France supports Taiwan in a big way with excellent support.
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The highlighted info from the above:
A vote by the French Senate in favor of a resolution backing Taiwan's participation in the World Health Organization (WHO) and three other major international organizations has triggered an angry response from China. In response, Beijing is blocking Taiwan's entry, arguing it is not an independent state.
Well, you may, but I did not. I was surprised.
It appears China leases these animals and the proceeds are used to conserve these animals. Even pandas born outside China belong to China. In effect, they are property of China.
Although they are not endangered, they need a lot of care and considered vulnerable. According to World Wildlife Fund (WWF) there are about 1864 pandas in the wild and some 400 in captivity. I am not sure whether they live anywhere other than Southern China (near Tibetan border) but there are references to their presence in Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar in the past.
More here:
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Please give generously to the conservation effort.
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Actually, Australian wine is in par with the best of the wine anywhere. It's Chinese who will miss the wine.
After all the ban on TikTok by President Trump, the issue of allow/ban TikTok is not yet done. TikTok will have another 15 days (Nov.27) to convince that it is not a security risk. It has to convince the US National Security officials. If it gets the blessing then the Oracle/Walmart deal may be approved. Users can access the app till the deadline.
The Times reported that China has used a microwave weapon in Ladakh to repel Indian soldiers from their position, based on the report of a talk given by a Chinese professor Jin Canrong of Renmin university in Beijing.
Details here: https://hodentek.blogspot.com/2020/11/chinese-use-microwave-weapons-to-repel.html
However, Indian army has denied that any such event took place during the confrontation in Ladakh.
It appears more like a 'fake news' circulated by China. Most news in China are monitored and it is highly likely the hews was fake. Visit the site for more fake news: https://pib.gov.in/factcheck.aspx
Looking at the logic of this announcement it appears this 'fake' news was more for domestic consumption. It definitely makes it appear China having superior technology and using judiciously to 'avoid firing bullets'.
This said in news from such such areas of conflict may need to be taken with a (sizeable) grain of salt.
India's Serum institute is ready with 40 million doses of AstraZeneca's Vaccine ready to ship and the Novavax's vaccine will be made. The bulk of Novavax vaccine has been received by Serum. Both of these need regulatory approval.
Serum has been working on getting regulatory approval for AstraZeneca's vaccine from India based on its trial on 1600 participants.
The final recipients of these vaccines are yet to be published.
Current (as of 11/14/2020) statistics for the most affected 3 countries derived from Johns Hopkins' data is shown below.
|
Country |
All Time |
Past Day |
Past Week |
Past Month |
||||
|
|
Confirmed Cases |
Deaths |
New Cases |
New Deaths |
New Cases |
New Deaths |
New Cases |
New Deaths |
|
INDIA |
8,773,479 |
129,188 |
44,684 |
520 |
311,399 |
3,626 |
1,466,382 |
17,922 |
|
BRAZIL |
5,810,652 |
164,737 |
29,070 |
456 |
179,471 |
2,722 |
669.789 |
12,990 |
|
US |
10,737,335 |
244,332 |
177,224 |
1,138 |
979,723 |
7,327 |
2,841,426 |
27,143 |
It goes beyond saying that we need to outpace the virus and develop the vaccine(s) to put an end to this human tragedy.
