80% of the construction of the 1,117.5-meter cable-stayed bridge on Nanshagang Railway南沙港铁路 linking 4 cities江门、中山、佛山及广州 in S. China’s Guangdong was finished on Wed. The main span of the bridge is 600 meters, with double-line freight railways, making it the largest of its type in the world.
全国人民代表大会关于建立健全香港特别行政区维护国家安全的法律制度和执行机制的决定
十三届全国人大三次会议审议《全国人民代表大会关于建立健全香港特别行政区维护国家安全的法律制度和执行机制的决定（草案）》。国家出手救港，这是堵塞香港国家安全法律漏洞、让香港尽快走上正轨的必要之举，也是确保“一国两制”行稳致远的治本之策。
违法者得不到惩戒，是香港法治之殇。修例风波以来，香港公共安全遭受严峻挑战，几乎陷入无法无天的境地，但乱港暴徒依然有恃无恐，只因香港司法一再上演令人费解的判决：被控“暴动罪”疑犯可用1000港元保释；撕毁、焚烧和践踏国旗的暴徒仅判处240小时社会服务令；众所周知的“港独”组织头目黄之锋只被控“煽惑他人参与未经批准集结罪”……类似事件无疑在传递“无须为暴行负责”这类荒唐的信号！
今日之香港，不仅要依靠警方严正执法，更要有法可依，让妄图“揽炒”香港社会的极端“港独”分子付出应得的代价。“港独”势力气焰嚣张，是国家主权之患。在“港独”和本土激进势力的蛊惑下，一些青年公然危害国家安全，所作所为令人发指。另一些人甘当民族败类，恬不知耻地乞求外国干预香港事务，“叛国乱港四人帮”之首的黎智英更多次公开宣称“为美国而战”。如此赤裸恶劣的反中卖港行径却无足够法律及机制约束。这在当今世界，也恐怕闻所未闻！补上香港维护国家安全立法的“短板”，是对反中乱港势力从事破坏国家统一、分裂国家活动的坚决遏制。
斩断外部势力插手干预的“黑手”，也是不容回避的问题。以美国为代表的某些西方势力原本通过代理人遮遮掩掩插手香港事务，如今撕破脸皮走到前台，多次对特区立法和司法机构依法履职说三道四，极力美化和怂恿极端分子的违法犯罪行为，甚至以香港为据点大肆从事危害我国国家安全的活动。众目昭彰，岂能容忍如此猖狂干涉？
国家此次下定决心出手救港，以立法方式堵塞国家安全的漏洞，也再次向国际社会表明，中国政府维护国家安全、维护香港大局稳定、维护香港同胞根本福祉的决心和意志坚定不移。
香港不能再乱下去了！广大香港市民越来越清楚，极端激进分子不断升级黑色暴力，反中乱港势力大肆鼓吹“港独”，外部势力公然干预香港事务，不仅严重挑战“一国两制”原则底线，更严重危害国家主权、统一和领土完整，他们是想把香港变成颠覆中国、分裂祖国的“战场”！善良的香港市民决不会上这些人的贼船。
防范、制止和依法惩治任何危害国家安全的行为，为“一国两制”行稳致远筑牢制度根基，这是“港版国安法”立法的初衷。国家出手救港，就是为了维护香港市民的根本福祉。只有国家安全根基牢固，社会大局稳定，才能保障“一国两制”不走样、不变形，保持“马照跑、舞照跳”的生活方式不变样，才能续写香港经济繁荣、市民生活幸福的新篇章。
Mt. Everest survey
China’s 15-ton reusable liquid oxygen-methane engine JD-1 completed a key secondary start test
China’s 15-ton reusable liquid oxygen-methane engine JD-1 completed a key secondary start test on Wednesday.
The completion of the test makes JD-1 the first engine of its kind to achieve a restart function and marks a key breakthrough in vertical landing rocket technology, according to a reply sent by the Beijing-based engine developer i-Space to the Global Times on Thursday.
