... previous two days of protests showed wounded people being carried and pools of blood on the ground. Gunshots could be heard, although the police have denied opening fire. The demonstrations are the l ...More
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... lected to two four-year terms. Cross-strait relations played a dominant role in the election. In her acceptance speech, President Tsai said that the DPP administration had been “willing to maintain he ...More
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... e world’s two largest economies after over 18 months of tit-for-tat tariffs that have weighed on global growth. The Treasury Department designation in August was the first time since 1994 that the Uni ...More
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... Busines Network. "For this year, we've been looking at 2.5 to 3 percent [GDP growth], as I said, it may be closer to 2.5 because of the adjustment of the Boeing numbers," Mnuchin told Maria Bartiromo ...More
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... tween the two? Well, many in Hong Kong prefer democracy, too, while feeling left out in the supposed economic prosperity under the "one country, two systems" formula that Beijing is offering to Taiwan ...More
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... including two student journalists -- one from the City Broadcasting Channel of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and the other from the Editorial Board of the Students’ Union of CityU -- were s ...More
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The year 2019 has witnessed, among other things, the fall of two so-called unicorns, or startups valued at over US$1 billion. US-based shared working space provider WeWork, which at one point had comm ...More
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... oods over two years, the report said. "It wasn’t changed in translation. I don’t know where that rumor started,” Mnuchin said on a Sunday morning show. “We have been going through a translation proces ...More
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... less than two weeks of unrest that started on Nov. 15, three Iranian Interior Ministry officials told Reuters, although international rights groups put the figure much lower and Iran called the report ...More
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... country, two systems’,” Roth said in the organization’s statement. Human Rights Watch said a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs official had threatened to impose unspecified “sanctions” against it a ...More
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... country, two systems” model, as well as by anti-government protests in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong. “No matter what changes there are to the internal situation in Taiwan, the basic fact that there is onl ...More
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... country, two systems” model. China claims Taiwan as its sacred territory, to be taken by force if needed, a threat Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated year a ago, though he said he preferred a pe ...More
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... borne for two minutes after departing Tehran when heat signatures of two surface-to-air missiles were detected. There was an explosion in the vicinity and heat data showed the plane on fire as it fell ...More
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... the past two decades in a high-profile fashion. Even before Xi's visit, there was a news report, citing sources, that the central government intended to develop the former Portuguese enclave into a n ...More
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... , and the two sides compare the total economic value of their zombie-free territories. The side with a higher value wins the game. You don't win the war. Both sides lose the war to the zombies. It's j ...More
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... the past two years as well as the social unrest arising from the now-withdrawn extradition bill. According to the government press release, both Lam and Luo believe Hong Kong has experienced the most ...More
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... rtened to two to three hours. By fast testing, the risk faced by a patient can be significantly lowered, Yuen said The microbiologist stressed that tests conducted in Hong Kong are reliable and that h ...More
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... country, two systems" formula will not work in Taiwan. A year ago, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's standard-bearer appeared to be losing ground as her popularity fell to an all-time low, bu ...More
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... the last two quarters of 2019 – from one of extreme pessimism and fear of an imminent recession, to one of economic stability and a potential mid-cycle refresh. This shift caused a notable rotation i ...More
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... d reading two books a month. “Rather than having year-to-year challenges, I’ve tried to think about what I hope the world and my life will look in 2030 so I can make sure I’m focusing on those things, ...More
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