Although it is now a foregone conclusion the island of Taiwan has been once again ruled out of this year s World Health Assembly (WHA) and will continue to be excluded in the foreseeable future if it does not return to the one-China principle, some organizations that have worked hard for Taiwan s accession still grumble bitterly.
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‘Cool-Off Period’ Greatly Lowers Divorce Rate, China Says
Thanks to a controversial new deterrent, 72% fewer divorces were granted between January and March compared with the previous quarter.
A historically low number of divorces were granted in China after a controversial law to discourage couples from legally separating came into effect this year.
In the first quarter of 2021, only 296,000 couples received divorces, a 72% drop compared with the fourth quarter of last year, according to data published last week by China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs. Prior to the national data, dozens of cities and provinces including Hangzhou, Nanchang, and Nanjing had released their own local data showing similar declines.
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Wrapping up a meeting with his Turkmen counterpart Rashid Meredov and the country’s deputy prime minister Serdar Berdymukhamedov in Xian on Monday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said cooperation on natural gas was the “ballast stone” of the bilateral relationship. “China sees Turkmenistan as a long-term cooperative partner on natural gas, and is willing to formulate a comprehensive cooperation plan with the Turkmenistan side with a future-oriented perspective,” Wang said, according to a foreign ministry statement on Monday night,
The ministry said China and Turkmenistan agreed to “further consolidate and expand cooperation in natural gas, and create a full industry chain strategic partnership in the energy sector”. Wang also said China and Turkmenistan should also create new “engines” for cooperation beyond resources, such as trade, investment, connectivity and technology.
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