https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1252849555462189056 Southern Xinjiang’s Aksu plans to build 1,175 5G base stations in 2020 to provide extensive 5G coverage there. By the end of 2021, a total of 2,300 5G base stations will be constructed, enabling more applications in big data, AI, and cloud computing.
Huawei will reportedly launch on April 24 a new DC fast-charging module product, which will act as a solution to NEV charging infrastructures.
The upcoming solution, dubbed “Huawei HiCharger”, has partnered with several Chinese companies, such as State Grid, Star Charge, China Southern Power Grid Electric Vehicle Service Co.,Ltd., Huashang Sanyou, Titans as well as Dalian Luobinsen, according to a local media outlet.
The release of HiCharger signals Huawei’s beginning of the offensive into NEV charging domain. The leading smart device supplier has repeated in the public its ambition to be a core “increment parts” supplier for intelligent-connected vehicle (ICV) rather than a car manufacturer.
https://uic.org/com/enews/687/article/china-china-laos-railway-construction-fully-resumes-of-international-corridor
China-Laos Railway (Vientiane–Boten Railway): Construction fully resumes of international corridor. A key tunnel on the China-Laos Railway (China section) was completed on 4-19-20 morning after three years and eight months of construction. The 4.6-km-long tunnel has a supersized cross-section, reserved space for an additional railway line in the future.
At present, construction has been resumed in all work sites of Yuxi-Mohan Railway, with 22,896 workers on duty, an increase of 21% over the number before the Spring Festival. On 15 February, the Lixin Tunnel was successfully created, and on 13 March, Wanhe Tunnel, the first 10,000-m long tunnel in the whole railway was successfully bored. The boring-through of Malizhai Tunnel on 15 March has played a positive role in promoting the full resumption of the whole railway’s normal construction. As of 25 March, the total investment for Yuxi-Mohan Railway had reached RMB 37.1 billion, and 93%, 80% and 86% of subgrade, bridge and tunnel works on the railway had been completed.
Jiangnan Shipbuilding 江南造船 build large liquefied gas ship delivered in Shanghai 4-17-20, first delivery after the virus outbreak. The ship is a new generation of ultra-large liquefied gas vessel designed by Jiangnan Shipbuilding, with a total design length of 230.0 meters, width of 36.6 meters, depth of 22.2 meters and capacity of 84,000 cubic meters, which is classified by Lloyd’s Register to meet the relevant requirements of the latest IMO regulations.
The Russian Foreign Ministry, in her words, notes the United States’ bigger biological presence beyond its borders, in particular in former Soviet republics.
“We cannot rule out that the Americans use such reference laboratories in third countries to develop and modify various pathogenic agents, including in military purposes,” she commented.
The diplomat recalled that the Richard Lugar Center for Public Health Research in Tbilisi, a Georgia-based US biological laboratory, is an official part of the US military system of global infectious diseases control. “Moreover, according to recent reports, top-ranking Pentagon officials have recently visited it to offer the Georgian authorities to expand the range of research,” she noted.
Canada is in this racket this big time. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/death-lab-how-a-revolution-destroyed-canadas-30m-plan-to-build-a-high-security-bio-lab-in-kyrgyzstan?fbclid=IwAR3cLe3sBGIo20qRFFzHTIajbqPKG2T1t-abdV4sMR8WBPO0yHD6MCMK508
Ukrainian opposition urges probe into US biolaboratories in Ukraine 4-18-20 https://tass.com/world/1145423 In 2009, a virus caused a hotbed of hemorrhagic pneumonia, which claimed 450 lives. In 2011, Ukraine saw an outbreak of cholera, with 33 patients taken to hospital. Three years later another 800 patients were diagnosed with cholera. One year later more than 100 cases of cholera were identified in Nikolayev.
In January 2016, at least 20 military servicemen died of a flu-like virus. Another 200 people were taken to the hospital. Two months later 364 died in Ukraine of the swine fever virus A (H1N1) pdm09, the very same strain that caused the 2009 pandemic, Medvedchuk and Kuzmin say. They recall that an outbreak of hepatitis A occurred in Nikolayev in 2017. Another one followed in the summer of that year in Zaporozhie and Odessa, one more in the autumn in Kharkov.
The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee will release a proposal Thursday to formally create a new fund to counter Chinese actions in the Pacific, Defense News has learned.
Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, is calling for the creation of an Indo-Pacific Deterrence Initiative (IPDI), with a $6.09 billion invest in fiscal year 2021. The fund would be based on the European Deterrence Initiative, a special DoD fund for projects focused on deterring Russia that was set up in the wake of the annexation of Crimea.
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“The Indo-Pacific has been called our highest priority theater and I believe that is true. It is time to put our money where our mouth is,” Thornberry told Defense News. “This effort consolidates and funds the policies, infrastructure, and platforms needed to reassure our allies and partners while we deter China. It also serves as a benchmark against which we can judge our efforts in the region. We may not be able to get this all done this year, but it is vital that we make a start.
Global Mercy™, is the world’s largest purpose-built civilian hospital ship, capable of more than doubling our surgical and training capacity. Over her 50 year expected lifespan, more than 150,000 lives are estimated to be changed onboard through surgery alone!
Construction is being done by China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) at the Tianjin Xingang Shipyard, Tianjin, China and is due to be completed in 2020. https://www.mercyships.org/who-we-are/our-ships/the-global-mercy/?fbclid=IwAR0Cm5liS5AdsDSH4QPMgo3u0u4tW-ksCL5gfc0hRDc4Bo9Gukr_Pgq0IHY
