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Mars Rover Beats US!

China: Socialist Space Science Builds Advanced Mars Rover! (13.2.2025)

Weighing just around 300 grams — about the same as an apple — the robot can roll on the ground and take flight to pass over obstacles. It was created by a research team at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). The team has developed multiple versions of the aerial/terrestrial robot, achieving an endurance time six times longer than similar-sized unmanned aerial vehicles. These robots can be used to perform tasks such as monitoring, probing, and maintenance. They come in various forms, such as two-wheeled or spherical designs. They can be adapted to different terrains, and they can also be equipped with manipulators to perform screwing or pressing actions.

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Balloon-Gate – China’s Spherical ‘Terrorism’ is Unacceptable – White House Confirms! (19.2.20223) 

The government of China, for its part, has reacted using the unfamiliar French phrase (for most Westerners) of ‘force majeure’ – literally meaning ‘force major’ – more commonly interpreted within International Law as the concept of unseen, unpredictable and unintentional outside interference due to the presence of unexpected ‘major forces’ (in this case – the ‘wind’). The US government, in such circumstances, is supposed to facilitate the safe recovery of the property concerned and return it to its rightful owners (the government of China) – but instead chose the far more ‘illegal’ option of shooting down a ‘blown-off course’ canvas weather balloon using an ‘AIM-9X’ missile – individually worth hundreds of thousands of dollars! The balloon itself cost around $10 to construct. The destruction of this balloon, as immensely public as this spectacle was, signifies for the US Veterans of WWII, Korea and Vietnam, the ‘destruction’ of an enemy they could never quite get to grips with, and which in the case of Korea and Vietnam – inflicted audacious military defeats on one of the world’s leading military nations! The Veterans of the US will sleep soundly in their beds from now on – safe in the knowledge that Uncle Sam takes their racism seriously!  

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China: History Classic (Shujing) and the Concept of ‘Time’! (22.9.2022)

Seldom does the West Treat non-Westerners with respect. Since 1945 and the rise of US dominance, this anti-intellectual approach has become far more prevalent, powerful and normalised! Racism is an ever threatening ogre lurking in the darkness – but in this short extract (in 1971) – Clae Williams ‘revitalises’ the ground breaking translation work of James Legge, who began the translation of the Chinese ‘Five Classic’ texts in the mid to late 1800s! Although both cultures (the West and East) are still learning about one another, Legge was able to ‘see beyond’ his own socio-economic and cultural conditioning, and ‘see into’ or profoundly ‘glimpse’ how the ancient Chinese people developed a distinct cultural view of the world! The following extract is an ‘Introduction’ written by the American ‘Clae Williams’ in 1969, his modernisation of the work of James Legge, with much of its content deriving from the ample notes left behind in the James Legge Library. The ‘Shujing’ (書經) or ‘Document Classic’ is often referred to in China as the ‘Book of History’ as the ‘Documents’ concerned are ‘Historical’ in nature recording Chinese history from around 2205 – 771 BCE. It is an interesting attempt by non-Chinese people to contextualise the Chinese cultural perception of the world!

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