Badminton results. Olympic wine flows like a river

In fact, the organizers of the Olympic tournament have driven themselves into this situation. Moving away from the usual “knockout tournament” regulations, according to which almost all world competitions in this sport are held, in London the Badminton World Federation (BWF) decided to meet television and fans and split the competition into two parts: the group stage and the playoffs. However, even this is not so scary. Well, we played a group game, and then the playoffs, and that's fine. The main mistake of the organizers was in the pre-set calendar. The thing, however, is logical, but not in this case, because it led to this situation.

The fact is that after the draw, many pairs or singles could "choose" their opponent in the quarterfinals. Such conversations are often found in football during major competitions. In general, in team competitions. In badminton, the "Olympic system" is traditionally played, or simply a knockout tournament. Therefore, here mathematical layouts are not needed at all. However, it was in London that Korean couples decided to resort to such tricks: Jun Kyung Eun / Kim Ha Na(8th number in the world ranking) and Hae Jung Eun / Kim Min Jin(Number 3 of the world ranking), as well as the Chinese Yu Yang / Wang Xiaoli(1st number in the world ranking) and Indonesian Gracie Polius / Myliane Jauhari(12th pair in the world ranking).

Discarding all the details and in order to explain simply, I will say that the above-mentioned couples played giveaway, as a result of which the stronger ones lost easily and playfully to the weaker ones. In short, the couples decided to choose a lighter opponent, and at the same time to have a rest. But they did it so illiterately and so obviously that they brought upon themselves a great misfortune. At first, the participants in the "undercover games" were booed by the audience, and then the BWF ordered disciplinary hearings in the case of the four couples, accusing them of "not wanting to fight to win the match, which is offensive and harmful to the sport."

As a result, a hastily assembled council on Wednesday morning decided to disqualify four couples implicated in the scandalous meetings. Thus, the quarterfinal pairs were formed from those who were not involved in the scandal, which automatically brought the Russians to the playoffs. Nina Vislova / Valeria Sorokina from the first place in group A, since it was their rivals that were Yu Yang / Wang Xiaoli and Jun Kyung Eun / Kim Ha Na.

“Of course, the act of the disqualified athletes cast a shadow over this competition. The athletes of China were especially evident. When the count is 10:12 Olympic champion Beijing defiantly serves three times into the net - this is already too much. I know that judge Torsten Berg approached all athletes and warned them about responsibility. But it had no effect - and here's the result! Of course, the imperfect formula of the tournament is "to blame" in many ways. For the first time at the Olympics in badminton, there are group stages, before the Olympics were from start to finish. The new scheme was not tested, it allowed “choosing” an opponent. And someone could not resist. This is actually very easy to avoid. You just need to scatter the first places of the four groups, and determine their rivals in the quarterfinals by drawing lots. Then the strongest will try to take first place in the group and it will not be clear who is playing with whom, so that unnecessary temptations will not arise.

Ours / have already returned to the location of the national team from other competitions, where they went to support our team. It is already known that we will play with a pair from South Africa Edwards / Viljoen ", - commented on the incident Claudia Mayorova.

She criticized the athletes involved in the scandal on Olympic tournament badminton, and silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Athens Gail Emms... “It looked disgusting. 6,000 spectators paid huge amounts of money to enjoy the game of the highest level. And what did they get in return? I have no words. It hurt me to look at the volunteers who watched these matches with tears in their eyes. They were incredibly upset and mentally depressed. After all, the guys worked tirelessly to give people such a grandiose holiday. And for this, they received in response a devil-may-care attitude from the athletes. To avoid such situations, you need to play right through: if you lose, you can go home. The idea of ​​holding group stages in competitions is only good for television, because the number of broadcasts is increasing, ”said Gail Emms.

Thus, in the quarterfinals of the competition, the Russians Vislova / Sorokina will play with the 52nd pair of the world Edwards / Viljoen... If a miracle does not happen, then for the first time in the history of domestic badminton, a representative of our country will reach the semifinal stage. At the moment, the best achievement in history belongs to Andrei Antropov, the chairman of the board of the National Badminton Federation of Russia, who made his way to the top eight. True, under completely different circumstances.

