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习近平：加快构建中国哲学社会科学自主知识体系

2026年5月17日 11:02 / 联合早报

中国国家主席习近平强调，要加快构建中国哲学社会科学自主知识体系，更好回答“中国之问、世界之问、人民之问、时代之问”。

新华社星期天（5月17日）消息，习近平近日就推动哲学社会科学高质量发展作出指示时指出，中共十八大以来，哲学社会科学战线认真贯彻落实中共中央决策部署，坚持“两个结合”，扎实推进知识创新、理论创新、方法创新，推出一批有价值的研究成果，有力服务了中共党和国家工作大局。

习近平强调，新征程上，要以新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导，坚持和加强中共的全面领导，深化中共的创新理论体系化、学理化研究阐释；努力开创哲学社会科学高质量发展新局面，为中国式现代化建设贡献更多智慧和力量。

中国国家主席习近平（屏幕中）今年2月4日下午与俄罗斯总统普京举行视频会晤。 （路透社）

中俄两国官方星期六（16日）同日宣布，俄罗斯总统普京将于下个星期二至星期三（5月19日至20日）对中国进行国事访问。中国国家主席习近平星期天（17日）评价，中俄各领域合作不断走深走实，取得丰硕成果。

据中新社报道，第10届中俄博览会星期天在黑龙江省哈尔滨市开幕，主题为“信任、合作、共赢”，由商务部、黑龙江省人民政府、俄罗斯经济发展部、俄罗斯工业和贸易部共同举办。习近平同普京星期天分别向中俄博览会致贺信。

习近平指出，今年是中俄战略协作伙伴关系建立30周年和《中俄睦邻友好合作条约》签署25周年。在双方共同努力下，中俄各领域合作不断走深走实，取得丰硕成果。

习近平强调，希望两国各界以本届博览会为契机，发挥中俄毗邻和互补优势，深化全方位务实合作，更好促进两国经济社会发展，持续增进两国人民福祉，为推动中俄新时代全面战略协作伙伴关系行稳致远作出新贡献。

中新社引述普京在贺信中表示，俄中博览会已发展成为两国间规模最大的展会活动，为双方开展直接、深入对话提供了平台。

普京指出，本届博览会内容充实，聚焦双边重点合作领域，围绕广泛议题进行交流，相信将取得积极成果，为两国互利合作新前景作出规划，造福两国人民。

据克里姆林宫官网信息，普京访华期间将与习近平讨论当前双边事务，探讨如何进一步加强俄中全面伙伴关系和战略合作，并就重要国际和地区问题交换意见，还将共同出席“俄中教育年”开幕式。

俄中元首会谈结束后，两国计划签署最高级别联合声明，以及一系列双边政府间、部门间及其他文件。普京还会和中国总理李强会面，讨论两国经贸合作前景。

普京已访华逾20次，与习近平会晤超过40次。此次访华将是自普京2月与习近平举行视频会晤以来，双方今年首次面对面交流。

从震惊到与体内癌细胞共存 她用平静谱写生命续曲

2026年5月17日 11:23 / 联合早报

裴于慧体型瘦小，身上却散发着一股十分淡定和坚韧的气息。虽然她并没有完全摆脱癌症，但依然选择积极面对生活，以自己的经历鼓励他人。（受访者提供）

裴于慧（42岁）在确诊第四期直肠结肠癌时，短暂的震惊过后，内心只剩下一种没有退路的淡定。

那是在2021年的9月。

在那之前，她吃得好、睡得好，直到后来排便带血，甚至在上班时突然严重出血，她才去看了专科。经过一系列检查后，她被确诊患上直肠结肠癌，且癌细胞已转移至肝脏，总共长了16个肿瘤。

按照治疗方案，裴于慧先接受化疗和电疗缩小肿瘤后，再进行切除手术。她说：“我本来不想告诉父母病情，但医生跟我说，针对肝脏转移的方案只能以‘延长生命’为目标，我才意识到必须向父母坦白了。那段时间我们都很难过，但总算过去了。”

