The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 61,020, with 150,671 others injured since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted on October 7, 2023, Gaza's health authorities said in a statement on Tuesday.
Palestinian medical sources said that Israeli attacks have claimed 31 lives since the early hours of Tuesday.
Local media in Gaza reported that the Israeli army had launched strikes against people transporting aid supplies in the northern Gaza Strip, killing six and seriously injuring many others.
Further Israeli airstrikes in the northwest of Gaza City killed five and injured many more, while attacks on the area east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip killed one person. Israeli troops also struck the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah.
The Gaza-based health authorities said on Tuesday that the region's hospitals recorded eight deaths from hunger and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, including one child and seven adults, bringing the total number of fatalities due to malnutrition to 188, including 94 children.
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 61,020
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 61,020
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 61,020
Attempts to curb China's scientific and technological advancement are futile, a fact that has already been proven, said Kishore Mahbubani, former permanent representative of Singapore to the United Nations, in an interview aired Friday.
In an exclusive interview with China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing, Mahbubani said he had stated this position in one of his articles published in the United States.
"Actually, I published an article, you know the two, I guess two leading journals in the United States on international relations. One is Foreign Affairs and the other is Foreign Policy. And last year I co-authored an article with two other co-authors, saying that all the efforts to stop China's scientific and technological development will fail. And it has failed always. You know, for example, the Soviet Union tried to prevent the spread of nuclear technology to China, China develops its own. The United States didn't want to share its technology on international space station with China. China develops its own space station. So clearly, efforts to stop China in the area of scientific innovation and technological development have failed. And so it'd be wiser for the West, including United States, to work with China other than to try and stop China seek development," he said.
Regarding China's progress on robots, Mahbubani said China is leading the world in the sector and hopes the country will share its expertise with the rest of the world.
"If there's one country that is preparing for the future well, it is China, because one in six human beings in the world is Chinese. But one in three robots in the world is Chinese, and one in two baby robots being born every day is Chinese. So China is producing far more robots than any other country is. So clearly it's preparing for the world of the future when we will have, for example, labor shortages, as you know, as you develop an aging society. So China is wisely investing in robots. But I hope that China will also share its learning and expertise with other countries. Also because the robots like that can also be helpful even to developing countries cause you can enhance the productivity of their populations, of their factories and so on so forth. So the world should be happy that China is leading the world in manufacturing, producing robots," he said.
Attempts to stop China's sci-tech development doomed to fail: former Singaporean diplomat
