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08.07.18China Claims to Have Successfully Tested Its First Hypersonic Aircraft
CNN
The China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), based in Beijing and part of the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, conducted the first test of the "Starry Sky-2" aircraft last Friday.
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04.02.18The Rise and Fall of Tiangong-1, China’s First Space Station
New York Times
China’s first space station burned up over the South Pacific on April 1.
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01.17.18Amid Tension, China Carrier Group Sails through Taiwan Strait
Reuters
A Chinese carrier group has sailed through the narrow Taiwan Strait that separates the self-ruled island from its giant neighbor but no unusual activity was detected, Taiwan said on Wednesday, amid heightened tension with Beijing.
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10.17.17Tiangong-1: Chinese Space Station Will Crash to Earth within Months
Guardian
The Tiangong-1 or “Heavenly Palace” lab was launched in 2011 and described as a “potent political symbol” of China, part of an ambitious scientific push to turn China into a space superpower.
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09.07.17China Brings Mars a Little Closer with Replica on Tibet Plateau
Guardian
The “simulated Mars station” – a 95,000 square-kilometre tribute to the solar system’s second-smallest planet – will be built in Qinghai province’s Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan autonomous prefecture, not far from the westernmost tip of the Great Wall.
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06.27.17
Is China Building Too Many Airports?
Over the next three years, local authorities in China are planning to build more than 900 airports for general aviation—the segment of the industry that includes crop dusting and tourism. The figure is nearly double the central government’s goal of...
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06.08.16U.S.: Chinese Jet Makes ‘Unsafe’ Intercept of Air Force Plane
CNN
China demands the U.S. to stop close-in survailance flights to avoid their “unsafe interceptions”....
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01.07.16China Lands More Civilian Planes on Fiery Cross Reef
BBC
China has landed two civilian planes on an island built in the disputed South China Sea, days after an earlier landing there prompted international concern.
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01.05.16S. China Sea Tensions Surge as China Lands Plane on Artificial Island
Reuters
China's increasing military presence in the disputed sea could effectively lead to a Beijing-controlled air defence zone.
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05.15.15U.S., China Set for High-Stakes Rivalry in Skies Above South China Sea
Reuters
Experts say it's increasingly likley that Beijing will declare an Air Defense Identification Zone in the area.
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05.13.15U.S. Gambit Risks Conflict With China
Wall Street Journal
Option to challenge Beijing in South China Sea is fraught with danger.
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05.13.15China Lashes Out Over U.S. Plan on South China Sea
Wall Street Journal
Pentagon proposal to use aircraft and Navy vessels in region prompts swift response: ‘We are severely concerned’.
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05.12.15U.S. Military Proposes Challenge to China Sea Claims
Wall Street Journal
Moves would send Navy planes, ships near artificial islands built by China in contested waters.
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09.10.14China Asks U.S. to End Close-Up Military Surveillance
New York Times
The United States should halt its “close-in” aerial and naval surveillance of China, a senior Chinese military officer told Susan E. Rice, President Obama’s national security adviser.
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08.14.14Pope Francis Reaches Out to China As He Begins Asia Trip
Washington Post
Pope Francis extended his best wishes to Xi and the Chinese people on his way to South Korea through Chinese airspace, the first time China allowed that since 1989.
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08.19.13
Infrequent Flying Snarls Civil Aviation Sector
Getting away for a little surf and sand ought to be easy for Beijingers like Mr. Wang, who recently boarded one of the daily, four-hour flights that link the capital and sub-tropical Hainan Island in China’s far south.But airport delays seriously...