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US President Barack Obama delivered a policy paper on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an agreement on which the 12 participating countries signed in October 2015, but the fight for ratification is still ongoing in Congress. The article was published in The Washington Post.

In it, the US President called not to give up leadership in setting the rules of international trade to China and to accelerate the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Obama said that boosting trade in this area of ​​the world through the TPP would be a boon for American businesses and American workers, and would provide an advantage over its main competitor, China.

“The world has changed. The rules change with him. The United States, not countries like China, should write them. Let's take this opportunity and approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, ”the US President urged in the closing lines of his address.

Obama recalled that last week representatives from China and 15 other countries met in Australia to develop an agreement on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). He noted that the agreement would not prevent unfair competition involving government-subsidized state-owned enterprises. It, the US President stressed, will not defend a free and open Internet and will not defend intellectual property standards so that American creators and entrepreneurs get credit for their products.

In addition, RCEP, Obama said, will not ensure that high standards are maintained for “our workers,” nor will the environment be preserved.

The President acknowledged that he understands skepticism about new trade agreements in the face of globalization, especially in cities, where the number of jobs has been reduced due to the development of automation. “But building a wall to isolate ourselves from the global economy will only isolate us from the incredible opportunities this economy provides. Instead of isolation, America must write rules. America must be in the lead. Other countries must play by the rules that America and our partners will set, and not vice versa, ”Obama urged.

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A prototype of a new US unmanned spacecraft designed to search and detect submarines went on a three-month test trip, the Associated Press reports.

The Sea Hunter will sail with a crew on board on its first voyage, said Scott Littlefield, Project Manager for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The interlocutor of the agency clarified that the ship will not be controlled remotely - it will receive a task from the command center and independently carry it out. On the first voyage, the crew on board the ship for insurance must verify that the Sea Hunter systems are functioning correctly without human intervention.

The ship's test program is designed for two years. Its creators believe that it will give impetus to the development of not only military, but also civilian cargo unmanned vessels.

As RBC previously wrote, one of the main reasons for the development of a drone, the project of which was launched in 2010, was the rapid development of air-independent (anaerobic) power plants, which allow submarines to continuously stay under water for more than a month and deliver covert attacks on aircraft carriers with the most advanced anti-submarine defense ...

As Rear Admiral Frank Drennan, Chief of Anti-Submarine Operations Command of the Navy, previously explained, "To hear the quiet hum of a diesel-electric submarine in coastal waters with heavy shipping is like trying to isolate the engine noise of one car in the noise of a big city." “Sea Hunter is just a reconnaissance robot, not equipped with any weapons. It can be in demand for the coast guard, searching for submarines and escorting ships. “The ship goes to sea, looks for a diesel-electric submarine and hovers over it, reminding of its presence by sonar pulses,” Drennan described the principle of the scout's work.

Having spotted an enemy submarine, it transmits its coordinates via a communications satellite to the nearest destroyer or naval base. If necessary, he can accompany the submarine.

The ship is 40 meters long and is made of carbon-based composite materials and can reach speeds of up to 27 nautical miles per hour. If the tests are successful, the US Navy plans to build an entire flotilla of unmanned ships of this type. "," PubDate ":" Tue, 03 May 2016 00:29:12 +0300 "," guid ":" http://www.rbc.ru / politics / 03/05/2016 / 5727c58d9a79479ee9c4b60c "," category ":" "," enclosure ": [(" url ":" http://pics.v6.top.rbk.ru/v6_top_pics/media/img/ 3/19 / 754622251210193.jpg "," width ":" 550 "," height ":" 340 ")]," related-object ": [" http://www.rbc.ru/politics/13/04 / 2016 / 570ea8919a79471d077b2a4f "," http://www.rbc.ru/economics/09/04/2016/5707bb5f9a79472603916c39 "," http://www.rbc.ru/politics/09/04/2016/57088ce19a7947c399c59595 "http://www.rbc.ru/politics/18/03/2016/56eb36189a7947b733922eaf"]), ("title": "Trump offered to shoot down Russian planes performing dangerous maneuvers", "link": "http: // www .rbc.ru / politics / 02/05/2016 / 572798559a794788db76b9a1 "," description ":"

US presidential candidate from the Republican Party Donald Trump proposed "at a certain moment" to shoot down Russian planes that are making dangerous maneuvers near American ones. Thus, he commented in an interview with Indiana Radio on the actions of the Russian Su-27 near the US Air Force reconnaissance over the Baltic Sea, which were previously reported by the Pentagon.

