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China’s plan to rule the heavens
The race to return to the Moon and push beyond has entered a new, more intense phase. While Elon Musk and NASA have been arguing over whether to go to the Moon or Mars, China's recently published space-sciences plan declares its intent to surpass the United States and become the world's preeminent space power.
China claims breakthroughs in autonomous vehicles
Autonomous vehicles represent an estimated $2 trillion global market, and are expected to triple in value over the next decade. They are not just the future of transportation, but also have massive applications for the intelligent systems at the center of both U.S. and Chinese military plans.
A new breakthrough could deepen US troops' dependence on Chinese batteries
Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports Many of the lithium-ion batteries that power much U.S. military gear are made in whole or in part in China. Now a Chinese lab is reporting a breakthrough that could increase Beijing’s control of the global market. That’s a problem.
China Is Building Its Own Starlink
China Is Building Its Own Starlink
China is building Its own Starlink-even as questions surround Musk's constellation
Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email China launched a record 67 commercial rockets last year, second only to the United States’ 116—the vast majority for SpaceX’s Starlink. But Elon Musk isn’t the only one building a space-based network for communications, navigation, and sensing. A Nov. 23 launch from Xichang Satellite Launch Center carried a batch of satellites intended to lay the foundation for China’s own Starlink-like service.
China is honing runway-repair teams
The U.S. Air Force has been open about its hunt for more bases and new missile defenses in the Pacific, which reflects the assumption that the region’s scarce runways would be among the first items targeted in a conflict with China. Less is heard about similar efforts by the People’s Liberation Army, which has the very same problem of how to ensure that its own aircraft have places to fly and fight from.
8/10/23 National Security News and Commentary
Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners Quotes of the Day: 1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 9, 2023 2. China Relies on U.S., Allies for Hundreds of Products 3. China’s war planners are leaning harder on its militia 4. Inside the Air Force’s massive mobility war game in the Pacific 5. Overseas and under the poverty line: The system that keeps so many military spouses abroad unemployed 6. Korea Is a Model for Middle East Peace 7.
China’s war planners are leaning harder on its militia
Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email A late-June exercise in Hunan Province saw members of China’s militia taking on growing responsibilities, including piloting drones, driving assault boats, and manning command-and-control vehicles. While the People’s Liberation Army has for years relied on its reserve auxiliary force for supplementary support, the recent exercises point toward a larger direct role—even as some sources allude to potential strains in the system.
6/10/23 National Security News and Commentary
Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners (apologies for my tardiness. A late start and there was a surprising amount to cover and comment on especially concerning SOF snd IW). Quotes of the Day: 1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 9, 2023 2. China-Taiwan Weekly Update, June 9, 2023 3. The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China 4. With eye on China, US and five allies condemn trade-related 'economic coercion' 5.
China’s New Conscription Rules Reveal Concerns
Recent revisions to the regulations that govern China’s draft highlight some of the military’s deepest insecurities about its own capabilities and people.
Chinese Breakthroughs Bring Quantum Tools Closer to Practicality
A tenfold leap in a key aspect of quantum communications is just one of several recent breakthroughs by Chinese research teams that have major implications for the future of computing and communications. Quantum communications systems pass information using quantum bits: particles that exist in two states until they are observed.
China Is Eating Russia’s Lunch in the Defense Market
In the new Sino-Russian defense relationship, China does what it wants, and there isn’t a whole lot Russia can do about it. Xi Jingping’s recent visit to Moscow—his first since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine last year—was summed up by historian Sergey Radchenko in this way: “The summit can be summarised by the Chinese saying 雷声大雨点小 (Loud thunder but few raindrops).
How the West May Have Helped Build China’s Spy Balloons
China’s high-altitude spy balloons took Western politicians and publics by surprise, but they really shouldn’t have. Chinese strategists and industry have worked for more than a decade on 21st-century applications of the 18th-century invention—with some assistance from the West. Aerostats—the word encompasses powered airships (“blimps”) as well as unpowered balloons—have long been associated with military applications, particularly information-gathering activities.
Putin’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week Looks Even Worse Through a China Lens
Vladimir Putin just had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. And it wasn’t just about losses in Ukraine or having to announce conscription at home. A series of meetings—and what was said and wasn’t said at them— has revealed just how much Russian influence is weakening even in its once spheres of influence, and how China is taking advantage. Start with Sept.
