Wang Zhicheng

There are only a few brief quotes in Chinese newspapers abroad. China is too absorbed by the trade war with the US. Catholics stress the cardinal's "silences": he does not talk about the persecutions and oppression of the Patriotic Association. "Sinicization is only the beginning: afterwards comes elimination [of the Church]".

As of June 1, China will raise tariffs on 60 billion US products, from 5 to 25%. Western stock exchanges are affected. Accepting US demands implies a quasi-revolution in the Chinese economic system. However, both parties have left the door open for new meetings and more dialogue.

The treatment is called Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). Electrical stimulation is performed using a tablet to influence a patient’s mood from quiet or agitated to happy. Shanghai’s Ruijin Hospital has been performing DBS for a long time to treat Tourette's syndrome (motor and vocal tics), anorexia and depression. The operation in China costs US$ 25,000 but US$ 100,00 in the US. The medical community is divided over the matter for medical and ethical reasons.

A US broker would have made the girl pass as a sailing champion. The university's sailing coach would have received 770,000 dollars. The good offices of Morgan Stanley.

Productive "dialogue yesterday in Beijing. Next week a new meeting in Washington. The US will reduce taxes by 10% to a portion of Chinese imports. China agrees to end the forced transfer of technologies and apply equal treatment to US and Chinese companies.

Against a backdrop of chaotic organisation and tightly-controlled media, BRI forum saw Xi Jinping take centre stage. BRI’s main projects are the ports of Piraeus (Greece) and Gwadar (Pakistan) and railway lines to Europe and South East Asia. However, pollution and corruption have cast their shadow over the initiative.

At the Beijing Forum, the president promises more cooperation with countries worldwide, without devaluing the yuan, defending copyrights, expanding sectors for foreign companies' investments. 37 world leaders and hundreds of representatives of international companies in attendance. In praise of multilateralism.

In Lanzhou another priest forcibly taken away. A church destroyed in Xiangtao (Hubei). Underground priests do not feel safe: they can disappear at any time. The faithful are holding a sit-in from this morning in front of the local government office.

Cities are losing residents at a time when they suffer from a large number of vacant residential units and labour shortages. Getting a residency permit (hukou) is now easier. Several cities will allow migrants to settle if they are graduates or university students. By 2020, China plans to grant new residency permits to 100 million people.

In the elementary school of Wanquan (Hunan) a man stabbed and injured two other children. In Jiaozuo (Henan) a teacher is accused of adding nitrites to the children’s breakfast.

The new measures are aimed primarily at Protestant house churches, but it is almost certain that they will be applied to Catholics and other religions and across the country. Clues are worth 3,000 yuan; informing on foreigners can earn up to 5,000 yuan; working with the police means up to 10,000 yuan. Teaching the catechism to one’s children at one’s home is now a dangerous proposition. Reports can be made by phone, in writing or in person.

The Disciplinary Committee accuses him of abusing power for personal gains and for having used state money for his family. The hopeless requests of Grace, Meng's wife, from Interpol and President Emmanuel Macron.