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Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.
This week, the following hot news you should know:
Top 1 | Chinese ambassador calls on U.S., UK to handle ties with China by showing respect
Chinese Ambassador to Britain Zheng Zeguang called on the United States and Britain to handle their ties with China by showing respect and avoiding confrontation, in an opinion article published Tuesday in The Guardian.
That explains the resolute response from China after the provocative visit to China's Taiwan region of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the ambassador said, noting, "The U.S. side and 'Taiwan independence' separatist forces must bear full responsibility for their wrongdoings."
The right way for China and the United States, two major countries, to handle their relations is to respect each other and avoid confrontation, he noted.
Top 2 | Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act into law to tackle climate change, hike corporate taxes
U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 into law on Tuesday, a bill touted by the White House as the biggest commitment to mitigating climate change in U.S. history.
Calling it as a "historic bill," Biden said at the White House that it will lower costs for American families, combat climate crisis, reduce deficit, and finally make the largest corporations pay their fair share in taxes.
The bill includes a roughly $400 billion investment in fighting climate change, measures to make prescription drugs more affordable, and a 15-percent minimum tax on most corporations that make more than $1 billion per year. The legislation would generate nearly $300 billion of net revenue over a decade.
Top 3 | Indonesia at 'pinnacle of global leadership,' president says
Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Tuesday hailed his country's growing stature on the global stage and reiterated calls for the Southeast Asian nation to be a "bridge of peace" between Russia and Ukraine.
As head of the G20 this year, Jokowi, as the president is known, has taken an increasingly active role in foreign affairs.
In late June he traveled to Kyiv and Moscow to meet with his Ukrainian and Russian counterparts, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin, as part of diplomatic efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict and ease the global food crisis.
Top 4 | U.S. Justice Department opposes release of affidavit behind Trump raid
The U.S. Justice Department on Monday opposed requests to unseal the affidavit used to justify last week's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) search of former U.S. President Donald Trump's Florida residence.
Several U.S. media outlets and Republican members of Congress have asked a Florida judge to release the affidavit behind the raid, which ignited a political firestorm in an already bitterly divided country.
The Justice Department noted in a filing with a U.S. District Court that the search warrant and a receipt for items seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home during last week's raid have already been made public.
Top 5 | Russia warns U.S. about the outcomes of seizing Russian assets
Alexander Darchiev, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's North America department, on Saturday said any U.S. attempt to seize Russian assets would completely damage the bilateral relations between the two countries.
Noting that since 2016, six real estate properties, including the Russian Commercial Representative Office in Washington and Russian Consulate General in San Francisco, have been seized or closed, Darchiev told TASS that Russian diplomatists had no access to those buildings.
He said the diplomatic relations between the two countries would suffer seriously if the U.S. listed Russia as a" pro-terrorism country," adding that the U.S. would then become directly involved in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Top 6 | Taiwan's New Party makes positive contributions to cross-strait relations: mainland spokesperson
Taiwan's New Party has made positive contributions to promoting the peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Straits and advancing peaceful reunification of the motherland, said Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council on Sunday.
He made the remarks in response to a media inquiry regarding the New Party's celebrations of its 29th founding anniversary.
Since its founding, the New Party has taken a clear stance on promoting peaceful reunification across the Taiwan Straits, has resolutely upheld one-China principle, and has firmly opposed "Taiwan independence," Ma said.
Top 7 | Truss 22 points ahead in race to be next UK PM, poll suggests
Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is 22 percentage points ahead of her rival Rishi Sunak in the contest to become the country's next prime minister, a poll of Conservative Party members by Opinium Research showed on Saturday.
Among a sample of 450 party members who had decided how they would vote in the ongoing leadership election put Truss, who other polls have also shown to be the clear frontrunner, on 61 percent, with former finance minister Sunak on 39 percent, Opinium said.
The roughly 200,000 members of the ruling Conservatives are voting to decide on a replacement for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who after a series of scandals and a parliamentary rebellion said in July he would step down once the party chooses a replacement.
Top 8 | China defeat Japan to win AVC Cup for Men again after 10 years
China defeated Japan 3-0 (25-20, 25-23 and 25-22) in the Asian Men's Volleyball Cup final in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, on Sunday to win the tournament title for the first time in 10 years.
China's first championship win came in 2012 when the team beat Iran 3-1 (25-18, 25-14, 13-25 and 31-29) in Vinh Yen, Vietnam.
China pocketed their sixth straight win on Sunday after defeating Bahrain, Chinese Taipei, Pakistan, Iran and South Korea in their previous matches.
Top 9 | Only 6% believe U.S. will continue to dominate the world: survey
Around 6 percent of people around the globe believe the world would be unipolar in the future – dominated either by the U.S. or China – while 34 percent, the largest group, think a multipolar world is the most likely prospect, according to a recent poll.
The global study was conducted by CGTN Think Tank and the Chinese Institute of Public Opinion at Renmin University of China and surveyed people from 22 countries including the United States, New Zealand, Japan, India, Egypt and Nigeria.
A majority approved of China's approach to human rights even as Western nations blast the country's record, according to the survey.
Top 10 | 7 injured after bus shooting in Jerusalem: Al Jazeera
Seven people were injured, with three in critical condition, after a shooting on a bus in Jerusalem, Al Jazeera reported on Sunday.
"The police were informed of a shooting of a bus ... Police have cordoned off the scene and are searching for a suspect who fled," the police said.
Israel's emergency medical services, the Magen David Adom (MDA), called the incident a "terror attack in the Old City".
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
