US President Donald Trump on Thursday (Aug 6) intensified his attacks on China for its handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak that has killed over 700,000 people worldwide, as his health secretary … ( read…
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Shenzhen should be elevated to same administrative status as Beijing, academics say
Hong Kong’s neighbour should become a centrally administered municipality, article argues – although the idea, floated before, is not official policy. ( read original story …)
Microsoft expands TikTok takeover ambitions to entire global business
Even adding the entire business to any deal does not resolve the enormous challenge of untangling TikTok’s technology from ByteDance. ByteDance had previously been working on separating the data and … ( read original story…
Trump attacks China over virus as U.S. health secretary heads to Taiwan
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday intensified his attacks on China for its handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak that has killed over 700,000 people worldwide, as his health secretary … ( read original story…
AstraZeneca Strikes Deal to Produce Covid-19 Vaccine for China
AstraZeneca has agreed to have a Chinese drugmaker produce hundreds of millions of doses of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine for use in China if it is approved by regulators there, a deal that … (…
Global magnetic field of the solar corona measured for the first time
An international team of solar physicists, including academics from Northumbria University, in Newcastle upon Tyne, has recently measured the global magnetic field of the outer most layer of the Sun’s … ( read original story…
New Method Makes Magnetic Maps of the Solar Corona (2 of 2) (image)
Coronal magnetic field lines obtained from the PFSS model. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 7 Aug., issue of [I]Science[/I], published by AAAS. The paper, by Z. Yang at Peking ……
In call with Chinese counterpart, Pentagon chief expresses concern about Beijing’s activity in South China Sea
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper expressed concerns about Beijing’s “destabilizing” activity near Taiwan and the South China Sea in a call with Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, the Pentagon said … ( read original story…
Blockchain can help ‘antique’ iron ore industry
Blockchain can help ‘antique’ iron ore industry. Aug 06, 2020 | 01:00 PM | Singapore | Paul Lim . Tags blockchain, iron ore, DBS Bank, letters of credit, LC, Sriram Muthukrish … ( read original…
Trump defends ‘China Virus’ as term for COVID-19: ‘We have great Asian support, and they understand’
President Trump was confronted Thursday by his longtime friend Geraldo Rivera about using the term “China Virus” to refer to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. ( read original story …)
Beijing flexes its military muscle in off-shore exercises near Taiwan
Beijing has conducted maritime exercises in waters between mainland China and Taiwan as part of manoeuvres that would “play a vital role in potential military operations on the island of Taiwan”. ( read original story…
China Says U.S. Acts ‘Dirty’ After It Tries to ‘Clean’ Networks from Communist Party
China has ridiculed a new U.S. initiative to attempt to decouple its telecommunications network from apparatuses deemed too close to the ruling Chinese Communist Party, calling the move hypocritical … ( read original story …)
New China-Pakistan Axis Undermines U.S. in Afghanistan, Strengthens Uighur Persecution
A previously unreported intelligence arrangement between Beijing and Islamabad reveals increasingly potent influence in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the region. ( read original story …)
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