Trump to visit S. Korea for talks on N. Korea, alliance

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SEOUL/WASHINGTON, May 16 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump will visit South Korea next month for talks with President Moon Jae-in on the denuclearization of North Korea and alliance issues, Moon's office announced Thursday amid growing concerns about the overall peace process.

Trump plans to visit South Korea in late June as part of his regional trip. He will travel to Osaka, Japan, for the two-day G-20 summit to open on June 28.

The exact schedule for Trump's second trip to South Korea as U.S. president remains unannounced. He made a state visit to South Korea in November 2017.

"The two leaders plan to discuss ways for the establishment of a permanent peace regime through the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the strengthening of the South Korea-U.S. alliance," Cheong Wa Dae spokesperson, Ko Min-jung, said early Thursday morning (Seoul time).

This photo shows South Korean President Moon Jae-in (L) meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington on April 11, 2019. (Yonhap)

She added Seoul and Washington have agreed to have additional diplomatic consultations on the detailed schedule of Trump's upcoming visit to the peninsula.

Moon's office, Cheong Wa Dae, was guarded about the format of Trump's visit and specific agenda items.

"(We) have no information to provide with regard to such issues as format and schedule," a Cheong Wa Dae official told reporters. "We will have to see what agenda items will be discussed."

Making public Trump's South Korea visit plan, the White House said, the leaders will "continue their close coordination on efforts to achieve the final, fully verified denuclearization" of North Korea and talk about bolstering the alliance.

Asked about the difference between Moon's office and the White House in wording on the denuclearization goal, the Cheong Wa Dae official said it's just a matter of translation.

It's a practice to choose words in coordination between the two nations within an agreed-upon context, the official stressed.

Moon and Trump had a White House summit in April. At that time, Moon invited Trump to visit South Korea.

Doubts have grown about the future of denuclearization talks since Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi in late February ended without any formal accord.

Pyongyang recently launched two apparent short-range missiles and fired a salvo of projectiles, a move seen as a protest against the U.S. attitude and an attempt to put pressure on the Moon administration. The secretive nation argued that the firing was part of routine, sovereign defense drills.

On Tuesday, North Korea's foreign ministry strongly denounced the U.S. seizure of one of its cargo ships, known as the Wise Honest. It's accused of shipping coal in violation of U.S. sanctions.

"The United States committed an unlawful and outrageous act of dispossessing our cargo ship," an unnamed ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by Pyongyang's official news agency, Korea Central News Agency.

"The latest U.S. act constitutes an extension of the American method of calculation for bringing the DPRK to its knees by means of 'maximum pressure' and an outright denial of the underlying spirit of the June 12 DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement." DPRK is the acronym for the country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Pyongyang's hard-line stance came as the liberal Moon government is seeking to provide food aid for the neighbor, in which many residents are reportedly suffering famine.

Trump has supported Seoul's plan, according to Cheong Wa Dae, while the president has responded to Pyongyang's recent military activities in a relatively calm manner.

He said he does not regard them as a "breach of trust" by Kim.

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चंद्रमा की भूकंपीय गतिविधि

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नासा के अंतरिक्ष अन्वेषण यान ने चंद्रमा पर 3,500 से अधिक अंतरिक्ष यात्रियों का पता लगाया है,

अपोलो मिशन पर अंतरिक्ष यात्रियों द्वारा स्थापित चार निगरानी स्टेशनों के आंकड़ों के विश्लेषण से पता चला है कि चंद्रमा को मृत रॉक द्रव्यमान मानने के बाद चंद्रमा में एक विवर्तनिक गतिविधि का सुझाव देने वाले नए प्रमाण मिले हैं।

नेचर ऑफ अर्थ नामक जर्नल में प्रकाशित एक हालिया अध्ययन में, चंद्र सतह की भूकंप की निगरानी का पता चला है - रिक्टर स्केल पर दो और पांच डिग्री के बीच - जो सीधे उच्च ऊंचाई वाली चट्टानों से संबंधित हैं।

