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Lunar Probe And Space Exploration Is China's Duty To MankindBeijing, China (XNA) Oct 07, 2010 A chief designer with China's second lunar probe project has said that the country's lunar pursuit, while lagging behind Russia and the United States for more than 40 years, is still important because space exploration is part of the country's responsibility towards mankind. "The most fundamental task for human beings' space exploration is to research on human origins and find a way for mankind to live and develop sustainably," said Qian Weiping, chief designer of the Chang'e-2 mission's tracking ... read more |
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Brussels (AFP) Oct 6, 2010China and the European Union admitted Wednesday to a gamut of divisive issues in efforts to seal an entente on economic and foreign policy matters. Opening a one-day China-European Union summit, both Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and EU president Herman Van Rompuy admitted to differences of view after Wen told European leaders to back off from demands that Beijing increase the value of the yuan ... more  
Berlin (UPI) Oct 6, 2010 Worldwide pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are falling far short of what's needed to avoid catastrophic climate change, environmental group WWF warned Wednesday, urging negotiators meeting in China to reverse that trend. Under current policy settings, emissions could be "up to nearly one-third more in 2020 than the trend needed to avoid" dangerous climate change, WWF said in a ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 6, 2010US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Chinese counterpart will meet next week at a security conference in Vietnam, Beijing confirmed on Wednesday, in a sign military ties are back on track. Relations between the two countries have repeatedly stalled, with Beijing cancelling scheduled visits or exchanges as a way of protesting at Washington's policies, notably US arms sales to Taiwan. ... more |
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Leaders of China, Japan ease rift in chance summit encounterBrussels (AFP) Oct 5, 2010 Leaders of China and Japan, locked in the fiercest bilateral dispute in years, mended fences at a chance post-dinner Brussels encounter, a first step to restoring ties between the Asian powers. Asked Tuesday whether the encounter was arranged by a third party, Japanese government press secretary Satoru Sato said in the EU capital that the meeting "happened suddenly" and "naturally." The evening meeting between Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at an Asia-Europe summ ... read more |
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