Chinese Foreign Policy: A Chronology April - June 2009 - Defence ...

aborted bombing of an aircraft, an attack against the Kashgar police, and a number ofexplosions in Kuche”.23 May 2009 Beijing - Wang Jiarui, head of the CCP’s International Department, told KunikoInoguchi, a House of Representatives member from the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party,that China is willing to consider various options for restarting the six-party talks fordenuclearizing North Korea, including mediating between Washington and Pyongyang.According to Japanese news agency Kyodo, Wang also mentioned:“the possibility of holding a three-way meeting [between] China, North Korea and theUnited States as well as carrying out working group meetings under the six-wayframework as a way to resume the negotiations.”Wang said “it is essential that relations between the United States and North Korea beimproved to resume the six-party talks”. Wang visited North Korea in January and met NorthKorean leader Kim Jong Il.23 May 2009 Beijing - Gareth Evans, co-chair of the International Commission on NuclearNon-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND), told a press conference on the sidelines of theNorth-east Asia Regional Meeting of the ICNND, that the issue involving the DPRK occupieda lot of time in the discussions.Yoriko Kawaguchi, the other co-chair of the ICNND, added that China has played animportant role as an intermediator.23 May 2009 Shanghai - Ye Peijian, chief designer of the lunar probe with China's Chang'eProject, said at a science lecture in Shanghai that Chinese scientists are considering thefeasibility of a manned lunar landing mission at an appropriate time between 2025 and 2030.Ye predicted that China will launch the second lunar probe Chang'e-2 in 2010 to conductresearch at a 100-kilometre-high moon orbit as the preparation for a soft landing by Chang'e-3. "By 2013, China will send the landing craft and rover vehicle to the moon." Ye added thatChang'e-3 will use variable thrusters to make a vertical landing on the surface near themoon's equator area. The lunar rover will work on the moon's surface for three months. Headded that an isotope technique generator will be used to provide energy for the rover duringlunar nights when temperatures drop to 200 degrees below zero.China launched its lunar mission in 2007 by successfully sending a unmanned probeChang'e-1 to lunar orbit. The spacecraft managed to transmit some pictures of the moon'ssurface back in January 2008. Chang'e-1 ended its 16-month mission on 1 March 2009 byimpacting the moon, bringing the first phase of the nation's three-stage lunar mission to anend.23 May 2009 Weihai, Shandong - Chen Bingde, member of the Central Military Commissionand chief of the General Staff of the PLA, attended the final meeting to discuss the "DraftPlan for the Entire Military's Informatization Construction of Border and Coastal DefenceBefore 2015”. Chen pushed for “the integration and sharing of information among the army,the police, and the people” and strengthening “the construction of the legal system, improveand perfect various rules and the overall system regarding the construction, management,and use of the information system”. Previous meetings had been held in Heilongjiang, Jilin,and Shandong.23 May 2009 Guangdong’s fishing administration's largest patrol vessel, the Yuzheng 44183,intercepted four foreign fishing boats crossing into the area claimed by China as its ‘exclusiveeconomic zone’; before escorting the foreign ships out of China’s maritime waters.81