Posted by Matt in January 28th, 2007 |
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China,
Satellites
Preoccupied with the war in Iraq and beleaguered by the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea, the Bush administration has been seeking good relations with China. Last week Beijing’s rulers answered with the back of their hand — shooting down a satellite in the first destruction of an object in space in more than [...]
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Posted by Matt in January 28th, 2007 |
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China,
Space
The space shot fired by China earlier this month has rattled windows in defense ministries and foreign offices from Washington to Tokyo to Moscow and beyond.
The Chinese secretly launched a missile on Jan. 11 to destroy one of its own aging weather satellites 500 miles into space. News of the shot was leaked to the [...]
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Posted by Matt in January 28th, 2007 |
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Iran,
Koreas
International concerns are growing over reported links between North Korea and Iran and their possible collaboration in the proliferation in weapons of mass destruction.
Western media reports recently highlighted fastening ties between the two “axis of evil” countries in the fields of missile and nuclear development.
The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper, reported last Wednesday that North [...]
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Posted by Matt in January 28th, 2007 |
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Energy,
West
Obscure republics of the former Soviet Union have taken centre stage in the new Cold War: the struggle to secure supplies of oil and natural gas.
Last month, without much ceremony but with huge ambition, engineers in Azerbaijan opened the taps at the Shah Deniz gas field in the Caspian Sea that should in the future [...]
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