spans trade and technology, and religion, students and scientists, human rights and the .“Even though the relationship is worsening, we have not yet reached the worst point,” said Cheng Xiaohe, a...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareBEIJING — China on Friday ordered the United States to shut its in response to the American closure of China’s equivalent branch in Houston, another escalation in the dispute between the world’s two largest economies.While analysts in China called the retaliation measured, they said there was no end in sight to a conflict that spans trade and technology, and religion, students and scientists, human rights and the .“Even though the relationship is worsening, we have not yet reached the worst point,” said Cheng Xiaohe, a...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareFor nearly a decade, a team of scientists from Wuhan, China, crisscrossed southern Asia in a high-stakes search for bats and the strange diseases they harbor. They crawled through caves, catching the razor-toothed mammals with nets and scooping up liters of their excrement. They trapped insects and mice living near bat roosts and collected blood from villagers who hunt bats for food or folk medicine.They returned to their state-of-the-art laboratory in central China with tubes and vials containing known killers —...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareFor nearly a decade, a team of scientists from Wuhan, China, crisscrossed southern Asia in a high-stakes search for bats and the strange diseases they harbor. They crawled through caves, catching the razor-toothed mammals with nets and scooping up liters of their excrement. They trapped insects and mice living near bat roosts and collected blood from villagers who hunt bats for food or folk medicine.They returned to their state-of-the-art laboratory in central China with tubes and vials containing known killers —...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTwitter has suspended more than 23,000 accounts it says were linked to the Chinese Communist Party and covertly spreading ­propaganda to undermine and counter criticism of Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak that grew to a global pandemic.Although China’s efforts remain relatively unsophisticated, especially compared with Russia’s in 2016, it is noteworthy, analysts say, that Beijing is seeking stealthily to seed its propaganda and disinformation on Western social media platforms.nal threats to its political...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTwitter has suspended more than 23,000 accounts it says were linked to the Chinese Communist Party and covertly spreading ­propaganda to undermine and counter criticism of Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak that grew to a global pandemic.Although China’s efforts remain relatively unsophisticated, especially compared with Russia’s in 2016, it is noteworthy, analysts say, that Beijing is seeking stealthily to seed its propaganda and disinformation on Western social media platforms.nal threats to its political...WW…

Gift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Please NoteThe Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. It was a day of cancellations and closures as the coronavirus spread to more states in the United States, as the number of cases passed 1,600.Disneyland and Walt Disney World are closing. Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico and Ohio to slow the rate of infections. And the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced it...…Gift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Please NoteThe Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. It was a day of cancellations and closures as the coronavirus spread to more states in the United States, as the number of cases passed 1,600.Disneyland and Walt Disney World are closing. Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico and Ohio to slow the rate of infections. And the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced it...WW…