Day: December 8, 2023

In comparison, regular artillery shells usually max out at tens of kilometres. In one of the tests, the rail gun proved its mettle by firing off 120 rounds – that is pretty close to what some of the artillery in service today can do. After the lightning and thunder subsided, the entire system remained intact, according to the researchers. “Similar work has never been publicly reported before,” stated the team with the National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Energy at the Naval University of Engineering in a paper published on November…

Wang Fuman became known as China’s “ice boy” in early 2018, when his family was among millions in the country who were living in poverty. Since then, the family has moved into a new home and started raising livestock and saw their quality of life steadily improve. But during the pandemic, Fuman’s parents welcomed two new children, and earlier this year, his older sister was admitted to a high school that requires expensive tuition. The Post recently caught up with the Wang family to see how they are coping with…

At Tuesday’s meeting, public security chief Wang said China was ready to work with Russia to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and strengthen practical cooperation in areas such as fighting transnational crime, cybersecurity, drug control and law enforcement capacity building, Xinhua reported. Xinhua said Kolokoltsev expressed willingness to deepen bilateral exchanges and cooperation to safeguard the security and stability of the two countries. According to the Russian internal affairs ministry, Kolokoltsev said despite the turbulent geopolitical situation and unprecedented pressure from Western sanctions, ties…

Canada is broadening a probe of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and freezing its participation in the multilateral organisation indefinitely, the government said on Friday. Ottawa had temporarily suspended its involvement in the AIIB in June after a whistle-blower asserted that China’s ruling party pulls the strings at the bank. The AIIB, a project pushed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, was launched in 2016 to counter Western dominance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. It has 106 global members, including Australia, Canada, France and Germany. The Asian…

A more centralised power structure in China and political changes in the US that have put concerns about Beijing at the centre of national discourse will make it difficult for Chinese President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart Joe Biden to carry out the agreements they reached last month, a leading China analyst has concluded. Changes in China’s domestic politics “create and sustain incentives to see the United States as a long-term strategic and ideological adversary”, Evan Medeiros, a senior fellow on foreign policy at the Centre for China Analysis,…