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South China Sea. The vessel left the Zhuhai port and headed for Sanya, a port in thesouthern-most island province of Hainan. The vessel will join the largest-ever joint marineinspection in mid April launched by the maritime authorities in Guangdong, Hainan andShanghai. The ship, along with Guangdong's "Haibiao-32" and Shanghai's "Haixun-21", arethe main forces in the joint operation. The patrol aims to monitor the sea environment, checkthe main sea routes, route markings and other facilities on the sea and ensure shipping orderand safety.15 April 2009 Premier Wen Jiabao told visiting New Zealand Prime Minister John Key thatChina and New Zealand should work together to deal with the international financial crisis."This would benefit both countries and the region as well." Key hailed the New Zealand-China FTA, which was signed in April 2008. Despite the global downturn, trade between thetwo countries grew by 19 per cent to more than 9 billion New Zealand dollars in a yearending February 2009. "The China-New Zealand FTA is a good model for others in ourregion as it points the way to openness at a time when protectionist pressures are building."Key claimed that New Zealand would invest more in China and planned to develop businessoffices in cities like south China's Shenzhen and eastern Qingdao.15 April 2009 Beijing - Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev arrived on a five-daystate visit to China at the invitation of Chinese President Hu Jintao, which will include talkswith Hu, Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao respectively in Beijing and Sanya, a port inthe southern-most island province of Hainan.15 April 2009 Beijing - Vice-President Xi Jinping told visiting Mongolian Prime Minister SanjBayar that China would work with Mongolia to advance the relationship between the twocountries.Mongolia and Tianjin, a municipality in northern China, signed a memorandum on deepeningeconomic cooperation, pledging to strengthen economic ties and expand the fields ofcooperation. Zhang Gaoli, member of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist PartyCentral Committee and party chief of Tianjin, when meeting the visiting Mongolian PrimeMinister, said that Tianjin and Mongolia had maintained cooperative relations and it waswilling to deepen cooperation in more fields.15 April 2009 Beijing - Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian warned the US to deal"cautiously" with the anti-dumping complaint from US steel makers that China dumpedspecific types of tubular and pipe steel into the US market. Yao said that in the first quarter,the volume of Chinese steel exports to the US fell 55 per cent from a year ago. China washighly concerned about the suit and would send a delegation to the US to discuss the matter.Beijing - The Foreign Ministry stated that Richard Holbrooke, US envoy for Afghanistan andPakistan, will visit China 15-16 April 2009. Niu Xinchun, vice-director of the Centre forAmerican Studies at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, said thevisit was another sign of US President Barack Obama's new strategy on Afghanistan andPakistan. "The US is actively seeking cooperation with the countries neighbouring the twoterrorism-plagued areas, with China its biggest targeted partner."15 April 2009 Beijing - Egyptian Ambassador to China Mahmoud Allam asserted that Egyptwould increase its trade with China and co-operation over nuclear power. "Egypt hopes tofurther work together with China in the fields of nuclear energy, renewable energy and powerplants." According to the ambassador, the bilateral trade volume reached 6.2 billion USdollars in 2008 and China is expected to be the biggest trade partner of Egypt in 2010.15 April 2009 Beijing - Ministry of Commerce announced that foreign direct investment inChina posted a 20.6 per cent year-on-year decline in the first quarter to 21.78 billion USdollars.11
15 April 2009 China successfully launched its second navigation satellite in its effort toconstruct an independent global satellite navigation system code named “Compass”. Thecarrier rocket Long March 3C blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre inSichuan Province at 0:16 am. Previous reports said that China planned to complete its ownGPS system by launching 30 more orbiters before 2015, with 10 navigation satellitesscheduled to launch in 2009 and 2010. The current Compass system only provides regionalnavigation service within China and neighbouring regions. The second "Compass" satelliteand its carrier rocket were respectively developed by the China Academy of SpaceTechnology and the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology which are under theChina Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It is the 116th flight for the country'sLong March series of rockets. China launched the first "Compass" navigation satellite intogeostationary orbit in April 2007 to build up its own positioning system following the UnitedStates' Global Positioning System (GPS), the Galileo Positioning System of Europe andRussia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS).15 April 2009 Navy Commander Admiral Wu Shengli, member of the Central MilitaryCommission, in an interview with Xinhua reporters (in conjunction with the 60th