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Russian parliamentarian: North Korea's special forces are assisting Russia in the war. On the 14th, the reporter of the General Taiwan Affairs Office learned that Andrei Kolesnik, a member of the National Defense Committee of the Russian State Duma, said in an interview with Lenta.ru on the 13th local time that soldiers of North Korea's special forces are assisting Russia in the war in order to gain practical experience. North Korean leaders sent troops to help Russia fight because the DPRK believes that the combat effectiveness of soldiers who have participated in actual combat will be doubled, especially the special forces must have experience in participating in real conflicts. Kolesnik also stressed that North Korean soldiers participated in the operation legally according to the treaty signed between Russia and the DPRK. (CCTV News)Moody's: It is expected that France's public finances will be greatly weakened in the next few years.NASDAQ Corporation: The annual adjustment results of Nasdaq 100 index constituents will take effect before the opening on Monday, December 23rd.

Report: The number of online stores opened by China enterprises in the United States has increased rapidly. According to the report released by SmartScout Insight, among the top 20 cities in terms of Amazon sellers, China city occupies 14 seats, showing the strong strength of China sellers on Amazon platform. The total number of Amazon sellers in China's top 20 cities reached 232,000, compared with 58,000 in the United States. In 2023, the number of sellers in China with sales exceeding $10 million increased by 30% year-on-year, and the number of sellers in China with sales exceeding $1 million also increased significantly. China calls on the Security Council to resume the blanket exemption from the travel ban for relevant personnel of the Afghan interim government as soon as possible. On December 13th, local time, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2763, extending the authorization of the Monitoring Team of the 1988 Sanctions Committee (Taliban Sanctions Committee) for 14 months. The Chinese representative expressed the hope that the team would continue to actively perform its duties as authorized by the resolution, provide strong support for the work of the Committee, support the monitoring team to strengthen contacts with the Afghan interim government, and look forward to the team's early visit to Afghanistan. Geng Shuang said that the resolution reaffirmed the necessity of reviewing the 1988 sanctions regime and stressed that the Security Council sanctions should help promote Afghan peace and stability. The Taliban has been in power for more than three years, the situation in Afghanistan is generally stable, and contacts between the outside world and the Afghan authorities are gradually expanding. China once again calls for timely adjustment of the sanctions mechanism according to the development and changes of the situation. As a first step, the Security Council should restore the blanket exemption from the travel ban for relevant personnel of the Afghan interim government as soon as possible, so as to create conditions and facilitate the international community to strengthen contacts and exchanges with Afghanistan.

Challenging the monopoly of Europe and America, Chinese and Indian manufacturers have laid out the track of diet pills. For some time, GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide -1) diet pills have caught fire in the United States and other western countries, and gradually marched into emerging markets. At present, two major pharmaceutical companies, Novo Nordisk in Denmark and Lilly in the United States, occupy most of the market share in the field of GLP-1 diet pills, but other pharmaceutical companies are also actively deploying the track. In 2026, Novo Nordisk's patent on smeagoutide will expire in China and India, while the patent on liraglutide, the main effective ingredient of the previous generation of GLP-1 diet pills, has expired in China and India. The industry believes that China and India, as two emerging markets, have a strong momentum of innovation and development in the pharmaceutical industry of both countries, and have great potential in the GLP-1 diet pills track. The entry of Chinese and Indian pharmaceutical companies will make the international competition in the field of GLP-1 diet pills more intense. (Global Times)The output of platinum jewelry in China decreased by 12% year-on-year in the third quarter. Antaike reported that according to the statistics of the International Platinum Association, the output of platinum jewelry in China decreased by 12% year-on-year in the third quarter, which was worse than the decline of 7% in the second quarter. Among them, the output of plain platinum jewelry, which accounts for more than 98% of the total output of platinum jewelry, fell by 9% year-on-year in the third quarter, while the output of platinum inlaid jewelry continued to decline sharply. Platinum is still in a relatively weak position in the rapidly changing market environment today. Platinum category lacks innovation, such as breakthrough design and new technology. Retailers lack enthusiasm, low profits and slow turnover. Old general goods still account for the vast majority, which are unsalable seriously. Innovative products and sets of products have a faster turnover and higher profits, but their market share is still not high.USGS: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake occurred 41km southeast of Molina, Chile.