Celebrity couple Anita Yuen and Julian Cheung s 14-year-old son Morton is now taller than both of them. – PHOTOS: Weibo/Anita Yuen
Anita Yuen and Julian Cheung s son is now taller than both of themCelebrity couple Anita Yuen and Julian Cheung, who have a 14-year-old son Morton, have revealed that he is now taller than both of them.
In a series of photos posted on Weibo by Yuen on Thursday (July 1), the family of three is seen on an outing to Mount Putuo in China s Zhejiang province to pray for blessings.
In one heartwarming photo of their backs, Yuen and Cheung, both 49, have their hands firmly clasped together, while her lanky son has his arm draped over her shoulder.
Kari Johnstone (L), acting director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, listens as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) delivers remarks on the release of the 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report at the State Department in Washington, July 1, 2021. AFP
The U.S. State Department named China, North Korea, and Myanmar as state sponsors of the trafficking of persons for the second consecutive year in its annual report on human trafficking released on Thursday, citing the use of forced labor in the two East Asian countries and the recruitment and use of child soldiers in the Southeast Asian nation.
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BEIJING: President Xi Jinping, in a defiant speech hailing China’s “irreversible” course from humiliated colony to a great power at the centenary celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday, said the “era of China being bullied is gone forever,” praising the party for uplifting incomes and restoring national pride.
A fly-by of helicopters in formation spelling 100 a giant hammer and sickle flag trailing and a 100-gun salute followed, while young communists in unison pledged allegiance to the party. Speaking above the giant portrait of Mao Zedong, which dominates Tiananmen Square, from the podium where the famous chairman proclaimed the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Xi said the Chinese people will never allow any foreign forces to bully, oppress or subjugate us. “Anyone who dares try to do that will have their heads bashed bloody against the Great Wall of Steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people,” he said. Flanked by high-ranking
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday China’s rapid build-up of its nuclear forces was concerning and called on Beijing to engage with it “on practical measures to reduce the risks of destabilizing arms races.”
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The build up had become more difficult for China to hide and it appeared it was deviating from decades of nuclear strategy based around minimal deterrence, State Department spokesperson Ned Price told a regular news briefing.
Price was responding to a question about a report in the Washington Post that said China had begun constructing more than 100 new missile silos in a desert area in the western part of the country.
Setting his eyes on the next 100 years, Xi seizes the chance to lead China to greater power
CNBC 7 hrs ago Evelyn Cheng
Chinese President Xi Jinping is looking ahead to the next hundred years of China s Communist Party, and an unfulfilled dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Achieving that level of growth will require China to propel itself past looming challenges: the so-called middle income trap, lack of innovation and a rapidly aging population.
Next year, the CCP will hold its 20th National Party Congress, which may provide signals on whether Xi will hold onto power beyond the two terms of his recent predecessors.