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ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT, Tuesday 20 July 2010 (AFP) – The top US military officer Admiral Mike Mullen on Tuesday defended plans for joint US-South Korean naval exercises in the Yellow Sea, despite protests from China.
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BEIJING, Thursday 8 July 2010 (AFP) – China warned the United States and South Korea Thursday against holding joint war games near its waters and urged the two nations to guard against exacerbating festering tensions with North Korea.
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BEIJING (AFP) – China has issued regulations banning its 2.
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Beijing (AFP) June 15, 2010 China has so far evacuated about 200 nationals from violence-wracked Kyrgyzstan, and two extra planes are to be sent across the border on Tuesday to bring home more citizens, state media reported. Two charter flights carrying 195 Chinese citizens landed in Urumqi, the capital of the far-western Xinjiang region bordering Kyrgyzstan, in the early hours of Tuesday …
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BEIJING, May 18 (AFP) – China on Tuesday urged Yemen to work quickly to rescue two Chinese oil workers kidnapped earlier this week by tribesmen in the east of the country.
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Beijing (AFP) May 10, 2010 – The new head of China’s restive Xinjiang region — the scene of deadly ethnic unrest last year — has pledged a renewed crackdown on separatist elements, state media said Monday. “We must clearly recognise the serious and extremely complex nature of the struggle between separatism and anti-separatism,” the Xinjiang Daily quoted Zhang Chunxian as saying in remarks to …
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La Paz (AFP) April 1, 2010 – Chinese and Bolivian officials Thursday signed an agreement to build Bolivia’s first communications satellite, intended for domestic security, for launch in 2013.
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Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2010 – Afghan President Hamid Karzai travels to China this week eyeing investment from his mighty neighbour, which prefers helping rebuild his war-torn nation to military involvement.
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Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2010 – China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation’s burgeoning space programme, state media reported Wednesday.
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Beijing (AFP) March 3, 2010 – China has postponed the next step in its ambitious space station programme until 2011 for technical reasons, state media said Wednesday.
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2010 – China launched an orbiter into space early Sunday, the latest stage in the development of its own satellite navigation system, state media said.
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Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2010 – A senior US defense official on Wednesday voiced doubts about China’s insistence that its use of space is for peaceful means as Washington appealed for steady military ties with the rising Asian power.
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Beijing (AFP) Oct 31, 2009 – Qian Xuesen, the man widely regarded as the father of China’s nuclear missile and space programmes, has died at the age of 98, state-run Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
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Taiwan’s president has urged the island’s armed forces to become a small, elite unit, saying a voluntary military rather than conscription was key to the island’s defence, local media said Thursday…

via Ecuador, China to create oil joint venture (AFP via Yahoo! News).

Ecuador and China will form a joint venture to develop an oil bloc in the South American country that has proven reserves of 120 million barrels of crude, an Ecuadoran official said Wednesday…

via Taiwan leader presses US on fighter jets (Space War).

Taipei (AFP) Nov 24, 2009 – Taiwan Tuesday urged the United States to sell the island F16 fighter jets to ensure its security, as a senior American envoy said a deal could not be ruled out during the Barack Obama administration.

Taiwan PM urges China to withdraw missiles: report (AFP via Yahoo! News): “Taiwan’s Premier Wu Den-yih has urged China to remove missiles targeting the island to pave the way for peace talks between the formal arch-rivals, according to a report.”

NASA chief ready to work with China on space exploration: “Tokyo (AFP) Nov 17, 2009 – NASA is ready to cooperate with China in space exploration, the head of the US agency said Tuesday, as Beijing aims to send a manned mission to the moon by around 2020.”

US, China to step up military, space cooperation (SpaceDaily): “BEIJING, Nov 17 (AFP) Nov 17, 2009 China and the United States pledged Tuesday to step up military exchanges and safeguard the peaceful use of outer space after talks between Chinese President Hu Jintao and visiting US leader Barack Obama.”

Pakistan rejects report of bomb-grade uranium from China (Space War): “Islamabad (AFP) Nov 13, 2009 – Pakistan on Friday angrily rejected a US newspaper report that China provided the nuclear-armed Muslim state with weapons grade uranium for two bombs in 1982.”