Unisoc (Chinese: 紫光展锐), formerly Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (Chinese: 展讯通信有限公司; is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Shanghai which produces chipsets for mobile phones.
Unisoc has research centres in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Xiamen, United States, Finland and India, technical support centre in Shenzhen, and international field support offices in South Korea, Taiwan and Mexico. Its products support a broad range of wireless communications standards, including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, TD-SCDMA, W-CDMA, HSPA+ and TD-LTE.
The company originally produced chips for GSM handsets, but most of its resources are now focused on the Chinese TD-SCDMA 3G standard. In addition to GSM and combined GSM/TD-SCDMA baseband chipsets, Spreadtrum also supplies chips for two Chinese mobile TV standards: TD-MBMS and CMMB. Spreadtrum’s customers accounted for 50% of TD-SCDMA handset sales in China Mobile’s current round of TD-SCDMA trials.
China’s new-generation space-borne Internet-of-Things (IoT) project codenamed Xingyun-2 has successfully completed the communication link between the first two satellites in the network, marking a historical first in the country’s IoT space network, the Global Times learned from the developer on Thursday.
Technological testing for the laser communication payloads onboard the two satellites of the Xingyun-2 星云2 project achieved success, the project developer team with the LEOBIT Technology Co 莱奥比特科技公司 of the Wuhan-based Sanjiang Group, a subsidiary under the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC).
The two satellites coded Xingyun-2 01 and 02 are the first two satellites of the network and they were launched on May 12 by the country’s Kuaizhou-1A commercial carrier rocket, which was developed by the Wuhan-based Sanjiang Group. And in-orbit tests have been in process ever since.
“Having successfully built communication link between the two satellites, all core technological tests for the spacecraft have been fully conducted,” the developer told the Global Times in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
Inter-satellite laser communication technology is to use laser beam to convey information in the forms of such as image, audio and signals, in space, in a high-speed fashion and with a strong interference-resistance capability.
By adopting such inter-satellite communication technology, the satellite constellation can reduce dependence on ground stations, saving the cost of building such ground facility, and at the same time, enabling the space-based network to cover larger areas to achieve global measuring and controlling capability.
The US reconnaissance aircrafts have repeatedly approached the Chinese mainland for reconnaissance.
U.S. warships cross the Taiwan Strait.
The scurrying of senior United States officials to Taiwan.
US selling weapons to Taiwan
Air Force Colonel Zhang Chunhui 张春晖, spokesman for the Eastern Theater of Operations , said the PLA has recently mobilized troops from multiple services in multiple directions and systems, organizing continuous combat exercises in the Taiwan Strait and at the north and south ends to further test and enhance the joint combat capabilities of multiple services.
Recently, a certain major country has continued to make negative moves on Taiwan-related issues, sending a serious wrong signal to the “Taiwan Secession” forces and seriously threatening peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan is a sacred and inalienable part of China’s territory, and the patrols and training activities organized by the theatre forces are necessary to address the current security situation in the Taiwan Strait and the need to safeguard national sovereignty. The theater forces will remain on high alert at all times, take all necessary measures, resolutely respond to all provocative acts that create “Taiwan Secession ” and divide the country, and resolutely defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China.
This exercise no longer emphasized that “it does not target specific countries or regions”, but directly stated that a certain major country has sent a serious wrong signal to the “Taiwan Secession ” forces, and we will take necessary actions.
Military commentator Song Zhongping宋忠平 said that the Taiwan exercises highly targets, which will make the ” Taiwan Secession ” activists and extra-territorial forces understand that the PLA is not ambiguous on the Taiwan issue and has no room for bargaining. The root cause of the Taiwan issue is that the ” Taiwan Secession ” forces, with the connivance of the United States and other extraterritorial countries, may take desperate risks. Now that we have found the focus of the conflict, we should point it out clearly to discourage and deter the “Taiwan Secession ” forces from acting wilfully. Otherwise, the PLA will follow the anti-secession law to resolve the Taiwan Sea issue along with the issue of extraterritorial countries interfering in China’s internal affairs.
It is self-evident who the ” extraterritorial country ” refer to.
On the 12th, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration’s so-called “representative in the United States” Xiao Meiqin萧美琴 declared that Taiwan is in discussions with the United States on military purchases, including “coast guard cruise missile systems” (CDCM) and smart mines are among the discussions.
After the arrest of the ringleader of the HK rebellion, Jimmy Lai黎智英 , Tsai Ing-wen stated before the regular meeting of the DPP on 12th that the mainland had “directly infringed upon the foundations of freedom, human rights and the rule of law in Hong Kong through Hong Kong’s national security laws”, and declared that the DPP would keep its promise to “continue to provide the necessary humanitarian assistance to the people of Hong Kong”.
DPP authorities leaders also videotaped a speech at a U.S. think tank video conference, using “freedom and democracy” as an excuse, claiming that will strengthen relations between Taiwan and the United States.
U.S. recently flipped the Taiwan card: the U.S. Secretary of Health Alex Azar visit Taiwan, the U.S. intends to sell at least four advanced drones – “Sea Guardian” to Taiwan . This type of drone, can detect the PLA’s military movements real-time , including the deployment of troops in and out of key waterways, this is a threat to the PLA. In addition, the U.S. is also hoping that Taiwan will pay for its own intelligence-gathering.
Sea Guardian
“These drones, flying non-stop on a regular basis, pose a threat with the reconnaissance of PLA’s troop deployments. However, the PLA has the ability to capture or destroy them, the threat will cease to exist,” Song Zhongping.