抗癌波折不止于此。原本以为只需挂三个月的造口袋，结果裴于慧一挂就是整整一年。雪上加霜的是，在刚摘除造口袋出院身体抵抗力最弱时，她患上严重的带状疱疹（俗称“生蛇”）。症状蔓延至腰部、大腿和臀部，引发剧烈的神经痛。

“因为那时我刚出院不久，所以很抗拒再住院，只拿了一些药膏。现在想起来，都不知道自己是怎么熬过来的。”

发病至今已有五年，这场病让她提早步入更年期。目前，裴于慧处于已停止治疗但未完全摆脱癌症的状态。

她说：“医生告诉我，我的胃部淋巴仍有难以处理的癌细胞，而且经过各种治疗它们也还在那里，我想倒不如接受与它们共存的现实，定期复诊就行。”

裴于慧去年加入本地年轻癌症病患的支持小组“Strong Olive”，看到有病友因手术导致口齿不清却依然坚持积极面对，她觉得自己的经历也能用来鼓励他人。

在抗癌的这条长路上，最亲近的丈夫也无法完全体会她所经历的身心痛楚，但切实的陪伴已经足够。现在的她，带着这份平静，继续按部就班地过好每一天。

“每件事情的发生都有好坏，如果不是这场病，我也不会和大家分享这段经历。生活要继续，所以我选择多看好的那一面。”

2026年希盟大会星期天（5月17日）上午在新山的柔佛国际会展中心举行。图为大会主席及希盟宣传主任法米致欢迎辞。 （苏俊翔摄）

马来西亚执政的希望联盟星期天（5月17日）在新山举行大会，凝聚三个成员党的共识，为即将举行的第16届全国大选备战造势。

主题“昌明决心，人民希望”的2026年希盟大会吸引人民公正党、民主行动党与国家诚信党三个成员党超过6000名代表出席。

大会主席及希盟宣传主任法米星期天致欢迎辞时说，大会是希盟领袖阐述联盟未来方向及选举策略的重要平台。大会将加强希盟各成员党的协调，以应对日益复杂的政治局势。

法米也是通讯部长及团结政府发言人。他星期六（16日）在媒体吹风会说：“关于希盟与国阵未来的具体合作架构，希盟主席（及首相安华）在星期天下午的演讲说明详情。”

希盟三党约5000名代表出席了大会。（苏俊翔摄）

根据行程，安华星期天下午演说后，大会将进行“移交选举机关配备仪式”。这象征着希盟正式启动全国选战机关，全面进入备战状态。

不定期举行的希盟大会是希盟选举策略的重要指标。时任首相依斯迈2022年10月10日解散国会后，上次希盟大会同年10月20日在霹雳州怡保举行。

马国本届国会2022年12月19日首次开会，最迟必须在2027年12月19日之前解散，并在解散后60天内举行全国大选。换言之，下届全国大选最迟必须在2028年2月底前举行。

不过，马六甲州议会今年12月届满，砂拉越州议会明年2月届满，柔佛州议会明年4月届满。最近闹出政治风波的森美兰州议会2028年9月届满。若要让这四州选举与全国大选同时举行，国会就须在今年解散。

Trump scores major Republican primary victory as Cassidy ousted in Louisiana

May 16, 2026 10:53pm EDT / Fox News

Cassidy becomes the first elected GOP senator to lose renomination since 2012 after backing Trump’s conviction

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Five and a half years ago after he voted to convict President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana was sent packing by Republican voters as he ran for re-election.

Trump-backed Rep. Julia Letlow and Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming topped Cassidy in Saturday’s GOP primary, according to The Associated Press.

With most results tabulated late in the evening, Letlow stood at 45% of the vote, Fleming at roughly 28% and Cassidy at just under 25%, Since no candidate cracked 50% of the vote, Letlow and Fleming will advance to next month’s runoff for the Republican nomination. And Cassidy becomes the first elected Republican senator to lose renomination since Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana in 2012

While he wasn’t on the ballot, Trump is a winner, as the primary in the solidly red state was the latest test of his endorsements in GOP nomination races and of the president’s immense grip over the Republican Party.

