Conversations on Vietnam Development
VNY – 23 thg 12, 2016
Khmer Đỏ tính toán rằng nếu Việt Nam tấn công lớn thì họ sẽ bỏ một vài vùng đất nhằm nhử cho quân VN vào sâu nội địa Campuchia rồi đánh du kích tiêu hao tiến tới diệt hoàn toàn sinh lực quân ta. Nhưng âm mưu ấy của chúng đã bị thất bại.
VNY – 5 thg 1, 2017
Đầu năm 2017, Mỹ đột nhiên tuyên bố rút nhóm tàu sân bay ở Địa Trung Hải về nước. Truyền thông còn nói rằng tiếp sau đó, các nhóm tàu sân bay khác trên khắp thế giới cũng sẽ rút về Mỹ.
VNY – 21 thg 12, 2016
Năm 1075, khi nghe tin quân Tống đang chuẩn bị mọi mặt để sang xâm lấn nước ta, triều đình nhà Lý đã cử Lý Thường Kiệt đem hơn 10 vạn quân sang đánh trước để phá thế chuẩn bị của quân Tống.
TTCT – Trong khi hầu hết mọi người nghĩ rằng tổng thư ký Liên Hiệp Quốc sẽ là một phụ nữ tới từ Đông Âu, kết quả chỉ còn đợi phê chuẩn lại là António Guterres – cựu thủ tướng Bồ Đào Nha.
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| Tân tổng thư ký Liên Hiệp Quốc António Guterres -dailymaverick.co.za |
It is our pleasure to send you the December edition of the ChinaPower Newsletter. The China Power Project at CSIS centers on ChinaPower–a website that provides an in-depth understanding of the evolving nature of Chinese power relative to other countries. The Newsletter highlights the new and updated content on the website, as well as featured events and publications. We hope this newsletter provides you with a snapshot of the work we are doing to help our users better understand the complexity of China’s rise. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS – ChinaPower December Newsletter”
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Hiểm họa chiến tranh tiền tệ
05:49 AM – 13/08/2015 TN
Cuộc chạy đua phá giá đồng tiền giữa các cường quốc kinh tế trong thập niên 1920 và 1930 là trường hợp kinh điển của chiến tranh tiền tệ.
Nước Đức thời lạm phát phi mã vào thập niên 1920 – Ảnh: rarehistoricalphotos.com Tiếp tục đọc “Hiểm họa chiến tranh tiền tệ – 3 bài”
TTCT – Những phản ứng gần đây của Bắc Kinh với ông Donald Trump, cũng như những động thái mới trên Biển Đông cho thấy Trung Quốc không muốn đợi tới khi ông Trump đã chính thức làm chủ Nhà Trắng mới bộc lộ thái độ.
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| Một tạp chí Trung Quốc với ông Trump lên bìa -wsj.com |
HONG KONG — Long celebrated as China’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang reaches more than three times the expanse of Los Angeles in the summer wet season. It is home to the rare Yangtze finless porpoise, and its mud flats are the primary winter feeding grounds for thousands of birds that fly south each autumn to escape Siberia’s chill, including the critically endangered Siberian crane.
Now it is Poyang itself that is at risk.
Chinese J-15 fighter jets waiting on the deck of the Liaoning aircraft carrier during military drills in the Bohai Sea, off China’s north-east coast AFP/-
The drill comes amid renewed tension over Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, following U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s telephone call with the island’s president that upset Beijing.
“The threat of our enemies is growing day by day. We should always be maintaining our combat alertness,” Taiwan Defence Minister Feng Shih-kuan said on Tuesday. Tiếp tục đọc “Taiwan warns of increasing threat as Chinese warships conduct drill”
Beijing’s only aircraft carrier cruises past Taiwan’s Pratas Islands in an exercise state media said showed the country’s improving combat capabilities
Reuters
Monday 26 December 2016 20.03 EST
A group of Chinese warships led by the country’s sole aircraft carrier entered the South China Sea on Monday after passing south of Taiwan, the self-ruled island’s defence ministry said.
The ministry said the carrier, accompanied by five vessels, passed south-east of the Pratas Islands, which are controlled by Taiwan, heading south-west. The carrier group earlier passed 90 nautical miles (167km) south of Taiwan’s southernmost point via the Bashi channel, between Taiwan and the Philippines.
China live-fires aircraft carrier group amid Taiwan tensions with US
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Ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi declining to say whether fighter jets were scrambled or if submarines had been deployed but added: “Staying vigilant and flexible has always been the normal method of maintaining airspace security.”
Chen said the ministry was continuing to “monitor and grasp the situation”.
The move, which China called a routine exercise, comes amid renewed tension over Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, following US President-elect Donald Trump’s telephone call with the island’s president.
