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Huawei said to tap NEV charging field by launching “HiCharger” DC fast-charging module

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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.

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China-Laos Railway: Construction fully resumes of international corridor

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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.

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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.

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China-Laos railway completes beam setting of 1st cross-Mekong River bridge 4-24-20
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Jiangnan Shipbuilding build large liquefied gas ship delivered in Shanghai

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.

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US labs in third countries may be developing pathogenic agents

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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.

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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.

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Thornberry wants $6 billion this year to launch counter-China fund

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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.

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Global Mercy is the world’s largest purpose-built civilian hospital ship

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

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China-US relations will no longer be the same

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1185584.shtml?fbclid=IwAR1SVO3JlFJn2GfEI2C5eyieNyJTBEy3e8QYa8TuTljkxgiMDFRxtmDPSoc It is beyond the Chinese people’s imagination that China-US relations have become what they are today. The epidemic outbreak brings new shocks, and the turbulence in relations between the two countries is likely to be more severe. No one in China wants that.

Some held the view that China brought this on itself. Those people said China should fully demonstrate its goodwill toward the US and make major concessions in the hope of regaining the trust of the US and putting the relationship back on track.

Those people are so naïve to believe that it is China that has ruined the China-US relationship and as long as China fundamentally changes its attitude, bilateral ties can improve significantly. There are profound and complex reasons for the deterioration of China-US relations. The biggest driving force behind the change in US attitude toward China is the constant change of the strength pattern between China and the US. The US does not accept the possibility of China becoming a parallel and equal force. This is the fundamental reason.

Many people say that in the 1980s, the relationship between China and the US was so good. Why can’t that atmosphere be recovered? In the 1980s the Soviet Union was the No.1 enemy of the US, and a weak China at that time was the one the US was trying to win over. China’s strategic position was as comfortable as India’s is today, and the US adopted a broadly supportive policy towards China. Today, the situation is quite different. A stronger China is seen by Washington as its top strategic rival, and some US politicians are even thinking of roping in Russia to contain China. 

If, as they imagine, the US were to return to its old attitude towards China, the first thing China needs to do is to turn back the clock of development by more than 20 years, and go further to reassure the US. This means that China must first stop its high-tech progress and let the US take the lead in all-round scientific and technological development. China has to focus only on low-end industries, unable to compete with the US and the West in high-end manufacturing.

These are not enough. It also means that China needs to fully accept US dominance over the Taiwan question. China should also accept international arbitration on the South China Sea issue and dismantle its new facilities on Nansha Islands. Beijing will have to accept the arrangement of Washington over questions of Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong of China.

Ultimately, the US would also demand that China impose significant self-limits on its development of nuclear weapons and strategic strike capabilities.

Do you think China can back down on these issues? And where does this end? Did the US let Russia off the hook after the collapse of the Soviet Union? No. Russia inherited the Soviet nuclear weapons, which did not reassure the US. The US has spared no effort to further weaken Russia and squeeze its strategic space.

What the US really wants to do is weaken China so that it completely loses its strategic competitiveness against the US. The US won’t stop until China is brought to its knees and crippled.

Unfortunately, US strategic vigilance against China is fully activated and the reality is that we can’t go back.

It’s meaningless to look back at the old China-US relations. We have to look forward with the strength of realism, accept the challenges we will face as a great power, and meet the challenges of the future with new will and wisdom.

China’s endurance is no longer the same as it was 20 or 30 years ago. We have a unique Chinese philosophy of resistance to pressure. We will not become a second Soviet Union, nor will we provoke the antagonism and confrontation between China and the US from our side. China ‘s way of safeguarding its core interests will be brand new, and we need to surprise history.