Visiting United States Senator Steve Daines attended the China Development Forum 2025 on Sunday in Beijing, after meeting with senior Chinese officials including Vice Premier He Lifeng and Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu in the past two days.
Daines, a Republican, is the first U.S. politician to visit China since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January this year.
On the sidelines of the opening ceremony of this year's forum, Daines was seen speaking with other prominent American attendees including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Harvard professor Graham Allison.
Daines, who participated in high-level trade talks between China and the U.S. back in 2019, didn't give any comment when asked by a China Media Group reporter about his opinion on Trump's tariff policy.
A high-level annual international forum, the China Development Forum 2025 is taking place from March 23 to 24.
The event has gathered 86 official delegates of multinational companies from 21 countries. Nearly 30 U.S. enterprises, including Apple, Pfizer and FedEx, are being represented at the forum this year.
US senator Daines attends China Development Forum 2025
Half of children under the age of five in Yemen are malnourished, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, underscoring how a decade of conflict has been catastrophic for the country's young population.
The decade-long conflict has devastated the country's economy, healthcare system, and infrastructure, leaving more than half of the population reliant on humanitarian aid to survive, Peter Hawkins, UNICEF Representative to Yemen, said via a video link from Yemeni capital city of Sanaa, at a press briefing on the situation for children in Yemen after 10 years of conflict.
He warned that the country is registering a staggeringly high child malnutrition rate, while mothers and expecting mothers face similar challenges.
"One in two children under the age of five are malnourished in Yemen today. This is a statistic that is almost unparalleled across the world. Among them are over 540,000 girls and boys who are severely and acutely malnourished. Equally alarming are the 1.4 million pregnant and lactating women who are malnourished," said Hawkins.
He added that severe and acute malnutrition rates of 33 percent have been recorded in certain areas including the west of the country.
Yemen's conflict entered its second decade in 2024 since the Houthis stormed Sanaa on September 21, 2014, forcing the internationally recognized government into exile.
Half of Yemen's children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition: UNICEF