China’s Soviet-built Liaoning aircraft carrier has taken part in previous exercises, including some in the South China Sea, but China is years away from perfecting carrier operations similar to those the United States has practised for decades.
Johnny Chiang , a senior Taiwan opposition Nationalist lawmaker, said the Liaoning exercise was China’s signal to the US that it had broken through the “first island chain”, an area that includes Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan.
The US state department on Monday said its position had not changed since July, when it said it was continuing to monitor China’s military modernisation and that it expected nations conducting defence exercises to comply with the law. Representatives for the Pentagon declined to comment.
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump, said the incoming team had no comment on China’s move. Trump takes office on 20 January and has already made headlines over a series of statements on China and Taiwan.
In Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said people should not read too much into what the carrier was up to, because its movements were within the law.
“Our Liaoning should enjoy in accordance with the law freedom of navigation and overflight as set by international law, and we hope all sides can respect this right of China’s,” she told a daily news briefing.
Influential state-run Chinese tabloid the Global Times said the exercise showed how the carrier was improving its combat capabilities and that it should now sail even further afield. “The Chinese fleet will cruise to the eastern Pacific sooner or later. When China’s aircraft carrier fleet appears in offshore areas of the US one day, it will trigger intense thinking about maritime rules,” the newspaper’s editorial said.
China has been angered recently by US naval patrols near islands that China claims in the South China Sea. This month, a Chinese navy ship seized a US underwater drone in the South China Sea. China later returned it.
Japan said late on Sunday it had spotted six Chinese naval vessels including the Liaoning travelling through the passage between Miyako and Okinawa and into the Pacific. A Japanese government spokesman said on Monday the voyage showed China’s expanding military capability and Japan was closely monitoring it.
China’s air force conducted long-range drills this month above the East and South China Seas that rattled Japan and Taiwan. China said those exercises were also routine.
In December last year, the defence ministry confirmed China was building a second aircraft carrier but its launch date is unclear. The aircraft carrier programme is a state secret.
Beijing could build multiple aircraft carriers over the next 15 years, the Pentagon said in a report last year.
China claims most of the South China Sea through which about $5tn in ship-borne trade passes every year. Neighbours Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.
In 2014 alone China invested £56bn in African infrastructure. But is this colonialism in another guise?
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Addis Ababa has a surprise in store for those who haven’t visited in two years. Cutting through the heart of this booming city, where construction cranes are the most persistent feature of the skyline, is the Addis Ababa Light Rapid Transit (AALRT) network. It rears up suddenly at Meskel Square, which until 2013 gazed out onto an expanse of chaotic traffic. The traffic now bustles beneath the shadow of what is only the second metro ever built south of the Sahara. Tiếp tục đọc “The new scramble for Africa: how China became the partner of choice”
SHANGHAI – China launched a satellite to monitor its greenhouse gas emissions early on Thursday, the latest step in efforts to cut its carbon footprint, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The launch follows the United States joining China in formally ratifying the Paris agreement to curb climate-warming emissions. It also comes as large sections of northern China have been shrouded in near-record levels of air pollution for most of the past week, disrupting flights, closing factories and schools, and forcing authorities to issue red alerts.
China launched the satellite via a Long March-2D rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the northwestern Gobi Desert, Xinhua said.
The 620-kg (1,370-pound) satellite TanSat was sent into a sun synchronous orbit about 700 km (435 miles) above the earth and will monitor the concentration, distribution and flow of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, said Yin Zengshan, chief designer of TanSat at the Chinese Academy of Sciences micro-satellite research institute.
The launch comes after an international study showed that world greenhouse gas emissions stayed flat for the third year in a row in 2016, thanks to falls in China.
The satellite will provide China’s policymakers with independent data for three years, the news agency said.
TanSat will take readings of global carbon dioxide every 16 days, accurate to at least 4 parts per million.
The rocket carrying TanSat also carried a high-resolution micro-nano satellite and two spectrum micro-nano satellites for agricultural and forestry monitoring, the agency added.
China is the third country after Japan and the United States to monitor greenhouse gases with its own satellite, the agency said.
BEIJING — The ominous images in the video pile up, set to darkly urgent music. Refugees fleeing failed uprisings in the Middle East. Western diplomats and politicians cast as puppet masters of subversion in China. Chinese lawyers abjectly confessing to subversion in show trials. Protests erupting in Hong Kong.
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| Một góc vịnh Subic năm 1990 – Ảnh: d.r.sanner |
TT – Nó nằm đó thù lù “một cục” trên bờ kè sát con đường Water Front cảng Subic, chiếc tàu ngầm hạt nhân USS Louisville của hạm đội 7 Mỹ, sáng nay thứ tư 27-6. Thật yên ả thả neo trên bến cảng ngày nào là căn cứ hải – không quân Mỹ.
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