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Dawn.com Updated June 07, 2019 From L-R: Maj Moeez Maqsood Baig, Lt Col Raashid Karim Baig, Capt Arif Ullah and Lance Havaldar Zaheer. — Photo courtesy: ISPR Three officers and a soldier of the Pakistan Army were martyred in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion in Kharqamar area of North Waziristan tribal district on Friday, an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said. Four other soldiers also sustained injuries when terrorists targeted a military vehicle through an IED planted on the roadside, the military's media wing said. The martyred personnel were identified as Lt Col Raashid Karim Baig, a resident of Karimabad, Hunza; Major Moeez Maqsood Baig, a resident of Karachi; Capt Arif Ullah, a resident of Lakki Marwat; and Lance Havaldar Zaheer, a resident of Chakwal. "This is the same area where forces had conducted search operations and arrested [a] few facilitators," the ISPR statement said. ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER AD It noted that 10 secu

SupChina.com Mike Forsythe, Eric Lipton, Keith Bradsher, and Sui-Lee Wee of the New York Times have a  massive investigative story  (porous paywall) on the family business and political connections of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao (趙小蘭 Zhào Xiǎolán). Secretary Chao is married to Mitch McConnell, the most powerful Republican in Congress, and has served in both Bush administrations, so her connections in American politics are well known. Here are some key findings the Times made about her family’s connections in China, and how they have formed a foundation of her husband’s political fortune: The American Embassy in Beijing raised ethics questions  after Secretary Chao requested to include “relatives who were fairly wealthy and connected to the shipping industry” in meetings in China in 2017. Those meetings were later “abruptly canceled.” These requests were “alarmingly inappropriate,”  said  David Rank , a top American diplomat in Beijing who “learned of the matter

SupChina.com Building a domestic 5G network is now an urgent national priority for China, one to be achieved by any means necessary, and possibly at great cost. THE NEWS Green light for 5G rollout “China has given the go ahead for its major state-owned mobile carries to start rolling out next generation networks known as 5G, a move experts said was partly a response to the ongoing trade war with the U.S.,”  reports CNBC  (or see the  Xinhua report  in Chinese, with a flashy infographic). Another sign of the vocal enthusiasm for 5G at the highest levels of the Chinese government: The word “5G” appears 14 times on state-owned news agency Xinhua’s  homepage  as I write this; Party newspaper  People’s Daily  uses it nine times (both links in Chinese). Support for 5G part of new stimulus The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the ministries of Commerce and of Ecology and Environment jointly released a  two-year plan  (in Chinese) to promote consumption, especially