Nepal and China, the two countries that share a border on Mount Everest, announced a new official measurement of the mountain’s height on Tuesday: 8,848.86 meters, or 29,031.69 feet.
Mount Everest new height
Day hike to Tai Lam 12-9-20
咖啡灣 黃金泳灘 愛琴海岸 星堤 掃管笏
门联为“颖川献瑞，凤卜传芳”
祠内有二功名牌匾，其一为“光绪十八年壬辰科殿试，钦点探花及第，臣陈伯陶恭”；另一为“光绪二年，钦点户部主政，丙子科第十七名进士臣陈嘉谟恭”
Hair-crested drongo (Dicrurus hottentottus） 发冠卷尾
Indonesia received first batch of 1.2 million COVID19 vaccines
12-7-20 Indonesia received first batch of 1.2 million COVID19 vaccines from China’s Sinovac after close “hour by hour” communication in past weeks. Further packages of Chinese vaccine concentration are expected to arrive in December and January.
China is ready for Trump’s mad exit
The Trump administration is frantically using the last forty days of its term to provoke China, and some believe that it is not worth it to fight his team now, and that it is better to be patient. This is a dangerous strategy. Because if they think we will endure, they will be more and more reckless and will do things that will seriously harm China’s national interests and will set an example for future Biden administrations to follow.
We must be resolute in combating the arrogance of the Trump team, and not be afraid to engage in a high-intensity confrontation with them if they crosses the red line.
Recently, there have been various speculations that the Trump team may make a big move against the Taiwan issue at the last moment before leaving office, including sending Pompeo to Taiwan, or even Trump himself making a lightning visit to Taiwan and announcing the establishment of diplomatic relations with Taiwan, etc. The recent visit of Asia-Pacific intelligence officials to Taiwan was a front-runner. In that case, our response would have to be thunderous to kill the DPP authorities who cooperated with the Trump administration in doing so. As the lightest option, we would have to send fighter jets to fly over the island and, depending on the severity of the situation, declare China’s sovereignty by flying either a general overflight of the island or an ultra-low altitude flight in Taipei, which would be a heavy blow to U.S.-Taiwan arrogance.
We need to have full confidence that the Trump team, though acting crazy now, is at its weakest and least supported before it leaves office. The world can see that they are undermining U.S.-China relations in an unprecedented, anti-regulation way, trying to lay down a tougher line on China for the next U.S. administration. This is their attempt to dominate U.S. national strategy across the term, and it is a serious disruption of the normal transition of power.
Internationally, the Trump administration is provoking China, and this judgment can be made at a glance. A visit to Taiwan by Pompeo and above would be a gross violation of the one-China principle, which will never be accepted by Beijing, and which is expected by the world. The world will have some understanding of the strong reaction of mainland China at this time.
Therefore, we are not afraid of a serious crisis in the Taiwan Strait at this time, let our warplanes fly over the island of Taiwan, we will form a counterattack against the U.S. and Taiwan to break their moral self-righteousness, the Taiwan army does not dare to open fire on the PLA planes, once they open fire, it means the outbreak of war, our military can immediately carry out a devastating blow to the Taiwanese military airfield and other important military facilities.
Our army is well prepared for such a military struggle, and the entire nation will certainly share the same hatred for the enemy. Taiwan’s morale will quickly disintegrate, while the U.S. side will find it difficult to gain the support of the entire U.S. society that is needed for a high-intensity confrontation between the U.S. and China, as this is an unorthodox operation by Trump before he leaves office, with obvious one-party self-interest and the small-circle ambitions of his ruling team. The end result of this conflict will surely be a victory for our side and a gloomy farewell to power for the Trump team.
We need to take it easy and let nature take its course. The current bad situation in U.S.-China relations is not what we want to see. However, if there is no way to avoid disaster, and we need to face the storm that the Trump administration is stirring up in its finale .
China is a nuclear power, a space power, we have ample combat power near the first island chain, and a strong counter-intervention capability. Win this fight and we will achieve a new level of foreign authority.
- 12-6-20 U.S. Navy “Makin Island” Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) Enters South China Sea. The amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD-8) and the dock landing ship USS Somerset (LPD-25) entered the South China Sea, one north and one south, respectively.
- 解放军军机今早一连3架次进入台西南空域。解放军军机本月累计进入台西南空域7天，也是连续第11天进入台西南空域。
- PLA warships recently conducted real scenario-oriented exercises in the South China Sea, media reported on Monday, a day after the US sailed warships into the region on Sunday.
Gaofen-14
China launched Gaofen-14, an optical satellite, onboard the Long March 3B carrier rocket on Sunday 11:58 am from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in SW China’s Sichuan Province.
Why Changbai Shan Is So Unusual
Egypt and China Building for the Future
https://www.mei.edu/publications/towering-ambitions-egypt-and-china-building-future
- Central Business District (CBD) of the country’s New Administrative Capital
- Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone (SETC-Zone)
- electric vehicle sector
- a light rail network connecting Cairo with surrounding districts
- Ain Sokhna refinery project
- high-speed electric railway between Ain Sokhna and El Alamein
- container terminal inside the Abu Qir Naval Base, on the central Mediterranean coast.
- three solar power stations at the Benban Solar Energy Park in the southern governorate of Aswan
- an industrial complex for the production of solar panels
- African hub for manufacturing a Covid-19 vaccine. 12-11-20 Egypt is negotiating with relevant Chinese companies for the local mass production of China’s new coronavirus vaccine, Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed . Egypt is negotiating financially over the cost of obtaining a production license.
- national roads project
First ArF photoresist production line
The first ArF photoresist production line by Nanda Optoelectronics has been officially put into production. It is estimated that the annual sales will reach 1 billion yuan after the project is fully operational.
Photoresist 光刻胶 is the core material for the production of integrated circuits, which mainly plays the role of “transferring the designed image from the template to the appropriate position on the wafer surface”. Therefore, the quality and performance of the photoresist have an important impact on the final product and performance of the chip. High-end types such as ArF photoresist almost rely 100% on imports.
The criteria for hypersonic airbreathing propulsion and its experimental verification
It is the first time to verify the oblique detonation engine concept successfully with wind tunnel tests and the standing oblique detonation undergoes the initiation, transition and full-developed stages. The experiments also demonstrated well the criteria proposed in this paper. According to research progresses on oblique detonation engines, the Sodramjet engine is very promising for hypersonic airbreathing propulsion because that the engine system is simple in its structure, efficient in the thermo-cycle, broad in its operation Mach number range and low in aerothermodynamic heating load.
India out, Indonesia in.
Chinese venture capitalists are shifting their investment focus to Indonesia, where technology investments have jumped 55% in the first half of 2020. Indonesia and India, the largest and most important economies in Southeast and South Asia respectively, are important investment destinations for Chinese companies. However, Chinese experts and scholars interviewed by the Global Times reminded Chinese companies to take advantage of the lessons learned in the Indian market, invest in Indonesia with a cautious attitude, conduct site visits in advance before entering the market, and take a step-by-step approach to avoid making large-scale acquisitions in a hurry.