ये चंद्र ढलान सीढ़ियों का आकार लेते हैं, आमतौर पर दस मीटर ऊंचे होते हैं और कुछ मील तक बढ़ते हैं।

लूनर क्राइसिसअध्ययन टीम ने सतह के भूकंपों से ज्ञात 28 भूकंपों का पता लगाने के लिए एक कंप्यूटर एल्गोरिदम विकसित किया जो 1969 और 1977 के बीच होने की संभावना है।

टीम ने पाया कि उनमें से आठ चंद्र छवियों में देखे गए दोषों के 30 किलोमीटर के दायरे में आए थे, जो भूकंप का एक प्रमुख कारण माना जा रहा है।

अध्ययन में पाया गया कि आठ में से छह भूकंप तब आए जब चंद्रमा अपनी कक्षा में पृथ्वी के सबसे दूर के बिंदु पर था, क्योंकि पृथ्वी के अतिरिक्त ज्वार द्रव्यमान में वृद्धि हुई, जिससे उन भूकंपीय दोषों में एक स्लाइड की संभावना बढ़ गई। 

विस्तृत चित्रनासा एलआरओ अंतरिक्ष यान ने 3,500 से अधिक चंद्र अवकाशों की विस्तृत छवियां प्रदान की हैं।

इन छवियों में से कुछ में चंद्रमा की तुलना में अपेक्षाकृत चमकीले दिखाई देने वाले भूस्खलन दिखाई देते हैं, जो सौर और अंतरिक्ष विकिरण से काले दिखाई देते हैं, इस बात का और अधिक प्रमाण देते हुए कि ये चमकीले क्षेत्र उन चट्टानों में भूकंप के परिणामस्वरूप खिसकी हुई ढलान के नीचे फिसलने के कारण हुए थे। सक्रिय।

लिंकन ढलान के दक्षिणी रॉक द्रव्यमान में बड़े पैमाने पर भूस्खलन, वहाँ होने वाली दरार घटनाओं के कारण चंद्र भूकंप का और अधिक सबूत है।

चित्र उन स्थानों में भूस्खलन दिखाते हैं जो चंद्रमा की तुलना में अपेक्षाकृत चमकीले दिखते हैं, जो सौर और अंतरिक्ष विकिरण (गेटी इमेजेज) से काले दिखाई देते हैं

चंद्रमा की उत्पत्ति का उद्गम स्थलचट्टानों का विस्तार होता है क्योंकि तापमान बढ़ता है और ठंड में सिकुड़ता है। इसके संकुचन के परिणामस्वरूप, चंद्रमा की पपड़ी दरारें बनाने के लिए टूट जाती है, जैसे कि 2009 में अंतरिक्ष यान द्वारा ली गई विस्तृत छवियों द्वारा देखी गई।

अध्ययन दल लगातार अलग अलग समय पर विशिष्ट दरारें, की छवियों की तुलना में है अगर वहाँ एक हाल ही में भूकंपीय गतिविधि का कोई सबूत है देखने के लिए।

चंद्रमा हमारे सौर मंडल है, जो समय के साथ कुछ संकुचन ग्रस्त में केवल एक ही नहीं है। कहाँ पारा में भारी दरारें देखते हैं के बारे में छह सौ मील की दूरी की लंबाई, ऊपर तीन से अधिक किलोमीटर की दूरी तक पहुँचता है और चंद्रमा पर पाए जाने वाले की तुलना में आकार में बहुत बड़ा है, चाँद की तुलना में अधिक पारा के एक संकुचन का सुझाव दे।

इस जानकारी के बारे में अधिक जानने के भीतर है, और वहाँ खतरनाक भूकंप की राशि निर्धारित, सक्रिय दोष जब निकटता की योजना बना वहाँ उपग्रह अड्डों की स्थापना के लिए से बचने के लिए पहचान करने की आवश्यकता के अलावा करने के लिए चंद्रमा की सतह पर एक नया भूकंप निगरानी नेटवर्क की स्थापना को प्रोत्साहित करती है। 

Ученые объяснили, почему северный магнитный полюс "переезжает" в Россию

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МОСКВА, 16 мая — РИА Новости. Северный магнитный полюс Земли продолжает быстро смещаться со стороны канадской Арктики к берегам России, показали замеры спутников европейской миссии Swarm. Ученые полагают, что причины этих сдвигов скрываются в недрах Сибири и Канады, сообщает Европейское космическое агентство.