According to Trump, the current US President Barack Obama should have called Russian President Vladimir Putin and said: “Listen, do us a favor, don't do this, take this maniac, just stop it,” he said, adding: “However, we don't have such a president. He must be playing golf somewhere or something. "

The billionaire concluded that if diplomacy does not work in this case, then it is necessary to open fire. “You have to shoot. And this is insulting. It hurts. This is an absolute disrespect for our country and an absolute lack of respect for Obama. Which, as you know, they [Russia] do not respect, ”Trump emphasized.

At the end of April, the US Department of Defense reported that the Russian fighter performed a "barrel roll" aerobatics (a 360-degree roll over the longitudinal axis) about 30 meters from the American aircraft. Pentagon spokesman Bill Urban called the actions of the Russian pilot "unsafe and unprofessional."

The Russian Ministry of Defense responded by saying that the flights of Russian aircraft comply with international rules for the use of airspace. "The American Air Force has two solutions to this problem: either not to fly near our borders, or to turn on the transponder for automatic identification by our radar means of objective control," said Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry.

Prior to this, the United States had already accused Russian aircraft of dangerous maneuvers. On April 17, a spokesman for the US European Command, Danny Hernandez, reported that a US RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft had been intercepted "in an unsafe and unprofessional manner" by a Russian Su-27 aircraft over the Baltic Sea. A few days earlier, the United States announced a dangerous approach of Russian aircraft with the American destroyer Donald Cook. "," PubDate ":" Mon, 02 May 2016 21:16:23 +0300 "," guid ":" http: // www.rbc.ru/politics/02/05/2016/572798559a794788db76b9a1 "," category ":" "," enclosure ": [(" url ":" http://pics.v6.top.rbk.ru/v6_top_pics /media/img/9/50/754622133634509.jpg "," width ":" 550 "," height ":" 340 ")]," related-object ": [" http://www.rbc.ru/ politics / 02/05/2016 / 572735979a794753297a4c83 "," http://www.rbc.ru/politics/28/04/2016/5720986a9a79471eccc11c38 "," http://www.rbc.ru/politics/27/04/ 2016 / 5721244e9a7947eef4347d76 "," http://www.rbc.ru/politics/27/04/2016/572040b29a79473efd040f0d "]), (" title ":" Durov announced the involvement of special services in the opposition's Telegram hack "," link ": "http://www.rbc.ru/politics/02/05/2016/57278bc29a7947849edc8a53", "description": "

The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, said that the special services put pressure on telecom operators to gain access to the opposition's correspondence. Thus, on the website of the radio station Echo of Moscow, he commented on the messages of the activist Oleg Kozlovsky and the employee of the Anti-Corruption Fund Georgy Alburov that their Telegram accounts were hacked, and the reception of SMS messages was disabled.

“Bottom line: apparently, the special services of the Russian Federation decided to start putting pressure on telecom operators to intercept the authorization SMS code. Usually this occurs only within the framework of cannibalistic regimes that do not care about their reputation - Central Asia, sometimes the Middle East. But it suddenly happened in Russia (if, of course, we cut off corruption inside MTS, which is unlikely in the case of opposition journalists), ”wrote Durov.

At the same time, he noted that Kozlovsky himself figured out the situation best of all. In his Facebook, the activist wrote that on Friday night, the MTS technological security department turned off the SMS delivery service for him, after which - 15 minutes later - someone from the Unix console sent it to Telegram using the IP address on one of the Tor anonymizer servers request for authorization of a new device with Kozlovsky's phone number. An SMS was sent to him with a code, which was not delivered because the service was disabled for him.

Then the attacker entered the authorization code and gained access to the activist's Telegram account. “The main question is how the unknown got access to the code that was sent by SMS, but not delivered. Unfortunately, I have only one version: through the SORM system or directly through the MTS technical security department (for example, by a call from the “competent authorities”), "the activist emphasized.

According to him, Alburov's account was hacked in the same way.

