June 16, 2017 |
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Michael Clauss is the German ambassador to China in the SCMP suggest two ways to deal with China’s Silk Road ambitions. 1. partner with China to close development gaps, while reinforcing the open, transparent and non-hierarchical world order, as seems …
June 16, 2017 |
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that Japan is ready to cooperate with China’s “One Belt, One Road” cross-continental infrastructure development scheme, under certain conditions. Speaking at a forum in Tokyo on Asia’s future, Abe said those conditions would include …
June 7, 2017 |
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Unit 3 of the Takahama nuclear power plant in Japan’s Fukui prefecture was restarted on June 6, 2017, plant owner Kansai Electric Power Company has announced. Takahama 4 – which had also been kept offline since March 2016 by a …
June 3, 2017 |
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The number of babies born in Japan fell below 1 million in 2016 for the first time since records began in the 19th century, underscoring the demographic challenges facing the nation with an aging and declining population. There were 976,979 …
June 1, 2017 |
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What are the commitments made by 184 countries related to the Paris Agreement on the environment ? Developed countries have offered absolute economy-wide emissions targets (the United States, for instance, had pledged to reduce its emissions 26-28 percent from 2005 …
May 23, 2017 |
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By 2027 to 2037 scientists will likely be able to create a baby from human skin cells that have been coaxed to grow into eggs and sperm and used to create embryos to implant in a womb. The process, in …
April 13, 2017 |
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Japan’s PD Aerospace and China’s Kuang-Chi Science are among Asia’s homegrown private firms planning to offer spaceflight services to civilians. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin have a dominant global presence in the New …
March 30, 2017 |
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Though the exact value of China’s spending on its space programs remains shrouded in secrecy, many analysts peg its civilian space budget at around $3 billion annually in recent years, a fraction of the $19.3 billion the United States allocated …
