China said on Monday it opposed the United States selling weapons to Taiwan, after the Trump administration approved the marketing license required for US manufacturers to sell technology to Taiwan that would allow for building submarines.The Defense Ministry, responding to a journalist's question in an online statement about the issue, demanded that the US "halt all forms of military links between the United States and Taiwan, as well as all forms of weapon sales to Taiwan"."China's military has the ability and determination to defeat all attempts to separate our country, and it will adopt all necessary measures to resolutely defend national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity," ministry spokesman Wu Qian said.Last month, US President Donald Trump signed a bill that encourages visits between the United States and Taiwan at all levels, which China strongly opposed.According to media reports, new US national security adviser John Bolton is expected to visit Taiwan in June.In response to Bolton's possible visit, Geng Shuang, spokesman for Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the one-China policy is the basis for the Sino-US relationship, and China opposes official connections between the US and Taiwan, or the US selling weapons to it."That stance has been coherent, clear and firm," he said. "We urge the US to halt any official connections and any move to enhance substantial relations with Taiwan. The US should also cut military connections with Taiwan and stop selling weapons to it so as to avoid damage to the Sino-US relationship and cross-Straits peace and stability."CHINA DAILY/REUTERS silicone bracelets custom cheapcustom sweatbands no minimumbatman wristbandcustom made rubber braceletscustom wristbands no minimummake your own rubber braceletprinted wristbands
Hou Yunde chats with Cheng Yongqing, executive manager of Beijing Tri-Prime Gene Pharmaceutical Co, which Hou helped to found in 1992. [Photo/China Daily] The 60-year career of Hou Yunde, a global authority on viruses who is known as the guardian of China's health, is still inspiring medical professionals around the world, as Zhang Zhihao reports. In the summer of 2014, during an outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone, West Africa, four Chinese healthcare professionals spent days in a stiflingly hot biosafety lab the size of two shipping containers checking blood samples for evidence of the virus, one of the deadliest pathogens in history. It was the first time our team members had dealt with such a terrifying virus in such horrific sanitary conditions, said Wu Guizhen, Party secretary of the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. During transportation of the samples, bloodstained needles and broken glass penetrated some of the containers and occasionally sliced through the Chinese doctors' gloves. If they had punctured the skin, the person would probably have died. We really handled death with our fingertips, Wu said. Seventy members of staff from the center traveled to West Africa during the 2014 outbreak to provide aid. They all wrote farewell letters to their families (to be delivered in the event of their deaths). But they still wanted to go to help those in need and to make Hou Yunde, their mentor, proud, Wu said. For more than six decades, Hou has been a bulwark against viruses and contagious diseases in China, and he is an inspiration to health workers, she added.
