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Enceladus skrev: ↑söndag 05 maj 2024 15:46

dr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑torsdag 21 mars 2024 7:26 All kinesisk rymdfart och rymdteknik står under militär kontroll. Och militären står under kontroll av Kinas kommunistiska partis politbyrås ständiga utskott (ordf. Xi Jinping) och Kinas kommunistiska partis centrala militärkommission (ordf. Xi Jinping)

NASA hasn’t landed on the Moon in decades—China just sent its third in six years

Ars Technica skrev:This mission follows the launch and deployment of the Queqiao-2 relay satellite in March, which will serve as a bridge between communications from the far side of the Moon to operators back on Earth. China has also announced two future lunar missions, Chang'e-7 and Chang'e-8, later this decade. These robotic missions will land near the lunar South Pole, test lunar resources, and prepare the way for future crewed missions.

Nominally, China's current plan calls for the first landing of two taikonauts on the surface of the Moon in 2029 or 2030. Eventually it wants to establish a lunar outpost.

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NASA is taking a different approach, working with industry to develop a fleet of commercial cargo landers—such as Intuitive Machines' largely successful Odysseus mission earlier this year—as well as larger human landers built by SpaceX and Blue Origin. This overall "architecture" is far more complex, requiring myriad launches to refuel spacecraft in orbit. It will likely take several years longer to get to the first lunar landing missions, either later this decade or earlier in the 2030s. But should NASA persist and succeed in this approach, it will open up a highway to the Moon the likes of which could only be dreamed of during the Apollo era. Imagine a flotilla of spacecraft going to and from the Moon. That's the vision.

Ja, Kina skiljer sig i detta avseende från USA. Kina har en tydlig plan medan USA präglas av inrikespolitik och rikemäns godtycke. Kan Kina bättre än Sovjet?

Enceladus skrev: ↑fredag 03 maj 2024 20:18 Problemet är att Tyskland sätter ideologi framför pragmatism.

dr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑fredag 03 maj 2024 14:38 F.ö. svajar både Tyskland och Frankrike betänkligt när det gäller kommunistdiktaturen:

POLITICO skrev:On Xi Jinping’s first day in Europe after five years away from the continent, French President Emmanuel Macron presented him with a highly symbolic gift: several bottles of France’s most exquisite cognacs.

It was not the most subtle of hints. China’s anti-dumping investigation into European wine-based liquors, largely targeting France’s cognac producers, is seen as retaliation for the European Union’s decision to open several investigations against Beijing on suspicions of unfair trade practices in sectors such as electric vehicles and medical device manufacturing.

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Xi also may have managed to drive a wedge between Macron, von der Leyen and Olaf Scholz. The German Chancellor’s absence was the elephant in the room, as analysts speculated he may have not attended so as to not to risk feeding Beijing’s wrath on electric vehicles.

EUISS skrev:The green transition will not be easy. Not only because the continent will need to overhaul its energy system, but also because it will have to live with a troubling reliance on Beijing. Even if this dependence may not be as dangerous as it initially might seem, the EU must pursue a de-risking strategy. Failure to do so would undermine the EU’s goal of becoming the home of industrial innovation and the champion of clean tech.

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Second, prioritise innovation. Pouring funding into established technologies like solar PVs in an already over-supplied market and playing catch-up with China is one way of mitigating this risk, but maybe there is a better way forward. After all, there is the unintended likelihood that taxpayers’ money could end up going to ‘zombie companies’ that could not survive without subsidies and compete on the global market.

An alternative approach would be to invest in emerging technologies that could reduce reliance on imports and Chinese supply chains. Sodium-ion batteries represent a potential example of such technologies. They replace lithium with sodium – salt – and do not require critical materials such as cobalt, graphite and nickel for their anodes and cathodes. While these batteries come with their drawbacks, such as lower performance, they nonetheless could play an important role in the EU’s bid for greater strategic autonomy.