"Мы до сих пор не знаем, почему полюс сдвигается именно в этом направлении. Замеры, которые мы проводили при помощи спутников, в том числе и флотилии Swarm, говорят о том, что его блуждания порождены своеобразной войной между двумя зонами с отрицательным магнитным потоком, расположенными под Канадой и Сибирью", — заявил Филип Ливермор (Philip Livermore) из университета Лидса (Великобритания).

Место, куда указывает стрелка компаса, не постоянно: примерно раз в 450 тысяч или миллион лет северный и южный магнитные полюса меняются местами, а еще чаще происходят временные перевороты магнитной оси. Следы этих процессов ученые часто находят в древних глинах и отложениях вулканических пород.

К примеру, недавно обнаружилось, что после последнего временного сдвига оси, который произошел около 40 тысяч лет назад, северная стрелка компаса еще несколько тысячелетий указывала на современный южный полюс. А глобально полюса менялись местами примерно 780 тысяч лет назад.

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Магнитный полюс Земли стремится в Россию. Что это значит для нас?

Многие обыватели и некоторые ученые считают, что нечто подобное должно произойти и в ближайшее (по геологическим меркам) время, так как за последние несколько сотен лет сила магнитного поля Земли плавно, но довольно заметно снизилась, а положение северного и южного магнитных полюсов значительно изменилось.

Как отмечает Ливермор, ученых уже давно интересует, почему северный магнитный полюс, который ранее располагался в окрестностях островов Элсмир в канадской Арктике, в последние два десятилетия стремительно перемещается на север, сдвигаясь в сторону России примерно на 50-55 километров каждый год.

Ливермор и его команда пытаются найти ответ этот вопрос с ноября 2013 года — с тех пор, как Европейское космическое агентство запустило миссию Swarm, нацеленную на изучение магнитного поля Земли.

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Траектория движения магнитного полюса Земли

Три года назад исследователи заметили, что магнитное поле в северных приполярных районах сильно и быстро меняется, так что получалась своеобразная "ромашка" из чередующихся зон с аномально слабым и аномально сильным магнитным полем. Иногда напряженность поля в "лепестках" всего за сезон менялась на значение, равное половине общей силы магнитного поля планеты.

Как предполагают ученые, в последнюю треть прошлого века такой "лепесток", расположенный под Канадой, резко поменял форму. Его границы сильно расширились, из-за чего сила его воздействия на магнитное поле Земли упала, а движение полюса в сторону России резко ускорилось.

В результате, отмечает Ливермор, два года назад северный магнитный полюс пересек линию перемены дат и официально оказался в Восточном полушарии. По последним прогнозам геофизиков, скорость и траектория его движения в ближайшие годы не изменятся, так что магнитный полюс сдвинется еще на 390-660 километров к югу, но северных берегов Евразии не достигнет.

Police arrest activists squatting in Venezuelan Embassy

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A pro Nicolas Maduro supporter Adrienne Pine is arrested, during the eviction of Maduro's supporters from the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, Thursday, May 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four demonstrators who have been staging a protest inside the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington for weeks were arrested Thursday, signaling a possible resolution to the extended stand-off.

Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, told The Associated Press that police entered the embassy early Thursday morning.

A State Department spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that law enforcement personnel “arrested and removed four trespassers” from the embassy.

Around noon, a group of police cars drove away from the building. A video posted on social media by Code Pink showed Adrienne Pine, one of the four protesters, in the back of the police car, saying “this is an illegal order that (the police) are following.”

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a lawyer for the activists, said she was still trying to determine what criminal charges they may be facing.

The protesters consider Nicolás Maduro to be the legitimate Venezuelan president. But the U.S. and more than 50 other countries say Maduro’s recent reelection was fraudulent and are backing congressional leader Juan Guaidó’s claim to the presidency.

