Beijing’s nuclear stockpile is outpacing Pentagon projections. A new report is shedding light on China’s latest warhead advances. Washington’s top diplomat to China is saying the two countries don’t align on the Middle East war, and is urging Beijing to take a hard line on Hamas. Four are charged with stealing a million dollars’ worth of dinosaur bones in Utah, and selling them to China. Chilling video shows a knife-wielding driver shot by police after he crashed into the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, while shouting about the Chinese Communist Party. What prompted the incident? Topics in this episode:...Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/china-has-over-500-nuclear-warheads-pentagon-5514290
Chinese developers have suspended the construction of apartment buildings amid the real estate crisis, triggering a widespread mortgage boycott among homebuyers in several provinces and cities across China in recent weeks. These homeowners have organized protests at construction sites and local government offices, demanding the completion of homes they’ve already paid presale deposits for and started making mortgage payments on. These protests swept across multiple Chinese provinces and cities, including Shanghai, Sichuan, Henan, and Shandong, and reportedly encountered resistance and violence from local authorities. Protests On Oct. 10, authorities in Nandayuan township, Baoding city, Hebei Province, announced that a local surnamed Tao, who bought an apartment unit in the housing community called XiuLan Yufeng Garden, had been subjected to “criminal coercive measures” for allegedly “organizing and inciting homeowners” to participate in a rights protest in Beijing. The official release further stated that 15 other individuals had also been punished....
The Taliban are sending a team to China to formally seek membership in the communist power’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The announcement comes after the Taliban’s attendance at an annual BRI forum in Beijing this week attended by teams from Afghanistan and 34 other countries. “We requested China to allow us to be a part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Belt and Road Initiative… [and] are discussing technical issues today,” said acting Commerce Minister Haji Nooruddin Azizi. “…we have everything they need, such as lithium, copper, and iron. Afghanistan is now, more than ever, ready for investment.” Mr. Azizi said the administration would also send a technical team to China to enable it to “better understand” the issues preventing it from formally joining the initiative....
A study by the Faculty of Medicine at CUHK found that a quarter of all adult deaths in Hong Kong were related to sepsis. In the decade from 2009 to 2018, adult sepsis morbidity and mortality both increased steadily. To understand the impact of sepsis on the entire population in Hong Kong, CUHK studied the electronic medical records of more than 13 million adults seeking treatment in public hospitals from 2009 to 2018 and conducted a full-scale data analysis. It was found that the incidence of sepsis increased by 8 percent each year, from 624 cases per 100,000 people in 2009 to 759 cases per 100,000 people in 2018. The mortality rate from sepsis also increases by 9 percent a year. It increased from 142 cases per 100,000 people in 2009 to 156 cases per 100,000 in 2018....