Tag: china
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Australia defends new security deal with Japan
from channelnewsasia.com: Closer defence ties between Japan and Australia should not raise concerns in regional superpower China, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Tuesday. Canberra and Tokyo struck a major agreement Monday to enhance trade and security ties, elevating the bilateral relationship to a new level. Abbott told ABC radio Australia he was taking no sides…
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Why Every World Map You’re Looking at Is Wrong
Africa, China, India Distorted Despite Access to Accurate Satellite Data* from dailymail.co.uk: Take a look at a map today, and you’re likely to see that North America is larger than Africa, Alaska is larger than Mexico and China is smaller than Greenland. But in reality China is four times bigger than Greenland, Africa is three…
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China Takes the Plunge in Getting Power From the Sea
from stratrisks.com: A race is under way to unlock one of the world’s biggest untapped sources of clean energy – the ocean – with China emerging as an important testing ground. That could heighten competition with Western companies down the line, especially if Chinese businesses begin using technologies developed with joint-venture partners to expand rapidly.…
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France Finance Minister in Soup Over ‘Disgusting’ China Food Remark
from reuters.com: France’s trade minister had to eat humble pie on Friday after she was caught on film saying that food served at a state dinner for China’s President Xi Jinping was “disgusting”. President Francois Hollande and Xi were all smiles at the dinner Wednesday at the Elysee presidential palace. But Foreign Trade Minister Nicole…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode187 – Judging Judges, Cocaine Condoms, Sanction Spills
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode187 – Judging Judges, Cocaine Condoms, Sanction Spills Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Lord Justice Fulford ‘Campaigned to Support PIE Paedophile Group’ Judges Presiding Over Phone…
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Interview w/ Nile Bowie on Flight 370, Crimea, China and more
As Malaysia is reluctantly thrust into the world spotlight, what better time to talk again to our friend Nile Bowie, “a Malaysia-based political analyst and columnist with Russia Today”. Is the country being unfairly maligned for their handling of the mystery of the missing Flight 370? Plus, we discuss the latest machinations going on over…
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#NSA Infiltrates Servers of #China Telecom Giant #Huawei
from livemint.com: The US National Security Agency (NSA) has infiltrated servers in the headquarters of Chinese telecommunications and internet giant Huawei Technologies Co., obtaining sensitive information and monitoring the communications of top executives, the New York Times reported on Saturday. The newspaper said its report on the operation, code-named “Shotgiant,” was based on NSA documents…
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Politics Won’t Be on First Lady’s China Itinerary
from nytimes.com: Michelle Obama’s trip to China starting on Wednesday will be nonpolitical, the White House says, a “people-to-people exchange” emphasizing the importance that both nations place on education. As if to underscore the point, no reporters are traveling with the first lady, and she does not plan to give interviews while there. But with…
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Smart Tags Change Color When Food Goes Bad
from cbsnews.com: You might not have to smell sour milk for much longer. Chinese scientists have developed “smart tags” that stick to containers and change color when a food has gone bad. The gel-like tabs — which are about the size of a corn kernel — are safe and inexpensive, according to the creators, and…
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China’s Agriculture Minister Eats GMO Food
from ecns.cn: Agriculture Minister Han Changfu told a press conference at the second session of the NPC on Thursday that he eats genetically modified (GM) food, mainly soybean oil. He said that although Chinese transgenic research lags behind that of developed countries, international advanced level has been reached in some fields, such as genetically modified…
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China Plans GMO Food Safety Tests, Logos
from ecns.cn: China is working on an evaluation system for genetically modified (GM) food in order to assess its impact on the environment and human health, a senior official said. Niu Dun, vice-minister of agriculture and a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee, said that because of public doubts being aired…
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Train Station Massacre Labeled ‘China’s 9/11’ Kills 33
from businessweek.com: A band of 10 or more people wearing black face masks and brandishing long knives walked into a busy train station in southwestern China on Saturday night and began to indiscriminately attack civilians. Police soon began to fire on the assailants, and within a few minutes at least 29 people were dead. At…
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Hacked Veterans Site Could Be Compromising ‘Military Intelligence’
from nextgov.com: A cyberattack against the Veteran of Foreign Wars website, believed to have been initiated in China, may have sought to spy on U.S. military members, security company FireEye said Thursday. FireEye said the attack, which has now been fixed on VFW.org, exploited a zero-day flaw in the Internet Explorer 10 browser. The company…
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Asia Rings In Year Of The Horse With Fireworks, Festivities
from timesofindia.indiatimes.com: Fireworks illuminated the skies across Asia and millions of families gathered together on Friday to usher in the Year of the Horse, kicking off a week of celebrations that included a performance by Braveheart actress Sophie Marceau on China’s annual televised gala. Residents from China’s small towns and villages to its sprawling megacities…
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As China’s Economy Slows, the Pain Hits Home
from nytimes.com: Piles of unsold coal line rural roads in north-central China. Some iron ore mines near Beijing are operating at a fraction of capacity. Chinese farm products are even increasingly scorned by the Chinese consumer. While China remains nearly self-sufficient in all these categories, it is importing more from other emerging markets. Economists and…