Apr 6, 2021
Missiles are everywhere. Increasingly accurate technology combined with a plummeting cost curve have made missiles the weapon of choice for defense ministries around the world. Historically, however, missiles have been an afterthought when governments weigh arms control options. That indifference must end: It is time for a real push to rein in the spread of such weapons, especially in Asia.
In a 2020 report, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Ballistic Missile Analysis Committee bluntly explained the logic behind missile proliferation: They’re viewed “as cost-effective weapons and symbols of national power.” The technology has become so cheap that it’s hard to find a defense establishment that doesn’t have its own inventory and the number of countries building indigenous production capabilities is expanding as well. Ominously, arsenals aren’t just growing but missiles themselves are becoming more capable faster, more mobile, survivable, reliable, and a
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China expected to favour green tech over coal in new five-year plan
China is today the worldâs largest emitter of planet-heating gases, responsible for about 28 per cent of total global emissions.
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London | China, which long targeted rapid industrial growth despite its environmental consequences, now aims to become the global leader in âlow-carbon tech for a carbon-constrained worldâ as it unveils its new five-year plan on Friday, China analysts say.
That shift is likely to include an accelerated pullback from its role as a major financier of new coal-fired power plants at home and abroad, Isabel Hilton, founder of China Dialogue, a non-profit news organisation, told an online event this week.