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The Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) in Beijing said in a statement on Monday that China would not allow “external interference,” after Blinken said a hypothetical Chinese attack on the democratic island would be a “disastrous decision” and Austin said the U.S. was looking to “do more” to help Taipei. Attending a virtual Reuters conference last Friday, Secretary Blinken repeated longstanding commitments to bolstering Taiwan’s self-defense, saying four decades of American policy in the region had helped maintain stability across the Taiwan Strait and in the relationship between the United States and China....

Wang said Washington should realize that no country is superior to others and that U.S. officials should realize that Beijing will not be talked down to. His remarks come as Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman is set to visit Tianjin today, making her the highest-ranking U.S. official to set foot in China since the Biden administration took the White House in January. Earlier this year, Wang stirred controversy by saying the U....

Beijing - China’s Qiaodan Sportswear Co. Ltd. has sued NBA legend Michael Jordan for infringement on right of reputation and claimed $8 million compensation. The Quanzhou court of the Fujian province received the file March 29 and accepted the lawsuit April 2 – a suit which also asked Jordan to stop the infringement and apologise to the company, reports Xinhua. Jordan announced he had sued the Qiaodan company for using his name and image illegally Feb 23, 2012, and asked about $8 million compensation....

Data reviewed by WHO experts showed that two doses of the Sinovac vaccine prevented half of those who received the jabs from getting COVID-19, the Associated Press reported. Sinovac’s authorization is the second approval by the WHO for a Chinese vaccine following China’ Sinopharm shot approval last month. “Nevertheless, WHO is not recommending an upper age limit for the vaccine,” the WHO said in a statement on Sinovac’s authorization. Since fewer older adults participated in the research the agency reviewed, they could not estimate the vaccine’s efficacy for those over 60....

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released on Tuesday its annual congressional report, which for the first time focused on China “surpassing” the U.S. in terms of economics as well as diplomacy, technology and diplomacy, rather than simply “catching up.” While both President Robin Cleveland and Vice Chair Carolyn Bartholomew discussed with Newsweek areas of potential cooperation between the two powers on issues such as the economy, health care and climate change at a virtual press conference held a day before the report’s release, both issued criticisms of China mirroring the 575-page document’s findings that alleged the country was taking advantage of the U....

Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, repeated the call for negotiations. He did that in his United Nations General Assembly speech on the 24th, when he urged Ukraine and Russia to reach a settlement to “keep the crisis from spilling over.” Western analysts say Beijing’s promotion of talks shows that China is trying to distance itself from Vladimir Putin’s failing effort to annex Ukraine. That interpretation is undoubtedly incorrect. A more accurate view is that the Chinese regime is trying to rescue Russia....

“The signal given by the military drills is that we are determined to stop Taiwan independence, and stop Taiwan from working with the US. We are doing it with action,” Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said to reporters on Tuesday. Ma’s comments come as former U.S. Senator Chris Dodd and former deputy Secretaries of State Richard Armitage and James Steinberg are headed to Taiwan for a meeting that the White House considers a “personal signal” of Biden’s commitment to the island’s democracy, according to the South China Morning Post....

The Cleveland Cavaliers guard has left Nike and signed with Chinese company Peak, which is scheduled to release a unique shoe called the “Delly 1.” MORE: Ranking every NBA Finals rematch | Curry over LeBron comparisons According to The Vertical, the shoe will be released July 1. The move seems a little ridiculous considering Dellavedova, an Australian native, averages just 5.7 points per game. However, it could entice the wanna-be bad boys across the sport, since Dellavedova was voted the league’s dirtiest player with a reputation for diving into other players’ legs....

Directed by the Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer from screenplay by writers of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and How I Met Your Mother, this Chip ’n Dale is much more self-aware than the original series. With a plot concerning how these characters have changed with today’s animation, the Disney Plus film seems to have a lot in common with the Rocky & Bullwinkle movie from 2000. RELATED: Disney Puts Its Beauty And the Beast Prequel Series On Hold...

The Bruins lost 24-14 at Cincinnati on Thursday — the second season-opening loss in as many seasons to the Bearcats. It’s not so much that UCLA is 0-1 again. Cincinnati is a Group of 5 buster that might play in a New Year’s Day Six Bowl in Luke Fickell’s third season. It’s that the Bruins looked more than one year away in a loss that showed several of the same shortcomings as last season’s....

