However, Tokyo’s business, trade and industry secretary Yoji Muto told reporters that he hoped his US journey had “be a win-win for both Chinese and US regional interests”. He said the attend was being coordinated and did not confirm the Mar 9 to 13 times given by Chinese internet orContinue Reading
Mark Brown, the prime minister of the Cook Islands, escaped a vote of no confidence in the parliament on Wednesday ( Feb 26 ) due to agreements he and the opposition had struck with China that strained relations with New Zealand. The movements introduced by the Cook Islands United PartyContinue Reading
SYDNEY:  , China issued a warning on Friday ( Feb 21 ) of potential “live fire” naval drills in international waters off Australia’s eastern coast but gave little prior notice, disrupting commercial air flights, the Australian government said. Beijing did not comment on whether live ammunition was used, but insteadContinue Reading
China’s Foreign Ministry announced on Monday ( Feb. 17 ) that it and the Cook Islands have signed an action plan for a long-term strategic partnership between the two nations, giving more details about a deal that is anticipated to pique New Zealand’s concerns. New Zealand, a US partner withContinue Reading
The earth has plenty of time to prepare for 2024 YR4, authorities have stressed. And if requires get, there is one tried-and-tested means of altering an object’s path.
Rivkin led the research for NASA’s 2022 Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, vision, which properly nudged an meteor off its lessons with a “kinetic impactor” approach that involved , a collision with a spacecraft.
The specific meteor posed no threat to Earth, making it an ideal exam topics.
” I don’t see why it wouldn’t work” once, he said. If big countries were able to finance a goal like this if their own territory was not in danger, the bigger question is whether they would.
There are also some other more empirical concepts.
A force result could be produced by vaporizing a portion of the asteroid, which would send it off course. A “gravity tractor”, a large aircraft that gradually tugs the comet apart using its own magnetic move, has also been theorised.
China, however, has started assembling a celestial military staff to counter the threat of near-Earth comets.
A specific tasks center at China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence posted a enrollment see listing three job openings for “planetary military posts,” according to the South China Morning Post on Monday.
According to the announcement made last fortnight on the Twitter account of the journal China Space Science and Technology, the center, which is in charge of Earth observation and aerospace engineering research and implementation, is hiring graduates to study comet monitoring and develop early warning techniques.
China also has a working theoretical prepare for a mission to protect itself from a near-Earth meteor. According to state media, the vision, which may be the first of its kind for China, aims to see an meteor and then launch a spacecraft to change its course in 2030.
Authorities in the impact zone may be forced to evacuate the area if all else fails due to the lengthy notice period.
” Nobody should be scared about this”, said NASA’s Fast. We have the ability to plan, produce these projections, and find these things.
This year, two United States Navy ships made their first voyage across the troubled Taiwan Strait, drawing ire from China, which claimed the voyage raised security risks. The US Navy, often accompanied by ships from allied places, transits the sea about once a month. China, which claims Taiwan as itsContinue Reading
In response to rising trade tensions that threaten to destabilize the world economy, US President Donald Trump welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday ( Feb 7 ) at the White House. At a news conference after their conversations, Trump announced progress on Nippon Steel’s blocked US$ 14.9 billionContinue Reading
In a U-turn following President Donald Trump’s end to a trade agreement used by retailers like Temu, Shein, and Amazon to ship low-value packages duty-free to the US, The United States Postal Service ( USPS) announced on Wednesday ( Feb 5 ) that it would accept packages from China andContinue Reading
Washington, on February 4, the US Postal Service announced that it was temporarily suspending outbound packages from China and Hong Kong, just as President Donald Trump’s new levies targeted Beijing were being implemented. The halt will continue until further notice, and it comes in response to Trump’s request for anContinue Reading
Following President Donald Trump’s threats to seize the crucial waterway, two Panamanian lawyers filed a complaint on Monday ( Feb 3 ) to cancel the concession of a Hong Kong-based business that runs two ports on the Panama Canal. Two of the five ports on the canal have been managedContinue Reading