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LIHUAN SUN, aka Song Hui Kim, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 06-70894.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted June 11, 2010.
    
    Filed June 16, 2010.
    Steve Sungsoo Chang, Esquire, Law Offices of Chang & Lim, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
    Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Andrew C. Macla-chlan, Anthony Cardozo Payne, Senior Litigation Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    
      Before: GOODWIN and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges; and BENNETT, District Judge.
    
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
    
      
       The Honorable Mark W. Bennett, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Iowa, sitting by designation.
    
   MEMORANDUM

Lihuan Sun (Sun), also known as Song Hui Kim, a native of China and a citizen of North Korea, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT).

1. Substantial evidence supports the adverse credibility determination. Sun’s omission from her asylum application of the arrest at a family church meeting was not a “failure to remember non-material, trivial details that were only incidentally related to her claim of persecution.” Kaur v. Gonzales, 418 F.3d 1061, 1064 (9th Cir.2005) (citations omitted). Sun waived any challenges to the IJ’s adverse credibility finding concerning her forced abortion. See Ghahremani v. Gonzales, 498 F.3d 993, 997 (9th Cir.2007) (“Issues raised in a brief that are not supported by argument are deemed abandoned.”) (citation omitted).

2. Since Sun’s testimony was not deemed credible to grant relief, this court would have to conclude that the pertinent country reports compel the conclusion that Sun is more likely than not to be tortured if removed to China. See Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1048-49 (9th Cir.2010). However, those country reports do not indicate that Sun “would face any particular threat of torture beyond that of which all citizens of [China] are at risk.” Dhital v. Mukasey, 532 F.3d 1044, 1051-52 (9th Cir.2008) (citation omitted). Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s decision to affirm the IJ’s denial of Sun’s application for CAT relief. See id.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.