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Learn from China, Over the past 40 years, Lifting 800 Million People Out of Poverty.
Infrastructure to every corner not making money for the politicians, just for the people to improve living.
12-7-2021 Tibet’s first bullet train line enters service
For the first time, travelers in Tibet can enjoy the area’s mountainous views at high-speed.
A 435-kilometer (250-mile) rail line connecting Tibetan capital Lhasa with the city of Nyingchi entered into service on June 25, giving all 31 provincial-level regions of mainland China access to high-speed train travel.
47 tunnels, 121 bridges
Building a high-speed railroad in Tibet, dubbed the “roof of the world,” was no easy feat.
Some 90% of the route, which took six years to construct, sits higher than 3,000 meters above sea level.
The Lhasa-Nyingchi line features 47 tunnels and 121 bridges – which account for about 75% of the whole route. This includes the 525-meter-long Zangmu Railway Bridge, the largest and highest arch bridge of its kind in the world.
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😂India dream gone again...
🤣2024-4-11 , DT blinked again today to exempt tariff of phones and computer related products.
this represents ~29% of total US imports from China (for instance, in 2024, out of the $438.9 billion worth of goods the US imported from China, $127.06 billion were electrical and electronic equipment, such as smartphones, laptops, batteries, flash drives, etc). In short, the US effectively lost this round of the trade war.
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You are so 0utdated ...
🤣2024-4-11 , DT blinked again today to exempt tariff of phones and computer related products.
this represents ~29% of total US imports from China (for instance, in 2024, out of the $438.9 billion worth of goods the US imported from China, $127.06 billion were electrical and electronic equipment, such as smartphones, laptops, batteries, flash drives, etc). In short, the US effectively lost this round of the trade war.
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falling for a 14th straight year ...
The current population of Japan in 2024 is 122,631,432, a 0.54% decline from 2023.
The population of Japan in 2023 was 123,294,513, a 0.53% decline from 2022.
The population of Japan in 2022 was 123,951,692, a 0.53% decline from 2021.
The population of Japan in 2021 was 124,612,530, a 0.5% decline from 2020.
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You are so 0utdated ...
🤣2024-4-11 , DT blinked again today to exempt tariff of phones and computer related products.
this represents ~29% of total US imports from China (for instance, in 2024, out of the $438.9 billion worth of goods the US imported from China, $127.06 billion were electrical and electronic equipment, such as smartphones, laptops, batteries, flash drives, etc). In short, the US effectively lost this round of the trade war.
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😂India dream gone again...
🤣2024-4-11 , DT blinked again today to exempt tariff of phones and computer related products.
this represents ~29% of total US imports from China (for instance, in 2024, out of the $438.9 billion worth of goods the US imported from China, $127.06 billion were electrical and electronic equipment, such as smartphones, laptops, batteries, flash drives, etc). In short, the US effectively lost this round of the trade war.
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Learn from China, Over the past 40 years, Lifting 800 Million People Out of Poverty.
Infrastructure to every corner not making money for the politicians , just for the people to improve living.
12-7-2021 Tibet’s first bullet train line enters service
For the first time, travelers in Tibet can enjoy the area’s mountainous views at high-speed.
A 435-kilometer (250-mile) rail line connecting Tibetan capital Lhasa with the city of Nyingchi entered into service on June 25, giving all 31 provincial-level regions of mainland China access to high-speed train travel.
47 tunnels, 121 bridges
Building a high-speed railroad in Tibet, dubbed the “roof of the world,” was no easy feat.
Some 90% of the route, which took six years to construct, sits higher than 3,000 meters above sea level.
The Lhasa-Nyingchi line features 47 tunnels and 121 bridges – which account for about 75% of the whole route. This includes the 525-meter-long Zangmu Railway Bridge, the largest and highest arch bridge of its kind in the world.
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48% Of Residents of Nine EU Countries Favour a Quick End to War, Even at Cost of Territorial Loss for Ukraine
The research has been conducted by Euroskopia in nine EU countries (Portugal, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, and Greece).
Over 60% of Austrians and Germans want the war to end quickly. The German government is one of those that provided the largest military assistance to Ukraine.
Greeks (54%), Italians (50%), and Spaniards (50%) are in favour of a quick end to the war, even if Ukraine gives up territories.
In the Netherlands, 48% of the citizens opposed the idea of Ukraine giving up territories to end the war sooner. 45% of people in Portugal and 42% in Poland think the same.
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The Victims of Agent Orange the U.S. Has Never Acknowledged
America has never taken responsibility for spraying the herbicide over Laos during the Vietnam War. But generations of ethnic minorities have endured the consequences.
The main focus of the War Legacies Project is to document the long-term effects of the defoliant known as Agent Orange and provide humanitarian aid to its victims. Named for the colored stripe painted on its barrels, Agent Orange — best known for its widespread use by the U.S. military to clear vegetation during the Vietnam War — is notorious for being laced with a chemical contaminant called 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-P-dioxin, or TCDD, regarded as one of the most toxic substances ever created.
The use of the herbicide in the neutral nation of Laos by the United States — secretly, illegally and in large amounts — remains one of the last untold stories of the American war in Southeast Asia. Decades later, even in official military records, the spraying of Laos is mentioned only in passing. When the Air Force in 1982 finally released its partially redacted official history of the defoliation campaign, Operation Ranch Hand, the three pages on Laos attracted almost no attention, other than a statement from Gen. William Westmoreland, a former commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, that he knew nothing about it — although it was he who ordered it in the first place. Laos remained a forgotten footnote to a lost war. To those who followed the conflict’s aftermath intimately, this was hardly surprising. Only in the last two decades has the United States finally acknowledged and taken responsibility for the legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam, committing hundreds of millions of dollars to aiding the victims and cleaning up the worst-contaminated hot spots there.
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🤣2024-4-11 , DT blinked again today to exempt tariff of phones and computer related products.
this represents ~29% of total US imports from China (for instance, in 2024, out of the $438.9 billion worth of goods the US imported from China, $127.06 billion were electrical and electronic equipment, such as smartphones, laptops, batteries, flash drives, etc). In short, the US effectively lost this round of the trade war.
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@bianshij8280 With China being the Philippines’ largest trading partner and one of its key investors, partnership in areas such as infrastructure, agriculture and energy can benefit both sides.
China is a big boon for Filipino fruit growers. Last year, US$490 million worth of bananas were shipped to China. From 2019 to 2021, annual average pineapple exports to its neighbour hovered at around US$100 million, accounting for 70 per cent of the Chinese market. In 2019, the Philippines became China’s second-largest supplier of green coconuts, securing 27 per cent of the market, while in 2020, it was the first Asian country to ship avocados to China.
A deal to export durians is on the visit agenda, with China the biggest market for the king of fruits, having imported 822,000 tons valued at US$4.21 billion last year.
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