China and the United States are going to have closer cooperation in areas of counter-narcotics, cybersecurity and repatriation, according to an intergovernmental joint statement released on Friday. The joint statement outlined main outcomes of the first China-U.S. Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity Dialogue which was held on Wednesday. In the statement, the two sides expressed their intention to enhance bilateral cooperation on narcotics control and enforcement, including exchanging information on drug trafficking, combating illicit drug production, and sharing tracking information for packages to identify individuals and criminal drug-trafficking networks. China and the United States gave a nod to continue the implementation of their consensus reached in 2015 on China-U.S. cybersecurity cooperation, including the agreement that neither country's government will conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property. The two sides also intended to make a full use of the established hotline mechanism for addressing urgent cyber-crime and network protection issues and to communicate timely at the leadership and working levels. Meanwhile, both sides agreed to develop a repeatable process to verify the identity of illegal immigrants in a timely manner. The dialogue was co-chaired by visiting Chinese State Councilor Guo Shengkun, also minister of public security, and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Acting Secretary for Homeland Security Elaine Duke. The meeting is one of four high-level communication mechanisms established during the Mar-a-Lago meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump at Palm Beach in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida on April 6-7, 2017. festival wristbands for sale24 hour wristbandsslap wristbandsprinted wristbandsmotivational bracelets for athletescustom wristbands no minimum
Shanghai's Fudan University announced on Thursday that the 2017 Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award will be presented to three scientists for their extraordinary contributions to research on gravitational waves. The three individuals are Rainer Weiss, a professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as Kip Stephen Thorne and Barry Clark Barish, both of whom are professors from the California Institute of Technology. Weiss invented the laser interferometer gravitational-wave detector that became the foundation for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), which detected gravitational waves for the first time in human history in September 2015, according to the executive council of the award. Thorne created research programs that modeled gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical processes and developed data analysis methods, while Barish was the former director of the LIGO project who created the international LIGO Scientific Collaboration. Barish also fostered greater collaboration between research parties that eventually enabled the detection of gravitational waves. The award ceremony will be held on Dec 17 in Shanghai. The laureates will share a monetary award of 3 million yuan ($455,000). The Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award was jointly founded by Fudan University and Zhongzhi Enterprise Group in 2015 to recognize scientists who have made distinguished achievements in the fields of biomedicine, physics and mathematics.
