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Sept. 22, 2020 CNA
NEW DELHI: India’s new French Rafale jets have flown “familiarisation” flights above the border region contested with China where a deadly clash between soldiers from the nuclear-armed neighbours took place in June, an official told AFP on Monday (Sep 21).
Tiếp tục đọc “India tests new French fighter jets in skies near China border”PUBLISHED: JUNE 16, 2020 amti.csis
China has deployed a network of sensors and communications capabilities between Hainan Island and the Paracel Islands in the northern South China Sea. These capabilities are part of a “Blue Ocean Information Network” (蓝海信息网络) developed by China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), a state-owned company, to aid in the exploration and control of the maritime environment using information technology. The network constructed in the northern South China Sea between early 2016 and 2019 is referred to as a demonstration system. However, future plans for the Blue Ocean Information Network involve expanding the sensor and communications network to the rest of the South China Sea, the East China Sea, and other ocean areas far from Chinese territory. While the Blue Ocean Information Network is largely cast as an environmental monitoring and communications system, the military utility of its sensing and communications functions makes its development important to monitor.
Tiếp tục đọc “EXPLORING CHINA’S UNMANNED OCEAN NETWORK”Washington isolated as global allies and adversaries say its unilateral move targeting Tehran has no legal standing.
by Maziar Motamedi 20 Sept 2020, Al Jareeza
Tehran, Iran – The United States has broken with all other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and unilaterally declared the re-imposition of all UN sanctions against Iran – a claim rejected by Iran and the international community, including Washington’s close allies, as having no legal basis.
Tiếp tục đọc “US claims UN sanctions on Iran reinstated. The world disagrees”Trump administration is seeking to block Iran’s energy trade and to bring down Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
25 Jun 2020 Al Jareeza
![Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news briefing at the State Department in Washington, DC. Pompeo announced new US sanctions against Iran on Wednesday [File: Nicholas Kamm/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2020/4/23/10643c13caab4a4cab319e7726067be0_18.jpg "US slaps new sanctions on Iranians for Venezuela trade")
The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on five Iranian ship captains who had delivered oil to Venezuela, and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reaffirmed the Trump administration’s backing for Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaido.
Tiếp tục đọc “US slaps new sanctions on Iranians for Venezuela trade”Calls for reform and cooperation as pandemic, US scepticism and growing US-China tensions undermine int’l organisation.
22 Sep 2020 01:25 GMT Al Jareeza
![The annual United Nations meetings will be held virtually with those in the hall seated far apart because of the coronavirus pandemic [Eskinder Debebe/UN Photo via EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2020/9/21/79fdf204a3c146bd8b2e62b5378c787c_18.jpg "Rivalries challenge UN as it marks 75 years since founding")
World leaders came together, virtually, on Monday to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, as the coronavirus pandemic and economic disruption challenge the effectiveness and solidarity of the organisation that was set up after the horrors of World War II.
Tiếp tục đọc “Rivalries challenge UN as it marks 75 years since founding”16 January 2020, BBC
The world’s two largest economies have been locked in a bitter trade battle.
The dispute has seen the US and China impose tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of one another’s goods.
US President Donald Trump has long accused China of unfair trading practices and intellectual property theft.
In China, there is a perception that America is trying to curb its rise as a global economic power.
Negotiations are ongoing but have proven difficult. In January, the two sides signed a preliminary deal but some of the thorniest issues remain unresolved.
Uncertainties around the trade war have hurt businesses and weighed on the global economy.
Mr Trump’s tariffs policy aims to encourage consumers to buy American products by making imported goods more expensive.
The US has imposed tariffs on more than $360bn (£268bn) of Chinese goods, and China has retaliated with tariffs on more than $110bn of US products.
Washington delivered three rounds of tariffs in 2018, and a fourth one in September last year. The most recent round targeted Chinese imports, from meat to musical instruments, with a 15% duty.
Beijing hit back with tariffs ranging from 5% to 25% on US goods.
Under the so-called “phase one” deal signed in January, China pledged to boost US imports by $200bn above 2017 levels and strengthen intellectual property rules.
