https://spacewatch.global/tag/president-xi-jinping/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:36:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/president-xi-jinping/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2023/03/spacewatchgl-opinion-on-chinese-balloons-and-other-devices-a-space-perspective/ Fri, 03 Mar 2023 09:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=46936 The past four weeks have been eventful for the US Air Force. On Wednesday, February 1st 2023 an unknown floating balloon, the size of three school buses, was spotted flying over Billings, Montana, at around 18 km above the ground. On Friday, February 3rd, Mao Ning, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Foreign Minister’s spokesperson, released a note claiming that the airship was  “of a civilian nature, used for scientific research such as meteorology. Affected by the westerly wind and its control ability is limited, the airship seriously deviated from the scheduled route. China regrets that the airship strayed into the United States due to force majeure”.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/03/spacewatchgl-column-dongfang-hour-china-aerospace-news-roundup-22-28-feb-2021/ Mon, 01 Mar 2021 09:00:53 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=30798 As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Orbital Gateway Consulting we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. We are pleased to present “Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 22-28 Feb 2021”.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/11/president-macrons-state-visit-to-china-highlights-sino-french-space-cooperation/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 06:00:52 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=16974 On 6 November 2019, on the occasion of President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to the People’s Republic of China, Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES) President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Zhang Kejian, Administrator of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), signed in the presence of Presidents Macron and Xi Jinping a joint statement covering two fields of investigation.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/10/spacewatchgl-oped-modi-xi-summit-a-more-balanced-china-policy/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 08:00:30 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=16487 This is “ Modi-Xi Summit: A More Balanced China Polic?”, originally published 11 October 2019 at Observer Research Foundation.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/10/spacewatchgl-oped-behind-the-second-modi-xi-informal-summit-the-wuhan-spirit-is-fraying/ Sat, 19 Oct 2019 08:00:35 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=16484 As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. This is “Behind the Second Modi-Xi Informal Summit, the Wuhan Spirit Is Fraying”, originally published 10 October 2019 at The Diplomat.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/06/china-and-france-hold-twelfth-space-cooperation-meeting-in-shanghai/ Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:00:04 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=14644 The President of the Centre Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), Jean-Yves Le Gall, and Zhang Kejian, Administrator of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), chaired the 12th meeting of the French-Chinese space committee in Shanghai on 5 June 2019, devoted to reviewing and developing space cooperation between the two nations.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/03/france-and-china-step-up-space-exploration-cooperation-after-xi-state-visit/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 06:00:26 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13231 On the occasion of the state visit to France of the President of the People’s Republic of China, the French national space agency, the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), and the China National Space Administration (CNSA) have stepped up their cooperation in the fields of planetary exploration and climate action. Space was already central to discussions between the two nations in January last year during the state visit to China of President Emmanuel Macron, a few months before the launch of the French-Chinese CFOSat oceanography satellite, the cornerstone of this partnership.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/portugal-to-establish-azores-spaceport-create-oceanography-starlab-with-china/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 06:00:47 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11184 Portugal is about to make a big splash in the space sector with parallel announcements covering a major cooperative programme with China, and a proposed space launch complex in the Azores islands in the mid-Atlantic ocean involving European, Russian, and U.S. company bids to build it.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/10/pakistan-to-send-astronaut-into-orbit-by-2022-with-chinese-help/ Fri, 26 Oct 2018 05:00:20 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11011 Pakistan announced on 25 October 2018 that it will send an astronaut into orbit by 2022 with the help of China, weeks after its arch-geopolitical rival India announced the start of its own human spaceflight programme, Gaganyaan, in cooperation with Russia, France, and other countries.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/05/chinas-onespace-makes-maiden-launch-amidst-subsidy-claims-bri-involvement/ Mon, 21 May 2018 05:00:04 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=8720 Chinese private launch company OneSpace successfully carried out the maiden launch of its rocket, marking the first entry of a private launch company from China into the increasingly crowded global small satellite launch market.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/03/thailand-host-belt-road-initiative-earth-observation-centre/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 06:00:18 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7733 This content is for members only. 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