The vertical landing technology has high technical requirements for the rocket’s power system. A core technology allows for the second start of the engine, the engine’s ability to start and work normally in high altitude after its first normal shutdown.
“The reusable rocket has a high demand on its engine, which has to kick off twice during the take-off and landing processes. The test is of huge significance to the development of reusable rockets,”
“It is likely China will be the second country to acquire reusable launch technology after the US,”
The engine is powered with liquid oxygen-methane, a low-cost and clean fuel, and is designed to be used up to 30 times, which can save more than 70 percent in rocket manufacturing costs, according to the developer.
The engine will be assembled onboard the reusable liquid oxygen-methane carrier rocket Hyperbola-2, said a power system engineer with i-Space, noting that the test laid a solid foundation for the launch of the rocket.
The rocket, with a take-off weight of 90 tons, is capable of sending 1.9-ton payloads into low-Earth orbit and is expected to be launched for the first time in 2021.
The next technological breakthrough will be in precise guidance and control technology, and the selection and planning of landing sites.
United States Strategic Approach to the People’s Republic of China
As the President’s National Security Strategy says, it is time the United States “rethink the failed policies of the past two decades – policies based on the assumption that engagement with rivals and their inclusion in international institutions and global commerce would turn them into benign actors and trustworthy partners.” The report illustrates how the policies and actions of the Chinese Communist Party have compelled the United States to adopt a competitive strategy, guided by a return to principled realism. Too late.
China’s state-run digital currency may be released early for post-COVID-19 stimulus: industry inside
China may accelerate the rollout of its state-run digital currency to counter potential US threats to Chinese financial institutions and the yuan’s international settlement, while facilitating the implementation and management of large-scale post-COVID-19 stimulus, said an industry insider.
“Although the US hasn’t put Chinese financial firms and institutions onto its Entity List, the US may still pose widespread threats to Chinese institutions and impact the yuan’s standing in international settlement. In this regard, China’s state-run digital currency may be rolled out sooner than expected to counter a possible US block, Cao Yin, a Beijing-based blockchain industry insider, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
Yi Gang, governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBC), said that internal pilot tests of the central bank’s digital currency are being carried out in four cities including Shenzhen in South China’s Guangdong Province and the Xiongan New Area, and will be carried out in scenarios for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, according to an article posted on the bank’s website on Tuesday.
“These tests are just routine work for the research and development (R&D) of the digital currency. No schedule for an official launch has been revealed, Yi said.
Any R&D progress of China’s state-run digital currency is widely reported, as the digital economy is increasingly becoming a momentum for global growth, especially amid the pandemic which forces social distancing.
To aid economic recovery, China aims to step up its fiscal policy by raising the deficit-to-GDP ratio to over 3.6 percent and further cut taxes and fees paid by corporations by 2.5 trillion yuan ($353 billion) in 2020. But concerns persist that numerous grassroots companies will not fully enjoy the favorable policy.
Cao said that the tracing characteristics of the blockchain-backed digital currency can help money flow into the real economy and toward firms in need.
The R&D and application of a fiat digital currency will efficiently meet the public’s needs for the currency so as to promote payment convenience and safety in retail, which will help boost the development of China’s digital economy, Yi said.
The PBC began R&D for a fiat digital currency relatively early. A special team was established in 2014 to carry out research on its framework, key technologies and international experience. At the end of 2017, the bank organized for some commercial banks and institutions to jointly conduct the R&D of China’s digital currency/electronic payment (DC/EP).
China imported 5.16 million tons of crude oil from Saudi Arabia
China imported 5.16 million tons of crude oil from Saudi Arabia in April, touching a record low from 2019 May. This is puzzling, with the low price, one would think China would import a lot of crude. What is happening? Perhaps this is one of the reasons? 100 million tons of oil reserves were detected in CNOOC-owned Kenli 6-1 oilfield. It is the first 100 million-ton oilfield in Bohai Bay area, guaranteeing China’s energy security and boosting the economy of regions around the sea.
