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The article highlights a report from the U.S. Department of Commerce which showed that exports of scrap paper and plastic continued to decline in February, 2019. Topics discussed include reports on the shipments by the U.S. exporters to all countries which dropped; and marking the fourth straight month of declining shipments for both commodities.

The article discusses news reports of U.S. waste facilities burning plastics and sending recycled paper to landfill instead of being recycled resulting from a ban on foreign waste implemented by the Chinese government in 2018. Topics include a decline in the value of recyclable materials, and the impact of China's increased use of new plastics resulting from the decline in raw materials from recycled plastic on the environment.

Accurate and timely crop yield prediction is difficult to achieve due to the nonlinear and dynamic spatial–temporal correlations included during the crop growth process. The latest approaches utilize deep learning techniques to implicitly capture sequential dependencies but fail to consider prior knowledge. In this paper, a novel Knowledge-guided Spatial–Temporal Attention Graph Network (KSTAGE), which incorporates prior knowledge to model dynamic temporal relationships and geospatial topology structures, is proposed. The proposed KSTAGE first utilizes a 3D convolutional neural network (CNN) to embed the initial spectral feature. Following its development, a new Knowledge-guided Temporal Multi-head Attention Algorithm (KTMA), the core of KSTAGE, is applied to automatically generate temporal attention weights from a self-attention mechanism under the guidance of prior knowledge. Furthermore, a new strategy for aligning self-attention scores with the prior distribution is developed. Finally, a location-aware Spatial Attention Graph Network utilizing geospatial knowledge is proposed to aggregate the spatial neighborhood features for the final yield prediction. The experimental results obtained on county-level yield prediction tasks in China and the contiguous United States (CONUS) demonstrate that the proposed KSTAGE achieves obvious improvements over the baselines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the implementation of China's National Sword policy, some Chinese companies have begun investing in recycling facilities in the U.S. in order to maintain China's manufacturing output. CNBC recently spoke with various experts from the U.S. recycling industry to discuss how the U.S. is responding to the changes China has enforced. The report touches on upgrading domestic sorting facilities and Chinese companies buying old paper mills in the U.S. to produce enough scrap material to support China's manufacturing output. [Extracted from the article]

The article surveys the history of money and discusses why, in the author's view, the U.S. is misguided in its efforts to persuade China to revalue the yuan upwards. Coins obviated the need for barter in early economies, and eventually led to the introduction of even more convenient paper currencies that were backed by metals such as gold or silver. When currencies could no longer be redeemed for precious metal, though, governments became free to print money at will. The author notes that the link between the yuan and the U.S. dollar has helped trade between China and the U.S. to flourish.

The article discusses the threat to scientific cooperation between the U.S. and China, with U.S. and Chinese scientists writing fewer joint papers, and a decline in the number of Chinese students and researchers entering the U.S. While concerns about technology transfer and intellectual property theft exist, ending or watering down the Science and Technology Agreement (STA) would be a mistake.

In No Trade Is Free, Lighthizer recounts how he fought China as Trump's U.S. trade representative - essentially the top general in a three-year trade war - and recommends policies to finish the job. During the Trump administration, Lighthizer was always in the running for White House chief of staff, and in our age-is-just-a-number political era, the 75-year-old Lighthizer is a likely candidate for that office or another senior post should Trump regain the White House. No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers ROBERT LIGHTHIZER, BROADSIDE BOOKS, 384 PP., $32, JUNE 2023 U.S. President Ronald Reagan shakes hands with Lighthizer in the Oval Office on April 25, 1983. Review In the clubby world of Washington trade lawyers, Robert Lighthizer was always an outsider. [Extracted from the article]

Their argument is unconvincing as both originalist and textual analysis: Section 3 was written to deal with the specific context of ex-Confederate soldiers and politicians, and fitting Trump's conduct (however odious) into the four corners of the text requires a tortured redefinition of insurrection and of enemies of the United States. A Putin victory would prove far costlier than a Putin defeat. President Biden achieved a foreign-policy breakthrough with potentially massive implications for China's designs in East Asia: a Camp David summit with Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol. The American people were told, first under the Trump administration, which negotiated the Doha Accords, and then under the Biden administration, which executed the Afghanistan withdrawal, that the Taliban would become our partner in counterterrorism. [Extracted from the article]

The author comments on various issues from medical care to foreign affairs. The need to develop a firm policy between the U.S. and China regarding surveillance aircraft is emphasized. Issues concerning the restrictions of the Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) in the U.S. are outlined. A U.S. Supreme Court case on the privacy concerns about the use of imaging devices by government authorities is discussed.

The article discusses how the U.S. can establish naval dominance against China amidst the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Also cited are China's alleged plan to dominate the global supply chains including plans to control the medical-equipment and pharmaceuticals sector, how the U.S. can stop China's plan like crippling the latter's commercial maritime network, as well as China's alleged predatory economic and financial strategy.

The article informs that Chinese government has softened its regulations by allowing the U.S. inspections of Chinese accounting papers. It mentions the move comes after considering the review by foreign regulators of accounting documents drawn up in China for Chinese companies listed outside the mainland as an infringement on sovereignty, potentially punishable by death. It also mentions an American law from 2020 could eventually force Chinese stocks off New York's exchanges.