The activist announced that his Telegram account had been hacked in the morning after the incident on his Twitter. At the same time, the attackers gained access to Alburov's Telegram, which he also announced in his microblog.

MTS spokesman Dmitry Solodovnikov told RBC that there were no "targeted" actions to disable SMS messages. “No purposeful actions were taken to disconnect services, the information about the disconnection of the service by an MTS employee does not correspond to reality,” he said.

The company did not rule out that it could be a "virus attack". Or, they say, the account was accessed "through the web interface.", "PubDate": "Mon, 02 May 2016 20:18:43 +0300", "guid": "http: // www. rbc.ru/politics/02/05/2016/57278bc29a7947849edc8a53 "," category ":" "," enclosure ": [(" url ":" http://pics.v6.top.rbk.ru/v6_top_pics/media /img/3/56/754622100126563.jpg "," width ":" 550 "," height ":" 340 ")]," related-object ": [" http://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/ 29/04/2016 / 57239f789a79476d06ea3ead "," http://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/29/04/2016/57233db39a7947b082d6ab52 "," http://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/28/04/2016/ 5721eaad9a794703d1ca047d "," http://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/26/04/2016/571f4e329a79475ee1d0d855 "]), (" title ":" Brent crude oil fell by almost $ 1.5 in three hours "," link " : "http://www.rbc.ru/economics/02/05/2016/57277fd19a79478307ce6832", "description": "

The price of July Brent crude oil futures fell 3.18% from the previous close to $ 45.91, according to data from the London Stock Exchange.

From the opening of the trading session until 16:19, the price remained at $ 46.7-47. However, then she began to fall sharply. At 19:01 the price was $ 45.82 and then rose to $ 45.91.

The price of the June WTI oil futures fell 2.6% to $ 44.75.

At the end of April, the price of Brent crude rose above $ 48. The ruble reacted positively to this: the dollar rate broke through the mark of 65 rubles, and the euro - at 74 rubles. "," PubDate ":" Mon, 02 May 2016 19:28:03 +0300 "," guid ":" http: //www.rbc.ru/economics/02/05/2016/57277fd19a79478307ce6832 "," category ":" "," enclosure ": [(" url ":" http://pics.v6.top.rbk.ru /v6_top_pics/media/img/6/06/754622070116066.jpg "," width ":" 550 "," height ":" 340 ")]," related-object ": [" http: //www.rbc. ru / economics / 01/05/2016 / 57259b9b9a7947ed4c97ebbd "," http://www.rbc.ru/business/30/04/2016/57248ed19a79475ee95d7a2f "," http://www.rbc.ru/economics/30/ 04/2016 / 5723f6879a794717217a5860 "," http://www.rbc.ru/economics/30/04/2016/5723d4189a7947100f2a2185 "]), (" title ":" The lawyer announced the victory of Russia in the claim for the construction of a center in Paris " , "link": "http://www.rbc.ru/business/02/05/2016/572779129a79477885d76e80", "description": "

Construction of the Russian Spiritual and Cultural Center in Paris continues on schedule after former Yukos shareholders, who were seeking the cessation of work in a French court, lost their suit at the end of April, attorney Andrea Pinna, who represents Russia's interests in a French court, told TASS.

“The party that filed the lawsuit sought to stop the construction of the spiritual and cultural center. However, the French court found this requirement unlawful. The corresponding verdict was issued on April 28. Accordingly, the work is proceeding according to the schedule, ”he said. The lawyer noted that "the court approved all the arguments of the Russian side." “The fact that the Quai Branly center is subject to diplomatic immunity was taken into account,” he stressed.

According to Pinn, Hulley Entreprises Limited, representing the interests of former Yukos shareholders, was sentenced by the court to pay € 20,000 in favor of Russian Federation and € 10,000 for the French company Bouygues, which is responsible for the construction of the center in Paris. “Formally, this decision can be appealed. However, from a practical point of view, it will not make sense, since by the time it is considered the construction work will have already been completed, ”the lawyer concluded.

