Mbappe fired in his eighth goal of the competition in the 68th minute after Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting in the 37th minute and Thomas Mueller on the hour had cancelled out a two-goal PSG lead. It was Bayern’s first Champions League loss in more than two years.

* Superb individual goals from English pair Mason Mount and Ben Chilwell gave Chelsea a 2-0 win away to Porto in their Champions League quarter-final first leg on Wednesday in Seville as the Londoners made the most of their few chances. The second leg on April 13 will also be played at Sevilla’s Sanchez Pizjuan stadium due to coronavirus restrictions on travel between Portugal and England.

* The French Open is set to be postponed by a week, starting on May 30 instead of May 23, sports daily L’Equipe reported on Wednesday. The event usually begins on the fourth Sunday in May, ending in early June.

* Real Sociedad broke Atletico Bilbao’s hearts for the second time in four days as Roberto Lopez hit a late equaliser in their Basque derby La Liga clash on Wednesday, four days after defeating their arch-rivals in the Copa del Rey final. Captain Mikel Oyarzabal scored from the spot as Real Sociedad won their first trophy since 1987 in the postponed 2020 cup final.

* Paris St Germain forward Neymar has been suspended for their next two Ligue 1 matches after he was sent off in Saturday’s 1-0 league loss to Lille, the Disciplinary Commission of the French professional league said on Wednesday.

* Brazilian club Palmeiras drew first blood in the final of South America’s Recopa on Wednesday, beating Argentine side Defensa y Justicia 2-1 in the first leg in Buenos Aires. The fixture, also known as the ‘Supercup’, is an annual showdown between the winners of South America’s two premier club tournaments – the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana.

* Inter Milan moved 11 points clear at the top of Serie A as Romelu Lukaku and Lautaro Martinez struck in a 2-1 win over Sassuolo on Wednesday, the runaway leaders’ 10th consecutive league victory. With nine matches left, Inter are firmly on course to win their first Serie A title since 2010 with 71 points, 11 ahead of second-placed AC Milan.

* Werder Bremen scored early in the second half and survived late pressure to beat second division side Jahn Regensburg 1-0 away on Wednesday in their postponed German Cup quarter-final and set up a last-four clash with RB Leipzig. Werder will host Leipzig on April 30 in their semi-final with Borussia Dortmund taking on second division’s Holstein Kiel a day later.

* Atalanta midfielder Matteo Pessina has tested positive for COVID-19, the Serie A club announced on Wednesday, becoming the seventh confirmed case from the Italy squad since the international break.

* Atletico Madrid striker Luis Suarez has been ruled out of action for around three weeks with a muscle injury, handing another blow to the club’s fast fading title bid. Suarez, Atletico’s top scorer this season with 19 league goals, pulled up injured in Wednesday’s training session and his club later released a medical report confirming he had hurt a muscle in his left leg.

* Manchester United have been handed a boost ahead of Thursday’s Europa League quarter-final first leg against Granada with forward Marcus Rashford set to travel with the team after shaking off an injury. England international Rashford, who has scored 19 goals and provided 12 assists in all competitions this season, sustained a knock in the 2-1 win over Brighton & Hove Albion in the Premier League and missed training on Tuesday.

* Arsenal left back Kieran Tierney will be sidelined for four to six weeks with a knee injury while midfielder Martin Odegaard is a doubt for Thursday’s Europa League quarter-final clash against Slavia Prague, the Premier League club said on Wednesday. Arsenal said Tierney, who was forced off with a knee problem just before halftime in a 3-0 loss to Liverpool over the weekend, sustained ligament damage to his left knee.

* Amsterdam and Bilbao have committed to allowing fans to attend Euro 2020 games in June ahead of UEFA’s deadline for host cities to submit their plans on Wednesday. European soccer’s governing body has asked all 12 host cities to come up with their plans for fan capacity at venues for the tournament which kicks off on June 11.

* England will play their pre-Euro 2020 warm-up matches against Austria and Romania at Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium, the Football Association said on Wednesday.

Hosted by Vietnamese Australian chef Luke Nguyen, the show will run at 8:30 p.m. every Sunday, featuring a culinary journey from southern Vietnam through Mekong Delta to the northern region and Hoi An, a UNESCO heritage site in the central region.

Through 10 episodes, the famous chef will introduce viewers to renowned Vietnamese dishes like spring rolls, sauteed crab with satay, papaya salad and sour noodle soup along with lesser-known dishes like ethnic group Red Dao’s salmon hotpot.

