4 h. ago Video: Xi Jinping Launches China’s Biggest Military Purge Since Mao

Video: Xi Jinping Launches China’s Biggest Military Purge Since Mao  Bloomberg.com

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35 h. ago Inside China’s biggest military parade ever: A glimpse of future war

Inside China’s biggest military parade ever: A glimpse of future war  Interesting Engineering

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40 h. ago China’s ‘Arctic Express’ shows its ambitions at the top of the world

Could a single shipping route shift both trade flows and geopolitical influence? China’s new “Arctic Express” to Europe leverages melting ice to bypass chokepoints and challenge Western dominance. In a significant step for Arctic commercial shipping, China’s Haijie Shipping Company will launch the first regular container service linking Asia and Northern Europe via the Northern Sea Route on September 20. The Istanbul Bridge, with a 4,890 20-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity and a low ice...

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40 h. ago How China’s ‘Arctic Express’ poses challenge to Western dominance

Could a single shipping route shift both trade flows and geopolitical influence? China’s new “Arctic Express” to Europe leverages melting ice to bypass chokepoints and challenge Western dominance. In a significant step for Arctic commercial shipping, China’s Haijie Shipping Company will launch the first regular container service linking Asia and Northern Europe via the Northern Sea Route on September 20. The Istanbul Bridge, with a 4,890 20-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity and a low ice...

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48 h. ago Chinese, Algerian presidents hail successful launch of communications satellite

President Xi Jinping and his Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika exchanged congratulatory messages on the successful launch of Alcomsat-1 in the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China's southwestern province of Sichuan early Monday.

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48 h. ago China will host its "biggest" military parade for "Victory Day" on Wednesday. Here's what to know.

China will host its "biggest" military parade for "Victory Day" on Wednesday. Here's what to know.  CBS News

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48 h. ago China hosted its "biggest" military parade for "Victory Day" on Wednesday. Here's what to know.

China hosted its "biggest" military parade for "Victory Day" on Wednesday. Here's what to know.  CBS News

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60 h. ago Video. Xi Jinping welcomes Vladimir Putin for talks in Beijing

Video. Xi Jinping welcomes Vladimir Putin for talks in Beijing  Euronews.com

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62 h. ago China’s Xi Jinping wants more Luban Workshops worldwide – but what are they?

At this year’s meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), President Xi Jinping said China will launch 10 additional Luban Workshops in the organisation’s member countries over the next five years, providing training slots for 10,000 individuals. Named after the ancient architect and inventor Lu Ban, the project is somewhat low profile compared to others in Beijing’s infrastructure-heavy Belt and Road Initiative. But the vocational education programme has quietly expanded across...

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2 d. ago Kim Jong Un, Putin and Xi to attend biggest military parade in Beijing in show of unity against US

Kim Jong Un, Putin and Xi to attend biggest military parade in Beijing in show of unity against US  Mint

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3 d. ago China summit latest: Xi, Putin and Kim unite at Beijing's biggest ever military parade

China summit latest: Xi, Putin and Kim unite at Beijing's biggest ever military parade - and Trump sends a message  Sky News

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3 d. ago Tesla reduces price of new Model 3 in China weeks after launch, amid sales slump

Tesla reduces price of new Model 3 in China weeks after launch, amid sales slump  Electrek

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4 d. ago China launches tiny Mexican satellites in rare North American rocket contract

Mexico has become the second country in North America to send satellites into orbit using a Chinese rocket – more than half a decade after Canada blazed the trail. Two satellites from ThumbSat, a start-up based in Tijuana, just across the border from San Diego, were among a batch of seven launched into sun-synchronous orbit earlier this month by Beijing-based CAS Space on board its solid-fuel Kinetica-1 rocket. ThumbSat hailed the launch of its femtosatellites – each weighing less than 100 grams...

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6 d. ago Youlife Group, Beijing Galbot Launch JV to Expand Vocational Training in China

Youlife Group, Beijing Galbot Launch JV to Expand Vocational Training in China  MarketScreener

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7 d. ago What does a mock US rocket launcher in mainland China say about a Taiwan conflict?

Mock-ups of Himars rocket launchers – which Taiwan has ordered from the US – have been spotted in a car park in mainland China, suggesting a PLA simulation of a cross-strait conflict. A video circulating on mainland Chinese social media this week showed three trucks resembling the US-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (Himars). The replica trucks appeared to be lighter than genuine Himars units and, according to the video, lacked rocket launchers. The footage showed the vehicles...

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9 d. ago Xi Unleashes China’s Biggest Purge of Military Leaders Since Mao

Xi Unleashes China’s Biggest Purge of Military Leaders Since Mao  Bloomberg

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9 d. ago China launches world’s most powerful detector for ‘ghost particles’

China launched the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (Juno), the world’s largest detector for elusive “ghost particles” called neutrinos, in Guangdong province on Tuesday. The massive facility has started collecting data for its mission to track the mysterious particles with no electrical charge, very little mass and moving at near-light speed. The Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said Juno had successfully completed filling its 20,000-ton (18,000kg)...

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1 week ago All Signs Point To China Launching New ‘Fujian’ Aircraft Carrier Soon

All Signs Point To China Launching New ‘Fujian’ Aircraft Carrier Soon  National Security Journal

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1 week ago What Taiwan’s largest presence in US drills says about American defence ties

Taiwan’s biggest-ever participation in American-led military exercises has been thrust into the open by Pentagon-linked media, widely seen as a deepening of Washington’s defence ties with Taipei despite the Trump administration’s transactional approach to policy. Analysts said the unusually high-profile disclosure was aimed not only at deterring Beijing but also at countering rising distrust of the United States among Taiwanese people during Donald Trump’s second term as president. Citing a...

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1 week ago ‘Voice for our seas’: Filipino rappers take a stand on maritime rights

A rap contest tapping into patriotic fervour and youth culture has drawn hundreds of entries from Filipinos at home and abroad, with organisers saying the outpouring reflects growing creative resistance to Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea. The competition, launched last week by the civilian-led coalition Atin Ito (This is Ours) and hip-hop collective Morobeats, coincided with the Philippines’ national language month and invited participants to deliver one-minute raps defending the...

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