Commenting on another court session, scheduled for September 29, the plaintiffs demanded to seize the land plot on which the center is located and to seize it in favor of the former Yukos shareholders. Pinna stressed: “Our position remains the same: diplomatic immunity extends to the land plot, as well as to the center itself. In this regard, we proceed from the assumption that the court's verdict will also be in favor of Russia. "

The lawyer expressed confidence that the lawsuit will not affect the upcoming inauguration of the center in October.

In February of this year, RBC reported that the former shareholders of YUKOS achieved a judicial arrest of the land plot on which the spiritual and cultural Orthodox center was being built, which meant a ban on the disposal of the site. At the same time, the court did not block construction on the site, recognizing diplomatic immunity for the object.

The Russian Orthodox Church called the message about the seizure of the land a "duck". The Russian embassy in France said that Russia had challenged the actions of the former Yukos shareholders. "The issue will be considered in court no earlier than autumn 2016," the Russian diplomatic mission told Interfax.

The Russian spiritual and cultural center is being created in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The building plot was purchased in 2010. The amount of the deal was not officially announced. The contract value with the construction contractor, French company Bouygues Batiment, is € 90.7 million.

In March, the newspaper La Croix wrote that the cost of setting up a center in Paris would amount to € 170 million. At the same time, in mid-March, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Russian Government Staff Sergei Prikhodko said that about € 90 million had been allocated from the budget for the project, " "pubDate": "Mon, 02 May 2016 18:58:56 +0300", "guid": "http://www.rbc.ru/business/02/05/2016/572779129a79477885d76e80", "category": " "," enclosure ": [(" url ":" http://pics.v6.top.rbk.ru/v6_top_pics/media/img/3/30/754622051140303.jpg "," width ":" 550 ", "height": "340")], "related-object": ["http://www.rbc.ru/society/21/03/2016/56efbde99a79472bca7f2900", "http://www.rbc.ru/ politics / 08/02/2016 / 56b7db179a79471a7be3a3e2 "," http://www.rbc.ru/business/26/04/2016/571f37599a7947776b76486c "," http://www.rbc.ru/politics/21/04/ 2016 / 5717c0f69a79470ae8fd6d9d "]), (" title ":" EU and US responded to reports of disagreements over the free trade zone "," link ":" http://www.rbc.ru/politics/02/05/2016/ 57275d269a79476d361895a5 "," description ":"

The United States and the European Union have commented on reports of disagreements over the establishment of the Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TTIP) previously reported by the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

According to European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, whose message is posted on the website of the European Commission, the US demands to the European Union reflect Washington's negotiating position, but are not the final conditions for concluding an agreement.

She explained that the positions of the US and the EU on this issue differ. “There are areas in the TTIP negotiations where we have come a long way, but there are others where we cannot reach agreement,” said Malmström, noting that it is normal for each side to strive to achieve their own goals.

She added that after each round of negotiations, the European Commission publishes its official report on them and therefore its position is well known. “Any trade agreement involving the European Union can only strengthen [product] quality control. We could agree with a partner that drug safety regulations will be tougher than before, for example, but not weaker. No trade deal will limit our ability to adopt new rules to protect our citizens or the environment in the future, ”concluded the European Commissioner.

In turn, the US representative told Reuters that the interpretation of the negotiations that appeared in the media is at best misleading and at worst just wrong.

Earlier, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, citing its own sources and documents provided to it by Greenpeace, reported that the United States government is exerting more intense pressure on the European Union than previously thought during the ongoing TTIP negotiations. The publication said that Washington, in particular, threatened to ban the export of European cars. At the same time, the United States wants to significantly increase the supply of its agricultural products to the European market, the newspaper claims.

As recalls Bloomberg, negotiations on a free trade zone between the United States and the European Union have been going on for 2.5 years. The agreement envisages the abolition of tariffs for a number of goods, the expansion of the service market, the opening of public procurement and the strengthening of cooperation in the field of regulation. The leaders of the EU countries and the US have repeatedly said that reaching this agreement is a priority, the agency adds. "," PubDate ":" Mon, 02 May 2016 17:26:19 +0300 "," guid ":" http: // www. rbc.ru/politics/02/05/2016/57275d269a79476d361895a5 "," category ":" "," enclosure ": [(" url ":" http://pics.v6.top.rbk.ru/v6_top_pics/media /img/7/04/754621991594047.jpg "," width ":" 550 "," height ":" 340 ")]), (" title ":" The court disclosed the details of the process on claims of Ukrnafta and Stabil against Russia "," link ":" http://www.rbc.ru/business/02/05/2016/57275a769a79476fd7d5ac66 "," description ":"

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in a press release revealed details of the claims of two Ukrainian energy companies against Russia over assets in Crimea.