What’s more important than deterrence?
As a matter of fact, the Chinese army had held several live exercises in the Taiwan Sea in 1996, 2015 and 2018. Each exercise coincided with the United States playing the “Taiwan card”. The difference is that over time, the PLA’s strength is not the same from that of the past.
The statement on the Taiwan Sea drill also clearly indicates the location and deployment of troops: a multi-discipline, multi-regional system of troops, the continuous organization of combat exercises in the Taiwan Strait and the north and south ends.
Song Zhongping stressed that this information is crucial. The so-called Multi-Mission system, is the key embodiment of joint warfare, and the PLA is one of the few armies in the world with a Multi-Mission combat capability.
The same is true when focusing on the Eastern Theater of operations that participated in the exercise. Song Zhongping said the Eastern Theater Joint Battle Command will assemble and mobilize the land, sea, air and rocket forces of multiple forces throughout the Eastern Theater jurisdiction together. “The Eastern Theater is doing such a series of exercises to enhance the preparation for military struggle against Taiwan, especially to target strong enemy intervention.”
At the same time, Song Zhongping believes that this military exercise has a strong significance, the exercise field includes the Taiwan Strait and the north and south ends, forming a “Territorial Military Exercise” against Taiwan specifically. In addition, he mentioned that in addition to deterrence, the more important role of the actual military exercises is to survey military projection in accordance with the actual battle plan, and rehearse in a real environment.
The European Union delegation sent a “note of protest” to the United States State Department during the videoconference, but the report does not mention the level of the protest or which three countries refused to join the protest. European diplomatic sources said, “We can confirm that the EU Delegation took diplomatic action against the US sanctions policy at a meeting with the US State Department on August 12, which was held in video format with the participation of 24 member states.”
In terms of content, the protest note reiterates the statement made by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Borrelli on 17 July about the sanctions imposed by the United States against European companies, including those involved in the Nord Stream-2 and Turkey Creek projects. The EU is deeply concerned by the increasing frequency of such sanctions. EU countries consider the extraterritorial sanctions to be a violation of international law. On 11 August, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas expressed his disagreement with the extraterritorial restrictions imposed by the United States on the Nord Stream-2 project, noting that decisions on European energy policy were made jointly by European countries and in Brussels. EU can decide independently where to buy energy.
Urmas Reinsalu
However, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu said in a media interview that the US plan to impose sanctions on European companies involved in the Nord Stream-2 project is in Estonia’s interests. He noted that there is no consensus within the European countries on the construction of the gas pipeline, but Estonia agrees with the initiative taken by the United States. He added that he understood the logic of the United States. On August 5, several U.S. senators ( Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin ) demanded that Faehrhafen Sassnitz , the German operator of Port Mukran on the island of Rügen, (the logistical hub for the completion of the pipeline) stops supporting the construction of the Nord Stream-2 pipeline, otherwise the United States will financially “destroy” the company. They threatened Port Mukran with “crushing” economic and legal sanctions if it continued to allow ships to be equipped for the pipeline project.
“The Nord Stream-2 project plans to build a gas pipeline with an annual capacity of 55 billion cubic meters from the Russian coast across the Baltic Sea to Germany, supplying gas directly to Europe. Most EU countries support the project and are involved in its implementation. The United States, the Baltic States, Ukraine and Poland oppose it. Ukraine and Poland insist that the Baltic Sea pipeline will mean they lose out on billions in transit fees from the pipelines that run through their countries.
The 1,800-hectare facility, called Porto Central, is located in the coastal town of Presidente Kennedy, in southeast Espirito Santo state, on the border with neighboring Rio de Janeiro state.
At a seminar organized Tuesday by China’s Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro, the general director of Porto Central, Jose Maria Novaes, invited Chinese companies to join the project and make use of the port, designed to be South America’s most modern, when it opens in late 2023.
“Asia, particularly China, is Brazil’s largest trading partner, and this international trade flow, mainly of commodities from Brazil to Asia and industrialized products from Asia to Brazil, requires large ships” that few Brazilian ports can now accommodate, noted Novaes.
“There are few ports in Brazil capable of loading and unloading the world’s great ships. That is the differential of the Porto Central project: being able to receive the world’s largest ships, in each class, at each port terminal,” he said.
The port will feature a series of terminals, an internal channel with gradually decreasing water depth for ships sailing in, and 13 docks for ships carrying liquids, said Novaes.
“It is an industrial port enabling water, energy and gas at competitive prices, with terminals for the export of raw materials and semi-finished products, and with the flexibility to accommodate the interests of project developers,” he added.
Joe Biden’s naming of Kamala Harris 贺锦丽 as running mate is a move to use her background to topple Donald Trump, but based on her previous tough stance, the nominee won’t help end the two parties’ playing of the China card.
Harris is the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father, and is the second African-American woman and first South Asian-American senator in history. She is the first African American and first Indian American to be chosen as the running mate of a major party’s presidential candidate.
Sen. Kamala Harris Introduces China First Bill To Condemn References To The China Virus 05/26/2020.
According to Kamala Harris, China steals intellectual property and ships “substandard” products to the U.S. Harris says that China must be held accountable but disagrees with the tariffs set in place by the Trump administration.
Harris wants China’s cooperation in fighting climate change and handling relations with North Korea.
Harris Urge Pompeo To Take Immediate Action To Cease Genocidal Campaign Against Minority Women In China.
When Biden will pass after winning the Nov election, Harris will step in to become POTUS.
