Rapid deterioration of US-China relations

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Rapid deterioration[edit]

See also: Second Cold War

Michael D. Swaine argued in 2019 that:The U.S.-China relationship is confronting its most daunting challenge in the forty years since the two countries established diplomatic ties. Current trends portend steadily worsening relations over the long term, with increasingly adverse consequences for all actors involved. Specifically, Beijing and Washington are transitioning from a sometimes contentious yet mutually beneficial relationship to an increasingly antagonistic, mutually destructive set of interactions. The often positive and optimistic forces, interests, and beliefs that sustained bilateral ties for decades are giving way to undue pessimism, hostility, and a zero-sum mindset in almost every area of engagement.[200]

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Da Nang braces for extensive Covid-19 testing

BViet Tuan   July 24, 2020 | 10:37 pm GMT+7Da Nang braces for extensive Covid-19 testingMedical staff at a Covid-19 quarantine area at Da Nang General Hospital in Da Nang, central Vietnam, January 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Nguyen Dong. The Health Ministry will conduct extensive Covid-19 testing in at-risk areas of Da Nang with local manufactured test kits.

The ministry has requested the central city to make a list of all people in close contact with the suspected case. On Thursday night, all of them were tested and the results came back negative.

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Chinese fugitive taken into custody as US claims Houston consulate was a part of espionage network

By Kylie AtwoodNicole Gaouette and Jennifer Hansler, CNN

Updated 1924 GMT (0324 HKT) July 24, 2020

Washington (CNN)Senior US government officials said Friday that a Chinese scientist who had been hiding in the country’s San Francisco consulate after accusations of visa fraud is now in US custody and also charged that Beijing has been using its diplomatic outposts to run an espionage network to steal intellectual property from US businesses, universities and research centers.Tang Juan, a researcher who said she was focusing on biology, “was a fugitive from justice until last night,” a senior Justice Department official said, but has now been charged in Sacramento. The circumstances of Tang’s arrest were not clear, but she has not been charged with espionage.US officials made the announcement just hours before Washington’s deadline for Beijing to shutter its consulate in Houston, a move that triggered China to retaliate Friday by demanding the US close its consulate in Chengdu.Prosecutors earlier this week said that Tang concealed her connection to China’s military in order to enter the US, lied to federal investigators about those links and subsequently tried to avoid arrest by taking refuge in the San Francisco consulate.During an interview with FBI agents on June 20, “Tang denied serving in the Chinese military, claimed she did not know the meaning of the insignia on her uniform, and that wearing a military uniform was required for attendance at FMMU because it was a military school,” attorneys wrote in a July 20 court filing.

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Vietnam supports a comprehensive solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

 15:08 | 22/07/2020VOV 

Vietnam supports a comprehensive, fair and lasting solution to the conflict between Palestine and Israel through dialogues and negotiations, as well as the exercise of indisputable legal rights of Palestinians.

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Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the United Nations, made the reaffirmation at an online meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on July 21 discussing the Middle East situation, including the recent Palestinian issue.

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Covid-19 Vaccine’s Production and Licensing are sped up in Vietnam

 15:06 | 22/07/2020Tarah Nguyen 

Covid-19 vaccine production is being implemented for researching to develop by Vietnam Ministry of Health in this morning’s seminar July 22, with the participation of national and international scientists.

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The overview of the conference on this Wed’s morning July 22. (Photo: qdnd)

Prof. Nguyen Thanh Long, acting Minister of Health, chairing the workshop said that Vietnam has currently had 4 researchers of vaccine production, developing in varied directions but all of them owned the technology.

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Prof. Nguyen Thanh Long, acting Minister of Health, said that Vietnam is planning to develop the Covid-19 vaccine to ensure for the Covid-19 prevention. (Photo: thanhnien)

At the workshop, four local vaccine researchers & manufacturers (including: VABIOTECH, POLYVAC, IVAC, NANOGEN) presented their Covid-19 vaccine studies. At the same time, delegates also exchanged discussions on draft regulations for researching, clinical production, licensing of and registration for Covid-19 vaccine in Vietnam and how to use the Covid-19 vaccine in an emergency medical situation.

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China vows to retaliate after U.S. orders closure of its consulate in Houston

Traffic moves against the backdrop of the Houston skyline on Saturday, June 27, 2020. (Callaghan O’hare/Bloomberg)

By Anna Fifield July 22, 2020 at 5:14 p.m. GMT+7 Washington Post

CHANGSHA, China — The United States has ordered China to close its consulate general in Houston “in order to protect American intellectual property and American’s private information,” State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said Wednesday.

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Đám cưới 2 liệt sĩ: Người thân mang di ảnh cô dâu, chú rể làm lễ

22/07/2020    05:20 GMT+7 Vietnamnet

38 năm sau ngày mất, đám cưới của hai liệt sĩ diễn ra trong bối cảnh đặc biệt, giọt nước mắt tuôn rơi nơi khóe mắt đồng đội. 

Làm kinh tế giỏi, cựu binh bỏ tiền túi xây, sửa 8 cây cầuNhững cựu binh Mỹ tìm lại bạn gái Việt sau nhiều năm xa cáchCựu binh mua hơn 50 xe đạp tặng học sinh nghèo

Một đám cưới đầy đủ nghi lễ, mọi người xúng xính áo quần đi đón dâu nhưng chỉ có di ảnh của cô dâu, chú rể. Tại nhà gái, đại diện nhà trai đặt di ảnh của đôi vợ chồng bên cạnh nhau, đôi mắt ai nấy đều đỏ hoe.