The article focuses on the relationship between China and U.S. emphasizing on an excerpt from Xi Jinping, Chinese President's speech from a meeting with U.S. president Barrack Obama, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's presidency, and ways to make U.S. great again.

In the article, the author discusses the reasons why the U.S. should not wage a war against China if the latter invades Taiwan. He claims that Taiwan is insignificant to the U.S.' security interests and the government should not commit to Taiwan's defense in case of a Chinese attack. Also cited is the book "Strategy of Denial" by Elbridge Colby discussing topics like China's military and economic growth and its goal of replacing the U.S. as the hegemon in Asia.

In the article, the author discusses the alleged Cold War between the U.S. and China as of December 2020. Also cited are how journalist George Orwell coined the term 'Cold War' in 1945, his view on totalitarianism, how the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia ended, and the false belief that political liberalization will be achieve in China after its economic modernization.

The article offers information on the agreement between Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) with China to begin observing each other's oversight activities for cooperation in regulating audit firms. It states that China has blocked the PCAOB for several years from inspecting companies in China, even registered companies that audit financial statements relied on in the U.S. capital market, highlighting conflict with its laws.

The article discusses the economic relationship between the U.S. and China and the reasons why the tariff imposed on Chinese exports to improve trade relations is ineffective. Also cited are the move by politicians to criticize China to gain political mileage amidst the growing negative sentiments by Americans to the Chinese, and the alleged predatory and mercantilist practices of the Chinese.

The article discusses the conspiracy theories that the covid-19 disease was from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, and U.S. President Donald Trump's move to blame China for the pandemic as a way to hide his administration's inept handling of the virus. Also cited are how the WIV project was financed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the leaked communications showing that the U.S. failed to provide support to WIV when it asked assistance.

The article discusses how the strategy by the U.S. to urge China to join the free world to achieve globalization has led to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also cited are the adverse effects of the pandemic to the U.S., including the lost lives, jobs, income, production, and wealth, how China became a major player in the liberal international order through the help of the U.S., and how the U.S. failed to contain the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

If we assume that the role of the US as a global hegemon is nearing its end, rising China may wish to assume the mantle of leadership. But in order to take on such a role, it will first have to establish itself as a trusted and reliable leading power among the diverse countries of East Asia. Evelyn Goh outlines the rights and responsibilities that China would have to shoulder if it wants to share or to take over the great-power management role of the United States in East Asia. The challenges are enormous and complex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The economic rise of China has unleashed a growing chorus of anxiety in some circles in the West, especially in the United States, about the likelihood that China will one day claim a right to greater leadership in world affairs. That day has come. Beijing has already taken numerous steps to imprint its views on global governance, and more will follow. It remains to be seen how China's ambitions will play out, but it's time for the US and other Western nations to acknowledge Beijing's place at the table, writes Chu Yun-han. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the article, the author discusses how the Peace Corps program of the U.S. in China has ended. Also cited are the key roles played by U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott to the closure of the program, how Chinese leader Mao Zedong criticized American democracy in the mid-1900s, and the author's experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer to teach English to Chinese college students.

The article discusses a conflict between the U.S. and China over recycling of waste. It states that U.S. exports about one-third of its recycling, and nearly half goes to China, and mentions that according to company Bulk Handling Systems, robots can be the future of recycling. It notes that recycling companies have been considering changing the rules, and adding an additional bin for paper only, to help streamline the sorting process.

The article explores the importance of the U.S. diplomatic and political engagement with Taiwan to the U.S. policy toward China in 2021. Topics discussed include the threat posed by China to international order, the need for strategic coherence in U.S. policy toward Taiwan, and the growing importance of Taiwan in the region and in the world economy in light of its emergence as the seventh wealthiest country in the world and growth of its global semiconductor market.

The article highlights several global challenges towards waste recycling. Topics discussed include imposing of higher recycling fees by several nations; China imposed a ban on the import of recyclable waste from Western countries, that involves the U.S. also; and views on recycling crisis in U.S. as it exported much of its recyclables to China.

The article reports that the Chinese military has been keeping its weapons development programs secret. The U.S. has reported that it is concerned over China's continued military secrecy, saying that it should state its intentions more clearly. The Chinese defense department published a 105 page paper describing its military ambitions, but the paper is unclear and lacks details.

The article reports on how the task of watching China can affect the decisions of the U.S. government in April 1966. According to China specialists, the U.S. policy toward China was too rigid and recommends that the U.S. must not isolate China even while containing it. The author adds that 198 scholars in Asia and China signed a letter criticizing U.S. policy. The difficulties involved in watching China, its progress in providing its own arms and its nuclear weapons capability are also discussed.

The article discusses Chinese ambitions for superpower status in relation to U.S. global power. Topics include Chinese military spending, the policies of Chinese President Xi Jinping in relation to Chinese infrastructure and presence in Antarctica, and China's economic challenges in relation to possible population decline. Chinese diplomatic efforts are noted.