China's Communist Party on Saturday endorsed Xi Jinping's "core position" in the country's leadership, all but assuring he will be handed an unprecedented third term in power.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has every right to travel to Taiwan at its democratic government's invitation. Still, Pelosi should make such a visit via commercial airliner rather than a military aircraft.
Some 187 kilometers west of Taiyuan, capital of the northern province of Shanxi, the city of Luliang is located on the dry and gullied Loess Plateau in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River.The city, which covers 21,143 square kilometers with a population of some 320,000, has become a focal point of a major anti-corruption campaign that has swept the country since