ChinaAnalysis: Beijing huddles with friends, seeks to fracture U.S.-led âcliqueâ
Gabriel CrossleyYew Tian
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U.S. and Chinese flags are seen before a meeting between senior defence officials from both countries at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 9, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
China is shoring up ties with autocratic partners like Russia and Iran, as well as economically dependent regional countries, while using sanctions and threats to try to fracture the alliances the United States is building against it.
Worryingly for Beijing, diplomats and analysts say, the Biden administration has got other democracies to toughen up to a rising, more globally assertive China on human rights and regional security issues like the disputed South China Sea.
Four more returned Australians test positive for COVID-19 in Howard Springs after arriving from India
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Four more people have tested positive for coronavirus after arriving in the Northern Territory on repatriation flights from India.
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Health authorities say all four cases are displaying mild symptoms
The Howard Springs quarantine facility is expanding its intake of returned Australians from 850 to 2,000 a fortnight
The group includes an 8-year-old girl, an 11-year-old boy and a 38-year-old man who arrived on a flight from New Delhi on Saturday and a 60-year-old man who arrived on the flight from Chennai last Thursday.
Apr 19, 2021
Here s today s feel-good story:
Celebrity chef Guy Fieri is known for being a personality with his bleached hair, love of barbecue, and being charitable. He began raising money to feed firefighters that were battling the wildfires in California and now has raised almost $25 million for restaurants that are facing financial struggles due to the pandemic.
Fieri helped launch the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund last spring while partnering with the National Restaurant Association.
“You know, so many people work in the restaurant industry in multiple jobs, second jobs, single moms, single parents, students, retirees. And the restaurant industry is massively important to our communities,” Fieri said. “And so, when I saw this coming, I said, ‘We got to do something to get some money to these folks.”
NASA s Mars Helicopter Succeeds In Historic First Flight By Issam AHMED
04/19/21 AT 8:20 AM
NASA successfully flew its tiny helicopter Ingenuity on Mars early Monday, the first powered flight on another planet and a feat a top engineer called our Wright brothers moment.
At 3:34 am Eastern Time (0734 GMT), the four pound (1.8 kilogram) rotorcraft lifted off, hovered 10 feet (three meters) above the Martian surface, then came back to rest after 39.1 seconds.
Data and images from the autonomous flight were transmitted 173 million miles (278 million kilometers) back to Earth where they were received by NASA s array of ground antennas and processed more than three hours later.
It s real, said
NBC News.
Aung gave the other engineers in mission control a thumbs up to a crowd of applause and cheers before tearing up her contingency speech in celebration of the successful launch.
“We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet, Aung said.
Aung said NASA officials had been talking for so long about our Wright brothers moment on Mars, comparing Monday s experiment achieved by
Orville and
Wilbur Wright s first successful motor-operated airplane flight 117 years prior.
The Ingenuity helicopter paid tribute to the Wright brothers by having affixed a tiny swath of wing fabric from the original flight at Kitty Hawk under the miniature craft s solar panel.