Guaidó’s newly named ambassador had requested the help of U.S. authorities in clearing the building. Shortly after the arrests, Guaidó tweeted, “The process of recovery of our embassies around the world has started.

The protest started more than a month ago with at least 30 activists staying at the embassy, but their numbers gradually dwindled. The building has been without power since last week and a crowd of Guaidó supporters has frequently gathered to heckle the protesters from the street.

The ambassador, Carlos Vecchio, announced plans to go to the embassy Thursday evening to address the crowds of Venezuelan diaspora gathered there.

Belt and Road Initiative as model of economic development-Nepali scholar

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KATHMANDU, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Belt and Road Initiative has appeared as one of the biggest economic development models around the globe in the past few years, a Nepali scholar and former top government official said on Friday.

In his book entitled "South Asia China Geo-economics," Yubaraj Sangroula, the former attorney general of Nepal, has highly praised the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, explaining that the it has followed the principle of open participation with a principle of cooperation on equal footing.

Mentioning the Belt and Road Initiative as a model of economic development, the author stated it maintains the principle of inclusive partnership of nations in development endeavors without any threat to the national sovereignty of the participating country.

Proposed by China in 2013, the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative aims to build a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa through the ancient trade routes of Silk Road.

"Most importantly, it gets rid of traditional, hegemonic or colonial nature of cooperation," Sangroula said in the book talking about the nature of the cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative framework.

The initiative has intended to reshape the existing globalization that is characterized by dispositions of colonial and confrontational underpinnings, the author, who is also the founding executive director of Kathmandu School of Law based in Bhaktapur, has argued in the book.

"Tangibly, the development model of BRI consists of Eurasian transport network integrating multi-dimensional interconnected network of railways, highways, aviation, navigation, oil and gas pipelines, electric transmission lines and communication. These networks intend to create a rich sphere of interconnectedness with shared benefits to all stakeholders," the author stated.

Sangroula said landlocked countries like Nepal, who have joined the Belt and Road Initiative, are going to become the greatest beneficiaries of the Belt and Road model.

"The BRI has bigger prospects to bring for the landlocked countries in access of global markets, as indispensable partners of the inclusive development," the author added.

The book was launched by former Nepali prime minister Jhalanath Khanal in Kathmandu on Friday in the presence of eminent personalities from media, academic field and political parties among others.

Double efforts needed as 1 in 7 babies born with low birth weight worldwide: WHO

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GENEVA, May 16 (Xinhua) -- More than 20 million babies were born with a low birthweight in 2015, around one in seven of all births worldwide, making it a major health challenge that requires more than doubling progress if previously set targets are to be met, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

More than 80 percent of the world's 2.5 million newborns who die every year are of low birthweight of less than 2,500g, while those low birthweight babies who survive have a greater risk of stunting, and developmental and physical ill health later in life, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to a latest research paper developed by experts from the WHO, UNICEF and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, published in The Lancet Global Health.

Having collated data from 281 million births for 148 countries of 195 UN member states, the research found that the estimated low birthweight prevalence worldwide in 2015 was 14.6 percent, compared with 17.5 percent in 2000. In 2015, an estimated 20.5 million livebirths were low birthweight, 91 percent from low-and-middle income countries, mainly southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

"Low birthweight is a complex clinical entity composed of intrauterine growth restriction and preterm birth," said co-author Dr. Mercedes de Onis from the Department of Nutrition at the WHO. "This is why reducing low birthweight requires an understanding of the underlying causes in a given country."

Citing Southern Asia as an example where a large proportion of low birthweight babies are born at term but with intrauterine growth restriction, Onis said it is associated with maternal undernutrition, including maternal stunting.

Another major contributor to low birthweight, she said, is preterm birth, which is often seen in many adolescent pregnancies, high prevalence of infection, or where pregnancy is associated with high levels of fertility treatment and caesarean sections.

"Understanding and tackling these underlying causes in high-burden countries should be a priority," she added.

