Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

China/Afghanistan/USA – GT Voice: US in no position to meddle with potential rare-earth cooperation between China and Afghanistan (Global Times)

A US Chinook helicopter flies over the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday. Helicopters are landing at the US embassy there as diplomatic...

China – Tencent invests 50 billion yuan to help promote ‘common prosperity’ (Global Times)

Tencent Photo:VCG Chinese technology giant Tencent announced a plan to invest 50 billion yuan ($7.71 billion) to help promote the country's common prosperity initiative, the...

China/Pakistan/Afghanistan – China to strengthen coordination with Pakistan on Afghan issues: FM (Global Times)

Afghan displaced children who fled from their homes during the fights take shelter in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 11, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua) China...

China/USA/Taiwan/Afghanistan – DPP challenged for defending US, evading Taiwan-Afghanistan analogy to fool Taiwan people (Global Times)

A US Chinook helicopter flies over the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday. Helicopters are landing at the US embassy there as diplomatic...

China/Uzbekistan – ‘President Project No.1’ in Belt and Road Cooperation (Global Times)

The Qamchiq Tunnel Running through the mountains in Central Asia, the Angren-Pap railway line is a milestone project between China and Uzbekistan built under the...

China/Canada – Global Times sends open letter to Canadian ambassador Dominic Barton, demanding release of Meng Wanzhou (Global Times)

Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, leaves the B.C. Supreme Court during a break in her extradition hearing on Tuesday local time in...

NK-linked InkySquid APT leverages IE exploits in recent attacks (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini North Korea-linked InkySquid group leverages two Internet Explorer exploits to deliver a custom implant in attacks aimed at a South Korean online newspaper. NK-linked InkySquid...

Cybersecurity – New analysis of Diavol ransomware reinforces the link to TrickBot gang (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Researchers conducted a new analysis of the Diavol ransomware and found new evidence of the link with the gang behind the TrickBot botnet New analysis...

Cybersecurity – T-Mobile data breach has impacted 48.6 million customers (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini T-Mobile has confirmed that hackers have stolen records belonging to 48.6 million of current and former customers T-Mobile data breach has impacted 48.6 million customersSecurity...

Afghanistan/USA – Trump’s Pledge to Exit Afghanistan Was a Ruse, His Final SecDef Says (Defense One)

Patrick Tucker President Donald Trump’s top national security officials never intended to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, according to new statements by Chris...

Private Equity Firm Acquires Geost, Whose Sensors Protect Satellites (Defense One)

Marcus Weisgerber New York-based ATL Partners has acquired Geost, a small Arizona firm that makes sensors that can watch and protect satellites from threatening spacecraft. Firm officials...

Taiwan/China/USA – Taiwan Wants Paladins. Congress Should Say No (Defense One)

Brian Davis, Michael A. Hunzeker The Biden administration recently notified Congress of a proposal to sell Taiwan 40 Paladin self-propelled howitzers. As mundane as this...

Afghanistan – ‘All the Signs Have Been There’ Predicting Afghan Security Force Collapse, IG Says (Defense One)

Courtney Buble For all the professed shock in Washington about the Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan, one senior government official was notably unsurprised. John Sopko,...

The Texas National Guard Just Unveiled the Largest 3D Printed Structure in North America (Defense One)

Patrick Tucker The recent unveiling of an entire barracks building 3D-printed with concrete showed off the latest example of the U.S. military putting additive manufacturing...

Displaced Afghans – The Next Big Refugee Crisis Just Started (Defense One)

Erol Yayboke The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban will likely spark a reinvigorated refugee – and broader forced displacement – crisis in a country...

US contractors rush to get former employees out of Afghanistan (Defense News)

Marjorie Censer Contractor industry groups are set to meet Friday with U.S. government agencies, as companies try to help their former employees in Afghanistan find...