Nuke War Pse! Trade War too insignificant and indecisive. We need fast and irreversible results!
Nuke!
China is COMPLETELY WRONG ABOUT NK De-Nuke idea.
China should supply Nuke to NK, train up NK Rocket Army and non-stop joint-nuke-exercise.
China should get NK ready to nuke USA with 100 Warheads at a single strike.
There will not no trade war nor disturbance in South China Sea - Nothing. There will no no Ang Moh trying to stir with Taiwan.
Ang Moh must be given no civilized dealings, no mercy, give pure brutal carnage and eliminations, the most efficient carnage and hurt must be dispensed. Erase them from surface of earth.
Any friendly or kind ideas towards Ang Moh are COMPLETELY STUPID & WRONG.
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Chinese navy deploys drones in South China Sea missile drills
Report comes after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ‘reaffirmed deep concerns about building and militarising outposts’ in the contested waters
PUBLISHED : Friday, 15 June, 2018, 2:11pm
UPDATED : Friday, 15 June, 2018, 10:44pm
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12 Jun 2018
China has carried out drills in the South China Sea to simulate fending off an aerial attack, state media said on Friday, in the latest show of military muscle amid rising tensions between Beijing and Washington over the strategic waterway.
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The drills, which involved three target drones making flyovers of a ship formation at varying heights and directions, are part of ongoing efforts by China’s navy to improve its real-life combat ability, the official
PLA Daily said in a report.
It said the drones were used to “precisely verify the feasibility and effectiveness to ensure a close stimulation of an aerial attack target”.
The drones had already been sent out several hundred times during more than 30 previous drills, according to the newspaper.
It did not give details of the drills – including when and where in the South China Sea they were held and which PLA Navy base was involved – but the report came after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Beijing on Thursday to brief the Chinese leadership on this week’s summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
During his first visit to China since he took office in April, Pompeo also “reaffirmed our deep concerns about the building and militarising of outposts in the South China Sea, as those actions increase tensions, complicate and escalate disputes, endanger the free flow of trade, and undermine regional stability”, the US State Department said in a statement.
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Pompeo made the remarks as Washington and Beijing spar over trade, Taiwan and the South China Sea, with the two sides accusing each other of worsening tensions in the disputed waters.
China angered the US last month by sending strategic bombers including its most advanced, the long-range H-6K, to Woody Island in the Paracel group – the southernmost of the islands claimed by Beijing in the contested waters.
Days later, the Pentagon said it had
disinvited China from the upcoming multinational Rim of the Pacific naval drills as “an initial response” to what it called “China’s continued militarisation of the South China Sea”.
There were also reports last week that
two US Air Force B-52s had flown near the Spratly Islands.
Chinese and regional analysts did not expect any improvement in tensions between the two countries over the South China Sea as Beijing continues to expand its military power in a region that has been dominated by the US for decades.
“The vast waters of the South China Sea connect the Pacific and Indian oceans and have high military, security and strategic importance, so anyone who dominates the region has the advantage,” said Li Mingjiang, an associate professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
“But China is unlikely to follow what the US wants as [Beijing] is also looking to expand its military presence in the South China Sea with the hope of turning the region into an area under its military dominance.”
Li said while the meetings with Pompeo would help China’s decision makers – including President Xi Jinping – to understand Washington’s concerns, they may have “minimal” effect since there was no sign that either side was willing to compromise.
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Xu Liping, a senior research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, agreed.
“The drills, as well as other recent military exercises, are a message to the world that China is determined about, and capable of, safeguarding its territory in the South China Sea,” Xu said. “These tensions will remain, but the question is – how are the two sides going to manage this dispute?”
Beijing’s claims to about 90 per cent of the resource-rich waterway overlap with those of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: PLA holds drone drills in South China Sea
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Across the US, wary businesses gird for repercussions from trade war
From cherry farms in Washington state to Midwestern chemical plants to New England lobster-trap makers, the risk of a global trade war is creating anxiety among executives
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 16 June, 2018, 12:15am
UPDATED : Saturday, 16 June, 2018, 2:04am
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From cherry farms in the state of Washington to Midwestern chemical plants to New England lobster-trap makers, the risk of a global trade war is creating anxiety among executives whose firms rely on foreign markets for revenue or to keep costs down with imported products.
