- Wall Street Journal writes that President Rodrigo Duterte aims to upend the delicate geopolitics of the South China Sea during a state visit to Beijing this week, gambling that pulling away from the U.S.—the Philippines' longtime military ally—will reset the strategic calculus in Southeast Asia in his poor country's favor... Mr. Duterte's gambit is strategically risky, Western diplomats in Manila and analysts said, as he puts his country's alliance with the U.S. on the line to pursue an untested relationship with a government that Manila saw until very recently as its chief security threat. "It's a strange negotiating tactic," said Gregory Poling of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a U.S. think tank. Mr. Duterte is "unilaterally abandoning the only leverage he has over Beijing—the U.S. security umbrella."..Zhang Baohui, a professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, said that for Beijing, "the strategic payoffs will be huge" if Manila pulls away from Washington..."Beijing would make a small concession on fishing rights to seize a "golden opportunity to reorient the entire South China Sea situation" and bring about "the collapse of a vital pillar of the U.S. South China Sea strategy."
NBC News writes that with the current U.S.-led International Space Station expected to retire in 2024, China could be the only nation left with a permanent presence in space. China is "on the rise and the U.S. is in very real danger of falling behind in the future," warned Leroy Chiao, a former NASA astronaut and veteran of four space flights, one of which included commanding the International Space Station...Beijing is pouring money into funding the nation's ambitions — which include being the first to explore the dark side of the moon and sending a probe to Mars in 2020, the latter in direct challenge to U.S. and European space agencies...According to 2013 estimates by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, China was the second-largest spender in space with annual budget of $13 billion — but still well behind the $40-billion U.S. space budget...Despite being decades behind the U.S. space program, China is clearly catching up and using what Chinese experts call the "latecomer's advantage" — exploiting the latest technologies to leapfrog space advancements.
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- 2016-10-04 For China, ‘Clouds Are Fading Away’ in the Philippines
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- New York Times Australian Company Says 18 Employees Questioned in China
- Bloomberg Duterte Heads to Beijing Looking for More Chinese Business Deals
- Bloomberg China's Coal Capital Is Spending Millions to Go Green
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- Reuters ZTO Express eyes largest Chinese company US IPO since Alibaba
- New York Times Asia Pacific|China Astronauts to Attempt Nation's Longest Space Mission
- www.bbc.co.uk China backs Brics nations despite global uncertainty
- Wall Street Journal Brics' New Development Bank Not Feeling Peer Pressure From China's AIIB
- The Washington Post Duterte acknowledges he can't concede sea claims to China
- The Washington Post China drops one-child policy, but 'exhausted' tiger moms say one is plenty
- www.bbc.com China arrests over illegal network determining baby gender
- Forbes China And India Are Getting Ahead Of Japan
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