anniversaryof the founding of the People's Navy) discussed the Navy’s current capabilities. The Navy'scoastal defence units have all been armed with missiles: "The Navy's coastal defence unitsare a service arm deployed on important stretches of the seacoast, where they participate incombat operations to defend the coastline." Wu Shengli confirmed that units now held a newgeneration of shore-to-ship missiles having stronger ability to penetrate defences, longerrange, and more resistance to jamming. Navy coastal defence units were graduallybecoming a new type of service arm capable of air defence at key locations and overoffshore waters and also capable of effective support to other arms and services as theycarry out offensive operations. Naval aviation has become an important part of a modernizednavy, and as such, all Chinese Naval Aviation combat regiments would shoulder mobilecombat operations. "Without air superiority there is no sea superiority."Naval Aviation's first division was established at Shanghai in June 1952. In the 1990s, NavalAviation units received the Flying Leopard fighter-bomber, electronic reconnaissance aircraft,antisubmarine aircraft, early warning patrol aircraft, and aerial refuelling aircraft. Theseexpanded the scope of naval aviation, and it established omni-directional support for navalsurface ship units seizing sea superiority. As third-generation warplanes are fielded, units getmarkedly improved manoeuvre in various fields: ship-aircraft coordination, aerial dogfights,penetrating defences at low altitude, executing long-range attacks, and precise attacks. Wufurther added: "All of that shows that Naval Aviation's overall combat operations capabilitiesunder high-tech conditions have advanced to a new and higher level."On new types of submarines, Wu explained: "Submarines are the main underwater strikeforce, and they are a service arm which is a focus of development in the People's Navy." Headded that new models of conventional and nuclear powered submarines are being issued tounits. The new types of submarines are equipped with ultra long wave communicationsystems, datalink systems, tactical software and command automation systems, as well assmart torpedos and precision guided missiles. The new generation of submarines ismarkedly improved in terms of quietness, underwater endurance and survivability, and itsability to penetrate defences underwater is markedly stronger. The first-generation,conventionally powered submarine researched, designed and built by China itself waslaunched in 1971. China's first nuclear powered submarine entered service in 1974. China'sfirst missile launching, nuclear powered submarine entered service in 1983.15 April 2009 Shen Liding, Executive Vice Principal of Fudan University's InternationalAffairs Institute, published an article on the Chinese newspaper Dongfang Zaobao website:"DPRK's Walkout from the Six-Party Talks is its Realistic Inevitability". In it he discusses theDPRK’s tactics during negotiations and DPRK’s need for nuclear weapons as an externalsecurity guarantor.12
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ilateral ties, he said. Invited by
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well".14 May 2009 Guangzhou - Nanfa
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Austrian Vice Chancellor and Federa
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It further urges a return to ‘pri
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etter protection for Chinese enterp
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egional issues (Korean Peninsula, M
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also the former Chief of Staff of M
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Anca Boagiu, vice president of the
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deterrent.Foreign Ministry spokesma
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Strait economic cooperation agreeme
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This negative evaluation must be co
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Internet had become “a primary me
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unilateral operations and bilateral
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to discuss nuclear issues with Fore
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to submit the said data on time, su
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destroyer USS John S McCain in the
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ambassadors to China from Djibouti
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Province from stockpiling facilitie
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warnings and information disclosure
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ships to intensify China’s sea pa
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over the DPRK. It encourages Obama
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Yui-siu said "Beijing is very conce
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the National Committee of the Union
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officials' meeting before the minis
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development of bilateral military t
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