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June 08, 2023 at 20:26 PM

Former US Vice President Mike Pence.

[China News Agency]Former US Vice President Pence announced in Iowa on the 7th local time that he will participate in the 2024 presidential election.

Pence delivered a speech of about 30 minutes in (Ankeny, Iowa) that day, officially announcing his participation in the 2024 presidential election. In his speech, Pence pointed the “spearhead” at his rival, former President Trump.

Pence said that when the riots on Capitol Hill occurred, Trump “wrongly insisted” that the vice president could overturn the election results. Trump “made me choose between him and the Constitution, and I chose the Constitution.” No one should be President of the United States who is above the Constitution.” Pence also said that Trump has abandoned conservative values, such as opposition to abortion.

Pence also said that the current American politics is full of “anger and complaints” and that public life in this country “needs to be restored to a certain degree of civility.”

According to US media reports, Pence is a conservative in the Republican Party. He supports a nationwide ban on abortion, cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and continued military aid to Ukraine.

June 06, 2023 at 20:49 PM

Former US Vice President Mike Pence.

[China News Agency]Former US Vice President Pence submitted a document to the Federal Election Commission on the 5th to participate in the 2024 US presidential election.

Pence, who served as the vice president of the United States during the Trump administration, will become former President Trump’s opponent in the Republican primary election for the presidential election.

According to US media reports, Pence will hold an event in Iowa on June 7 to officially announce his participation in the presidential election. It was also Pence’s 64th birthday.

Born in Indiana in 1959, Pence has served as a congressman from Indiana, governor of Indiana and vice president of the United States since 2001.

During his tenure as vice president, Pence had been a “loyal supporter” of Trump before the riots on Capitol Hill. On January 6, 2021, during the counting of electoral votes in the presidential election in Congress, Pence was criticized by Trump because he did not change the results of the election as requested by Trump.

In a recent interview with the Associated Press, Pence said that “the American people want to return to the policies of the Trump Pence administration, but at the same time hope that the leaders can reflect the character of the American people.” Pence also said he thought he was the “better choice.”

According to statistics, in the history of the United States, only 6 candidates who have served as vice president have successfully been elected president in the general election, including the current US President Biden.

At present, various polls show that Trump’s support rate maintains the lead among the Republican presidential candidates, and Florida Governor DeSantis ranks second. In addition, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, Senator Scott, former Arkansas Governor Hutchinson and other Republicans have also announced their participation in the presidential election.

June 06, 2023 at 20:52 PM

Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company began injecting seawater into the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant’s nuclear contaminated water drainage tunnel on the 5th local time.

[China News Agency]According to a report by the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) on the 6th, the Tokyo Electric Power Company of Japan began injecting seawater into the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant nuclear pollution drainage tunnel on the 5th local time.

TEPCO plans to build a subsea tunnel about 1 km long from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant near the sea to the sea, and discharge the so-called “radioactive material up to standard” nuclear contaminated water after dilution to the Pacific Ocean. TEPCO officially launched the construction of the subsea tunnel project in August last year. According to reports, the tunnel project of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant nuclear contaminated water discharge project has been basically completed, and the overall construction of the subsea tunnel is expected to be completed by the end of June.

According to reports, TEPCO began injecting seawater into the sea discharge tunnel at around 15:30 local time on the 5th, and the tunnel will be filled with about 6,000 tons of seawater during the day on the 6th.

After the launch of Japan’s nuclear-contaminated water discharge plan, it has been opposed by domestic civil groups such as fishery groups. The international community has repeatedly expressed opposition and doubts to Japan’s decision to discharge nuclear-contaminated water into the sea.

June 05, 2023 at 21:18 PM

On the 4th local time, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul.

[China News Agency]Ankara News: According to the Associated Press, on the 4th local time, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg met with Turkish President Erdogan in Istanbul, and the two sides failed to achieve a breakthrough in the negotiations on Sweden’s “accession”.

Stoltenberg said Sweden had fulfilled its obligations. He noted that since Sweden applied to join NATO, the country has amended its constitution, strengthened anti-terrorism laws and lifted an arms embargo on Turkey.

NATO wants Sweden to join the group ahead of the NATO summit in July, but Turkey and Hungary have yet to support the move, the report said. According to the regulations, NATO must have the “unanimous consent” of the 30 member states before it can admit new members.

The report pointed out that the Turkish government accused Sweden of being too tolerant of terrorist organizations and security threats, including the Kurdistan Workers Party, which the Turkish government has identified as a terrorist organization.

Turkey’s “Daily News” reported on the 4th that recently, the demonstrations held by the “PKK Workers Party” in Sweden have aroused anxiety among Turks. The Turkish government has demanded that Sweden take more concrete and firm steps to stop the activities of the PKK on its territory.

According to a Reuters report on the 4th, Stoltenberg said that officials from Turkey, Sweden and Finland will hold talks later this month to resolve outstanding issues.

May 26, 2023 at 21:06 PM

On May 25 local time, U.S. President Joe Biden nominated Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr. at the White House as chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff to replace the outgoing Mark Milley.

[China News Agency]US President Biden nominated Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr. as chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff at the White House on the 25th to replace the outgoing Mark Milley.

Brown, born in 1962, is a four-star general of the U.S. Air Force and the current Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force. He was the first African-American to serve as chief of staff in the U.S. military. If his nomination is approved by the Senate, it will be the first time that the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Department of Defense are both African-American.

The Associated Press stated that Brown was one of the few fighter pilots in the U.S. Air Force, with nearly 3,000 hours of flying experience, and commanded the U.S. Air Force at all levels. He created a number of “firsts” in the military, including the first African-American commander of the US Pacific Air Force and the first African-American chief of staff of the US Air Force.

When Biden announced Brown’s nomination at the White House on the 25th, he evaluated him as a “military strategist and military innovation leader” and “no one is more suitable or qualified than him to lead the military to meet the challenges and responsibilities of the future.”

Milley, 65, will step down in October. At a press conference held at the Pentagon that day, he described Brown’s military leadership as “absolutely first-class” and looked forward to his nomination being quickly confirmed by Congress.

After the nomination hearing for the chief of staff of the Air Force in June 2020, Brown was approved by the Senate with 98 votes in favor and 0 votes against.