A United Kingdom satellite company has secured a 25-million-pound ($35 million) contract to lend a high-resolution Earth observation spacecraft to a Chinese partner for seven years.
As a president who has divided his country in an unprecedented way, Donald Trump is no doubt used to the barrage of criticism that comes his way. Nevertheless, he might still have been caught by surprise when he found himself being jeered and lambasted by critics just because he voiced his desire to hold a military parade.
If it is understandable that the United States would want to prohibit government departments from purchasing high-tech products from other countries for security reasons, such concerns do not justify the US authorities placing a ban on Chinese smartphones in the US market.
AFTER REMAINING unchanged for almost 20 years, revised regulations on the awards and punishments for primary and middle school students come into effect in Beijing on Feb 26. Beijing News commented on Thursday:
TWO LAWYERS from Beijing were violently attacked in broad daylight just 50 meters away from the court where they had been representing the plaintiff in an illegal demolition case in Jingmen, Central China's Hubei province, on Dec 6. Ten people were seized and put on trial, and their ringleader, the person in charge of the demolition work, was sentenced 22 months imprisonment on Wednesday. Thepaper.cn comments:
AMID THE HEAVY snowfall in the southern provinces, some of the bags of industrial salt the local road management agencies have stored by the roadsides ready for spreading to melt snow and ice have been stolen. Hebnews.cn comments:
"How safe is it in China?" This question provoked heated discussion on a world famous website's question and answer section not so long ago. But the answer winning the most thumb-ups was "Very, very safe". Many foreigners who had lived in China shared their personal experiences and said that they felt safe in China.
Australia has been vacillating over strengthening its ties with China, seemingly unsure of whether that will somehow compromise its security or bring welcome economic benefits. Yet while there is nothing to suggest China is a threat to Australia, they do have complementary economic structures and Canberra's plans to develop northern Australia and Australia's infrastructure could make great progress through cooperation with China's Belt and Road Initiative (the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road).
The National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy and Nuclear Posture Review unveiled by the United States over the past two months have poisoned the well of the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world.
The latest trade deficit figures would seem to have provided fresh ammunition for US President Donald Trump to translate into action his threats of trade remedy measures against countries with which the US has trade deficits.
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