Luke Nguyen has followed a culinary career for over 30 years. He is renowned for a chain of restaurants worldwide like Red Lantern and Vietnam House. He judged Master Chef Vietnam seasons 1 and 2 and was a special guest on chef Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape and Master Chef Australia.

The chef was once the official food ambassador of Etihad Airways, responsible for planning inflight menus to and from Vietnam.

Vietnamese cuisine has become better known across the world over the past few years, with international chefs and prestigious food magazines praising several national dishes.

Some street-corner dishes have made it to all corners of the world, like Vietnamese sandwich banh mi , listed among the world’s top 20 street foods by Fodor’s Travel , a U.S. travel site. Vietnamese iced coffee with condensed milk has also been lauded by publications like NatGeo and The New York Times .

BMW has unveiled a prototype of a 1-Series equipped with a water injected turbo petrol unit during the BMW Group Innovation Days 2015

I have had numerous individuals recently ask me questions about the relationship between dismissing attachment and narcissism; rather, I have been asked to affirm their beliefs that their relationship partners are narcissists because they have dismissing attachment styles. Having worked with many of the individuals in question, I can see where the assertion comes from. But I am going to go against the tide on this one and suggest that most people with dismissing attachment styles are not narcissists. If you believe your dismissing partner is a narcissist, read all the way through to the end before giving up.

The Research on Dismissing Attachment and Narcissism

I have seen other blog posts that describe research showing a relationship between dismissing attachment and narcissism. One started off by saying, “Narcissists have an ‘avoidant’ attachment style…” But here is what I found when I dug into the research.

1. Some of the research cited is not actually research.

It is a set of ideas that researchers suggest would be good to study in the future. Some of the studies that were cited in blogs did not actually find a relationship between dismissing attachment and narcissism at all.

2. Online search results do not clearly agree.

My search of the PsychInfo and Ebscohost databases (ones used by most psychological researchers), using the phrase “dismissing attachment and narcissism” as my search string, produced just as many studies that found no relationship between dismissing attachment and narcissism as there were studies that did find a relationship. Look at it this way. When someone is trying to make the case in writing an article, they often look for information that supports their case… they do not actually look at all of the available information that is out there.

3. When research has detected a relationship between dismissing attachment and narcissism, the relationship has been very weak.

One cited study, for example, found a .15 correlation between dismissing attachment and narcissism and a .14 correlation between secure attachment and narcissism. First, that means that dismissing and secure attachment only overlap with narcissism by 2.25 percent. That is about as close to zero as you can get and suggests that securely attached individuals are just as likely to be narcissists as dismissing individuals.

4. People need to know how to understand research findings.

A correlation (relationship) between two things (like dismissing attachment and narcissism) just means that as scores on one go up, scores on the other go up too. Everyone in a research study who fills out a questionnaire has a score on narcissism. And all those same people have a score on dismissing attachment (even those of us with anxious styles get a score if we fill out the survey!).

So, those studies that find correlations between dismissing attachment and narcissism report results from people who, for the most part, do not have dismissing attachment styles and are not narcissists. Go figure?!

5. There are a similar number of studies out there showing a relationship between anxious/preoccupied attachment and narcissism as there are showing a relationship between dismissing attachment and narcissism.

Those are just some of my thoughts on the research that is out there. And here is why I think it matters when it comes to understanding someone with a dismissing attachment style.

A More Balanced Perspective

First, there is more than one parenting practice that can lead to someone having a dismissing attachment style. The one most people will recognize is that of a stern parent who does not tolerate childhood displays of neediness, sadness, or other such “wimpy” emotions but who simultaneously pushes the child for high levels of achievement. Some of these parents will celebrate the child’s achievements and promote the child’s specialness, which could promote narcissistic tendencies. But of the many people I have treated, just as many have parents who only boast about the child to other people, but never to the child directly (promoting a sense of shame or never being good enough even though they keep striving for success).

Another pattern that promotes dismissing attachment is the “helicopter” parent who overreacts to any of the child’s emotions: “Oh my god, a kid told you today they didn’t like you?! I’m going to call the child’s parents right now and set this straight.” In this case, the child learns quickly to suppress any negative emotions and deny ever being upset or having needs. “Nope,” the child may say, “Everything is good here. I’m fine. Everything is great!”

In these latter two patterns, the person is likely to grow up suppressing negative emotions, denying having emotional needs, and projecting an air of invulnerability. But these folks are not likely to engage in unrealistic self-aggrandizement. They are most likely accurate in their descriptions.

