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  Maxwell AFB AK (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 The Department of the Air Force launched a toolkit March 8, 2023, providing a supplemental resource for commanders to tailor training specifically oriented to the United States' pacing challenge. Developed by Air University's China Aerospace Studies Institute, or CASI, the China Toolkit contains a repository of Department of Defense and external videos, presentations, articles and studies on China, the Chinese Communist Party, and the People's Liberation Army. CASI's studies of China's aeros ... read more |
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China conducts ignition test in Mengtian space lab moduleBeijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2023 China has successfully performed the first in-orbit ignition test in the Mengtian space lab module's combustion cabinet, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU ... more  
Australian space industry warns of Chinese satellite surveillanceSydney, Australia (VOA) Mar 07, 2023 Australia's space industry is warning that China is increasing its satellite surveillance. The warning comes as Australia's Defense Space Command says it is working on a plan to acquire so-called so ... more  
China to launch LEO constellation of remote sensing satellitesBeijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2023 China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, a major space contractor, is planning to deploy a remote-sensing satellite network in low-altitude orbits, according to a project leader. Song Xiaomi ... more  
Iran, Saudi to restore ties in China-brokered dealTehran (AFP) March 10, 2023 Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to restore ties and to reopen respective diplomatic missions after talks in China, state media in both countries reported Friday, seven years after relations were severed. ... more |
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Strong quake hits off eastern Malaysia
Italian alpinist found dead in Swiss avalanche Morocco flood evacuees mark muted Ramadan away from home Rescuers recover final body after deadly California avalanche Afghanistan quake causes no 'serious' damage, injuries: official Kabul shakes as 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits eastern Afghanistan Strong earthquake rocks eastern Afghanistan: AFP journalists Deadly California avalanche search to go through weekend Deadly Indonesia floods force a deforestation reckoning Three killed in Austria Alps avalanches: police |
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China's Xi handed historic third term as presidentBeijing (AFP) March 10, 2023 Xi Jinping was handed a third term as Chinese president on Friday, capping a rise that has seen him become the country's most powerful leader in generations. ... more 
Kendall outlines clear path for modernizing Air, Space Forces and confronting peer competitorsAurora CO (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 Reporting progress but conceding that "hard choices" remain, Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall offered a report card March 7 during a major address at the 2023 Air and Space Forces ... more 
Chinese security vessel orders Philippine plane carrying media to 'leave'Over The Spratly Islands, Philippines (AFP) March 10, 2023 As a Philippine Coast Guard plane carrying journalists flew over the Spratly Islands in the hotly disputed South China Sea, a Chinese voice issued a stern command over the radio: "Leave immediately." ... more  
US blacklists Chinese firms supplying drone parts to IranWashington (AFP) March 9, 2023 The United States placed five Chinese companies on its sanctions blacklist Thursday for supplying components to Iran drone builders. ... more |
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Canada federal police probing new rogue Chinese police stationsMontreal (AFP) March 9, 2023 Canadian federal police said Thursday they are investigating new rogue Chinese police stations in the Montreal area said to have been set up to carry out illegal policing operations on foreign soil and harass Chinese ex-pats. ... more  
US worries China will use supply chains as weaponWashington (AFP) March 9, 2023 The United States worries that China will use its power in global supply chains as an additional weapon to advance its political and military might, a report released Wednesday showed. ... more 
Czech cyber watchdog calls TikTok a 'security threat'Prague (AFP) March 8, 2023 The Czech cyber watchdog issued a warning about using TikTok on Wednesday, joining other Western authorities in deeming the Chinese-owned video-sharing app a security threat. ... more 
After brief window, US-China relationship back on rocky pathWashington (AFP) March 9, 2023 The United States and China thought they had a narrow window to improve relations. It may now have closed. ... more |
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China to revamp science, tech in face of foreign 'suppression'Beijing (AFP) March 8, 2023 China will conduct a sweeping revamp of its science ministry and tech capabilities, pouring more resources into manufacturing and research as Beijing pushes for self-reliance in the face of foreign attempts at "containment and suppression". ... more  
US ready to let Taiwan leader visit to see top RepublicanWashington (AFP) March 9, 2023 The US State Department signalled Wednesday it would let Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen visit California to meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, downplaying the significance of the event in the face of protests by China. ... more  
Australia, US, Britain leaders to meet, submarine deal expectedWashington (AFP) March 9, 2023 The leaders of the United States, Britain and Australia will meet in the United States next week to discuss security and foreign policy, all three countries said Wednesday ahead of an expected nuclear submarine deal aimed at countering China's growing assertiveness in the Pacific. ... more  
UN wants action from China on human rights concernsGeneva (AFP) March 7, 2023 United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Tuesday demanded action from Beijing to address "grave concerns" over the human rights situation in China's Xinjiang province. ... more 
Canada launches probe into Chinese election interference allegationsMontreal (AFP) March 7, 2023 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday announced the appointment of an independent special rapporteur to probe alleged Chinese interference in Canada's last two federal elections. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2023 
China has successfully performed the first in-orbit ignition test in the Mengtian space lab module's combustion cabinet, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The test verified the functions of the combustion science experimental system of the space station and the accuracy and scientificity of the overal ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 9, 2023 
The United States worries that China will use its power in global supply chains as an additional weapon to advance its political and military might, a report released Wednesday showed.
