Donald Trump's election as the president of the United States has sparked a debate over climate change amid the just-concluded United Nations climate conference in Marrakech, Morocco, mainly because given his reputation as a climate change denier, he could put the Paris Agreement in jeopardy.
Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton brought the curtain down on the chaotic US presidential election. Before the votes were counted, however, many American scholars, former officials and mainstream media said, and a majority of polls showed, Clinton had an edge over Trump. That's why many refer to the final result as another "Brexit".
A recent investigation found that some hospitals in Central China's Henan province acquired kickbacks of up to 30 percent when purchasing medical equipment.
THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN LEPING, East China's Jiangxi province, has more than once used public money to cover the charges for disposing of pollutants, which according to the law should have been paid by 36 local enterprises. Beijing News commented on Saturday:
DURING THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS OF THIS YEAR, nine provincial areas including Beijing, Shanghai, and East China's Jiangsu province, raised the minimum wage by about 10.7 percent on average, fueling concerns about "overburdened employers". Raising the minimum wage is justifiable and has little to do with enterprises' struggling to lower their costs, said Beijing Youth Daily on Saturday.
ELECTRIC BICYCLES and tricycles have become a sore point in Beijing's traffic situation, Legal Daily commented on Saturday:
While global leaders incessantly pontificate about emission-reduction targets, pollution-related respiratory complications continue to kill millions of people, many economically vulnerable and politically underrepresented. The data are clear about the urgency for intervention, and the content of good policy is no mystery. The greatest hurdle is the political indifference implicated in repeated policy failures.
Once shot for commercial promotions and coupled with cheesy jokes, Chinese online video dramas now appear to be flourishing thanks to China's booming "Internet Plus" economy. According to a recent report on video series made by video websites such as Youku Tudou and iQiyi, an estimated 2,000 episodes will be produced by the end of this year, taking the 2016 total to more than 5,000, almost 250 times the figure in 2009.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the first foreign leader to meet with the US president-elect, and Japan's media excitedly seized on anything that could be regarded as a positive signal from the high-profile meeting on Thursday between Abe and incoming US President Donald Trump. Their smiles, and the gifts they presented to each other, were believed to betray there was chemistry between them during their meeting in Trump's penthouse in New York.
US President Barack Obama's landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement was already on life support before his successor, Donald Trump, promised American voters worried by the impact of globalization that he would kill it and bury it.
Like the "rebalancing to Asia-Pacific" strategy of US President Barack Obama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement also faces uncertainty with Donald Trump, who will enter the White House on Jan 20, vowing to "kill" it during his presidential campaign.
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