News About Superpowers 02-JUL-08 en-us Berlin (UPI) Jul 1, 2008 - The new $143 million U.S. Embassy in the heart of Berlin opens on Independence Day. Its architects have set themselves with the Herculean task of designing it to represent freedom while providing top-level security.]]> ]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 02, 2008 - China and Japan have done the unthinkable. For the first time since the end of World War Two, a Japanese warship docked in a Chinese port on June 24 and stayed there until June 28.]]> Oxford, England (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 - The headlines around next week's Group of Eight summit meeting in Japan will focus on North Korea and Iran, on poverty and climate change. But the background music, which began swelling at last month's meeting of G8 finance ministers, is signaling the coming of something far more profound: the end of the 30-year era of free trade and free markets.]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 01, 2008 - The Russian armed forces will be slimmed down to 1 million personnel by 2013, three years earlier than previously planned, the defense minister said Monday. "We plan to do this by 2013," Anatoly Serdyukov said after meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev.]]> ]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 01, 2008 - The European Union (EU) and Russia have been so slow in starting negotiations on regulating their new relationship that now they will talk about it in Siberia.]]> Hong Kong (AFP) June 25, 2008 - Hong Kong is set to launch its first commodities exchange early next year to capitalise on the mainland's growing demand for oil and other raw materials, officials said Wednesday.]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 27, 2008 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that turning the Russian ruble into a regional reserve currency was an important strategic objective.]]> ]]> Hong Kong (UPI) Jun 25, 2008 - The JH-7A fighter-bombers of China's No. 5 Attacker Division deployed on the Shandong Peninsula theoretically could cover all the U.S. military bases in Korea and the Taiwan Strait. ]]> Washington (AFP) June 25, 2008 - Climate change will have sweeping consequences for US national security by 2030 aggravating global poverty and destabilizing fragile countries, a US intelligence report said Wednesday.]]> London (AFP) June 25, 2008 - Britain's military is not structured to maintain significant presences in two countries at once, as is currently the case, the head of the country's armed forces said in comments reported Wednesday.]]> ]]> ]]> Hong Kong (UPI) Jun 24, 2008 - China is building up its military forces facing South Korea, possibly to deter South Korea and Japan from aiding Taiwan.]]> Zhanjiang, China (AFP) June 24, 2008 - The first Japanese warship to visit China since World War II arrived Tuesday in a dramatic sign of improving relations between East Asia's two major powers.]]> Moscow (UPI) Jun 23, 2008 - Defense infrastructure, including key airfields, oil storage facilities and strategic oil reservoirs, could all be destroyed if the hard permafrost covering the ground year-round across Russia's far north melts by 2030, Russia's First Deputy Emergencies Minister Ruslan Tsalikov told the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, Thursday. Indian Army Chief Gen. Deepak Kapoor is scheduled to arrive in Russia Monday and meet top Russian defense officials and senor officers. He will visit St. Petersburg and the Caucasus military district as well as Moscow, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday. Abkhazia is a Russian-supported secessionist region within the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The pro-Western Georgian government of President Mikheil Saakashvili wants to join NATO, a development that the Kremlin strongly opposes.]]> Advertise in Space War and reach thousands of industry, government and science readers the world over.

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