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Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana fist bumps a supporter during a campaign stop at a gun retailer and firing range in Baton Rouge on May 15, 2026, the eve of the state’s Senate primary.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

Trump on Saturday morning took aim at Cassidy, arguing the senator is “a disloyal disaster” and “a sleazebag, a terrible guy, who is BAD FOR LOUISIANA.”

And after Cassidy was defeated, Trump returned to social media to revel in the senator’s ouster, saying “it’s nice to see that his political career is OVER!”

Cassidy, in a speech to supporters after conceding, said “when you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn’t turn out the way you want it to.”

“But you don’t pout, you don’t whine. You don’t claim the election was stolen… You don’t manufacture some excuse,” Cassidy said in an apparent jab at Trump. “You thank the voters for the privilege of representing the state or the country for as long as you’ve had that privilege. And that’s what I’m doing right now.”

The Louisiana primary was held a week and a half after Indiana’s primary, where Trump-backed challengers ousted five sitting Republican state senators who last December teamed up with Democrats to defeat the president’s push for congressional redistricting in the GOP-dominated Midwestern state.

Letlow, speaking to supporters at her primary night celebration, thanked Trump for his endorsement.

U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., speaks to supporters during an election night watch party Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.(Matthew Hinton/AP Photo)

“Louisiana made it clear tonight: we are ready for strong conservative leadership that will stand with President Trump and never waver,” she added in a post on X.

Letlow was backed by Trump even before she entered the race in January.

“Not only did he encourage me to get into this race, but also to have his complete and total endorsement has been, wow, the honor of a lifetime,” Letlow told Fox News Digital on the eve of the primary.

Trump’s endorsement in the nomination race weighed heavily in a state he carried by 22 points in his 2024 election victory.

“It’s the most powerful endorsement in the world,” Letlow said, adding that Louisiana Republicans “are huge fans of the president.”

Letlow was also backed by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, a top Trump ally.

Republican Rep. Julia Letlow of Louisiana, a Republican Senate candidate, speaks with Fox News Digital on the eve of the state’s primary, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on May 15, 2026.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

After cruising to re-election six years ago, Cassidy was one of only seven Senate Republicans who voted in early 2021 to convict Trump after he was impeached by the House for his role in the violent Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters who aimed to upend congressional certification of former President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. Trump was acquitted by the Senate.

But since the start of Trump’s second term, Cassidy has been supportive of the president’s agenda and his nominees, including voting to approve Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

But Kennedy and his Make America Healthy Again movement were out for revenge.

That’s because Cassidy, a doctor, has been a skeptic of Kennedy’s push to reform the nation’s health policies, including Kennedy’s efforts to cut back on vaccine recommendations.

And Kennedy allies blamed Cassidy, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, for helping sink the surgeon general nomination of Casey Means, a close Kennedy ally and top MAHA advocate, after Cassidy did not bring it to a committee vote.

Meanwhile, Trump blasted the senator as a “very disloyal person” and on the eve of the primary, the president took to social media to praise Letlow as a “Highly Respected America First Congresswoman.”

Cassidy highlighted his record over two terms in the Senate in delivering for Louisiana, which is one of the nation’s poorest states. And he’s showcased his support for Louisiana’s large oil and gas industry, which accounts for roughly 15% of the state’s workforce.

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“When people ask things such as, can you work with President Trump, I point out that he has signed into law four bills that I wrote or negotiated,” the senator said in a Fox News Digital interview on Friday. “We continue to work together, by the way.”

And Cassidy touted that he’s “a conservative senator who delivers.”

Cassidy and an allied super PAC dished out more than $20 million on ads, according to AdImpact, a national ad tracking firm. That total was more than Letlow and Fleming, combined, spent.

Some of those ads knocked Letlow over her past support for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs during her tenure at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Cassidy argued that Republican voters are “concerned about her shifting position on DEI. She was all in for DEI.”

Defending her record, Letlow told Fox News Digital that “back in 2020 whenever DEI was introduced to us, we had no idea what it was back then, and I quickly witnessed it. I was in higher education at the time. I quickly witnessed the left completely hijack it, turn it into this Marxist leftist indoctrination of our children. And so, when I got to Congress for the last five years, I’ve been fighting against it.