The research warned that although close to three-quarters of low birthweight babies were born in Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, the problem remains also substantial in high-income countries in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. High-income countries have seen virtually no progress.

According to the WHO, low birthweight is an important marker of maternal and fetal health, predicting mortality, stunting, and adult-onset chronic conditions. In 2012, global nutrition targets were set at the World Health Assembly to include an ambitious 30 percent reduction in low birthweight prevalence between 2012 and 2025.

Although estimates suggest some progress in reducing low birthweight between 2000 and 2015, the research recommended that to meet the global nutrition target would require more than doubling progress, involving both improved measurement and program investments to address the causes of low birthweight throughout the lifecycle.

China develops new-generation rockets for upcoming missions

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BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- China has developed a number of new-generation carrier rockets to take the country's space industry to the next level.

LONG MARCH-7

The Long March-7 is a medium-sized carrier rocket with high reliability and safety. It is designed to launch cargo vehicles during the construction of China's manned space station project and meet the long-term demand for upgrading manned carrier rockets in service.

The rocket is 53.1 meters long with a core-level diameter of 3.35 meters, four 2.25m-diameter boosters and a takeoff weight of 596 tonnes. It has a lift capability of sending 13.5 tonnes of payload to low-Earth orbit, or 5.5 tonnes of payload to sun-synchronous orbit, according to Wang Xiaojun, who is in charge of the Long March-7 rocket system.

On June 25, 2016, a Long March-7 rocket launched a number of payloads into orbit from the the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province. On April 20, 2017, at the same launch site, a Long March-7 launched cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 into space.

It is also China's first digitally designed carrier rocket, meaning no paper blueprint was used throughout the design and production process.

The rocket is also more environment friendly than in previous generations. Free of highly toxic propellant, "it is powered by kerosene and liquid oxygen, which increases its thrust by 50 percent and lowers costs to one-tenth of conventional propellants," Wang said.

The Long March-7 will become the main carrier for China's future space missions, according to Wang.

LONG MARCH-9

The Long March-9 rocket will be China's largest heavy-lift carrier rocket. It will be capable of lifting 50 to 140 tonnes into low-Earth orbit, which is key to China's lunar exploration, deep space explorations, space infrastructure construction and utilization of space resources.

It will greatly enhance China's ability to promote space development and safeguard space security, said Zhang Zhi, chief designer of the rocket.

In addition, the heavy rocket is being designed to facilitate China's lunar missions, including landings with crew.

LONG MARCH-11

The Long March-11 is a four-stage, solid-fueled rocket that is used to launch payloads to low-Earth and sun-synchronous orbits. It is 20.8 meters long, with a maximum diameter of two meters and a takeoff weight of 58 tonnes.

Since its maiden flight on Sept. 25, 2015, the Long March-11 rockets have been launched six times, sending 25 satellites into space.

It has flexible and rapid response abilities and can be launched within 24 hours.

Jin Xin, deputy chief commander of the rocket, said the Long March-11 could support emergency communications and remote sensing observations after natural disasters and incidents.

It is also designed for commercial use to meet the growing needs of launching micro satellites.

China is planning its first sea-launch of satellites carried by a Long March-11 rocket this year.

Brazil faces mass protests against education spending cuts

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Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in cities across Brazil on Wednesday to rally against education spending freezes made by Jair Bolsonaro’s government as part of a wider government effort to reduce spending, Trend reports citing Sputnik.

On Wednesday Brazil’s National Student Union called for protests against what it called spending cuts after the Education Ministry said it was freezing nearly a quarter of discretionary spending - $1.85 billion.

Marches took place in over 200 cities, according to a count by the Globo TV network, gathering reportedly 150,000 across the country. In the capital Brasilia, some 7,000 students and university professors marched to Congress, carrying signs against the cuts. One said: “Education is not an expense, it is an investment.” Another read: “Without investment, there is no knowledge.”

“Our message to Bolsonaro is that society will not accept these cuts of 30 percent,” said Luis Antonio Pasquetti, head of the National University of Brasilia’s teacher union.

