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3 weeks ago | 
miamiherald.com | Didi Kirsten Tatlow
China's space infrastructure in Latin America is the biggest outside of China and raises questions that need answers, the commander of the U.S. Southern Command said in rare public comments this week. Admiral Alvin Holsey said SouthCom would soon establish its own Space South command.
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1 month ago | 
newsweek.com | Didi Kirsten Tatlow
A Chinese company that will be supplying turbines for a new wind farm to serve NATO member Germany is run by a military veteran who has sworn eternal loyalty to the Communist Party and is staffed by many ex-soldiers, according to details obtained by Newsweek.
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1 month ago | 
newsweek.com | Didi Kirsten Tatlow
🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. A Norwegian state-owned company will ask China's polar institute to remove two white stone lions and a name plaque at the entrance of a Chinese research facility in Norway's Arctic in a subtle reassertion of Norwegian sovereignty over the geopolitically sensitive region, Norwegian state media NRK has reported. Newsweek reported on China's growing ambitions in the Arctic - and the stone lions from Shanghai - last July.
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1 month ago | 
newsweek.com | Didi Kirsten Tatlow
A planned joint space observatory between China and the Latin American global astronomical hub of Chile was not permitted under Chilean law, the Chilean government has said, in comments that highlighted deepening regional geopolitical tensions over security and technology.
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1 month ago | 
newsweek.com | Didi Kirsten Tatlow
The United States is increasingly interfering in China's relations with Chile, seeking to restrict Beijing's access to resources in the minerals-rich Latin American nation and pressuring it to curtail space cooperation with China, the Chinese embassy in Chile has said.
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1 month ago | 
newsweek.com | Didi Kirsten Tatlow
Greenland's foreign minister has said it is seeking deeper cooperation with China and potentially a free trade agreement, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. Why It MattersThe comments were made as U.S. President Donald Trump and his allies have continued to talk of acquiring the resource-rich and strategically-located island. Greenland held elections in March with a new government led by Prime Minister Jens Frederik Nielsen of the Democrats.
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1 month ago | 
newsweek.com | Didi Kirsten Tatlow
China has quietly extended its military reach far across the Pacific by building dozens of ports, airports, and communications projects at key points in a vast region that could shut out the United States and its allies in the event of war, a new report says.
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | Didi Kirsten Tatlow
"If the United States will not fight the world's largest tyranny politically, then inevitably, it will have to fight it economically, and eventually, militarily," Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng told the U.S. Congress in 2000. What has emerged as a trade war by President Donald Trump with Xi Jinping's China underlines the much larger struggle for global dominance between the rival powers and the very real possibility of the military conflict for which both sides are now gearing up intensively.
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2 months ago | 
miamiherald.com | Didi Kirsten Tatlow
A Chinese conglomerate's planned sale of dozens of international ports to a U.S.-linked consortium has drawn fury from Beijing over the possible loss of critical infrastructure, including those at either end of the Panama Canal-and the deal could now be in jeopardy. A map created by Newsweek shows the 43 facilities at stake, with some analysts saying China views the sale as a loss of strategic influence and a potentially serious blow to its geo-economic Belt and Road Initiative.
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2 months ago | 
kentucky.com | Didi Kirsten Tatlow
A Chinese conglomerate's planned sale of dozens of international ports to a U.S.-linked consortium has drawn fury from Beijing over the possible loss of critical infrastructure, including those at either end of the Panama Canal-and the deal could now be in jeopardy. A map created by Newsweek shows the 43 facilities at stake, with some analysts saying China views the sale as a loss of strategic influence and a potentially serious blow to its geo-economic Belt and Road Initiative.
