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By Amelia Nierenberg
Instead of running a head-to-head race against the United States, China embarked on a marathon. The weather is good.
In late October, China ended the meeting of its Tiangong space station. Late last month, three Chinese astronauts blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and landed on the space station, beginning the outpost’s permanent run.
These achievements, combined with recent probes to the Moon and Mars, show China’s developing success. My colleague Keith Bradsher made a rare stopover at a desert rocket base in Jiuquan, where senior area officials defined plans for a new area station and reusable rockets.
They also discussed ambitions to go beyond near-Earth orbit and put astronauts on the moon. And they described an even bigger prize: sending humans to Mars.
Analysis: Seeking to repair its prestige in the world, China presents Tiangong as an area station for scientists from all over the world, especially in countries with established area programs.
History: Here’s a timeline of China’s spaceflight.
Answer: In August, the U. S. The U. S. government forecast that China would outperform its functions by 2045.
China has begun an all-out crusade to convince older citizens that its new covid-19 vaccines are easy to take and effective.
The vaccine is inhaled instead of injected, which can lessen the worry of a needle stick. In state media, one woguy joked that receiving his reminder “is a bit like drinking milk tea. “It doesn’t hurt at all, and it’s a bit sweet. “
The crusade is critical. As China lifts restrictions after the protests, it is bracing for a surge in cases that could overwhelm its medical resources. Mortality from prolonged epidemics depends in part on older people’s willingness to be vaccinated.
But officials will also have to triumph over the deep-seated skepticism, which they helped instill. In early 2021, when China introduced its domestic vaccine, regulators limited the use to others between the ages of 18 and 59. This made many other people think that it was not for the elderly.
Chinese vaccines are also less effective than foreign mRNA vaccines, and little is known about the actual effectiveness of inhaled treatment.
Other challenges: Health experts, reviewing precedents set in Hong Kong and Singapore, also warned that the crusade would be too late to protect against the existing wave of cases. Among the oldest segment of the Chinese population, 40% did not get a reminder.
Details: China is also making plans to disable its Covid-19 app today, CNN reports. The app has ruled life for years, dictating people’s movements. The government likely used the app to stifle dissent.
Japan faces a shortage of computer engineers, and India produces 1. 5 million engineering graduates each year. But Japan strives to recruit highly skilled Indians when opportunities arise in the United States and Europe.
Japan desperately wants more staff as its population ages. In the technology sector alone, the government estimates that staff shortages will exceed about 800,000 in the coming years, as Japan conducts a long-awaited domestic digitization effort.
But even though the country has tried to attract foreign staff and recruit tech skills to India, it faces daunting challenges. Lower salaries, inflexible corporate hierarchies and steep language barriers make Japan a less attractive option. In the United States, for example, the average salaries of technicians are more than double those of Japan.
Culture: Japan’s ambivalence towards foreigners means that the country has no established integration into society.
Technology: Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, has struggled to move from physical documents to virtual tools. The use of cloud technologies through Japanese corporations is almost a decade that of the United States.
Australia will move a rare turtle to a cooler environment. The experiment is believed to be the first attempt to relocate a vertebrate species endangered due to climate change.
Six other people died after an ambush in Queensland, Australia, The Guardian reports. Two were policemen.
Indonesia recently criminalized outdoor sex. Bali’s governor said tourists would not be affected, The Guardian reports.
South Korea has discovered a house for two dogs, which North Korea’s leader gave to his former president. After a war of words over the charge of their care, the dogs will live in a zoo, the Associated Press reports.
Iran publicly hanged a man. This is believed to be the time a protester has been executed since the Islamic Republic began cracking down on anti-government protests.
A gunman in Rome killed 3 women, adding a friend of Italy’s new minister.
Karen Bass is now the first female mayor of Los Angeles. Yesterday he declared a state of emergency for the homeless.
Scientists have made a breakthrough in fusion research.
A prince has stored explosives in his hunting lodge as part of a plot to overthrow the German government.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, will not hold his classic December press conference. The annual occasion is one of the few times foreign journalists can interview you directly.
The G7 countries agreed to establish a donor platform to channel Ukraine.
Russia are old Ukrainian missiles opposed to Ukraine, a Ukrainian general said.
Twitter is the “public square” of the world. That’s a smart thing, Klein said.
Amanda Foreman believes that Japan’s former Princess Mako and her husband, Kei Komuro, are, regardless, free and independent in the United States.
The Islamic Republic will fall in Iran, writes Karim Sajadpour. The only one is when.
Times Styles editors and editors have decided on their 93 top fashion “personas” of 2022.
Not everything on the list is one person. There are non-humans, like the flashlight fly and the James Webb Space Telescope. There are movie characters, like Lydia Tár. And, of course, Beyoncé makes the cut.
The Burrup Peninsula on Australia’s northwest coast may be a key location for Australia’s mining momentum. A primary allocation of liquefied herbal fuel is planned to encourage offshore drilling, and plants will be built to process it.
But the peninsula, called Murujuga by the aborigines, is also home to a million petroglyphs believed to be up to 50,000 years old. They document extinct animals and feature some of the earliest depictions of the human face.
Indigenous Australians are concerned that the new structure could threaten sacred heritage sites. The allocation will be one of Australia’s most polluting developments, according to progressive think tanks and experts: it could release around 1. 8 billion tonnes of emissions. Indigenous leaders say they have few options; They can only negotiate terms, veto assignments.
“We don’t have the voice to say no,” one indigenous man told The Times. “Legally, we don’t have it. “
These butter cookies shine.
“Ghost Town” chronicles the messy and contested life of a Taiwanese family.
Mia Hansen-Love directs Léa Seydoux in “One Fine Morning,” a sensitive look at life.
More and more married couples are “living together. “
Play the mini crossword puzzle and a hint: it shines brightly (five letters).
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You can all our puzzles here.
So for today’s briefing. See you. — Amelia
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