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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 […]

Exposed: CIA deciding Facebook’s content policy

July 15, 2022 CEN_com 0

Facebook has recruited dozens of individuals from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as well as many more from other agencies like the FBI and Department of Defense (DoD). These people have been hired primarily in highly politically sensitive sectors such as “trust, security and content moderation”, to the point where some might feel it becomes difficult to see where the U.S. national security state ends and Facebook begins. A recent […]

China reiterates rejection of South China Sea ruling by arbitration tribunal

July 14, 2022 CEN_com 0

Permanent Court of Arbitration: not UN agency – “nothing to do with UN” On 14 Jul 2022 CGTN reported: China on Wednesday reiterated its stance on the so-called ruling of an arbitral tribunal on the South China Sea in 2016. “The so-called award of the South China Sea arbitration seriously violates international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It is illegal, null, and void,” […]

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China a world leader: top 10 institutions by research output in 2021

July 13, 2022 CEN_com 0

Four Chinese scientific institutions ranked among world’s top 10 institutions of research output in 2021, with the country demonstrating strong R&D capacity and gradually minimizing the gap between developed countries, according to the Nature Index released in June. Chinese Academy of Sciences won the first spot globally, followed by Harvard University in US, Max Planck Society in Germany and France’s French National Centre for Scientific Research. University of Chinese Academy […]

Australian experts weigh in on Belt and Road Initiative’s role

July 10, 2022 CEN_com 0

Source: China Daily, 2022-07-07. Daryl Guppy, President of the Australia China Business Council’s Northern Territory sub-council said that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a major contributor to economic growth in areas that have been ignored by other development programs. Mr Guppy said he believes the BRI has four dimensions of benefit to boost growth in the post-pandemic era: hard, trade, soft and capital infrastructure. BRI’s hard infrastructure includes […]