China’s surprising suspension of North Korean coal imports puts pressure not only on Pyongyang, but also on President Donald Trump. The question for him: Should the U.S. respond with new North Korea negotiations? Years of failed efforts to stem North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs have followed a usual pattern.
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U.S. think tank urges Trump to promote ties with China
A task force report released recently in Washington has urged U.S. President Donald Trump to reexamine his policy toward China and promote U.S.-China ties. Conducted by the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations and the University of California San Diego 21st Century China Center, the report gathered opinions of around 20 bipartisan experts, including former government officials, scholars and think tank researchers.
US panel warns Trump ditching One-China policy is ‘exceedingly dangerous’
The Trump administration shouldn’t abandon long-standing US policy on the status of Taiwan, a prominent panel of China specialists said Tuesday, calling such a move “exceedingly dangerous.” Before taking office, President Donald Trump questioned Washington’s “one China policy” that shifted diplomatic recognition from self-governing Taiwan to China in 1979.
The next beer frontier: the moon
If a team of UC San Diego engineering students has its way, we may soon be sipping Sea of Tranquility Saison and Waxing and Waning Wheat Ale. The undergraduates at the Jacobs School of Engineering hope to answer an age-old scientific riddle: Can beer be brewed on the moon? Finalists in the Lab2Moon competition, the local scholars want to test the viability of yeast in space, equipping an Indian spacecraft with tiny canisters of unfermented beer, known as wort, and yeast.