Top diplomats from the United States and Japan are working to build tighter defense ties. The growing partnership looks to counter Beijing. NTD interviews a Lithuanian member of parliament. We ask him about the Lithuanian president’s apparent regret over its de facto Taiwanese embassy. The Chinese regime fines retail giant 7-Eleven over $20,000. The penalty comes after the company website listed Taiwan as a country. Two Chinese vaccines equals an earning of over $10,000, and that’s enough to buy a decent house in some Chinese cities—that’s what the Chinese communist regime is trying to tell people with its propaganda script. Officials in China’s Xi’an announced the city had reached “basically zero” COVID-19 cases. But citizens say there’s another explanation for the claim. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more first-hand news from China. For more news and videos, please visit our website and Twitter.