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More than 100 US diplomats and family fly back to China
More than 100 U.S. diplomats and family members flew to China on Wednesday, according to internal State Department emails, as Washington pressed ahead with its plan to restaff its diplomatic mission at a time of heightened tensions between the world's two largest economies.
A chartered commercial aircraft left Dulles airport outside Washington for the South Korean capital, Seoul, where passengers would transfer to another aircraft outfitted for medical operations before flying to the Chinese city of Guangzhou. The flight, only the second one of many required to return more than 1,200 U.S. diplomats with their families, was the first since talks between Washington and Beijing hit an impasse two weeks ago over conditions China wanted to impose on the Americans, prompting the State Department to postpone flights tentatively scheduled for the first 10 days of July. The United States is working to fully restaff its mission in China, one of its largest in the world, which was evacuated in February because of the coronavirus outbreak. A Department email dated Wednesday and viewed by Reuters said more flights were being arranged to take diplomats back.
"For those still waiting to return, we are in the process of getting approvals from the Department for subsequent flights to Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Tianjin/Beijing in the coming weeks. Due to PRC regulations, these flights will be limited to a maximum of 120 passengers," it said.
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Relations between Washington and Beijing have deteriorated to their lowest level in decades over issues including China's handling of the pandemic, bilateral trade and a new security law for Hong Kong. Washington and Beijing have been negotiating for weeks over the terms of how to bring U.S. diplomats back and the top issues of disagreement have been testing and quarantine procedures for diplomats and families as well the frequency of flights and how many one journey can bring back. The State Department internally told its staff that it had received assurances from Chinese authorities that parents would not be separated from their children if they tested positive. But disagreements over other issues, such as testing being conducted in Chinese labs, have persisted.
Diplomats say agreeing to be tested contravenes the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The internal email said that on arrival in China, adults and children of all ages should be prepared to undergo a nasal and/or throat swab COVID-19 test.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/More-than-100-US-diplomats-and-family-fly-back-to-China
T-Mobile, Inc. EVP-Corporate Strategy sold: $21.29m-July 13
T-Mobile US specializes in mobile telecommunication services. Sales break down by activity as follows:
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mobile telecommunication services (75.5%): mobile telephone service, long-distance telephone service, data transmission, Internet access, directory services, etc. serving over 86 million subscribers at the end of 2019;
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equipment sales (21.9%): primarily handsets and accessories;
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other (2.6%).
Products and services are marketed through a network of approximately 2,200 retail locations (T-Mobile and MetroPCS names), and via Internet. Number of employees : 53 000 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/T-MOBILE-US-24717887/company/
Peter EwensT-Mobile in 2008 as senior vice president of corporate strategy. Previously, he was vice president of OEM business at Sun Microsystems, a computer software and information technology services company. Before that, he was a partner at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm.
https://www.t-mobile.com/our-story/executive-leadership-team/peter-ewens#LongBio
from June 24th-2020
T Mobile US : Mobile Prices Public Offering of 143,392,582 Shares of Common Sock in connecion wih SofBank's Monetization of A Porion of Is Shareholding in -Mobile
For every share of common stock sold by T-Mobile in the Public Equity Offering, T-Mobile has agreed to repurchase one share of common stock from a subsidiary of SoftBank at a price per share equivalent to that received by T-Mobile in its sales. Consequently, the Public Equity Offering will not involve gain or loss to T-Mobile and will not affect the number of outstanding shares of T-Mobile common stock or T-Mobile’s capitalization. T-Mobile also separately announced the pricing of $1,860,465,000 aggregate purchase price (not including the initial purchasers’ 30-day option to purchase up to an additional $139,535,000 of Trust Securities) of cash mandatory exchangeable trust securities (the “Trust Securities”) by a Delaware statutory trust in a private offering exempt from registration under the Securities Act (the “Private Offering” and, together with the Public Equity Offering, the “Offerings”). The Trust will acquire 18,062,698 shares of T-Mobile’s common stock in connection with the closing of the Private Offering (19,417,400 shares if the initial purchasers exercise in full their option to purchase additional Trust Securities), which is also expected to close on June 26, 2020
https://www.marketscreener.com/T-MOBILE-US-24717887/news/T-Mobile-US-Mobile-Prices-Public-Offering-of-143-392-582-Shares-of-Common-Sock-in-connecion-wih-So-30815740/
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