China's economy showed signs of softening in July, which could prompt more policy easing and supportive measures to stimulate growth, analysts said on Wednesday.
Foreign government officials and experts slammed the violence perpetrated by radical protesters in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and voiced support for the legitimate actions taken by the HKSAR government and local police to restore order.
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Experts said requests for port visits in Hong Kong by the US Navy are untimely and inconvenient given the massive protests plaguing the special administrative region as violent radicals have intensified their attacks on police, obstructed public transport and commerce and threatened local residents' lives and properties.
The mainland's Taiwan affairs authority said the Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan, the ruling party of the island, has played a disgraceful role in the recent chaos in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Fu Guohao, a Global Times website reporter who was illegally detained, restrained with plastic zip ties, verbally abused and beaten by protesters at the Hong Kong International Airport on Tuesday, was discharged from a Hong Kong hospital at noon on Wednesday.
Despite the Sino-US trade dispute, China has attracted a great deal of foreign direct investment from diversified sources in the first seven months of 2019, laying a solid footing for the second half, experts and company leaders said on Tuesday.
At 27, Shi Fan, a copywriter at a Shanghai company that helps clients with overseas study, said marriage was a concern too far for her to consider for the moment.
China will send public health experts to Uganda and South Sudan at those countries' request to help prevent outbreaks of Ebola, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said.
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor warned on Tuesday that escalating violence is pushing the special administrative region into an "abyss of destruction".
China's civil aviation authority and airlines have been sparing no efforts in accommodating passengers in Hong Kong affected by flight cancellations.