Month: July 2022

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China’s experience guides international high-speed railway standards

July 23, 2022 CEN_com 0

The International Union of Railways published, for the first time, two international standards for high-speed railway infrastructure design and power supply, which were mainly drafted and developed by China. Known by its French initials UIC, the union was founded in France in 1922. Being a 210-member international association, the UIC aims to promote global railway transportation and cooperation. The two new standards published are the second and third in a series of high-speed […]

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Global action urged to block AUKUS plan on transfer of nuclear materials

July 21, 2022 CEN_com 0

A report written by leading Chinese nuclear security researchers urged the global community to use an upcoming global conference on nuclear nonproliferation to deter the collaboration of the United States and the United Kingdom to transfer weapons-grade nuclear materials through nuclear-powered submarines to Australia. The US, Britain and Australia should “stop taking double standards” and halt their collaboration on nuclear-powered submarines, said the research report issued on Wednesday in Beijing. […]

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Questions deepen regarding crash of Ukrainian ‘cargo’ plane in Greece: US involvement?

July 20, 2022 CEN_com 0

A mysterious Ukraine cargo plane has crashed that was bearing weapons. So why are people who came close suffering from mysterious symptoms such as burning lips? What kind of weapons do that?? Redacted News Reuters News Agency reported on 17 July 2022: A Ukrainian Antonov An-12 cargo plane carrying “munitions” from Serbia to Bangladesh crashed in northern Greece late on Saturday, killing all eight crew members on board, Greek and […]

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Russian windpower industry calls on State Duma to stimulate development of renewables

July 19, 2022 CEN_com 0

Given Russia’s massive potential for wind power and China’s emerging global dominance in the industry, it is quite possible that expansion in energy cooperation between the Eurasian energy super powers will encompass renewables like wind power. Russia of course has some of the world’s most abundant oil and gas resources as well as a well-developed nuclear power industry. Demand for renewables in Russia has therefore not been significant domestically. However, […]

Cuba and China will continue working together as close fraternal peoples

July 18, 2022 CEN_com 0

Source: Cuban National Assembly, 16/07/2022. China and Cuba have agreed to continue working together, close fraternal friends, in strengthening bilateral and inter-parliamentary relations, and in regional and international forums. During a fraternal and fruitful virtual meeting between Yolanda Ferrer Gómez, president of the International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People’s Power, and Zhang Yesui, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of the […]

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Ukraine: The demise of the West

July 17, 2022 CEN_com 0

Republished from Pearls and Irritations, authored by Cameron Leckie, July 8, 2022 ** Cameron Leckie served as an officer in the Australian Army for 24 years. An agricultural engineer, he is currently a PhD candidate. The more events proved them to be wrong, the stronger their defences became against admitting this to be the case’ Norman Dixon (On the Psychology of Military Incompetence) In my last piece for Pearls and Irritations I argued that the […]

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Papua New Guinea: China builds major BRI hydro-power project

July 17, 2022 CEN_com 0

The Ramu 2 Hydro-power Project will provide 183 MW of electricity to Papua New Guinea. It is being constructed in Ramu river basin in Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea. The Ramu 2 Hydropower Project is the second the largest power infrastructure project to be undertaken in Papua New Guinea (the Karimui project in Simbu Province is the largest). On completion it is set to increase the existing Ramu 1 generating […]

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The ‘deep message’ of the Chinese President’s extensive inspection tour of Xinjiang

July 17, 2022 CEN_com 0

CGTN correspondent, Robert Lawrence Kuhn asks: What is the ‘deep message’ of the Chinese President’s extensive inspection tour of Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region? Why now, his first trip to Xinjiang in eight years? It is not a coincidence that President Xi’s two most-recent trips, Hong Kong and Xinjiang, within two weeks, were both aimed at signifying national unity in that both areas have witnessed social disruptions and both […]

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Tangshan – China’s steel capital to turn itself into a hydrogen hub

July 15, 2022 CEN_com 0

“Almost all of mainland China’s provincial-level administrative divisions, except Tibet, have introduced policies to develop hydrogen industries, after the clean fuel gained prominence in China’s latest five-year plan (FYP) and other national policies driving the country towards carbon neutrality. Last week, the government of heavy-industry hub Tangshan, the world’s biggest steel-producing city, released its first hydrogen industry development plan. The city aims to build 30 hydrogen refuelling stations and have at least […]

China’s farmers embrace rooftop solar power

July 15, 2022 CEN_com 0

China has vowed to accelerate the installation of clean energy. Rooftop solar installations have emerged as a major force to achieve that. Nearly 53 gigawatts of solar capacity were added in 2021, with more than half coming from rooftop installations. Experts say that the promotion of rooftop solar panels can contribute to China’s rural vitalization, as it increases farmers’ income, and improves their living environment. An increasing number of households […]