Đó là hình ảnh xúc động trong đám cưới của liệt sĩ Hoàng Thị Hồng Chiêm (1954 – 1979) và liệt sĩ Bùi Văn Lượng (1955 – 1979) ở TP Móng Cái (Quảng Ninh) vào năm 2017.

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Việt Nam asks for better sea dispute management, enhanced trade cooperation with China

Update: July, 22/2020 – 07:23| VNSVietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh (right) and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi co-chaired the 12th meeting of the Steering Committee for Việt Nam-China Bilateral Cooperation on Tuesday. — VNA/VNS Photo Bùi Lâm Khánh

HÀ NỘI — Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh has expressed concerns over the recent complicated developments over the South China Sea (known in Việt Nam as the East Sea) with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Tuesday.

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Hồ thủy điện cạn trơ đáy

Thứ tư, 22/7/2020, 00:00 (GMT+7) VNExpress

NGHỆ ANSau 8 năm vận hành, hồ thuỷ điện Hủa Na (xã Thông Thụ, huyện Quế Phong) cạn trơ đáy, lộ rõ một số công trình từng chìm dưới nước như trụ sở UBND xã, trường học, lô cốt, giếng nước.9

Những ngày này, mực nước hồ thủy điện Hủa Na đoạn dưới chân cầu Nậm Piệt trên quốc lộ 48B, xã Thông Thụ, huyện Quế Phong, Nghệ An chỉ còn chưa đầy 30 cm, dòng chảy rộng 10 m.

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Triển khai dự án Cần Giờ ‘phải giữ được rừng ngập mặn’

Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường lần đầu giải thích các ý kiến liên quan đến báo cáo đánh giá tác động môi trường dự án Cần Giờ.

Sáng 20/7, tại cuộc họp báo thường kỳ của Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường, hầu hết các câu hỏi đều liên quan đến đánh giá tác động môi trường (ĐTM) dự án khu du lịch đô thị lấn biển Cần Giờ (dự án Cần Giờ).

Ông Nguyễn Xuân Hải, Vụ trưởng thẩm định đánh giá tác động môi trường (Tổng cục Môi trường), nêu các nguyên tắc khi phê duyệt báo cáo ĐTM dự án Cần Giờ, như: “Phải giữ được rừng ngập mặn, có biện pháp phù hợp giảm thiểu tác động môi trường nhằm hạn chế tối đa tác động bất lợi đối với dòng chảy, xói lở, thoát lũ, ô nhiễm môi trường”.

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Vài tin chống tham nhũng

Nhiều tướng quân đội bị kỷ luật

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Hai thiếu tướng quân đội bị Ủy ban Kiểm tra Trung ương cảnh cáo và khiển trách; một trung tướng bị đề nghị kỷ luật.

Chiều 20/7, Ủy ban Kiểm tra Trung ương thông báo đã quyết định cảnh cáo Thiếu tướng Nguyễn Hoàng (nguyên Phó Bí thư Đảng ủy, nguyên Tư lệnh Quân đoàn 4) và Đại tá Nguyễn Trọng Lương (nguyên Ủy viên Ban chấp hành Đảng bộ Bộ Tham mưu, nguyên Phó bí thư Chi bộ, nguyên Chánh văn phòng Bộ Tư lệnh Quân đoàn 4).

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Rock Dust Could Be Farming’s Next Climate Solution

The process, called enhanced weathering, could remove 2 billion tons of CO2 from the air while fertilizing soil

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A farmer distributes lime over a field in the UK. A new climate solution would use a similar technique to spread rock dust. (Mark Robinson under Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0))
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For farming, the latest climate fix isn’t especially high tech or glossy. By spreading rock dust over large swatches of land, carbon dioxide could be trapped in transformed, scrubbing it from the atmosphere. If this technique, called enhanced weathering, were to be employed around the world, scientists estimate two billion tons of carbon dioxide could be removed from the atmosphere each year. Tiếp tục đọc “Rock Dust Could Be Farming’s Next Climate Solution”

Forty Years After Operation USA Aids Vietnamese “Boat People” Crisis, Vietnam Sends COVID-19 Aid to United States

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Vietnamese officials, air carriers and companies band together to deliver 2.5 million masks to U.S. through a partnership with Los Angeles relief organization

LOS ANGELESJune 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Operation USA, a Los Angeles-based international relief agency, today announced it has partnered with VietJet Airlines, the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and several Vietnamese companies to bring 2.5 million masks and other personal protective equipment into the U.S. by air and sea in support of ongoing COVID-19 response efforts. A majority of the masks will be distributed in the Greater Los Angeles area, with additional masks being shipped to partners in New York City. OpUSA is working closely with LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office, the Deputy Mayor for International Affairs, Ambassador Nina Hachigian, and the Port of Los Angeles to arrange transport and distribution. Tiếp tục đọc “Forty Years After Operation USA Aids Vietnamese “Boat People” Crisis, Vietnam Sends COVID-19 Aid to United States”

PM asks to manage solar power projects for national security

Update: June, 20/2020 – 08:40 vns

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A solar power plant in Ninh Thuận Province. At present, more than 30 provinces and cities nationwide have solar power projects. —VNA/VNS Photo Ngọc Hà

HÀ NỘI — The Prime Minister has requested the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) propose suitable management solutions for solar power projects to ensure national security.

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