Runners of the Shanghai Pride Run make signs with their fingers while wearing rainbow shoelaces at the start of the race in Shanghai on June 18, 2016.
The LGBT festival, Shanghai PRIDE 2016, which celebrates diversity in the Chinese city under this year's theme 'I Am Me', kicked-off with a fun run and will last from June 17 to 26. / AFP / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)
This aerial view of the city of Sansha on an island in the disputed Paracel chain, which China now considers part of Hainan province on July 27, 2012. China has appointed military officers at a newly-established garrison in the South China Sea, state media reported on July 27 in the country's latest step to bolster claims to disputed islands in the area. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/GettyImages)