Nigeria’s military has taken delivery of VT-4 main battle tanks, SH-5 self-propelled howitzers and other equipment from China in an effort to strengthen its land forces in the battle against Boko Haram militants.
The equipment was acquired from China’s Norinco after being ordered last year under an apparent $152 million contract.
The equipment was unloaded on 8 April and included VT-4 main battle tanks, SH5 105 mm self-propelled artillery and other items.
Although China’s bearing industry has developed rapidly for many years, it has now become the third largest bearing country in the world in terms of bearing output and sales, but the key technology areas still need to be strengthened, especially the gap between the aerospace bearing technology and the first bearing is obvious.
It is speculated that hybrid ceramic bearings have been initially applied in the field of China’s new turbofan 15 aero engine and transmission.
Countdown to the reopening of this heroic city! A dazzling light show was put on at the Second Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge on Monday night, commemorating the great efforts Wuhan has made to combat the COVID19 and celbrating the upcoming Apr 8, on which day the city will completely lift its travel restrictions.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/revolution-only-getting-started/609463/?fbclid=IwAR32f–d777VxAReNBuTYHsrSfEUFripvl0brT6rLROOGpfYw074ZHCbFiA
Analogies between the first months of the French Revolution and our current moment are easy to draw. Anthony Fauci, the infectious-diseases expert whom President Donald Trump often sidelines or ignores, is Jacques Necker, the popular finance minister to Louis XVI. Necker’s firing in early July 1789 was viewed widely as a calamity: “It was like losing your father,” the mathematician and astronomer Jean Sylvain Bailly wrote in his memoirs. The recent spike in American gun and ammunition sales recalls the Parisians who stormed the Bastille Fortress in the hope of finding weapons and gunpowder. (They incidentally released a handful of individuals imprisoned there, but that was not the crowd’s original intent.) The conflict among city, state, and federal officials over coronavirus-related closures directly parallels 1789’s municipal revolutions, in which some cities had leaders who quickly proclaimed devotion to the new National Assembly, while the leaders of other cities remained loyal to the old structures of absolutist royal power and the mayors and aldermen of yet others were violently deposed.
自强不息，厚德载物
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A Venezuelan navy coastal patrol boat sank in the Caribbean after allegedly ramming a cruise ship that it had ordered to change direction.
The owners of the Portuguese-flagged RCGS Resolute said the naval vessel Naiguata also fired shots in an “act of aggression in international waters”.
The collision left the cruise ship, which has a reinforced hull for sailing in icy waters, with only minor damage.
Venezuela accused the Resolute of an act of “aggression and piracy”.
It also said it “did not rule out” that the cruise ship “was transporting mercenaries to attack military bases in Venezuela”.
President Nicolás Maduro has previously accused the United States and other countries of plotting to overthrow him.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/eus-instex-mechanism-facilitates-first-transaction-with-pandemic-hit-iran/?fbclid=IwAR0Isq677PB3wo_ePLeQWrUxSCuWRjogy7liaEkNsKnTZMqidwh0qIfrQ-o The EU-Iran trading mechanism INSTEX, designed to allow Europeans to bypass US sanctions and continue trade with Tehran, has successfully concluded its first transaction. However, the humanitarian deal actually doesn’t appear to contravene EU sanctions.
France, Germany and the UK confirmed on Tuesday (31 March) that INSTEX has successfully concluded its first transaction to facilitate the export of medical goods from Europe to the pandemic-hit country.
Iran’s economy has been battered since May 2018 when US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the 2015 nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – signed by Iran, China, France, Germany, Russia, UK, US, Germany – and reimposed sanctions on Tehran.
