US President Donald Trump speaks at Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, an ethanol producer, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on June 11, 2019. Democratic 2020 US presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an event at Iowa Wesleyan University in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, US June 11, 2019. [Photo/Agencies]
US retail giant Walmart Inc will continue to grow its hypermarkets, Sam's Club stores, and community-based smaller-sized supermarkets businesses in China with more advanced technologies, according to a top official.
Uganda has also introduced Mandarin in its secondary school curriculum. Kenya plans to introduce the teaching of Mandarin in its school curriculum by 2020. Teaching of Mandarin in Kenya will begin in the fourth grade.
US economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz told China Daily that selling US debt would not be a rational option for China as it will have a significant effect on the US dollar exchange rate and will drive down the value of the US treasury bonds.
US politicians, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Jim McGovern, met last week with activists clamoring for so-called "Hong Kong independence" such as Joshua Wong and Denise Ho, and invited them to testify at a Hong Kong-related hearing. They have threatened to introduce the Hong Kong-related bill.
US President Donald Trump has approved a major disaster declaration for California as the state continued to fight wildfires that have killed more than 30 people and destroyed nearly 7,000 structures.
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US media reported last week that some US intelligence analysts had expressed concern that senior Trump administration officials' pressure to link the coronavirus with a Chinese lab will distort assessments about the virus and they could be used as a political weapon.
US President Donald Trump's premise that Beijing needs a trade agreement with Washington because China's economy is slowing is mistaken, and China is not in a hurry to cut a deal out of fear, several US experts have said.
US President Donald Trump meets Vice-Premier Liu He (second left, front row) and answers media questions in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Friday. [Xinhua/Liu Jie]
US wind installations have surged over the last decade, with new wind turbines being installed every 2.5 hours, according to a May report from the American Wind Energy Association. Wind provided 5.6 percent of all electricity across the US in 2016, and the figure has more than doubled since 2010.