China ‘ready to hit back’ at Donald Trump’s tariffs
On Friday, Trump announced US$50 billion in tariffs on imports from China. Those came on top of levies he had imposed on imported steel and aluminium from the EU and Canada, which provoked anger and frustration that erupted rancorously at a Group of Seven summit last weekend in Quebec.
China responded to Friday’s announcement with trade threats of its own. It vowed to impose tariffs with “equal scale, equal intensity” on imports from the US, and said in a statement on its website that all of the country’s earlier trade commitments are now off the table. The EU is targeting iconic products like Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Levi’s jeans.
As Trump disrupts the rules that have governed global trade for decades, the prospect of a stand-off is rippling through American regions, industries and economic sectors, touching every aspect of business.
In Clinton County, New York, a decision 25 years ago to tie its future to its proximity to Montreal paid off. About 15 per cent of its population of 80,000 works for a Canadian or border-related employer, said Garry Douglas, chief executive officer of the North Country Chamber of Commerce in Plattsburgh.
Trump announces tariffs on US$50 billion of Chinese goods
Direct annual economic impact from cross-border commerce amounts to more than US$2 billion a year. Tariffs threaten that.
“Most are hopeful this is all tactical and will eventually be resolved,” Douglas said. “The uncertainty, however, is already having a chilling effect on decisions by companies regarding cross-border investment and deals.”
Similar fears loom in Florida, bound to Latin America and the Panama Canal with 14 deepwater seaports. The Florida Chamber of Commerce estimates that a quarter of the state’s economy depends on trade to some extent.
But in Granite City, Illinois, the sound of blast furnaces roaring back to life is the area’s hope.
US Steel Corp plans to hire about 300 people to restart a second furnace at its plant there to satisfy fresh demand for American-made steel, the company said this month. It resumed operations in March after Trump announced the tariffs based on national security grounds.
Elsewhere in America’s industrial heartland, though, companies are on edge. Many have built supply chains that source parts from all over the world.
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“Uncertainty in terms of trade and global flows like that isn’t good,” said Blake Moret, chairman and chief executive of Rockwell Automation, a producer of industrial systems in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Some companies are delaying capital projects. Tariffs are clouding investment decisions and raising construction costs, said A.B. Ghosh, North America president of Akzo Nobel NV’s speciality chemical business.
While the Dutch company will proceed with a US$100 million upgrade of an Illinois plant, “it may stop us from doing other investments”, Ghosh said.
Companies with links to Mexico are particularly worried. Mexico has been hit with steel tariffs, and Trump has threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Union Pacific has connections at six border crossings, and 12 per cent of its volume originates or ends in Mexico. The Omaha, Nebraska-based railroad also owns a 26 per cent stake in the Mexican railroad Ferromex.
“The worst fear would be the trade war in general,” said Rob Knight, chief financial officer of Union Pacific. “Does Mexico come up with some other retaliatory action?”
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Growers of apples, pears and cherries in Washington, Oregon and Idaho are rushing to figure out what they can do with perishable fruit that’s now the target of retaliatory tariffs in markets such as China, India and Mexico.
Mark Powers, president of the Northwest Horticultural Council, said its 4,700 growers in those states export about US$1 billion worth of produce each year. Finding new, tariff-free markets requires lengthy negotiations between countries.
“Quantifying the results of this is a guessing game,” he said. “We’re already seeing customers coming back and asking for discounts and offsets.”
Cherries are a pressing concern, particularly because members are enjoying a bountiful crop. The fruit lasts only about seven days once picked, and most exports are shipped in planes to Asia.
“If China closes, that’s our largest cherry market, and it’s hard to divert on the fly,” Powers said.
Jim Knott, chief executive officer of Riverdale Mills in Northbridge, Massachusetts, says his company supplies 85 per cent of the North American market for the wire mesh that covers lobster traps.
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The price of the steel, much from Canada, has almost doubled since January 1, he said, blaming the tariffs themselves and hoarding after Trump’s announcement.