Letlow also faced scrutiny from her rivals over her failure to disclose over 200 personal stock and bond trades within the mandated 45-day reporting deadline for members of Congress.

She said it “was a reporting error on my financial advisor’s part. And once I realized that that had happened, I quickly remedied it. It has never happened since.”

And Letlow charged that the criticism of her from Cassidy and Fleming over DEI and stock trading was “all baseless attacks, desperate attacks.”

Letlow won her congressional seat in 2021, after her husband, Luke Letlow, died six days after being sworn into the U.S. House after his 2020 election victory for the seat she now holds.

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Fleming, who served as a White House deputy chief of staff during Trump’s first term, argued that he was the most conservative candidate in the GOP Senate primary.

‘They see me clearly MAGA,” Fleming told Fox News Digital, as he referred to Louisiana Republicans. “I served in his entire first administration at various capacities. I was one of the first congressmen that endorsed him in 2016.”

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Meanwhile, Fleming claimed that Letlow was “not the prototype for a Trump endorsement. She’s much more like a Democrat.”

The winner of the Republican runoff will be considered the clear favorite in the general election to keep the Senate seat in Republican hands.

Fox News’ Luke Trevisan contributed to this story

Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.

特朗普宴会厅拨款提案遇阻 参议院：不符合预算规则

2026年5月17日 11:46 / 联合早报

美国总统特朗普去年10月下令推平白宫东翼，建造用于举办招待会和国宴的巨大宴会厅。 （彭博社）

美国共和党一项旨在为总统特朗普计划中的宴会厅拨付联邦资金的提案，在美国参议院遭遇阻碍。

综合彭博社和路透社报道，美国参议院民主党人说，参议院立法程序官麦多诺星期六（5月16日）认定，这项支出不符合参议院预算规则。

特朗普曾说，宴会厅的建设资金将由私人捐助者提供。不过，参议院共和党人正寻求10亿美元（约12.8亿新元）纳税人的钱用于特勤局的安全升级，其中包括这个宴会厅。

参议院少数党领袖舒默在一份声明中说：“共和党试图让纳税人承担特朗普耗资上亿美元打造宴会厅的费用。参议院民主党进行了反击——并挫败他们的首次尝试。”

参议院共和党领袖图恩的发言人拉斯则说，他们将对有关法案进行修改。

据报道，美军计划在白宫新宴会厅下方，修建一座大型综合建筑，会配备防弹玻璃和防无人机等防护设施。

特朗普去年10月下令推平白宫东翼，建造用于举办招待会和国宴的巨大宴会厅。然而，这项工程在进行时，并未经过通常针对华盛顿建筑景观变更所要求的繁琐审查程序。

宴会厅项目堪称白宫百余年来最宏大的工程之一，且规模持续扩大，有关预算已从2亿美元（约2亿5600新元）翻倍至4亿美元。

揭牌未满三年 施罗德传终结在华公募基金业务

2026年5月17日 11:55 / 联合早报

消息人士透露，由于难以在竞争异常激烈的中国资管行业实现增长，施罗德集团将关闭在中国全资拥有的公募基金，意味着揭牌未满三年就结束这项业务。 （施罗德集团官网）

消息人士透露，由于难以在竞争异常激烈的中国资管行业实现增长，施罗德集团将关闭在中国全资拥有的公募基金，意味着揭牌未满三年就结束这项业务。

彭博社上个星期五（5月17日）引述消息人士称，这家英国公司的中国公募基金业务部门约有70名员工，其中部分人已开始离职。

美国资产管理公司路博迈旗下全资中国公司与施罗德达成协议，将接手后者中国公募基金部门旗下产品。

施罗德于1994年在上海成立第一个中国内地的代表处，是首批进入中国内地的外资资产管理公司之一，并在2005年与交通银行成立交银施罗德基金公司。

施罗德2007年开始通过QDII额度（合格境外机构投资者）为客户提供海外投资机会。2015年正式进驻上海自贸区，成立全资子公司，并于2017年升级为外商独资投资管理公司（IM WFOE）——施罗德投资管理（上海）公司。

