China, Russia and the US are among the top five countries developing the technology, new figures show
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials, stressing the importance of “responsibly managing” the differences between the United States and China as the two sides butted heads over a number of contentious bilateral, regional and global issues. Talks between the two sides have increased in […]
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By Simone McCarthy and Marc Stewart, CNN Wenchang/Hong Kong (CNN) — China is scheduled to launch an uncrewed lunar mission Friday that aims to bring back samples from the far side of the moon for the first time, in a potentially major step forward for the country’s ambitious space program. The Chang’e-6 probe – China’s
By Simone McCarthy and Marc Stewart, CNN Wenchang/Hong Kong (CNN) — China is scheduled to launch an uncrewed lunar mission Friday that aims to bring back samples from the far side of the moon for the first time, in a potentially major step forward for the country’s ambitious space program. The Chang’e-6 probe – China’s
Beijing said it is "always ready" after a U.S. military official warned that China is building up the capacity to invade Taiwan by 2027."Taiwan is China's territory, and the Taiwan issue brooks no foreign interference," Chinese Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Wu Qian said on Thursday.China vows to eventually bring Taiwan under its control, though the Chinese Communist Party has never had a presence there.In recent years, China has drastically increased its military activities around...
To hundreds of thousands of fans around the world who watched this season's finale of the hit reality show "RuPaul's Drag Race," the final plea for victory from one of the contestants wasn't especially memorable. "It would mean a lot to be the first East Asian queen to win the crown and to be able to represent my country," said the Taiwanese drag queen known as Nymphia Wind, who minutes later got her wish. It was a single word in that sentence — "country" — that became a source of delight in...
Race to put astrounats on lunar surface dubbed ‘Apollo programme on steroids’
US Space Force General Says China's Military Developing Space Assets At "Breathtaking Speed" Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command, recently warned about China’s “breathtakingly fast” development of space military capabilities, following his trips to South Korea and Japan. “We are seriously focused at U.S. Space Command on our pacing challenge, which is the People’s Republic of China,” Gen. Whiting told reporters during...
U.S. Central Command acknowledged that one year ago Friday, it mistakenly struck a civilian in a strike in Syria, not the al-Qaeda leader it was looking for.
A US military base in Syria has been struck by rockets in a Iraqi drone strike sparking fears for possible casualties. The five rockets were fired toward the town of Zummar today, two Iraqi securit
Eric Adams claimed students had been persuaded to storm college buildings and barricade themselves in by 'professionals at radicalising our children'.