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Under its current five-year economic plan, China is also pouring resources into developing commercial uses for space, including a goal to launch its first commercial spaceflight by 2028.
The pandas Xiaoxiao and Leilei have arrived back in their native Sichuan province.
China has developed an advanced panda breeding program and loans the black and white animals out to other countries for a hefty fee as a symbol of friendship.
But this panda diplomacy has not been able to patch tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
Beijing has canceled some tourism to Japan, reimposed import bans on Japanese seafood, and even canceled some Japanese performances in China after their prime minister described a potential future Chinese invasion of Taiwan as an existential-level threat to Japan.
Israel has already bulldozed the main offices for the agency called UNRWA in East Jerusalem.
UNRWA schools once serviced about half a million Palestinian children across the Middle East, including in East Jerusalem, and its health care clinics supported underserved Palestinian communities.
But in 2024, Israel banned it from its territory, saying UNRWA supports terror, something the agency denies.
Under a law passed last fall, Israel can also cut off utilities to UNRWA sites and is planning to do so on Monday.
UNRWA says it does not know which of its facilities might be targeted, given Israel's also forbidden its government officials from having any contact with UNRWA.
Emily Fang, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Don't you just think the whole, like, keep having a brat summer thing is a bit cringe?
A large crowd cheered as Honnold scaled the more than 1,600-foot-high blue glass and steel skyscraper with nothing more than his hands and some chalk, no rope, and no safety net.
He said he'd been thinking of climbing Taipei 101 for years.
At 101 stories tall, Taipei 101 is one of the tallest buildings in Asia and built in a high-risk earthquake zone, which it compensates for with an internal steel damper that sways whenever there's a quake to counteract it and stop the building from breaking in half.
In total, the climb took Honnold about an hour and a half.