中国证监会2020年8月核准全球最大资产管理公司贝莱德在华设立基金公司，成为首家外资独资公募基金公司。路博迈、富达国际和联博、施罗德随后也跟进提出了申请。

施罗德基金管理（中国）公司（简称施罗德基金）2023年6月8日下午在上海举行揭牌仪式，成为全中国新设的第四家外商独资公募基金管理公司。

澎湃新闻当时报道指出，2023年1月经核准设立后，施罗德基金同年6月取得中国证监会核发的《经营证券期货业务许可证》。当时揭牌的施罗德基金注册资本2.6亿元人民币（4909万新元），是施罗德投资集团旗下施罗德投资管理公司的全资子公司。

这也是施罗德投资管理公司、继2022年与交银理财公司共同在沪设立外资控股合资理财公司以来，再次在上海设立标志性机构。

另一方面，彭博社指出，施罗德近期被美国资产管理公司Nuveen收购，其在华仍拥有多项其他业务，包括与交通银行的合资公司以及一家总部位于上海的私募基金公司。目前没有迹象显示施罗德将退出这些业务。

Colorado River crisis could force drastic water measures across the West, experts say

May 16, 2026 9:20 PM EDT / CBS News

Los Angeles — The Colorado River is in crisis, with a growing population taking more water from it as a hotter climate is drying up the supply.

The snowpack in the Rockies that feeds the river fell to record lows this winter, pushing major reservoirs downstream — like Lake Mead and Lake Powell — toward critically low levels.

Approximately 40 million people across the West depend on the Colorado River for water daily, with many taking it for granted. But the region could soon face drastic measures as the river keeps shrinking.

“The causes of those declining reservoir levels are multiple,” said Sarah Porter, director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy at Arizona State University. “It’s not one thing, but certainly this year we didn’t get any help from Mother Nature.”

Federal officials recently began releasing billions of gallons of water into Lake Powell, a reservoir in Utah and Arizona, to prevent disruptions in hydropower.

At the same time, Arizona, California and Nevada are scrambling to conserve water, unveiling an emergency proposal that would pay some users to consume less.

But without a broader agreement among the states the river flows through, each fighting for more of the share, experts warn mandatory water cuts could deepen. That would threaten farming, hydropower and the water supply millions of people rely on in cities from Phoenix to Los Angeles.

A record-low snowpack across the Colorado River Basin is intensifying concerns at Lake Mead, where water levels remain low on April 30, 2026, in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Arizona. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

And with key federal operating rules set to expire later this year, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation — which constructs and manages dams, power plants and canals across 17 Western states — is expected to decide this summer how future cuts will be divided among states.

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Experts warn that without major long-term changes in water use, the Colorado River could become catastrophically overdrawn.

There has been some unexpected relief, however. An unusual May storm brought several feet of snow to the Rockies last week. It will help for now, but experts say it is not enough to end the threat millions of people now face.

英国伦敦星期六（5月16日）举行两场大规模示威活动，其中“团结国王”游行者聚集在伦敦市中心。 （法新社）

英国数万人星期六（5月16日）游行穿过伦敦市中心，分别参与两场大规模示威游行，一场是由极右翼活动人士发起的“团结王国”游行，另一场则是声援巴勒斯坦人的反示威活动。

路透社报道，警方出动4000名警力，包括来自首都以外的增援部队，并承诺在他们称之为近年来最大规模的公共秩序行动中“尽可能果断地行使职权”。

两场游行结束后，警方说已逮捕43名涉及各种罪行的人，并称两场抗议活动“总体上没有发生重大事件”。警方早前预测，这两场立场对立的游行将吸引至少8万人参与。

这场游行由极右翼活动人士汤米·罗宾逊发起的“团结王国”游行，被英国首相斯塔默星期五指责“公然散播仇恨与分裂”。团结王国游行旨在反对高移民水平和其认为的回教对英国民族认同的威胁。

英国政府禁止11名“外国极右翼煽动者”入境参与这次的抗议活动。

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罗宾逊去年9月率领的一次抗议活动吸引约15万人参加。当时发生的冲突导致26名警员受伤，其中四人伤势严重。这次有四名警员受伤，但均无大碍。