Xi calls on youth to make new, greater contributions to undertakings of Party, country

16:23, August 17, 2020

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  China calls for peaceful solution of Malian crisis: spokesperson

  The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called on all relevant parties in Mali to work for the fundamental interests of the country and its people and resolve differences peacefully through dialogue.

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  Tianjin tech park aims to boost integrated regional development

  An aerial view of Tianjin Binhai-Zhongguancun Technology Park.Tianjin Binhai-Zhongguancun Technology Park is leveraging its regional and industrial resources to better undertake the non-core capital functions of Beijing, in answering the nation's call to promote the integrated development of the Bei

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  Trump makes call for new White House doctor's virus advice

  President Donald Trump has found a new doctor for his coronavirus task force — and this time theres no daylight between them.File photo: AgenciesTrump last week announced thatDr. Scott Atlas, a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser. Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellow at Stanfords conservative Hoover Institution, has no expertise in public health or infectious diseases.But he has long been a critic of coronavirus lockdowns and has campaigned for kids to return to the classroom and for the return of college sports, just like Trump.“Scott is a very famous man who’s also very highly respected," Trump told reporters as he introduced the addition. “He has many great ideas and he thinks what we’ve done is really good.”Atlas hiring comes amidongoing tensionsbetween the president and Drs. Anthony Fauci, the nations top infectious diseases expert, and Deborah Birx, the task forces coordinator. While Birx remains closely involved in the administrations pandemic response, both she and Fauci have publicly contradicted the rosy picture the president has painted of a virus that has now killed more than 167,000 people in the United States and infected millions nationwide.Atlas, the sole doctor to share the stage at Trumps pandemic briefings this past week, has long questioned polices that have been embraced by public health experts both in the U.S. and abroad. He has called it a “good thing” for younger, healthy people to be exposed to the virus, while falsely claiming children are at near “zero risk."Inan April op-edin The Hill newspaper, Atlas bemoaned that lockdowns may have prevented the development of “natural herd immunity."“In the absence of immunization, society needs circulation of the virus, assuming high-risk people can be isolated," he wrote.In television appearances, Atlas has calle...