The US agreed to halve some of the new tariffs it had imposed on China.
The White House said it will tackle additional issues in a second, “phase two” deal but analysts said they didn’t expect anything concrete anytime soon
Published: 12:00pm, 21 Sep, 2020 SCMP
Former US State Department official Robert Zoellick, who later served as president of the World Bank, gave a speech in 2005 warning of a rise in protectionist sentiment. Photo: AFP
When former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick stepped up to the podium to deliver the keynote address at the National Committee on US-China Relations’ annual gala in 2005, he was expected to offer the usual rosy celebration of the relationship reserved for such occasions. That did not happen.
Tiếp tục đọc “US-China relations: the pre-Trump warning shot that signalled trouble ahead”21/09/2020 09:59 GMT+7 vietnamnet
Can we implement the plan to withdraw from coal-fired thermal power? This was the question raised by a National Assembly Deputy to Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh at the recent explanation session on the current electricity development situation.
Vu Hong Thanh, chair of the National Assembly’s Economics Committee, opened the discussion with a series of questions on coal-fired thermal power. What will happen if many localities refuse to develop coal-fired thermopower projects? What is the role of coal-fired thermopower in the time to come?
Tiếp tục đọc “Without coal-fired thermal power, can Vietnam afford expensive ‘clean power’?”17/09/2020 11:11 GMT+7 vietnamnet
The Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched a contest on compiling Vietnamese-language books and documents for overseas Vietnamese, at a ceremony in Hanoi on September 16.
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| At the contest launching ceremony (Photo: VNA) |
The contest aims to push ahead with the teaching and learning of the mother tongue among overseas Vietnamese, preserving and promoting the language and the country’s culture abroad.
Tiếp tục đọc “Contest launched promoting Vietnamese language teaching for overseas Vietnamese”
TĐH: See notes verbales by Malaysia, UK & Northern Ireland, France, Germany, and China to United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf here >>
20/09/2020 17:30 GMT+7 vietnamnetAgence France-Presse Updated: September 19, 2020 11:24 am IST
The United States and China are engaged in an escalating trade battle centring on technology.Shanghai, China:
China said Saturday it had launched a mechanism enabling it to restrict foreign entities, a much-anticipated move seen as retaliation to US penalties against Chinese companies such as telecom giant Huawei.
Tiếp tục đọc “Amid Row With US, China Comes Out With “Unreliable Entities List””
Alan Robles and Dewey Sim in Singapore
Published: 9:00am, 19 Sep, 2020 SCMP
USS Ronald Reagan leads an American carrier strike group. Photo: US Navy
Across Southeast Asia, scenario planning exercises by analysts and policymakers preparing for the unthinkable – a military clash between the world’s two largest economies in their backyard – has taken on added significance in recent weeks.Tensions between the US and China, already fraught over trade,technology and the South China Sea, deepened as Beijing protested against Washington’s ties to Taipei and conducted military activities close to the self-ruled island last week.
Tiếp tục đọc “In a US-China war, whose side is Southeast Asia on? Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia ponder the unthinkable”
Image copyright Getty ImagesChina says it is conducting military exercises near the Taiwan Strait to “protect its sovereignty” as a top US official visits Taiwan.
Tiếp tục đọc “China holds military drill as US envoy visits Taiwan”
By Viet Anh September 17, 2020 | 08:10 pm GMT+7 vnexpress
Satellite image of Woody Island, part of Vietnam’s Paracel Islands, January 2018. Photo courtesy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
18/09/2020 09:26 GMT+7 vietnamnet
The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs has a new deputy minister, Mr. Nguyen Ba Hoan, who was previously the chief of the Ministry’s office.
| The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs has a new deputy minister, Mr. Nguyen Ba Hoan (left) |
Mr. Hoan was born in 1967 in Thanh Hoa province. He holds a bachelor degree on construction economics and bachelor degree in financial economics.
He has worked for 28 years at the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs: at the Department of Overseas Labor Management from 1993 to 2007. In 2007 he was appointed as the Deputy Chief of Office. Since 2015 he has been the Chief of the Office.
Tiếp tục đọc “Many high-ranking officials promoted”
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