新闻纵贯线 The Beijing Hour updated 08:00 2017/12/02

The Beijing Hour

Morning Edition

Paul James with you on this Saturday, December 2, 2017.

Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital.

Coming up...

Our news focus...

A major meeting among global political parties has opened with a speech from Xi Jinping.

In other news...

A meeting among members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has wrapped up in Russia.

Chinese and French officials sit down for major bilateral¹ talks.

A date has been set for the abdication² by Japan's emperor.

In the second half of our program

We talk regional Chinese opera, a private history collection and foreign literature on display in Wuzhen.

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1 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

2 abdication   

n.辞职；退位

参考例句：

• The officers took over and forced his abdication in 1947.1947年军官们接管了政权并迫使他退了位。
• Abdication is precluded by the lack of a possible successor.因为没有可能的继承人，让位无法实现。