exercises.

On Wednesday, China called on relevant parties to consider and adopt these proposals, in a bid to pull the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue back on the right track of peaceful resolution through dialogue and consultation.

At the dialogue, China also reiterated its opposition to the deployment of the U.S. Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile defense system in South Korea, saying such deployment should be halted and revoked.

On the South China Sea issue, China said it exerts indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea islands and their adjacent waters and has every right to safeguard its sovereignty and maritime rights.

China and the United States also exchanged views on anti-terrorism. China emphasized that it firmly opposes all forms of terrorism and hopes to enhance anti-terrorism cooperation with the United StatesA Note on Covers: Even though book covers are now a diminishing influence on whether a book is picked up or read, I do still love looking back every year at the diversity of creative styles that go into creating distinctive covers. On purely aesthetic grounds, ‘H is for Hawk’ probably has my favorite cover of the year — it perfectly captures the atmosphere of the book, and is immediately arresting. ‘On the Move’, which has on its cover a wonderfully virile photograph of a young Oliver Sacks is a close second.

Probably the most powerful book I read this year, Marsh conveys with fantastic clarity and honesty the ethical, personal, and technical challenges posed by contemporary neurosurgery, where it is often possible to keep someone technically alive, even