RELATED: The Best Games For Fans Of Medieval History The best Chivalry 2 weapons available to Knights tend to be short-ranged, although there are a few exceptions like spears and poleaxes. The best way to play a Knight, though, is to be unafraid of close combat and take advantage of its short-range, high-damage weapons. Updated July 2, 2022 by Erik Petrovich: After Chivalry 2 released on Steam the game has seen a steady rise in the playerbase on PC....

Before Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, there were several attempts at swordfighting multiplayer games. The likes of War of the Roses were generally hyper-realistic, and therefore clunky, obtuse, and complicated. Chivalry, though, was fast-paced, gory, and hectic, playing more like a melee-only FPS than a realistic representation of swordplay. While it had plentiful flaws, it showed the potential of what a medieval combat game could be by focusing on the feel of PvP, and ultimately paved the way for titles like For Honor and Mordhau....

It all happened with such numbing swiftness. Just two weeks after his predawn agony, Ponzo’s medical options were dwindling. As his hope for life faded, replacing it was not the peaceful certainty of death but the terrifying unknown of dying. His body could not tolerate more surgery. Although poisonous wastes were building up in his system, dialysis had to be halted because it triggered his angina. He was slipping in and out of consciousness; soon his lungs would be no more able to gather in oxygen than a punctured balloon....

In the last 11 races, Rosberg has only once beaten Hamilton. Whilst in between this period, the Brit also took home the 2014 Drivers’ Championship, fairly comfortably from the crutches of Rosberg. Adjusting life to Hamilton ‘domination’ has not gone down well with Rosberg. The German has uttered and released his frustration in an undignified way. This is of course not expected from a man, who is known as one of the better characters of the paddock....

Christie, who supported the former president until Trump refused to accept his election loss, said that he didn’t want to make predictions about the presidential race and was unsure if he or Trump would campaign again. The former governor is a potential GOP candidate for the White House as the party waits to see if Trump commits to another campaign. “I don’t know that he’s going to run. I don’t know whether I’m going to run,” the former governor told CNN’s Dana Bash during the second episode in CNN’s new “Being …” series that focused on Christie....

Michael Drewniak, a Christie spokesman, confirmed Friday that the governor will attend, according the Washington Post. MORE: 10 greatest Packers-Cowboys games of all time “He will be paying for travel and tickets for himself, his sweater and his son to make sure we keep silliness out of the football season,” Drewniak said. Christie came under fire after Cowboys owner Jerry Jones paid for the governor to fly to Texas via private jet to watch last week’s Cowboys-Lions playoff game from Jones’ luxury suite, which may have violated New Jersey’s code of ethics for government officials....

Chris Colbert lost a one-sided unanimous decision to Hector Garcia, who pulled off the massive upset despite stepping in on short notice, Saturday night at The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. MORE: Josh Taylor avoids huge upset with controversial home decision Colbert (16-1) was originally set to face Roger Gutierrez for the WBA super featherweight title, but Gutierrez tested positive for COVID-19 and was pulled from the fight....

Those close to Trump have rallied behind the country’s largest Hispanic-owned food company when it faced criticism after its CEO Robert Unanue praised the president last week. Immigration advocates and Trump critics have vowed to boycott Goya Foods after Unanue said during the unveiling of the president’s Hispanic Prosperity Initiative last week that “we are all truly blessed” to have Trump as president. However, the optics of the image shared on Instagram of Trump giving the thumbs up next to the firm’s products on his White House desk as coronavirus cases continue to rise irked the Cuomo Prime Time host so much that he resorted to a swear word that went out live on air....

Seattle announced the deal about 90 minutes before baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline Thursday. The Mariners sent outfielder Abraham Almonte, their opening day starter in center field, and right-hander Stephen Kohlscheen to the Padres. Almonte made the club out of spring training but lasted only 27 games before being optioned to the minors. Denorfia, 34, was hitting .242 with one homer, 10 doubles and 16 RBIs in 89 games for the Padres....

In a recent interview with Inside The Ropes, Chris Jericho opened up about the Inner Circle and gave more details about how the faction was formed. Jericho spoke about why he felt the faction worked so well and went on to compare them to Guns N’ Roses: Chris Jericho in AEW Chris Jericho became the first AEW World Champion last year after beating Hangman Page at All Out in 2019....