SYDNEY - Howling winds, heavy rain and huge seas pounded Australia's northeast on Tuesday, damaging homes, wrecking jetties and cutting power to thousands of people as Tropical Cyclone Debbie tore through Queensland state's far north.
The expansion by the United States of its global missile defense system will damage the strategic balance and potentially spark a new arms race, Chinese and Russian representatives to a disarmament conference in Geneva said at a joint briefing on Tuesday.
A draft plan outlining a greener Beijing will be unveiled on Wednesday so the public will have an opportunity to make suggestions.
The Foreign Ministry held an urgent meeting with officials of the French embassy in Beijing on Tuesday over the death of a Chinese man in Paris, and called for Chinese people in France who express their demands to do so in a reasonable and legal manner.
"It is not something that makes you stand out here," laughed the great American economist Edmund Phelps.
Item from March 29, 1992, in China Daily: Neon advertising signs are everywhere in Beijing, reflecting the surge of foreign commercials that is spilling over from the Chinese media ... The State Administration for Industry and Commerce predicts a surge in foreign advertising in China this year. Foreign advertising accounts for an average of 10 percent of the country's total annual ad income. Last year, the advertising business had a turnover of 3.5 billion yuan.
Premier Li Keqiang, visiting New Zealand, said he expects that China will work more closely with the island nation on innovation and exploring third-party markets for joint prosperity.
China released its first memo imposing dozens of punitive measures against discredited trading companies to further facilitate and safeguard trading activities, especially with economies linked to the Belt and Road Initiative, senior customs officials said.
China and the Philippines will hold their first meeting under a bilateral consultation arrangement on the South China Sea in May, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
China's accomplishments in securing food safety, nutrition and poverty alleviation for its population are a crucial part of a new five-year strategic plan launched by the United Nations World Food Programme in Beijing on Tuesday.
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