Posted by Matt in January 20th, 2007 |
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China,
Missiles
China’s success in destroying a weather satellite out in space should be a warning to the world.
Will Hutton
Sunday January 21, 2007
The Observer
Last week China launched a missile from a base in remote western China and destroyed one of its ageing weather satellites 537 miles into space. It was an eloquent statement of its developing capacity [...]
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Posted by Matt in January 20th, 2007 |
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Published in
Russia,
general
In foreign affairs, Putin signed a 20-year friendship and cooperation treaty with China in 2001, and supported the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan after Sept. 11. But he joined France and Germany in opposing America’s second Iraq war. And he has persisted stubbornly in trying to subdue the hostile and largely Muslim Chechnya. The Chechens have [...]
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