China’s proposed national security laws for Hong Kong
US threatens sanctions over China’s proposed national security laws for Hong Kong 5-25-20 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-25/hong-kong-china-national-security-laws-us-sanctions/12281774 Haha, the sanctions was the only leverage for US on Hong Kong since the beginning, now the gloves are off you think China would care, it is all in the calculation already.
China making good progress in building world’s largest supercollider
Research and development for the first batch of key equipment for the world’s most powerful electron collider, the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), in China, has made solid progress. Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), under the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, who is also a deputy to the National People’s Congress, made the comments. The overall development of the CEPC project is moving forward smoothly, with some of the first batch of equipment reaching design standards.
Klystron is among the first batch of key equipment for the super-sized collider, which scored a 60 percent efficiency in the prototype test earlier this year, reaching world advanced levels, up from below 50 percent, according to Wang. Wang’s team aims to produce an even better version of the klystron with 80 percent efficiency this year. The location for the CEPC has yet to be determined, Wang noted.
The CEPC project will reportedly cost 35 billion yuan ($5.05 billion) and will have a circumference of 100 kilometers, with center-mass energy of up to 240 giga electron-volts, both setting a world record. Chinese scientists are eyeing the completion for CEPC construction by 2030.
The conceptual design for the CEPC passed international inspections in September 2019. Scientists from the US, Europe and Japan have participated in designing the project, and will work on the building process and conduct research with the collider.
The Large Hadron Collider, the Swiss project near Geneva, is currently the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider and reportedly the largest machine in the world. In a bid to maximize the project’s service life, scientists are mulling upgrading the electron positron collider in around 2040 into a proton collider, Wang noted. By then, the center-mass energy for the CEPC will have reached about 100 tera electron-volts, seven times as powerful as the Switzerland’s project, Wang said.
The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has brought risks of suspension and delay in implementing procurement contracts for some equipment for large-scale projects due to adjustments in budgeting plans. Wang suggested that legal entities engaged in major project construction should be allowed to raise funds through multiple channels or borrow other funds to ensure that construction tasks are completed on schedule.
Wang revealed that another IHEP project, the cosmic ray observation station on an area equivalent to 200 soccer fields in the wilderness of Daocheng, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, 4,400 meters above sea level, has been affected by budget cuts.
India, China Border Clash
The key area is around a spectacular 135 kilometer-long, 5-7 kilometer-wide lake, Pangong Tso. It’s in Ladakh, which is a de facto extension of the Tibetan plateau. One third is held by India and two thirds by China.
Mountain folds around the lake are called “fingers.” The Indians say Chinese troops are close to Finger Two – and blocking their movements. India claims territorial rights up to Finger 8, but its de facto holding extends only to Finger 4.
New Delhi has been steadily expanding infrastructure development – and also troop deployments – in Ladakh for nearly a decade. Units now spend longer periods deployed along the LAC than the six months that used to be the standard rotation.
These are called loop battalions: They do a back and forth with the Siachen glacier – which was the theatre of a localized India-Pakistan mini-war in 1999 .
The Indians maintain there are no fewer than 23 “disputed and sensitive” areas along the LAC, with at least 300 “transgressions” by PLA troops every year.
Crossing the line
The Indians are now particularly focused on the situation in the Galwan valley in Ladakh, which they maintain was breached to a distance of 3 to 4 km by PLA troops now in the process of digging defenses.
The current flare-up started building in late April, and led to a series of scuffles in early May, described as “aggressive behavior on both sides,” complete with fistfights and stone throwing. The Indian version is that Chinese troops crossed the Line of Actual Control (LAC), with vehicles and equipment, to block road construction by India.
Indian Jawans Briefly Detained By China In Ladakh Last Week 5-24-20 https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/indian-jawans-detained-later-released-by-china-in-ladakh-last-week-sources-2234082 Indian Army denies reports that Chinese troops briefly detained jawans in Ladakh last week 5-24-20 https://www.thestatesman.com/india/indian-army-denies-reports-that-chinese-troops-briefly-detained-jawans-in-ladakh-last-week-1502891868.html “It only hurts national interests when media outlets publish unsubstantiated news”