On Monday, one US soldier was killed in a Taliban attack in neighboring Kunduz province.
On Friday, the US Commerce Department issued the Identification of Prohibited Transactions. "The result is that consumers in the US cannot download or update the WeChat app, use it to send or receive money, and -- because US support for the app by data hosting and content caching will be eliminated -- the app, while perhaps technically available to existing US users, likely will be useless to them," Judge Beeler wrote in her order.
On Jan 26, Manchester, which was home to some of the first Chinese people living in the UK and which claims to have the country's second-largest Chinatown, will see a parade, led by a 53.3-meter dragon, make its way from Manchester Central Library to the city's Chinatown from 12:30pm, with a fireworks finale at 6pm.
On June 1, China released a master plan for the Hainan free trade port, aiming to build the province into a globally-influential high-level free trade port by the middle of the century.
On New Year's Day, Geng, together with her mother, was a member of a climbing team that participated in the 2018 New Year Mountaineering and Body Building challenge, hosted by Qinghai Sports Bureau, in the Menyuan Hui autonomous county, Qinghai province.
On July 2, in Asheville, North Carolina, the Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society, a chapter of the National Audubon Society, renamed itself the Blue Ridge Audubon Society.
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On July 31, Chief Executive of the HKSAR Carrie Lam announced the postponement for one year of the seventh LegCo General Election, originally scheduled for Sept 6, 2020, due to the recent local COVID-19 outbreak. Some countries expressed concern at the postponement.
On July 11, a taxi drove into a group of people jogging in a vehicle lane in Linyi, Shandong, killing one jogger and injuring two others.
On Monday, a test for virtual reality live transmission via the 5G network in China was successfully completed. The broadcast, enabled by telecom equipment maker Huawei's technology, will allow TV audiences to have a panoramic view of this year's Spring Festival gala.Wang Yanhui, secretary-general of Mobile China Alliance, an industry association, said "China's open attitude toward foreign companies in 5G stands in sharp contrast to the US, which banned some Chinese enterprises from entering its telecom market on "national security concerns".On Monday, the US announced criminal charges against Huawei. Wen called the accusations unfair.
On Sunday afternoon, the National Meteorological Center issued a blue alert for gales in central and eastern China and a yellow alert for snowstorms in the northeastern provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang. China has a four-tier, color-coded weather warning system, with red the most severe, followed by orange, yellow and blue.