After Trump Criticism, China Denies Selling Oil Illicitly to North Korea

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John Robbins 832-280-5815 send the unique stories, business news For news and information consider- Jun Gai 281-498-4310 Inside C5 Tuesday, January 2 , 2017 | www.today-america.com | Southern News Group After Trump criticism, China denies selling oil illicitly to North Korea BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) countries, including China, engaged - China on Friday denied reports it transhipping oil products and coal. had been illicitly selling oil products Chinese Foreign Ministry spokes- to North Korea in violation of U.N. woman Hua Chunying told reporters sanctions, after U.S. President Donald she had noted recent media reports, Trump said he was not happy that Chi- including suggestions a Chinese ves- na had allowed oil to reach the isolated sel was suspected of transporting oil nation. to a North Korean vessel on Oct. 19. Trump said on Twitter on Thursday ”In reality, the ship in question has, that China had been “caught RED since August, not docked at a Chi- HANDED” allowing oil into North nese port and there is no record of it Korea and that would prevent “a entering or leaving a Chinese port,“ friendly solution” to the crisis over Hua said adding that the reports ”did Pyongyang’s development of nucle- not accord with facts. ar-tipped missiles capable of hitting “China has always implemented the United States. U.N. Security Council resolutions In a subsequent New York Times pertaining to North Korea in their interview, Trump explicitly tied his entirety and fulfils its international administration’s trade policy with Chi- obligations. We never allow Chinese na, North Korea’s neighbor and lone companies and citizens to violate the major ally, to cooperation in resolving resolutions,” Hua said. the North Korea standoff. “If, through investigation, it’s “I have been soft on China because the confirmed there are violations of the only thing more important to me than U.N. Security Council resolutions, trade is war,” he said. “If they’re help- China will deal with them seriously ing me with North Korea, I can look at in accordance with laws and regula- trade a little bit differently, at least for tions.” a period of time. And that’s what I’ve South Korea said on Friday that Dried walleye pollocks from North Korea are displayed for sale at a market in Shenyang's Xita District been doing. But when oil is going in, in late November it seized a Hong I‘m not happy about that.” Kong-flagged ship, the Lighthouse and the Korean peninsula, on the kets or times when stocks could be North Korea and the U.N. Securi- South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper Winmore, suspected of transfer- order of its Taiwan-based charterer, purchased at lower prices later in the ty Council last week unanimously this week quoted South Korean gov- ring oil to North Korea. The ship’s Billions Bunker Group Corp. year,” Hirsch wrote in a blog post. imposed new sanctions in response to ernment sources as saying that U.S. registered manager, Lighthouse Ship A spokesman for Taiwan’s presiden- Both ships were among 10 vessels Pyongyang’s Nov. 29 test of an inter- spy satellites had detected Chinese Management, is in the Chinese port tial office, Alex Huang, said the firm the United States has proposed that continental ballistic missile (ICBM). ships transferring oil to North Korean of Guangzhou. was not incorporated in Taiwan and the U.N. Security Council should Those sanctions seek to further vessels about 30 times since October. A South Korean Foreign Ministry China’s Foreign Ministry spokes- blacklist for transporting banned limit North Korea’s access to refined U.S. officials have not confirmed official said the ship transferred as woman said she did not have any items from North Korea, documents petroleum products and crude oil and details of this report but a U.S. State much as 600 tons to the North Ko- information about the matter.improve seen by Reuters this month showed. Washington says the full cooperation Department official said Washington rea-flagged Sam Jong 2 on Oct. 19 in spending but does nothing to boost The Trump administration has led a of China, North Korea’ main trading had evidence of vessels from several international waters between China productivity. drive to step up global sanctions on partner, is vital if this peaceful pres Trump wants Postal Service to charge ‘much more’ for Amazon shipments WASHINGTON/SEATTLE (Re- Twitter. with commissioners selected by the uters) - President Donald Trump The president’s tweet drew fresh president from both political parties. called on the