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China News: China to Build Super Computer Domestically

China News, a state owned and internationally oriented Chinese news agency, recently reported on the plan to build a “Thousand Trillion Level” super computer based on the domestically made FT-1500 CPU. The computer, named “Tian He II,” is scheduled to be built in 2011. The “Tian He I” super computer, built in 2009, was No. 5 in the world and No. 1 in Asia. It made China the second country after the U.S. that could build “Thousand Trillion Level” computers. The new project will focus more on high performance multi-core CPUs, secure and versatile CPUs, as well as embedded CPUs.

Source: China News, March 3, 2010
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/it/it-itxw/news/2010/03-03/2147859.shtml

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Xinhua: China to Launch Space Aircraft

Xinhua recently reported on China’s plan to launch a new space craft named “Tian Gong I” in 2011. Called the “Object Space Aircraft,” it will eventually be reconstructed into a manned space lab where astronauts can spend short periods of time. The grand plan of Chinese Manned Space Missions is divided into three steps. The first is manned space shuttles, which has already been accomplished. Step two is a space lab, which requires four key technologies. It is on going. Step three is building a space station. The four key technologies required by step two are: (1) a space walk; (2) docking; (3) replenishment of supplies; (4) creation of a life sustaining system.

Source: Xinhua, March 3, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/misc/2010-03/03/content_13091928.htm

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Global Times: A Chinese Military Officer Calls for Displacing US as the World’s Military Might

Global Times, one of China’s Official websites, cited an article from Reuters on March 1, 2010 regarding a new Chinese-language book “The China Dream” written by Liu Mingfu, a professor at China’s National Defense University and a PLA senior colonel. Liu suggests that “China should build the world’s strongest military power and displace the United States as the global ‘champion.’”

“Liu Mingfu believes that China should abandon modesty about its global goals and ‘sprint to become the number one World Power.’

"Liu warns that China’s ascent “will alarm the U.S., risking war despite Beijing’s hopes for a ‘peaceful rise.’”

Liu wrote that "If China in the 21st century cannot become the world’s number one power, it will become a straggler that is cast aside." 

Source: Global Times, March 01, 2010
http://world.huanqiu.com/roll/2010-03/730240.html 

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Xinhua Commentary: Senior U.S. officials visit China to “mend” Sino-US ties?

On March 1, 2010, Xinhua commented that two high U.S. officials’ visited Beijing in the hope of mending ties with China, because of the U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, the “Google Incident” and Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and National Security Council Senior Director for Asian Affairs Jeffrey Bader were in Beijing from March 2 to 4. “In terms of Sino-U.S. relations, China’s position has been consistent and clear. China will never barter away China’s core interests … The U.S. must understand that China can’t remain silent when China’s interests are harmed.”

Source: Xinhua, March 1, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2010-03/01/content_13076932.htm 

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Xinhua: Stipulating Special Measures in the Newly Approved National Defense Mobilization Law

According to Xinhua, the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, China’s top legislature, approved the National Defense Mobilization Law on February 26, 2010. The law specifies the following special measures, which should be implemented once the government decides to execute its national defense mobilization:

1) Take control of finance, transportation, postal services, telecommunications, journalism, publications, radio, film and television, the information network, energy, the water supply, medicine and health, food and food supplies, commerce, trade and other industries;
2) Restrict people’s activities in scope, timing, and methods as well as materials and vehicles in and out of the region;
3) Implement special work systems in state units, social organizations, enterprises and institutions;
4) Provide different kinds of transportation to security forces first;
5) Take any other special measures as needed.

Source: Xinhua, February 26, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-02/26/content_13057224.htm

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Rear Admiral Demands China’s Share of Arctic Ocean Exploration

At the Third Session of the Eleventh Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Rear Admiral Yin Zhuo asked China not to fall behind on Arctic Ocean exploration. 

According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the North Pole and surrounding area are the common wealth of the world’s people and do not belonging to any country, said Yin Zhuo, a Rear Admiral and former President of the Chinese Naval Strategy Institute. Yin criticized that some countries are infringing upon other nations interests by fighting for sovereignty over the region, which reportedly has 9% of the world’s coal and a quarter of the global untapped oil and gas, together with abundant diamond, gold, uranium, and other resources. 
Having a belief in the future possibility of China’s regional war in the oceans, Yin proposed to establish a cross-agency commission focusing on strategic planning. 
Source: China News Service, March 5, 2010 
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2010/03-05/2154039.shtml
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Culture Ministry on Monitoring Internet CafÚs

Both government and business should work toward prohibiting people under age from visiting Internet Cafés, said a Culture Ministry official in response to proposals at the current sessions of the National People’s Congress and the People’s Political Consultative Conference. 

Zhang Xinjian, a deputy director in charge of the marketing division of the Ministry, discussed a three-point solution: streamlining the management of Internet Cafes with government administration and corporate operation; hiring social workers as voluntary supervisors; using technology to strengthen the surveillance system and develop monitoring software. 
Source: Xinhua, March 5, 2010 
http://news.xinhuanet.com/newmedia/2010-03/05/content_13100264.htm
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China’s GAPP Reforms Publishers and Newspapers

In an interview with China Central Television (CCTV), Li Dongdong, Vice Chief of General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), discussed media reform. He said all of the country’s 580 publishers have finished the reform. Within three years, GAPP is to transform the 1,943 newspapers and 9,821 periodicals through merger, restructuring, and suspension. 

Source: CCTV, March 3, 2010 
http://news.cctv.com/xianchang/20100303/103601.shtml
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