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Analysis: Chinese subs in S. China Sea
Hong Kong (UPI) May 9, 2008 Over the past 20 years, China's military investment has grown faster than any other country. The bamboo curtain that formerly enveloped the country has become a copper curtain. Furthermore, China has become more difficult to negotiate with than even the former Soviet Union. The tactic of deceiving one's opponent or competitor is deeply engrained in traditional Chinese culture, not only ... more Japan to allow military use of space: lawmakers 
Tokyo (AFP) May 9, 2008Japanese lawmakers voted Friday to allow the military use of space, breaking a decades-old taboo in the officially pacifist country which has an increasingly ambitious space program. The move came during a rare fence-mending visit to Japan by President Hu Jintao of China, which alarmed Japan last year by conducting a test to shoot down a satellite. A lower house committee voted to reve ... more Myanmar troubles expose limits of China's power: analysts 
Beijing (AFP) May 11, 2008China's response to the suffering of cyclone survivors in Myanmar has exposed the limits of its ability -- and arguably its willingness -- to press even close allies to change set habits, analysts say. With the junta in Myamnar refusing to admit foreign aid workers and curbing distribution of emergency supplies, UN and other agencies warn the death toll could rise far higher than the officia ... more Chinese firm to grow rice in Tanzania: company 
Beijing (AFP) May 9, 2008A Chinese seed company is planning to grow rice in Tanzania as China seeks new ways to cope with soaring global grain prices and shrinking domestic farmland, the company and state media said Friday. The Chongqing Seed Corp has enclosed an area of 300 hectares (740 acres) in the central African country and will start growing rice there from next year, the China Daily reported. The company ... more Analysis: China faces tanker shortage 
Washington (UPI) May 9, 2008 Driving China's pipeline strategy of seeking agreement with Russia and Central Asian states for transmission of oil and natural gas is a potential shortage beyond the energy issues so prominent in the media. And China's potential shortage is tankers. According to a recent report in PortWorld, a prominent Chinese shipping executive commented that by 2015 China will need nearly 150 Very ... more |
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Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) May 12, 2008With more than 300 international exhibitors signed up to attend, this year's Photonics Festival at the Taipei World Trade Center showcased again Taiwan's dominant position in many sectors of photonic technology and manufacturing. Grouping four exhibitions -- OPTO / LED Lighting / SOLAR/ OPTICS Taiwan -- and held simultaneously with Display Taiwan 2008, the largest FPD trading platform in ... more India tests ballistic missile capable of reaching China 
Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) May 7, 2008India successfully tested a nuclear-capable missile Wednesday that can hit targets deep inside China, joining the ranks of nations possessing intermediate-range missile capacity, the defence ministry said. It marked the third test of the Agni-III missile - India's longest-range ballistic missile - and was staged "to establish the repeatability of the missile's performance," defence ministr ... more Defense Focus: High-tech limits -- Part 3 
Washington (UPI) May 7, 2008 The United States, Russia, China, France and Britain have all found that pushing their high-tech capabilities too far has sometimes given them weapons systems that are turkeys instead of eagles. Because the U.S. defense industry sector is the largest and most technically advanced in the world, we focused far more on both its successes and failures than on those of other nations. But in ... more Security Council divided on response to Myanmar cyclone 
United Nations (AFP) May 8, 2008The UN Security Council was divided Thursday on how to respond to Myanmar's cyclone emergency with Western members urging strong pressure on Yangon to allow foreign relief aid while China warned against politicizing the issue. Britain's UN Ambassador John Sawers said London looked to the Yangon regime "to take the necessary measures to allow humanitarian relief in." "They have taken some ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 7, 2008 Rising concern over Chinese energy security and the nation's mounting investments in energy resources abroad have lent credence to the notion that China's central government operates a coordinated foreign energy policy -- what has been nicknamed "energy diplomacy" by some. But experts argue the term is misleading, as Chinese foreign policymakers have less control over energy decisions than do ... more Suits For Shenzhou 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 05, 2008In the last months before China's first spacewalk, facts about the mission are slowly trickling out. China has been coy about releasing precise information on the spacesuit to be used or the tethering system to be used for the spacewalker. Other details, such as the number of astronauts who will be exposed to vacuum in the orbital module, are also hard to find in official statements. ... more China urges authorities to step up education of deadly disease 
Beijing (AFP) May 7, 2008China on Wednesday urged local health authorities to step up public education of a highly contagious disease that has led to the deaths of 28 children. Despite the numbers of infections surging by thousands more, the Health Ministry and the World Health Organisation insisted there was little cause for alarm, saying the disease would have no impact on the Beijing Olympics. Hand, foot and ... more China has sufficient grain reserves: state economic planner 
Shanghai (AFP) May 6, 2008China's national economic planner said Tuesday grain reserves were sufficient to ensure domestic supplies, adding the rise in global grain prices would only have a limited impact on the country. The supply and demand of grain is basically in equilibrium with adequate state reserves and restrictions on grain exports in place, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement ... more
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