The "Annual Threat Assessment" issued by the Director of National Intelligence said China is already using its supply chain dominance to force foreign companies and countries to transfer technologies and intel ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2023  Xi Jinping was handed a third term as Chinese president on Friday, capping a rise that has seen him become the country's most powerful leader in generations.
His appointment by China's rubber-stamp parliament comes after Xi locked in another five years as head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October.
Since then, the 69-year-old has weathered widespread protests over his zero-Covi ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 
Assil Halimi has loved science since he was a child, but it was a singular experience at a college internship that stoked his interest in nuclear engineering. As part of work on a conceptual design for an aircraft electric propulsion system, Halimi had to read a chart that compared the energy density of various fuel sources. He was floored to see that the value for uranium was orders of magnitud ... more |
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 Prague (AFP) March 8, 2023 
The Czech cyber watchdog issued a warning about using TikTok on Wednesday, joining other Western authorities in deeming the Chinese-owned video-sharing app a security threat.
TikTok has come under growing scrutiny in many countries over concerns the app may give Chinese authorities access to sensitive user data.
The Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NUKIB) warned that ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) Mar 09, 2023
Assil Halimi has loved science since he was a child, but it was a singular experience at a college internship that stoked his interest in nuclear engineering. As part of work on a conceptual design for an aircraft electric propulsion system, Halimi had to read a chart that compared the energy density of various fuel sources. He was floored to see that the value for uranium was orders of magnitud ... more |
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 London (AFP) March 6, 2023 
Most workers on Britain's offshore rigs want energy firms taken into public ownership to help fairly fund the transition to net zero, a survey showed Monday.
The poll, contained in a report by environmental campaigners and trade unions, quizzed more than 1,092 workers across the sector in England and Scotland.
The report, entitled "Our Power: Offshore Workers' Demands for a Just Energy T ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) March 9, 2023 
Latin America is poised to become a major renewable energy producer, with nearly a billion solar panels' worth of large-scale clean-electricity projects slated to come online in the next seven years, a report found Thursday.
In welcome good news for the climate-change race, researchers said Latin American countries had more than 319 gigawatts of utility-scale solar- and wind-power projects d ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) March 9, 2023 
North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile Thursday, Seoul's military said, in Pyongyang's latest show of force just days before South Korea and the United States kick off major joint military exercises.
Pyongyang's KCNA news outlet said hours later that leader Kim Jong Un was on the ground to witness "a powerful volley" by an artillery unit "ready to respond to actual war".
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 Berlin (AFP) March 4, 2023 
Arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is holding "promising" talks to build a tank factory in Ukraine following the Russian invasion, the head of the Germany company said in an interview published Saturday.
"A Rheinmetall factory could be built in Ukraine at a cost of about 200 million euros," ($213 million) to turn out up to 400 Panther tanks a year, the firm's president Armin Papperger told the R ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2023 
China said Sunday its military spending would rise at the fastest pace in four years, warning of "escalating" threats from abroad at a meeting of its rubber-stamp parliament that will hand Xi Jinping a third term as president.
The increase in the world's second-largest defence budget came as Beijing announced an economic growth goal of around five percent for this year - one of its lowest i ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Mar 09, 2023  A new study from researchers at MIT and Brown University characterizes several properties that emerge during the training of deep classifiers, a type of artificial neural network commonly used for classification tasks such as image classification, speech recognition, and natural language processing.
The paper, "Dynamics in Deep Classifiers trained with the Squ ... more |
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 Dakar (AFP) March 9, 2023  Discarded containers and bags are an eyesore in many towns, while beaches are covered by debris - Senegal's notorious problem of plastic pollution is not going away.
Fly-tipping is a scourge and landfills like the sprawling Mbeubeuss site near the capital Dakar are overstretched, with several thousand tonnes of detritus dumped daily, polluting the ground and water.
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 Washington (AFP) March 9, 2023 
The US State Department signalled Wednesday it would let Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen visit California to meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, downplaying the significance of the event in the face of protests by China.
McCarthy confirmed Tuesday that he would see Tsai in his home state, sidestepping a potential visit by the top Republican to Taiwan that policymakers there feared could ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) March 7, 2023 
United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Tuesday demanded action from Beijing to address "grave concerns" over the human rights situation in China's Xinjiang province.
Turk has been under pressure from Western nations and rights organisations to take a firm stand on Xinjiang following a bombshell report by his predecessor which cited possible crimes against humanity in the far-western regi ... more |
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