Tag: china
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PLA Cyberspace Strategic Intelligence Research Center Founded
from ecns.cn: The Cyberspace Strategic Intelligence Research Center was officially founded at an information center of the General Armaments Department (GAD) of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on June 26, 2014. Experts believe that the center will provide strong support in obtaining high-quality intelligence research findings and help China gain advantage in national information…
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U.S. Menaces the Asia-Pacific – James Corbett on RT’s In The Now
James Corbett appears on RT’s In The Now with senior political correspondent Anissa Naouai to discuss the U.S. military build-up in the Asia-Pacific, China’s own growing naval presence, and what this means for the future of the region.
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China orders hunt for facilities illegally producing #GMO’s
from scmp.com: The continued illegal sale of genetically modified (GM) food in parts of China has prompted the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA)to order officials to track down possible testing facilities. In a document published yesterday, the ministry asked agricultural supervisors to look for possible unauthorised genetic modification testing sites at research institutions, universities and corporations.…
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#China Is Literally Moving Mountains to Build New Cities
from gizmodo.com: China is on a giant building spree and nothing is going to stop it—not even mountains. Entire mountaintops are being razed to fill in valleys, paving the way for future cities. The problem is that no one really knows what they’re doing. “Earth-moving on this scale without scientific support is folly,” warn three…
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The Geopolitics of the Eurasian Economic Union
from globalresearch.ca: The deal signed last week by Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to create a Eurasian Economic Union is yet another countermeasure against US and European attempts to isolate Russia. By moving towards closer economic cooperation, Russia hopes to build, piecemeal if necessary, a common Eurasian economic space that will ultimately rival the US and Europe in…
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Russia and China Seal Historic $400bn Gas Deal
from RT.com: After 10 years of negotiations, Russia’s Gazprom and China’s CNPC have finally signed a historic gas deal which will provide the world’s fastest growing economy with the natural gas it needs to keep pace for the next 30 years. The total value of the contract is $400 billion, Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller said.…
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China Proposes Security Alliance To Counter U.S. Influence
from japantimes.com: China’s president called Tuesday for the creation of a new Asian structure for security cooperation based on a regional group that includes Russia and Iran and excludes the U.S. President Xi Jinping spoke at a meeting in Shanghai of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building measures in Asia (CICA), an obscure group that…
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Eyeopener Report: China’s “War on Terror”
from boilingfrogspost.com: Uyghur disenfranchisement is played upon to foment Islamic radicalism and political separatist sentiment. The East Turkestan Islamic movement seeking to wrest Xinjiang from China’s control offers a number of parallels to the shadowy “Al Qaeda” terror organization, including a mysterious leader living in a secret mountain base in Pakistan’s lawless border region and,…
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3D Printers Print Ten Houses in 24 Hours
from china view: A private company in Shanghai used 3D printers to print 10 full-sized houses in just one day.
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Obama’s Asia trip fails to achieve goals, experts say
from chinadaily.com: As the dust settles on US President Barack Obama’s Asian trip, it seems that Washington got less out of it than its hosts, but Beijing is now more aware of US intentions in the region, observers said. During Obama’s trip, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines have achieved their goal of a…
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China’s Little Known Security Stakes In Ukraine
By Monish Gulati | eurasiareview.com: The Chinese position on the Ukraine crisis and the Russian intervention in Crimea has been described as being of “studied ambiguity”, and one of the objectives of this policy was to balance interests in both Russia and Ukraine. The discussion on Chinese interests in Ukraine has largely centered on military…
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For Rapid Growth, Africa Is the New China
from theglobeandmail.com: The latest hot investing sector to bottom out: Emerging markets. Once a favourite of investors amenable to living on the knife edge of risk and reward, emerging markets have been dragged down by their slowing economic growth. Many strategists suggest investors forget about emerging markets for now and instead put money in developed…
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The Great Decoupling: How the West is Engineering its Own Downfall
This is an article from The Corbett Report Subscriber, the weekly e-newsletter for members of corbettreport.com. Please support this website and this work by signing up for a Corbett Report membership today for as little as 100 Japanese Yen ($1 US) per month. CLICK HERE for details. from corbettreport.com: Reports out of Moscow indicate that…
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Cancer-inducing benzene traced in China water supply
from RT.com: Residents of Lanzhou, northwest China, have started panic-buying bottled water after city authorities confirmed the lethal chemical compound benzene was contaminating the city’s drinking water at 20 times the national safety level. Lanzhou warned its 2.4 million residents not to consume any water from the tap on Friday after tests conducted at a…