Describing the mass shooting that killed at least 16 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday as a “pure evil” act of antisemitism, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday said flags would fly at half-mast to honor the lives lost in the attack, Australia’s ABC News reported Monday. Albanese said that Australia would do whatever is necessary to stamp out antisemitism. “It is a scourge and we’ll eradicate it together,” he said. The death toll from a shooting has risen to 16, with a father and son identified as…
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Visitors view auroras on an interactive LED radar screen in an aurora-themed museum in Mohe, Heilongjiang province. CHINA DAILY Residents and tourists couldn’t help but admire the stunning aurora borealis in Mohe, Heilongjiang province, China’s northernmost city on the evening of Nov 24. The auroras, mainly colored pink and purple, ripple alternately across the night sky at high latitudes, attracting visitors and photographers along the banks of the frozen Heilongjiang River to capture the moment with their cameras. However, when they entered the country’s first aurora-themed museum in Mohe’s Beiji…
Recent studies have found the existence of vast, hitherto unknown reservoirs of primordial water thousands of kilometers below the Earth’s surface, which could offer clues to understanding the process of the planet’s evolution. While simulating the extreme high-temperature and high-pressure conditions that exist 660 kilometers underground, researchers discovered that the main mineral of the Earth’s mantle — bridgmanite — possessed significant water-retention capacity even at temperatures of up to 4,100 C. The Earth’s mantle is the thick, semi-solid layer of hot, dense rock that lies between the crust and the…
United States President Donald Trump’s decision to conditionally approve exports of Nvidia’s advanced H200 artificial-intelligence semiconductors to China has drawn wide attention. But while the move reflects the eased bilateral trade tensions, two realities remain unchanged: China is an indispensable market for global AI-chipmakers, and Washington’s high-tech export controls on China remain firmly in place. China is one of the world’s largest and most competitive AI markets. For Nvidia — whose revenues were unavoidably hit this year after sales of its H20 chips to China were restricted by the US…
The vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, over 5,000 nautical miles across, protects the West Coast of the United States against Chinese naval forces in the event of a war. The appearance of new extra-extra-large underwater drones (XXLUUVs) changes this, providing China with low-risk options to directly threaten West Coast ports. For decades American strategy in East Asia, focused on a potential conflict with China, have viewed the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean as both a challenge and an advantage. While the distances involved make logistics harder (known as…
The Scots may well have codified golf as we know it – including, after a few false starts, making it a game of 18 holes. But the jury’s still out on who first came up with the idea of an open-air game that involves using a stick to hit a ball towards a target. The Romans played a game called paganica, in which a ball stuffed with feathers and wool was hit with a bent stick, while the Dutch played a stick-and-ball game called colf as early as the 13th…
China’s foreign trade edged up in the first 11 months of 2025, with total imports and exports of goods reaching 41.21 trillion yuan ($5.83 trillion), a year-on-year rise of 3.6 percent, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs on Monday. The exports reached 24.46 trillion yuan, up 6.2 percent year-on-year, while imports grew 0.2 percent year-on-year to 16.75 trillion yuan, the administration said. In November alone, the total value of China’s foreign trade reached 3.9 trillion yuan ($551.5 billion), marking a year-on-year increase of 4.1 percent, customs…
China’s State-owned defense contractors are known for their expertise in ultrafast weapons such as the DF-17 and the YJ-21. Now, a private sector firm has stepped into this cutting-edge sector, developing a system that can launch a missile with a top speed of Mach 7. Lingkong Tianxing Technology, a Beijing-based aerospace company, announced earlier this week that it has developed a hypersonic missile system — the YKJ-1000. According to the company, the YKJ-1000 missile consists of two parts — a booster rocket and a hypersonic glide vehicle, which is equipped…
RAMALLAH — Palestinian and Chinese officials gathered on Wednesday to mark the completion of two China-funded infrastructure projects in the West Bank city of Ramallah. At a ceremony in the city, Zeng Jixin, head of the Chinese office in Palestine, and Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa jointly unveiled plaques for the newly completed China-Palestine Friendship Square and the extension of Beijing Road. Speaking at the event, Zeng said that the China-Palestine Friendship Square and Beijing Road represent a significant measure in implementing the consensus reached by the leaders of the…