In January, US President Donald Trump reportedly referred to Haiti, El Salvador and some African nations as "shithole countries".
In July, however, Japan said unequivocally that it had no plans to deploy members of the SDF to the Middle East, as there had been a lull in attacks on commercial vessels near the Strait of Hormuz.
In January 2018, the ChinaSat 16 - the nation's first high-capacity communication satellite, which was launched by a Long March 3B rocket at the Xichang center in April 2017 - conducted the world's first experiment on high-orbit laser communication, a technology crucial to enabling a spacecraft to send, receive and transmit a large quantity of data with ground stations.
In Europe, Italy's Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, said on Saturday that the country hoped other European Union countries would reopen their borders to Italians on June 15. Italy opened its doors to other EU citizens on Wednesday, but most European countries are still largely off-limits for Italian nationals.
In June, the 5G Smart Port Innovation Lab of China Merchants Group was officially unveiled, pushing forward the construction of the first 5G smart port in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Dawan District.
In January 2011, Shanghai and Chongqing became the only two cities to levy property tax. However, the property tax trial yielded meager results.
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In January it revealed that nine commercial disputes had been filed so far, mainly covering shareholder identification and the distribution of earnings, from countries such as Thailand, Japan and Italy.
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In December 2018, the city unveiled a three-year plan to boost the innovative development of seven AI-related industrial chains, including the independent and controllable information system, intelligent security, big data, advanced communications, intelligent connected vehicles, industrial robots and intelligent terminals.
In Kavanaugh's own statement at the end of more than seven hours of arguing, the federal appeals judge spoke repeatedly about the importance of an independent judiciary and the need to keep the court above partisan politics.