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China to commit 1.5b yuan to biodiversity fund, put in place a ‘1+N’ policy framework for carbon neutrality: Xi (Global Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday said China will take the lead by investing 1.5 billion yuan ($233 million) to establish the Kunming Biodiversity...

China’s ecological red line system, BRI to help countries achieve post-2020 targets (Zhang Hui and Xu Liuliu, Global Times)

China expressed a strong ambition to further strengthen biodiversity protection at the first global meeting convened by the UN on ecological civilization on Monday,...

US Army Is Scrutinizing Itself, Must Change Swiftly to Face China, Secretary Says (Caitlin M. Kenney, Defense One)

The U.S. Army is analyzing its force structure, infrastructure, modernization programs, and readiness in a bid to figure out how it can best focus...

Pentagon’s Top Science Official Adds to Tech-Breakthrough Wishlist (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

When Heidi Shyu was nominated to be defense undersecretary for research and engineering, the longtime Army acquisition executive set out to trim the long list of...

4 C’s Drive Biden Administration’s First Naval Strategic Guidance (Caitlin M. Kenney, Defense One)

The “Four C’s: China, Culture, Climate Change, and COVID” are the naval services’ “most pressing” challenges, Carlos Del Toro writes in his first strategic...

Mind the ‘Middle Powers’ Gap (Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D., Mollie Saltskog, Defense One)

Weak states can pose as great a danger to U.S. national interests as strong ones, President George W. Bush declared after the 9/11 attacks, and...

First platoon of short-range air defense systems get workout ahead of bigger events (Jen Judson, Defense News)

The first platoon of the U.S. Army’s Maneuver-Short-Range Air Defense System arrived in Europe five months ago, and the first unit to receive the Stryker-based systems...

US Army weighs taking future Project Convergence exercises abroad (Jen Judson, Defense News)

The Army is about to kick off a major part of its U.S.-based experimentation event known as Project Convergence, and service leaders are considering growing the annual...

This Compass Call squadron is coming home after 20 years of hacking and jamming enemies in CENTCOM (Rachel S. Cohen, Defense News)

After almost 20 years as a shadowy player in the War on Terror, the Air Force’s squadron of EC-130H electronic warfare planes is leaving...

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