The marches were mostly peaceful, however, in Rio de Janeiro a march turned violent when protesters allegedly set a bus on fire and started shooting fireworks at police officers who had to use tear gas bombs and rubber bullets to break a crowd up. There is still no information on the number of injuries during the protests.

Venezuela security forces block opposition lawmakers from entering parliament

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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan security forces prevented opposition lawmakers from entering the parliament building for a session on Tuesday, a week after the top court stripped several lawmakers of their immunity amid a political crisis in the South American country.

Venezuelan National Police members stand in line near the National Assembly building in Caracas, Venezuela, May 14, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Members of the Sebin intelligence service, wearing masks and carrying long guns, together with members of the national police and the military blocked the entrance and were investigating the possible presence of an explosive device inside the National Assembly building, lawmakers said.

Last week, one opposition lawmaker was arrested and several took refuge in foreign embassies in Caracas or fled the country as President Nicolas Maduro cracked down on allies of opposition leader Juan Guaido, following a failed effort to convince members of the military to rise up against Maduro in late April.

Guaido, the leader of the opposition-controlled Assembly, in January invoked Venezuela’s constitution to assume an interim presidency, arguing Maduro’s 2018 re-election was illegitimate. More than 50 countries have recognized him as the country’s rightful leader, and say the assembly is its last remaining democratic institution.

“This is all part of a show to prevent the National Assembly from functioning,” lawmaker Juan Pablo Guanipa told Reuters. “This is a dictatorship that goes after dissidents, and we are fighting for a political change.”

Venezuela’s information ministry, which handles media inquiries on behalf of the government, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Maduro, a socialist, calls Guaido a puppet of the United States seeking to oust him in a coup.

The government stripped the assembly of most of its powers after the opposition won a majority in 2015 elections. Lawmakers loyal to Maduro generally do not attend the sessions, but go to meetings of the constituent assembly, a legislative “superbody” created in 2017 that meets in the same building on Wednesdays.

The “superbody” is an all-powerful legislature controlled by the ruling Socialist Party and whose powers supersede those of the National Assembly.

Tuesday’s session was scheduled for 10 a.m. (1400 GMT), but never began. The lawmakers were set to discuss the Supreme Court’s stripping of several of their colleagues’ parliamentary immunity and the arrest of Edgar Zambrano, the Assembly’s vice president and an outspoken critic of Maduro.

Opposition lawmaker Jorge Millan told reporters the report of “bombs” in the building was false.

“It is a trick to prevent the parliament from functioning today,” he said. “If we do not have a session today, we will do it tomorrow.”

China-U.S. trade talks should be based on equality: Chinese FM

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SOCHI, Russia, May 14 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States should carry out their trade

 talks on the basis of equality instead of blaming and pressuring on the other side during the

 process of negotiation, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on

 Monday.

He made the remarks at a press conference following a meeting with his Russian counterpart

 Sergei Lavrov.

When asked about the prospects for China-U.S. trade talks, Wang said Beijing and

 Washington have made significant and substantial progress with their joint efforts, but 

certain difficulties remain to be carefully handled and resolved.

Under such circumstances, unilateral accusation is meaningless while shifting

 responsibility is unacceptable, he said, warning that exerting maximum pressure

 will only trigger legitimate countermeasures.

China's move is meant to not only protect its due rights and interests, but also

 safeguard the basic rules of multilateral trade mechanism, Wang added.

Wang underlined that the negotiation is not a one-way lane but should be carried

 out on the basis of equality, saying it is impossible to expect one side to readily

 accept the other's request.

China will always safeguard its sovereignty, Chinese people's interests and national 

dignity when negotiating with any country, he said.

The outlook for trade links between China and the United States -- the world's two

 largest economies -- not only matters to their own development, but also bears on

 the prospect of the world economy.

Therefore, as long as the negotiation is in line with China's reform and opening up policy,

 its pursuit of high-quality development, and the common and long-term interests of the

 two peoples, the negotiators of both sides will have the ability and wisdom to properly

 address their reasonable demand and reach a mutually beneficial agreement, he said.