Two years on, arrest of Huawei exec Meng Wanzhou in Canada still clouds its trade ties with China. From canola, pork to forest products, Canada has seen sliding exports in the Chinese market over the past two years.
China’s trade with Canada dropped by 2.3% y-o-y in the first 11 months, with imports from Canada down by 22.2%, as bilateral ties further deteriorated
China’s Chang’e-5 probe successfully landed on the near side of the moon 11:11 pm Tuesday Beijing time. In the next two days, the lander will collect about two kilograms of lunar samples. As of 4:53 am Wednesday, the Chang’e-5 probe’s lander-ascender combination had completed drilling the moon surface and sealed its collected samples. roscosmos and the European Space Agency esa sent congratulations to China on Chang’e-5’s successful moon landing, after the probe touched down on planned location in Oceanus Procellarum on Tuesday evening.
Cosmochemist and geochemist Ouyang Ziyuan 欧阳自远 from the Chinese Academy of Sciences who is now in charge of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program has already stated on many occasions that one of the main goals of the program would be the mining of helium-3, from which operation “each year, three space shuttle missions could bring enough fuel for all human beings across the world.”
Chang’e-1 maps Moon’s Helium-3 inventory 12-6-20 Chang’e-5 ascender has successfully docked with the orbital module at the lunar orbit some 380,000 kilometers away from the Earth, and completed sample transfer from the ascender to the return capsule.
The Chang’e-5 probe, comprising an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and a returner, was launched on Nov. 24, and its lander-ascender combination touched down on the north of the Mons Rumker in Oceanus Procellarum, also known as the Ocean of Storms, on the near side of the moon on Dec. 1. After the samples were collected and sealed, the ascender of Chang’e-5 took off from the lunar surface on Dec. 3. Next, the orbiter-returner will separate from the ascender, and wait for the right time to return to Earth.
12-8-20 The ascender of China’s Chang’e-5 lunar probe carried out deorbiting on Tuesday at 6:59 am and landed on the preset landing area on the moon’s surface at 7:30 am in a controlled manner.
12-13-20 ChangE5 made another successful attempt in making its journey back to home planet Earth with its precious cargo safely stored
12-16-20 ChangE5 orbiter-returner combo successfully conducted second course correction at the moon-Earth transfer orbit on Wed 9:15 am.
12-17-20 Carrying around 2 kilograms of lunar samples, China’s Change5 lunar probe safely landed in the designated area in North China at 1:59 am on Thursday, bringing the craft’s epic round trip between Earth and Moon.
Chang’e-7 and -8 missions will involve inviting relevant countries and agencies to work together to study the feasibility of building a permanent moon base. The CNSA and scientists are mulling over launching Chang’e-6 sample return mission during China’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25); the landing site could be the lunar south pole or far side of the Earth’s natural satellite.
Junior soldiers were told to get their first kill by shooting prisoners, in a practice known as “blooding”
Weapons and other items were planted near Afghan bodies to cover up crimes
An additional two incidents could constitute a war crime of “cruel treatment”
In recent years, a series often-brutal accounts have emerged about the conduct of elite special forces units – ranging from reports of troops killing a six-year-old child in a house raid, to a prisoner being shot dead to save space in a helicopter.
Another incident involved two 14-year-old boys who were stopped by SAS, who decided they might be Taliban sympathisers.
The boy’s throats were allegedly slit and their bodies bagged and thrown in a nearby river.
NINE Australian troops – including one female soldier – take their own lives in just three weeks amid fallout from bombshell report exposing ‘war crimes’ in Afghanistan. At least 56 veterans have committed suicide since this year alone, up from 40 in 2019.
No senior officers investigated or punished. The dead soldiers cannot testify and the investigation will take years.