China’s ‘Particle Beam Cannon’ Is a Nuclear-Power Breakthrough
Skip to Content Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email The prototype “particle beam cannon” recently completed by Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Modern Physics may sound like science fiction, but it is a novel new technology that promises to recycle dangerous waste produced by a nuclear reactor.
China May Have Just Taken the Lead in the Quantum Computing Race
China may have taken the lead in the race to practical quantum computing with a recent announcement that it has shattered a record for solving a complex problem. In 2019, Google reported that its 53-qubit Sycamore processor had completed in 3.3 minutes a task that would have taken a traditional supercomputer at least 2.5 days. Last October, China’s 66-qubit Zuchongzhi 2 quantum processor reportedly completed the same task 1 million times faster.
China May Have Just Taken the Lead in the Quantum Computing Race
Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email Sponsor Message Sponsor Message China may have taken the lead in the race to practical quantum computing with a recent announcement that it has shattered a record for solving a complex problem. In 2019, Google reported that its 53-qubit Sycamore processor had completed in 3.3 minutes a task that would have taken a traditional supercomputer at least 2.5 days.
What Is China Learning from the Ukraine War?
Skip to Content Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email Operation Desert Storm was a turning point in modern Chinese military history.
As Climate Change Threatens China, PLA Is Missing in Action
Skip to Content Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email As climate change forces the world’s militaries to adapt to new security conditions and ponder their own carbon footprints, the People’s Liberation Army has been largely silent. The same is not true for the Chinese government as a whole; Xi Jinping, for example, has promised to reduce the country’s carbon output starting in 2030 and achieve full carbon neutrality by 2060.
The temperature and flow dependence of nitrate concentration and load estimates based on diffusive gradients in thin films
TECHNICAL REPORTS Thomas Corbett, Corresponding Author Thomas Corbett corbett.tdw@gmail.com orcid.org/0000-0001-6943-0373 School of Science, The Univ. of Waikato, Hamilton, 3216 New Zealand Environmental Research Institute, The Univ. of Waikato, Hamilton, 3216 New Zealand Correspondence Thomas Corbett, School of Science, The Univ. of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 3216.
China’s Fusion Research Is Heating Up
Thomas Corbett & Peter W. Singer Defense One June 29, 2021 The EAST reactor in Hefei broke records last month as it edges toward the sustained stellar temperatures needed to generate fusion energy. Read Full Article »
China’s Fusion Research Is Heating Up
The hottest thing in the solar system is usually the Sun, with its core temperature of 15 million degrees Celsius. But for nearly two minutes on May 28, the title was held by an experimental fusion reactor in Hefei, China. The implications for global politics and security are monumental. Unlike nuclear fission, which slams a neutron into an atom to yield two smaller and generally radioactive atoms plus energy, nuclear fusion combines two atoms.
The Evolution of John & Edward Grimes…Ireland’s Jedward are all grown up and have a lot to say!
John explained the pair’s frustrations: “I feel like there was so much misleading information online. You had figures (who) people looked up to over the years and I feel like it was throwing the people. Those people who are against it (masks and restrictions), you might want to go outside, but (that’s) all ‘me, me, me’. You need to think of everyone, you need to be more caring, and just more thoughtful“.
A former for-profit college executive says the Education Department shouldn't weaken requirements concerning educational quality (opinion)
U.S. secretary of education Betsy DeVos has recently launched an effort that may result in an abdication of her responsibility to safeguard federal taxpayer funds. Specifically, she seeks to eliminate and weaken many of the requirements put in place to protect taxpayers and students from being wrongly billed for a subpar college education. In doing so, she gravely underestimates the reality inside for-profit education companies and fails to realize that not all colleges put students first.
Helicobacter pylori infection: management and counselling
From this pharmacy CPD module on H. pylori infection you will learn: How common the infection is and who is most likely to be affected
The symptoms of H. pylori infection
How the infection is treated
The advice pharmacists can provide to help patients manage the condition
Download this module - this includes the 5 minute test - here. Helicobacter pylori is a species of bacteria that can enter the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and cause peptic or duodenal ulceration.
Insulin therapy in type 1 diabetes
From this CPD module on insulin treatments in type 1 diabetes you will learn: How insulin is administered and how it takes effect
The side effects of treatments
The different insulin regimens that exist
Advice pharmacists can provide to patients
Download this module - this includes the 5 minute test - here. Insulin is a polypeptide hormone secreted from beta cells in the pancreas.
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