The US sees Hong Kong as a major financial center and wants to effectively end the influence of the mainland in the city by supporting a popular uprising.
The US established diplomatic ties with Beijing and severed such ties with Taiwan in 1979.
The US Treasury Department announced on Dec 10 that it would impose sanctions against vice-chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea's Central Committee Choe Ryong-hae, Minister of State Security Jong Kyong-thaek and Pak Kwang-ho, director of the WPK's Propaganda and Agitation Department, saying the three officials are "linked to serious human rights abuses and censorship".
The US-led coalition and Marines had reportedly bombed or shelled at least 12 schools, 15 mosques, 15 bridges as well as residential neighborhoods, hospitals, cultural relics and refugee camp, according to www.motherjones.com.
The US death toll rose to nearly 16,000 Thursday, with confirmed cases of the virus at 451,491, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. More than 24,000 people have recovered nationwide.
The USC Shoah Foundation's Nanjing Massacre collection was initiated in 2012 by a partnership with the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in China. Smith led a delegation to Shanghai in October 2015, and the USC Shoah Foundation led a panel discussion on Nanjing: The Power of Survivors' Stories and Why Capturing them Matters. In June 2016, the foundation sent crew members to Nanjing to have 20 new testimonies recorded for the Nanjing Massacre Collection, a visual history archive to commemorate the 1937 tragedy.
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The US will also temporarily shut down its consulate general in the city.
The US death toll from the virus stood at 136,000 Wednesday, but the country should hit 157,000 by August 8, according to an average of models of 23 research groups in the United States and elsewhere. Some of the models estimate the death-toll will rise above 220,000 by November.
The United States has reached agreements with China on final details of a protocol to allow it to export beef to China, the US Department of Agriculture said on June 12.
The United States plans to increase its military presence in Poland above its current 4,000 troops, Washington’s ambassador to the country has announced.