China’s military eases physical requirements for pilots based on new cockpits

China warns citizens not to travel to Japan amid escalating row over comments about Taiwan made by PM Sanae Takaichi Shares in Japanese tourism and retail firms have fallen sharply after China warned its citizens not to travel to Japan, while a senior Japanese diplomat was due to travel to Beijing amid an escalating row over comments about Taiwan made by the Japanese prime minister, Sanae Takaichi. Relations between the two countries have deteriorated dramatically in the past week after Takaichi, a conservative who has hawkish views on China, suggested that Japanese self-defence forces could intervene if a Chinese…

People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s flagship mouthpiece, has published yet another sharply worded attack on the Japanese leader’s comments on Taiwan, warning that Sanae Takaichi was leading her country to its “demise”. The commentary on Saturday – written under the “Zhong Sheng” pen name often used to voice Beijing’s position on global affairs – is the fourth signed commentary on the issue in the newspaper in nine days, an unusually high rate that reflects the weight of Beijing’s criticism of… Source link

A forum tackling the more challenging problems in urban development gathered people in this area on Saturday to raise awareness of greener and more sustainable urban development. Source link