Enceladus skrev: ↑onsdag 08 maj 2024 15:31

dr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑fredag 03 maj 2024 14:38 F.ö. svajar både Tyskland och Frankrike betänkligt när det gäller kommunistdiktaturen:

Macron’s cognac — the only thing that went down smoothly with Xi

POLITICO skrev:On Xi Jinping’s first day in Europe after five years away from the continent, French President Emmanuel Macron presented him with a highly symbolic gift: several bottles of France’s most exquisite cognacs.

It was not the most subtle of hints. China’s anti-dumping investigation into European wine-based liquors, largely targeting France’s cognac producers, is seen as retaliation for the European Union’s decision to open several investigations against Beijing on suspicions of unfair trade practices in sectors such as electric vehicles and medical device manufacturing.

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Xi also may have managed to drive a wedge between Macron, von der Leyen and Olaf Scholz. The German Chancellor’s absence was the elephant in the room, as analysts speculated he may have not attended so as to not to risk feeding Beijing’s wrath on electric vehicles.

Ja, Tyskland vill sälja premiumbilar och Frankrike vill sälja spritdrycker. Kineser uppskattar båda produkterna, men de är inte oersättliga. Gäller det omvända?

dr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑söndag 05 maj 2024 18:13 Onkel Xi har visst kommit till Europa och börjar i Frankrike. China’s Xi Jinping is visiting Europe for the first time in five years – his goodwill tour will be an uphill struggle (CNN)

Efter Frankrike går färden till putinisterna i Ungern och Serbien. Trevligast så.

The red flags start at Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport and run all the way along the motorway into the centre of Serbia’s capital.

This is Serbia’s way of showing that it is proud of its “ironclad friendship” with China – and welcoming Xi Jinping to Belgrade.

Enceladus skrev: ↑onsdag 06 mars 2024 21:52 Skribenten behöver inte oroa sig. Huawei skyddar Bundeswehrs integritet, precis som Kina gör i Ungern.

Daily News Hungary skrev:Márton Tompos, the vice-president of opposition party Momentum, wanted to put up an EU flag in Budapest but was prevented by Chinese volunteers in red caps.

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“Budapest is full of Chinese volunteer gendarmes in red caps to protect Xi Jinping, aka Winnie the Pooh, from the “unfriendly” Tibetan and Taiwanese flags”, the politician wrote in a comment to the video. “Of course, when the camera came out, they forgot Hungarian immediately, as they spoke the language perfectly well,” he added.

AP News skrev:Hungary is also hosting several Chinese EV battery plants and hopes to become a global hub of lithium ion battery manufacturing, and has undertaken a railway project — part of Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative — to connect the country with the Chinese-controlled port of Piraeus in Greece as an entry point for Chinese goods to Central and Eastern Europe.

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One activist, Tenzin Yangzom, a campaign coordinator for the International Tibet Network, criticized Hungary’s government for “allowing the Chinese police to be operating on Hungarian streets.”

“This is not China, is it? This is Hungary, it’s a free country, you have freedom of speech,” she said.

dr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑onsdag 08 maj 2024 22:24 Obegripligt att man ens överväger medlemskap för det landet i EU och/eller Nato. Räcker det inte med Orban?

CEPA skrev:Hungary is important to China. Chinese President Xi Jinping is coming to Budapest this month after visiting France and Serbia. Budapest takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union Council in July.

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Hungary was the first EU leader to sign a contract as part of China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. In 2023, China became the country’s single biggest investor with €10.7 billion. Hungary hosts Huawei’s largest supply center outside China, despite US pressure to ban the tech company.

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Chinese investments don’t come free, either. For the CATL plant, the Hungarian government is spending almost €2 billion on infrastructure. For BYD in Szeged, the government has pledged €122-125 million on infrastructure and millions more in state aid. Although the details remain confidential, Prime Minister Orbán has stated that they would be for “road networks, public utility networks, and community services.”

Reuters skrev:Speaking at the FT's Future of the Car conference, Shu said that BYD will bring a low-cost electric vehicle based on its Chinese Seagull model to Europe.

