新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2018/06/19

Today updated 20:00 2018/06/19朝鲜委员长金正恩三个月三访华

Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- Today keeps you informed and inspired. I'm zhaoying

Coming up：

--Kim Jong Un is making a two-day visit to China, a week after the US-DPRK summit.

--China is planning to raise the monthly individual income tax exemption¹ threshold.

--Donald Trump² has ordered the the US military to establish a new "space force".

For more on this, CRI's zhaoying earlier spoke³ with ZHAO Tong, fellow in Carnegie's nuclear policy program based at the Carnegie-Tsinghua center for global policy；Michael R. Powers, Zurich Insurance Group Professor of risk and finance at Tsinghua university and Liu Baocheng, Professor at the University of International Business and Economics spoke with Zhao Yang；Einar Tangen, author and columnist, spoke with Su Yi；Tao Hongkai, guest professor at Central China Normal University

1 exemption   

n.豁免，免税额，免除

参考例句：

• You may be able to apply for exemption from local taxes.你可能符合资格申请免除地方税。
• These goods are subject to exemption from tax.这些货物可以免税。

2 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。