As much as 45 per cent of what Knott’s company produces is shipped overseas. He says the steel tariff threatens the livelihoods of his 200 employees.
“We work very, very hard to take jobs back from China, and we ship all over the world,” Knott said. “This tariff just puts handcuffs on us.”
But threats can be negotiated. Representative Bill Keating, a Massachusetts Democrat, represents towns that produce most of the state’s cranberries, its largest crop at an annual value of almost US$100 million. The crop was targeted by the EU after Trump announced his steel and aluminium tariffs.
With 6,900 jobs at stake, Keating pointed out to EU officials that the tariff would threaten jobs in the EU connected to processing the berries. It worked. While a charge on juices will go into effect, duties on prepared or preserved cranberries, representing about two-thirds of what the state sends to the EU, would be delayed until 2021.
On the West Coast, California farmers tired of struggling with annual water and labour shortages have a new headache. India is putting an 80 per cent tariff on apples as a retaliatory measure, which will have a “grave impact on Washington’s growers”, Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat, said in a tweet.
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Fresh produce, including berries, nuts and citrus, faces new 15 per cent duties by China. Those levies may depress an already sluggish sector of the world’s fifth-largest economy: California agriculture has lost 15 per cent of its value in the past two years, according to the US Department of Food and Agriculture.
Export revenues, however, have remained steady at about US$20 billion over the period. That may be about to change.
Growers, already mulling moves to the fields of Mexico, Peru and China, will add the new tariff regime to their cost of doing business, said Tom Nassif, president of the Western Growers Association, which represents farmers in California, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.
“More and more people will be growing their produce in foreign countries and selling them to countries that will no longer receive our products without increasing prices,” Nassif said.
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China’s latest quantum radar won’t just track stealth bombers, but ballistic missiles in space too
Developer China Electronics Technology Group says system will be able to monitor ‘high-speed flying objects in the upper atmosphere’
PUBLISHED : Friday, 15 June, 2018, 9:49pm
UPDATED : Friday, 15 June, 2018, 10:44pm
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9 Jun 2018
China’s biggest defence electronics company said the next generation of its quantum radar system will be able to detect ballistic missiles and other objects flying at high speed through space.
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State-owned China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) announced two years ago that its scientists had tested a quantum radar to a range of 100km (62 miles), which in theory would allow it to detect stealth aircraft at long distances.
But at an industry exhibition in Nanjing, capital of eastern China’s Jiangsu province, on Friday, the company said the latest iteration of the technology could go one step further.
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Once installed on a near-space vehicle, it could “effectively monitor high-speed flying objects in the upper atmosphere and above”, the company said.
Hong Kong-based military commentator Song Zhongping said the development was significant.
“The term ‘high-speed flying objects’ could include ballistic missiles during their boost phase and mid-course, or low-altitude satellites, all of which are important targets to be monitored,” he said.
“If a quantum radar could be fully developed, it would be really powerful in the three key areas of range, imaging and counter interference.”
Xia Linghao, from CETC’s 14th Research Institute and one of the lead scientists on the radar project, was quoted by Chinese state newspaper
Global Times as saying that the bulk of the theoretical work had been completed and that the company had entered the “experimental verification phase”.
The radar is based on single photon measurement technology, which measures the quantum states of subatomic particles repeatedly, the report said.
It is particularly useful in the detection of extremely weak signals, such as those given off by a stealth jet.
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China regards the stealth aircraft flown by the United States and its allies as a major threat to its regional interests, and is therefore keen to have an effective countermeasure.
Quantum radar systems generate pairs of entangled light particles known as photons. One photon in the pair is beamed into the air while the other remains at the radar station.
If a target is located, some photons bounce back and can be identified by matching them with their “twins”. By measuring the returning photons, researchers can calculate the physical properties of the target, such as its size, shape, speed and angle of attack.
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However, the major challenge has been the small number of photons that return, with their number diminishing as the distance to a target increases.
The latest developments announced by CETC could help to resolve that problem.
China is not alone in developing quantum radar systems, although it claims to be the most advanced.
Song said, however, the technology was still some way from real-life application.
“We haven’t seen many figures or technical details yet, which means the prototype has not been finished,” he said. “It is still far from battlefield use.”
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