Spiegel Online Almost a third of the planet is thought to be using its products and yet few know much about the highly secretive Chinese telecommunication equipment company Huawei. Should customers be concerned about the company founder’s military background or the security vulnerabilities of its products? The first problem is just saying the company’s name. Huawei is pronounced wah-way. It means… Read more →
REUTERS/Larry Downing (Reuters) – The United States averted economic calamity on Tuesday when lawmakers approved a deal to prevent huge tax hikes and spending cuts that would have pushed the world’s largest economy off a “fiscal cliff” and into recession. The agreement hands a clear victory to President Barack Obama, who won re-election on a promise to address budget woes in… Read more →
China has opened up its domestic sat-nav network to commercial use across the Asia-Pacific region. Beidou – named after the Chinese word for the Big Dipper constellation – offers an alternative to the US’s global positioning system (GPS). It had previously been restricted to the Chinese military and government. A spokesman said that Beidou is targeting a 70-80% share of… Read more →
China is still flouting World Trade Organisation rules 11 years after it first joined, misusing the complaints machinery for tit-for-tat retaliation, said US Trade Repesentative Ron Kirk. “China’s trade policies and practices in several specific areas cause particular concern for the United States,” said Mr Kirk in his year-end report to Congress. “China’s regulatory authorities at times seem to pursue… Read more →
The Communist Party of China demands the U.S. should disarm. According to Chinese officials, the recent school massacre gave all to understand that one should not wait any longer. The country’s leaders believe that the brutality of the Connecticut shooter will ensure the widest public support for arms reduction, Infowars.comreports with reference to China’s news agency Xinhua. Xinhua is, in fact, the… Read more →
Members of the banned Chinese Falun Gong spiritual movement atage their meditation exercise. (AFP Photo / Kazuhiro Nogi) If the end of the world does indeed happen on December 21, some of the people predicting it will meet it in a prison cell: Chinese authorities have arrested more than 500 members of a doomsday cult in a nationwide crackdown…. Read more →
Japan’s general election is over – with main opposition leader Shinzo Abe winning back the country’s top job. And these are the traits and policies that are likely to define his term.
Iran congratulated North Korea on Wednesday for its “successful” launch of a long-range rocket, an incident which provoked global condemnation, and denied having a role in preparing the launch. Tehran “congratulates the people and the government” of North Korea on “the successful launching of the satellite-carrying rocket,” Iran’s armed forces deputy chief, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, told the Fars news… Read more →
A Chinese government airplane entered Japanese airspace over the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Thursday in the first such airspace intrusion in Japan, prompting an immediate protest from the Japanese government. The Air Self-Defense Force scrambled F-15 fighter jets to the area after one of China’s State Oceanic Administration airplanes was spotted at 11:06 a.m. about… Read more →
(Reuters) – North Korea’s next step after rattling the world by putting a satellite into orbit for the first time will likely be a nuclear test, the third conducted by the reclusive and unpredictable state. A nuclear test would be the logical follow-up to Wednesday’s successful rocket launch, analysts said. The North’s 2009 test came on May 25, a month… Read more →