The document says that the proceedings began in June 2015. The first of them was initiated by Ukrnafta, the second by Stabil and 10 others. In the notices, the companies stated that Russia had violated its obligations arising from the Russian-Ukrainian intergovernmental agreement on investment protection “by taking measures since the beginning of April 2014 that discouraged their investments in filling stations located in Crimea and ultimately resulted in to the expropriation of these investments ”.

Russia, in turn, stated that the said intergovernmental agreement could not serve as a basis for the formation of an arbitration tribunal to resolve the dispute with Ukrnafta and Stabil, and that it “does not recognize the jurisdiction of international arbitration at the Permanent Court of Arbitration” of the dispute. The Russian side also stressed that its comments for the court should not be considered as consent to the establishment of the arbitral tribunal, participation in arbitration proceedings or as procedural actions taken in the framework of the proceedings.

The two arbitral tribunals, consisting of the same arbitrators, were approved on October 7, 2015, and a month later, the first hearings were held, at which procedural issues were considered. Russia was not represented at the hearing.

On January 15, 2016, the current "Ukrnafta" and Stabil filed claims, according to a press release. Russia did not file an objection to the claim until April 15 - within the timeframe set in the procedural timetable. On April 22, the Arbitral Tribunal decided to continue both proceedings.

The court invited the parties to answer the questions of the arbitral tribunal by June 3. Hearings on his jurisdiction are scheduled for July 11.

It became known on January 11 this year that Ukrnafta had filed a claim against Russia with the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. The essence of the claims was not disclosed in the message on the PPTS website - it was only noted that the proceedings were initiated in accordance with the Russian-Ukrainian intergovernmental agreement on the promotion and mutual protection of investments concluded back in 1998.

At the same time, information appeared in the PPTS database that 11 more Ukrainian companies filed similar claims against Russia - Stabil, Rubenor, Rustel, Kirovograd-Nafta, Crimea-Petrol, Pirsan, Trade-Trust "," Eleftheria "," VKF Satek ", Stemv Group and Novel-Estate.

Two days later, Ukrnafta disclosed the essence of the lawsuit against Russia. "The arbitration proceedings were initiated with the aim of obtaining compensation for the illegal seizure of the company's filling stations on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula," the company said in a statement. "," PubDate ":" Mon, 02 May 2016 16:52:02 +0300 "," guid " : "http://www.rbc.ru/business/02/05/2016/57275a769a79476fd7d5ac66", "category": "", "enclosure": [("url": "http://pics.v6.top .rbk.ru / v6_top_pics / media / img / 9/05 / 754621973947059.jpg "," width ":" 550 "," height ":" 340 ")]," related-object ": [" http: // www.rbc.ru/business/13/01/2016/56965f2f9a79476dd6a35ea8 "," http://www.rbc.ru/business/11/01/2016/569375a09a79472fc18383c9 "," http://www.rbc.ru/ business / 22/07/2015 / 55afa2299a7947111a51ed0d "," http://www.rbc.ru/business/12/07/2015/559fd83b9a794777ebda6a37 "]), (" title ":" Trump accused China of "rape" of the United States " , "link": "http://www.rbc.ru/politics/02/05/2016/572735979a794753297a4c83", "description": "

Speaking at a rally in Indiana, Trump said that China is improving its export positions by manipulating the yuan, which negatively affects the position of American business, according to the BBC. “We cannot let China continue to rape our country. We must change the situation, and we have all the cards in our hands for this, ”said the Republican candidate.

According to Trump, China should be immediately declared a "currency swindler" and forced to change the rate of the yuan, which, according to Trump, is greatly undervalued for the sake of foreign economic benefits.

At the same time, the presidential candidate noted that he is angry not so much with China as with American leaders, who are "highly incompetent."