The European version of the Seagull, which retails in China for less than US$10,000, should cost less than 20,000 euros (S$29,160.42) in Europe, Shu said.

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BYD's Shu spoke as Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Hungary on the third and final stop on his first European tour in five years.

Enceladus skrev: ↑fredag 14 juni 2024 20:16 Vem behöver fiender med sådana vänner? Putin har inga permanenta vänner eller fiender, bara intressen - som den gamle Henry Kissinger sa en gång i tiden.

Financial Times skrev:Xi issued the warning in a meeting with von der Leyen in April 2023 that was described to the Financial Times by several people. He said the US was trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, but that he would not take the bait. Another person said he had issued similar warnings to his officials.

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“If Xi genuinely believes that the US actively seeks conflict with China over Taiwan, then concerns that Xi has created an information vacuum or is otherwise getting poor council from subordinates are, worryingly, true,” said Jude Blanchette, a China expert at CSIS, a think-tank.

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One Chinese academic said Washington was “actively encouraging independence forces in Taiwan” and the US knew that if they crossed a red line by declaring independence, China would be forced to take military action.

Reuters skrev:At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus.

The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.

Reuters identified at least 300 accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that matched descriptions shared by former U.S. military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. Almost all were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus – Tagalog for China is the virus.

Enceladus skrev: ↑söndag 16 juni 2024 10:08

Enceladus skrev: ↑fredag 14 juni 2024 20:16 Vem behöver fiender med sådana vänner? Putin har inga permanenta vänner eller fiender, bara intressen - som den gamle Henry Kissinger sa en gång i tiden.

Xi Jinping claimed US wants China to attack Taiwan

Financial Times skrev:Xi issued the warning in a meeting with von der Leyen in April 2023 that was described to the Financial Times by several people. He said the US was trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, but that he would not take the bait. Another person said he had issued similar warnings to his officials.

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“If Xi genuinely believes that the US actively seeks conflict with China over Taiwan, then concerns that Xi has created an information vacuum or is otherwise getting poor council from subordinates are, worryingly, true,” said Jude Blanchette, a China expert at CSIS, a think-tank.

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One Chinese academic said Washington was “actively encouraging independence forces in Taiwan” and the US knew that if they crossed a red line by declaring independence, China would be forced to take military action.

Xi har varnat EU-kommissionens ordförande för att USA förbereder sig för ett storkrig i Stilla havet. Vidare har USA spridit desinformation om kinesiska vaccin:

Reuters skrev:At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus.

The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.

Reuters identified at least 300 accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that matched descriptions shared by former U.S. military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. Almost all were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus – Tagalog for China is the virus.

Europa riskerar att lämnas i sticket - både ekonomiskt och militärt. Som bekant är amerikanerna livrädda för att kinesiska elbilar ska ta över världsmarknaden, inklusive i grannlandet Mexiko. Även EU väntas höja tullarna på kinesiska elbilar, men bara symboliskt. Biden är en erkänt skicklig diplomat som nyligen fick nederländska ASML att strypa exporten till Kina. Därför hoppas Xi på Trump. I så fall kan det bli en ny världsordning utan vänner och fiender, bara intressen.

Enceladus skrev: ↑söndag 16 juni 2024 10:08 Xi Jinping claimed US wants China to attack Taiwan

Financial Times skrev:Xi issued the warning in a meeting with von der Leyen in April 2023 that was described to the Financial Times by several people. He said the US was trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, but that he would not take the bait. Another person said he had issued similar warnings to his officials.

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“If Xi genuinely believes that the US actively seeks conflict with China over Taiwan, then concerns that Xi has created an information vacuum or is otherwise getting poor council from subordinates are, worryingly, true,” said Jude Blanchette, a China expert at CSIS, a think-tank.

[...]

One Chinese academic said Washington was “actively encouraging independence forces in Taiwan” and the US knew that if they crossed a red line by declaring independence, China would be forced to take military action.

Xi har varnat EU-kommissionens ordförande för att USA förbereder sig för ett storkrig i Stilla havet.