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    Chinese social media users are scratching their heads over a Chinese proverb US President Donald Trump's daughter and advisor Ivanka posted to Twitter as her father prepared for his summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un. Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it. Chinese Proverb, Ivanka posted on Monday, the night before her father and Kim came together to seek an end to a tense decades-old nuclear stand-off. China's internet quickly lit up, puzzled rather than flattered by the reference. Our editor really can't think of exactly which proverb this is. Please help! the news channel for Sina the company behind Weibo, China's largest Twitter like platform wrote on its official social media account. In thousands of comments on Weibo, users ...

    President Donald Trump took a moment in his history making summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un to show off his presidential limousine. President Trump said he had developed a very special bond with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their historic summit here Tuesday, reversing decades of U.S. policy toward the rogue regime in an extraordinary gamble that his personal attention would help break a cycle of nuclear brinkmanship and stave off a military confrontation. After more than four hours of meetings at Singapore’s secluded and opulent Capella resort, the two leaders sat beside each other and signed what Trump called a very comprehensive agreement setting the path forward for negotiations. Trump and Jong-un had just finished off a working lunch whe...

    Trump will be accompanied by a staffer
 carrying his button in the form of the nuclear football
 containing equipment used to authorise a strike Donald Trump will have access to his nuclear 'button' nearby when he meets North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un tomorrow. The world leaders are due to meet in Singapore tomorrow for a summit that could change the nuclear destiny of the entire world. Trump is expected to be alone in a room with the North Korean dictator, aside from translators, for up to two hours when they meet from 2am UK time on Tuesday. While Trump will have his 'link' close to him at all times, less is known about how Kim maintains control of his nuclear arsenal when he travels. Donald Trump will have access to his 'nuclear button' at all times during s...

    Recent news reports suggest that the Chinese Communist Party is considering abandoning one of its longest-running and most abusive practices: its reproduction planning policy, commonly known as the one-child policy. The decision comes as the nation faces a number of domestic crises resulting from the policy, from a rapidly aging labor force to severe gender imbalances. Returning reproductive rights to the people, however, does not exempt the Communist Party from responsibility for decades of trauma and murder committed under the euphemistic rubric of population planning. It’s hard to describe the devastation I witnessed. The voices and stories of those suffering will remain with me always. Women were physically and mentally traumatized, families torn apart. Generat...

    A smiling Kim Jong Un has been pictured enjoying a late-night stroll in Singapore ahead of his landmark meeting with Donald Trump. The North Korean dictator was surrounded by heavy security amid reports he was heading to the luxury Marina Bay Sands - a 55-floor hotel with a rooftop bar and infinity pool. Singapore's foreign minster Vivian Balakrishnan tweeted a selfie of himself with Mr Kim during the surprise walkabout. His stroll came just hours before his summit with Donald Trump, where he will become the first North Korean leader to meet with a US president. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said Mr Trump's ultimate objective will be the irreversible denuclearisation of Mr Kim's regime. The president's most senior expert on weapons of mass destruction...