Trump has previously stated that China respects strength and has said that if it wins, it will exert economic pressure on Beijing. According to the billionaire, this will help resolve the DPRK problem as well.

Trump mentions China in many of his speeches, each time blaming Beijing for US economic problems. "," PubDate ":" Mon, 02 May 2016 14:13:54 +0300 "," guid ":" http: //www.rbc .ru / politics / 02/05/2016 / 572735979a794753297a4c83 "," category ":" "," enclosure ": [(" url ":" http://pics.v6.top.rbk.ru/v6_top_pics/media/ img / 3/09 / 754621875906093.jpg "," width ":" 550 "," height ":" 340 ")]," related-object ": [" http://www.rbc.ru/politics/28 / 04/2016 / 5720986a9a79471eccc11c38 "," http://www.rbc.ru/politics/27/04/2016/5721244e9a7947eef4347d76 "," http://www.rbc.ru/politics/27/04/2016/572040b29a790473defd040 "]), (" title ":" The media learned about Merkel's proposal to Japan to join NATO "," link ":" http://www.rbc.ru/politics/02/05/2016/57272b3d9a794747c79cb5c5 "," description " : "

During a visit to Tokyo last March, Merkel asked Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe how he felt about joining NATO, according to The Japan Times. “I could convince British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President François Hollande,” she said.

The publication indicates that Abe politely said that he would consider this issue, "maybe in the future," stressing that Japan's entry into NATO is fraught with the termination of negotiations with Russia on the conclusion of a peace treaty.

Japan is not part of the military blocs, but NATO is seen as the main ally along with Australia, Thailand, South Korea, Pakistan, Argentina and a number of states in the Middle East.

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30s badminton competition Olympic Games were held from July 28 to August 5. 5 sets of awards were played - male and female singles, pairs and mixed.

The largest number of medals has traditionally been won by representatives of China. They could have even more medals, if not for one "but".

Medal standings of badminton competitions at the London Olympics

The group stage of the women's badminton tournament at the London Olympics ended in a huge scandal. The competition scheme involves a group round, followed by an advance to the playoffs. Thus, the game scheme provides the participants, who reached the quarterfinals ahead of schedule and who play later than the others, the opportunity to choose a more convenient opponent for themselves.

It was the choice of the enemy that the Chinese and Korean duos took up, clearly not wanting to win in their confrontation. Final match group tournament in paired competitions between Chinese women Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang and Korean women Chun Kyung Eun and Kim Ha Na, according to eyewitnesses, resembled a yard game. By the way, these very couples were the best in the world at that time.

Circus performed by Chinese and Korean badminton players

In the same way, badminton players from South Korea and Indonesia played “giveaway”, although not so clearly. During the "fight" the athletes deliberately served in the net and knocked the shuttlecock off the field. This caused outrage not only among the spectators at the stadium. The referee was forced to interrupt the match.

The IOC did not appreciate such a clowning and disqualified all four couples, removing them from further competitions.

By the way, this decision made it possible for the Russian duo, which had departed by that time, to return to the tournament. Valeria Sorokina / Nina Vislova... Our girls took advantage of the sudden chance, having managed to win sensational bronze medals for themselves.

Valeria Sorokina and Nina Vislova rejoice at victory in the match for third place

However, the gold in the women's doubles tournament went to China anyway. It was won by the second Chinese pair - Tian Qing / Zhao Yunlei.

All winners:

Men

Singles
1. Lin Dan (China)
2. Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia)
3. Chen Long (China).

Doubles
1. China (Tsai Yun / Fu Haifeng).
2. Denmark (Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen)
3. South Korea (Jung Jae Sung / Lee Young Dae).

Women

Singles
1. Li Xuezhui (China)
2. Wang Yihan (China)
3. Saina Nehwal (India).

Doubles
1.China (Tian Qing / Zhao Yunlei)
2. Japan (Mizuki Fujii / Reika Kakiyiwa)
3. Russia (Nina Vislova / Valeria Sorokina).

Mixed

1. China (Zhang Nan / Zhao Yunlei)
2. China (Xu Chen / Ma Jin)
3. Denmark (Joachim Fischer Nielsen / Kristinna Pedersen).

General medal standings in badminton at the 2012 Olympics

Specific results of the stages of the competition

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