U.S. Postal Service attention to the fragile finances of That panel raised prices on packages on Friday to charge “much more” the postal service at a time when by almost 2 percent in November. to ship packages for Amazon tens of millions of parcels have been Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos, (AMZN.O) Amazon, picking anoth- shipped all over the country for the who remains the chief executive er fight with the online retail giant he holiday season. officer of the retail company and has criticized in the past. The U.S. Postal Service, which runs is the richest person in the world, “Why is the United States Post at a big loss, is an independent agen- according to Bloomberg. Bezos Office, which is losing many billions cy within the federal government also owns The Washington Post, a of dollars a year, while charging and does not receive tax dollars for newspaper that Trump has repeatedly Amazon and others so little to deliv- operating expenses, according to its railed against in his criticisms of the which is not true, and so hurts other he took office in January. er their packages, making Amazon website. news media. retailers, part of a pattern by the for- Daniel Ives, a research analyst at richer and the Post Office dumber The U.S. president does not deter- In tweets over the past year, Trump mer businessman and reality televi- GBH Insights, said Trump’s com- and poorer? Should be charging mine postal rates. They are set by has said the “Amazon Washington sion host of periodically turning his ment could be taken as a warning to MUCH MORE!” Trump wrote on the Postal Regulatory Commission, Post” fabricated stories. He has said an independent government agency Amazon does not pay sales tax, ire on big American companies since the retail giant. TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2018 C2 BUSINESS ping greenhouse gases in the world after China. Federal Report Says Humans Are Reached at the end of 2015, the Paris accord is one of the most comprehensive climate change agreements ever passed. It is nota- The Cause Of Climate Change ble because it included countries like China, Compiled And Edited By John T. Robbins, Southern Daily Editor which pollute heavily but have not signed on very likely continue to increase in frequency change including removing the US from the ure source: Hartmann et al. 2013, to climate deals before. Nicaragua and Syria and intensity throughout most of the world Paris Accord, placing a climate change de- Figure 2-11; © IPCC, used with both didn’t sign the deal at the time: Nicara- (high confidence),” said the report. nier at the helm of the Environmental Pro- permission). gua claimed it wasn’t ambitious enough, but Surface temperature change (in °F) tection Agency (EPA), and nominating one reversed its course last month and decided People walk past the ‘Climate Plan- In regards to the report released on Novem- for the period 1986–2015 relative to to lead NASA. Under the Trump presidency, to sign the deal anyway, calling it “the only et,’ an exhibition and film venue at ber 4,, Penn State University geoscientist 1901–1960 from the NOAA National the EPA has stopped researchers from speak- instrument that currently allows this unity the COP 23 United Nations Climate Richard Alley told NPR, “This is good, solid Centers for Environmental Informa- ing about climate changeand deleted climate of intentions and efforts,” according to The Change Conference on November climate science. This has been reviewed so tion’s (NCEI) surface temperature change information from its website while New York Times. 6th, 2017, in Bonn, Germany. (Pho- many times in so many ways, and it’s taking product. For visual clarity, statisti- the Department of Agriculture has pressed to Sean Gallup/Getty Images) its staff to not refer to climate change in their what we know from ... a couple of centuries cal significance is not depicted on communications. of climate science and applying it to the Compiled And Edited By John T. Robbins, this map. Changes are generally U.S.” Michael Mann, director of the Earth Southern Daily Editor significant (at the 90% level) over System Science Center at Penn State Univer- On November 4, 2017, over a dozen federal most land and ocean areas. Chang- sity told the New York Times, “This new re- agencies released the Climate Science Spe- es are not significant in parts of the port simply confirms what we already knew. cial Report, which is a product of the Nation- North Atlantic Ocean, the South Human-caused climate change isn’t just a al Climate Assessment -- a congressionally Pacific Ocean, and the southeast- theory, it’s reality.

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