timesonline.co.uk - 12/26/2008
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Three Chinese navy ships, armed with special forces, helicopters and missiles, are on their way to join the international anti-piracy task force patrolling the waters off Somalia. The three vessels - two destroyers and a supply ship - will sail from the southern island province of Hainan later ...
nytimes.com - 12/20/2008
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nytimes.com —
Authorities have begun blocking access from mainland China
to the Web site of The New York Times...
even while lifting some of the restrictions they had imposed on the Web sites of other media outlets. >
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China Blocks Access to The Times’s Web Site
ynetnews.com - 12/31/2008
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ynetnews.com —
IDF: Rocket that hit Beersheba school made in
China Home Front Command's deputy chief says rocket fired...
at Negev city can cause much greater damage than the Qassam; adds that all events with 100 or more guests will be cancelled due to attacks Yael ...
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IDF: Rocket that hit Beersheba school made in China - ...
bloomberg.com - 1/2/2009
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bloomberg.com —
Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama will
probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.’s civilian...
and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China. Obama’s ...
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Obama Moves to Counter China With Pentagon-NASA Link ...
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Theo Spark —
... the bastard. China sends unemployed graduates to teach countryside peasants in 'Mao policy'. So a bunch of modern living kids are going to the seriously backward countryside to tell that them being poor is good. The Chinese peasantry are already getting restless over land ownership, this could be the spark to set things off. Mystery as dozens of public artworks vanish. So the Foreign Office are thieves as well as traitors. China sends navy to fight Somali pirates. And to increase their presence in Africa.
Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/26/2008
Gates of Vienna —
... China Sends Navy to Fight Somali Pirates Three Chinese navy ships, armed with special forces, helicopters and missiles, are on their way to join the international anti-piracy task force patrolling the waters off Somalia. The three vessels — two destroyers and a supply ship — will sail from the southern island province of Hainan later today. China announced it was joining the anti-piracy mission on Tuesday after the UN Security Council authorized nations to conduct land and air attacks on pirate bases. ...
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Fox News: BEIJING — One day after a Chinese cargo ship’s crew used Molotov cocktails and water hoses to fight off an attempted pirate hijacking off the coast of Somalia, the Chinese navy announced it would send warships to the Gulf of Aden in their first major mission outside the ...
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scsuscholars.com 2/15/2009 — I was talking with Ed Morrissey before his show today -- which, by the way, was screamingly funny and good so go listen -- and he was telling me about a post he did about a Chinese official who said that China is pwn3d by the U.S. treasury . Luo Ping, ...
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General Hints That China’s Navy May Add Carrier
nytimes.com 11/17/2008 — A Chinese military official has hinted that China’s navy is seeking to acquire an aircraft carrier, a move that would surely stoke tensions with the U.S. military and its allies in Asia. >
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huffingtonpost.com 1/22/2009 — BEIJING — The official Chinese translation of President Barack Obama's inauguration speech omitted his references to communism and dissent, and a live broadcast on state television Wednesday quickly cut away to the anchor when sensitive topics ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 12/12/2008 — James Fallows writes about the rapidly expanding Beijing Metro — which has added several lines and extended others just during Fallows time living in China. This seems like an incredibly smart decision on the part of the Beijing government. ...
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