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Analysis: China boosts Jiangxi air defense
Hong Kong (UPI) May 16, 2008 China's air force has substantially reinforced its air defense posture in Jiangxi province in the past year. There are indications that China has completed its second-line air defense operational deployment against Taiwan centered on Fujian and Jiangxi provinces. This has greatly expanded the depth of China's air defense coverage. The People's Liberation Army Air Force has taken a number ... more US warns China over weapon links in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan 
Washington (AFP) May 15, 2008The United States has warned Beijing over reported use of Chinese weapons by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the Asian giant's continued sale of arms to Iran, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said Thursday. He said he conveyed the concerns personally to Chinese officials during his visit to Beijing this week. "Just the other day, Monday, when I was in Beijing, this ... more World powers work out details of new offer to Iran 
Washington (AFP) May 16, 2008Six world powers have completed the details of a "refreshed" offer they will present to Iran in an effort to persuade it to halt its controversial nuclear activities, a US official said Friday. The United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China agreed earlier this month to make a new offer to Iran, but a date has yet to be set for it to be delivered to the Islamic republic. ... more Analysis: China copter deal -- Part 3 
Washington (UPI) May 15, 2008 Russia's landmark sale of transport helicopter assembly kits to be assembled in China could point the way to a vastly larger transformation in global arms production. As we reported Tuesday, the Russian Helicopter Co., which is now run by Oboronprom, has concluded a deal to sell assembly kits to build M1-171 military transport helicopters to China's Lantian Helicopter Co., which is loca ... more Strong aftershock rattles China quake survivors 
Beichuan, China (AFP) May 18, 2008A powerful aftershock rattled China's southwest early Sunday, hampering frantic efforts to find earthquake survivors and help nearly five million people facing the risk of disease and flood. The 6.0-magnitude tremor shook some of the worst-affected parts in Sichuan province six days after China's worst natural disaster in a generation left an estimated 50,000 people dead. China has ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 18, 2008With its terrible human cost but limited economic impact, China's earthquake has thrown a spotlight on the regional disparities in development in the rapidly growing country. Factories in the boomtowns of the east coast have fuelled China's double-digit economic growth and won the country a reputation for being the world's factory's floor. But the earthquake in the southwestern Sichuan ... more China factory workers lived and died together 
Yinghua, China (AFP) May 18, 2008Like a band of brothers, the workers at this sprawling factory complex in the heart of southwestern China's devastated quake zone lived and worked together. Many of them also died together. The 3,000 mostly male employees at Yingfeng Industrial factory may have only made chemical fertiliser, but they were united in their cause like a family, Liu Fangyong, 36, sitting amid the ruins of a mill ... more US military planes deliver aid to quake-hit China 
Chengdu, China (AFP) May 18, 2008Two US military planes carrying aid flew Sunday into southwestern China, the first time Beijing has accepted help from foreign troops since the earthquake struck, officials said. The C-17 aircraft carrying food, electricity generators, blankets and other goods flew into Chengdu, the capital of worst-hit Sichuan province. One arrived in the morning and a second was expected to arrive in ... more Nationalism imbues China quake volunteer drive 
Shimen, China (AFP) May 18, 2008Eight Chinese in their early 20s made their way up a winding mountain road, stopping at each new quake-ravaged peasant home to help the injured. They said they were doing it for China. "Anyone hurt in there?" they shouted at a house reduced to a heap of bricks and timber by Monday's disaster. When an old woman emerged, two of the young treated her ankle injury with disinfectant and bandages. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 18, 2008Tens of thousands of survivors of China's earthquake were mired in misery on Sunday amid pouring rain and a lack of adequate shelter, food and medicine, state media reported. The appalling conditions described by Sichuan News Online in the quake-stricken town of Maoxian underlined the huge humanitarian challenges faced by China nearly a week after its worst earthquake in a generation. ... more China confirms nuclear safety after quake: state media 
Beijing (AFP) May 18, 2008China has examined and confirmed the safety of nuclear power reactors after an earthquake that killed an estimated 50,000 people, the state-run Xinhua news agency said Sunday. China's nuclear facilities "were confirmed safe and controllable after careful scrutiny" following last Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake, the official agency said, quoting government sources. China has 11 nuclear ... more Era of cheap Chinese goods threatened by new worker power 
Hong Kong (AFP) May 18, 2008Migrant workers, for years the backbone of China's export miracle, are discovering their economic muscle, threatening an end to the flood of cheap goods heading west, the author of a new book said. The seemingly endless supply of cheap labour that has flooded into Guangdong and other southern provinces is evaporating, pushing up wages and the price of cheap televisions, toys and clothes ... more Extensive missile site in China revealed by satellite: analyst 
Washington (AFP) May 15, 2008Commercial satellite imagery has revealed an extensive nuclear missile site in central China with nearly sixty launch pads for medium-range missiles capable of striking Russia or India, a researcher said Thursday. The images from Google Earth show different types of launch pads, command and control facilities, and missile deployment equipment at a large facility in downtown Delingha, said ... more
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