Yu-Tzu Chiu

1 month ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Yu-Tzu Chiu |Johannes Neudecker

By Yu-Tzu Chiu and Johannes Neudecker, dpa BEIJING - China's military on Wednesday said it was continuing a large-scale military exercise around the island of Taiwan. On the second day of the exercise, units were running drills in the central and southern part of the Taiwan Strait, said the spokesman for the Chinese military's Eastern Theatre Command, Shi Yi, with the exercise involving precision strikes on simulated key targets.

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Yu-Tzu Chiu |Johannes Neudecker

BEIJING - China's military on Wednesday said it was continuing a large-scale military exercise around the island of Taiwan. On the second day of the exercise, units were running drills in the central and southern part of the Taiwan Strait, said the spokesman for the Chinese military's Eastern Theatre Command, Shi Yi, with the exercise involving precision strikes on simulated key targets. The exercise was titled "Strait Thunder-2025A," suggesting that another one would follow later this year.

1 month ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Johannes Neudecker |Yu-Tzu Chiu

By Johannes Neudecker and Yu-Tzu Chiu, dpa BEIJING - China has begun a large-scale military exercise around the island of Taiwan, the military said in a statement released on Tuesday. The joint exercise involving the army, navy, air force and missile unit consists of approaching Taiwan from different directions to "test joint operations capabilities" of its troops, the spokesman for the Chinese military's Eastern Theatre Command, Shi Yi, said.

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Johannes Neudecker |Yu-Tzu Chiu

BEIJING - China has begun a large-scale military exercise around the island of Taiwan, the military said in a statement released on Tuesday. The joint exercise involving the army, navy, air force and missile unit consists of approaching Taiwan from different directions to "test joint operations capabilities" of its troops, the spokesman for the Chinese military's Eastern Theatre Command, Shi Yi, said.

Dec 30, 2024 | spectrum.ieee.org | Yu-Tzu Chiu

After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel. In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt reactor in the Gobi Desert. The 10-megawatt reactor project, managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), is scheduled to be operational by 2030, according to an environmental-impact report released by the Academy in October.