United Nations report: Three quarters of the earth's land is gradually dry due to climate change. The 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP 16) was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from December 2 to 13. On the 9th, the United Nations released a report during the meeting, saying that about three-quarters of the world's land has gradually become dry due to climate change. The report found that in the 30 years before 2020, about 77.6% of the world's land became drier than before. At present, except Antarctica, the dry land area accounts for about 40% of the global land area. Between 1990 and 2020 alone, the global dry land area increased by 4.3 million square kilometers.White House: US National Security Adviser Sullivan will meet with the families of the hostages on Tuesday.Padilla, Secretary of the Institutional Relations Secretariat of the Brazilian Presidential Palace: We are cooperating with the Congress, and I want to strengthen our commitment to complete the voting on the financial plan this year.
White House: It will continue to put pressure on the extremist organization "Islamic State".Seven people were killed when the Israeli army attacked the Nuseilet refugee camp in the Gaza. On the 10th local time, the reporter of the General Station learned that the Israeli army attacked the Nuseilet refugee camp in the middle of Gaza, killing seven people and injuring many others.For the second week in a row, the US Treasury cut the auction scale of 4-cycle and 8-cycle Treasury bills, and the US Treasury cut the bidding scale of benchmark Treasury bills with the shortest term on Tuesday. The U.S. Treasury Department said it plans to issue 80 billion U.S. dollars of 4-term Treasury bonds on Thursday, which is 5 billion dollars less than the previous issuance of treasury bonds of the same maturity. The Ministry also announced that it would issue $75 billion of eight-term Treasury bills on Thursday, which was also reduced by $5 billion. The auction scale of 17-period Treasury bonds to be issued on Wednesday remains unchanged at $64 billion.
Microsoft shareholders voted against the bitcoin investment proposal, and the voting results showed that Microsoft's major shareholders opposed the company's bitcoin investment proposal on Tuesday. Earlier, Microsoft's board of directors urged shareholders to reject a suggestion from the National Center for Public Policy Research that the company invest 1% of its total assets in Bitcoin to hedge against inflation. At the annual meeting, Michael Seiler, chairman of MicroStrategy, gave a three-minute speech, trying to persuade Microsoft shareholders to support this proposal. His company has invested billions of dollars in bitcoin. The data shows that the largest shareholder of Microsoft is institutional investors, including Pioneer Pilot and BlackRock.White House: We assume that Austin Dees is still alive, and there is no information to the contrary.Wang Yi attended the 25th anniversary of Sino-Vietnamese land boundary demarcation and the 15th anniversary of the signing of the "Three Legal Documents". On the 10th, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Committee member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the 25th anniversary of Sino-Vietnamese land boundary demarcation and the 15th anniversary of the signing of the "Three Legal Documents" together with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pei Qingshan in Beijing. Wang Yi said that 25 years ago, the two sides signed the Sino-Vietnamese Land Border Treaty, which laid a solid foundation for peace and stability in the border areas between the two countries. We must implement the important consensus of the leaders of the two parties and countries, and focus on the overall goal of "six modernizations" to promote the building of a community of destiny between China and Vietnam. It is necessary to create a clear, stable, prosperous and friendly border for generations. Pei Qingshan said that Vietnam is willing to make joint efforts with China to strengthen infrastructure construction in border areas and deepen pragmatic cooperation in border trade and ports. (Xinhua News Agency)