Black-headed Munia Lonchura malacca atricapilla – Juvenile
Rooftop 12-3-20
Black-headed Munia Lonchura malacca atricapilla – Juvenile
Black-headed Munia Lonchura malacca atricapilla – Juvenile
Huawei’s First Chip Manufacturing Plant Completes Construction
This factory will be directly managed by a Shanghai-based R&D company on behalf of Huawei, and will not use any technology from the United States.
According to the plan, the factory will start producing 45 nm chipsets by the end of 2021, and go to 28 nm lithography technology. It will strive to use advanced processes below 20nm in 2022 to manufacture chips dedicated to serving its telecommunications products.
Bad boy, bad boy, what you going to do when they come for you?
- Hong Kong secessionist Joshua Wong was sentenced on Wed to 13.5 months in prison on two charges related to the siege of police headquarters in June 2019. Fellow secessionist Agnes Chow received 10 months, and Ivan Lam 7 months.
- Former opposition lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung has revealed he is seeking exile in Britain, ending days of speculation that he had fled Hong Kong, where he faces a raft of criminal charges stemming from last year’s anti-government protests.
- Jimmy Lai was denied bail possibly due to risks of fleeing HK, observers say, but legal experts cautiously optimistic about how Hong Kong’s judicial system can improve handling of secessionists.
Iconic Arecibo Observatory telescope collapses
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 12-1-20
Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to a meeting held by the UN on Tuesday to observe the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Monkey
Two years on, arrest of Huawei exec Meng Wanzhou in Canada still clouds its trade ties with China. From canola, pork to forest products, Canada has seen sliding exports in the Chinese market over the past two years.
China’s trade with Canada dropped by 2.3% y-o-y in the first 11 months, with imports from Canada down by 22.2%, as bilateral ties further deteriorated
Canadian canola still finding its way to China, keeping farmers busy with steady demand.
Strong Canadian pork exports driven by Chinese demand
China buys bug-infested spruce from Germany, spurning Canada
Canada’s Teck looks to boost Chinese coal sales amid stalled Australian shipments
Wheat
Pork
motor vehicles
wood pulp
natural gas
oil
Chang’e-5 moon success
As of 4:53 am Wednesday, the Chang’e-5 probe’s lander-ascender combination had completed drilling the moon surface and sealed its collected samples.
roscosmos and the European Space Agency esa sent congratulations to China on Chang’e-5’s successful moon landing, after the probe touched down on planned location in Oceanus Procellarum on Tuesday evening.
Cosmochemist and geochemist Ouyang Ziyuan 欧阳自远 from the Chinese Academy of Sciences who is now in charge of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program has already stated on many occasions that one of the main goals of the program would be the mining of helium-3, from which operation “each year, three space shuttle missions could bring enough fuel for all human beings across the world.”
The Chang’e-5 probe, comprising an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and a returner, was launched on Nov. 24, and its lander-ascender combination touched down on the north of the Mons Rumker in Oceanus Procellarum, also known as the Ocean of Storms, on the near side of the moon on Dec. 1. After the samples were collected and sealed, the ascender of Chang’e-5 took off from the lunar surface on Dec. 3. Next, the orbiter-returner will separate from the ascender, and wait for the right time to return to Earth.
12-8-20 The ascender of China’s Chang’e-5 lunar probe carried out deorbiting on Tuesday at 6:59 am and landed on the preset landing area on the moon’s surface at 7:30 am in a controlled manner.
12-16-20 ChangE5 orbiter-returner combo successfully conducted second course correction at the moon-Earth transfer orbit on Wed 9:15 am.
12-17-20 Carrying around 2 kilograms of lunar samples, China’s Change5 lunar probe safely landed in the designated area in North China at 1:59 am on Thursday, bringing the craft’s epic round trip between Earth and Moon.
Chang’e-7 and -8 missions will involve inviting relevant countries and agencies to work together to study the feasibility of building a permanent moon base.
The CNSA and scientists are mulling over launching Chang’e-6 sample return mission during China’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25); the landing site could be the lunar south pole or far side of the Earth’s natural satellite.
Aussies peace
- Junior soldiers were told to get their first kill by shooting prisoners, in a practice known as “blooding”
- Weapons and other items were planted near Afghan bodies to cover up crimes
- An additional two incidents could constitute a war crime of “cruel treatment”
- In recent years, a series often-brutal accounts have emerged about the conduct of elite special forces units – ranging from reports of troops killing a six-year-old child in a house raid, to a prisoner being shot dead to save space in a helicopter.
- Another incident involved two 14-year-old boys who were stopped by SAS, who decided they might be Taliban sympathisers.
- The boy’s throats were allegedly slit and their bodies bagged and thrown in a nearby river.
- NINE Australian troops – including one female soldier – take their own lives in just three weeks amid fallout from bombshell report exposing ‘war crimes’ in Afghanistan. At least 56 veterans have committed suicide since this year alone, up from 40 in 2019.
- No senior officers investigated or punished. The dead soldiers cannot testify and the investigation will take years.
Day hike to Kung Um Shan 11-30-20
Sanctions on four Americans
Chinese FM announced sanctions on four Americans as countermeasures against earlier US sanctions on Chinese officials over Hong Kong, including NED senior director John Knaus and NDI regional director Manpreet Anand, Rosario, Director of the Hong Kong Chapter, and Xue De-Oo, Director of Programs and urged US to stop interfering in China’s internal affairs. 中方决定对在涉港问题上表现恶劣的美国国家民族基金会亚洲事务高级主任约翰·克劳斯，美国国际事务民主协会亚洲项目负责人阿南德、香港分部主任罗萨里奥、项目主任薛德敖等4人实施制裁。