They just talk about those types of things as distractions to keep you from prodding at their soft emotional undersides or from trying to engage in some sort of interpersonal intimacy with them (which would make you dangerous!). So, they talk superficially about what they are doing in the world… which is mostly achievement-oriented stuff… and they don’t show that much interest in what is going on with you or your problems. So, their behavior may reflect being self-absorbed, but this does not make them narcissistic.

People with preoccupied attachment styles can be self-absorbed also. They tend to be overly focused on their own emotional experiences. Research shows that they take overly long conversational turns and overshare stories about themselves and their experiences. The point is that this set of behaviors can also look narcissistic to an outside observer. In other words, there are multiple patterns of emotional and interpersonal processes that can lead someone to manifest a narcissistic personality .

My suggestion is that we (as a society) cut down on using labels like “borderline,” “hysterical,” “aspie,” or “narcissist” and take the time to get to know people. Try asking them questions. If you want to challenge them because you think they are too full of themselves, just repeat back to them their own assertions but frame it as a question… “So, you were one of the most popular kids at school?” You are likely to get a more balanced view when the person clarifies their original statement. And you might just stay engaged with them long enough in conversation to get through the defenses to the great person underneath who is just waiting to be known.

An American destroyer transited the sensitive waters of the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday. This is according to a U.S. Navy statement released hours after Taipei revealed 15 Chinese warplanes had flown into its defensive airspace on the day.

It was USS John S. McCain ‘s second passage through the narrow waterway during the presidency of Joe Biden and the fourth such transit under the new administration. It also coincided with the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group’s combat drills in the South China Sea and Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning ‘s deployment to the Pacific this week.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer “conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit on April 7 (local time) through international waters in accordance with international law,” read a statement by the U.S. 7th Fleet.”

“The ship’s transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. The United States military will continue to fly, sail, and operate anywhere international law allows,” it continued.

China’s state-owned media outlets have described the latest U.S. Navy navigation as a further provocation amid rising tensions with Beijing, while the People’s Liberation Army said it had tracked the warship “all the way.”

“The U.S. warship’s action sends the wrong signal to ‘Taiwan independence’ forces; it deliberately interferes in regional affairs and harms peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,” said Zhang Chunhui, a spokesperson for the PLA’s Eastern Theater Command.

Zhang said China “strongly opposes” the operation.

Taiwan , meanwhile, said it had also monitored the skies and seas around Taiwan during Wednesday’s transit. Its Ministry of National Defense said USS John S. McCain sailed from south to north through the Taiwan Strait.

Several hours earlier, the defense ministry reported incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone by 15 PLA warplanes, including fighter jets and reconnaissance planes, bringing the number of Chinese aircraft sorties near the island to 29 since Monday.

It is unclear whether Wednesday’s PLA Air Force operation was linked to the American warship transit, but analysts in Taipei have noted the airspace intrusions tend to spike during informal exchanges between Taiwan and the U.S., or when bilateral ties between the two countries are perceived to be improving.

This February, USS John S. McCain became the first U.S. warship to pass through the busy waters between China and Taiwan under the Biden administration. Analysts described it as a signal that the president was keen to emphasize regional security and stability at a time when China’s neighbors, including Taiwan and Japan, were growing concerned about Beijing’s military expansionism.

The Chinese government expressed similar opposition to subsequent Taiwan Strait transits by destroyers USS Curtis Wilbur and USS Russel , in February and March respectively. Beijing has also likened U.S. Navy operations elsewhere in the region to “muscle-flexing.”

USS Theodore Roosevelt returned to the South China Sea with its carrier strike group on Sunday before conducting joint exercises with the Royal Malaysian Air Force on Tuesday and Wednesday, according separate bulletins this week.

On Monday, a PLA Navy official said a Chinese carrier task group led by Liaoning was conducting drills “in the seas near Taiwan.” China’s first combat-ready aircraft carrier is currently deployed to the Pacific for far-sea drills.

Asked whether the destroyer’s transit was a response to Liaoning ‘s drills east of Taiwan, Department of Defense spokesperson John Kirby said: “We don’t conduct freedom of navigation operations around the world to respond to some specific event or the specific action of another country.”

“We conduct freedom of navigation operations around the world to send a message about how strongly we believe in international law and in the freedom that all nations have to sail, operate and fly in accordance with that international law,” Kirby said.

“Freedom of the seas doesn’t just exist for fish and icebergs, and that’s the purpose of conducting these operations—to reinforce that notion,” he added.

Update 4/8/21 at 5.45 a.m. ET: Additional comments by Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby.