China

The Chinese balloon launched over the coast of the US state of South Carolina on February 4 was indeed able to collect sensitive information. Various sources report this to the American channel NBC News. In February of this year, the world was under the spell of suspicious objects over North American skies. On February 4, an American F-22 fighter jet shot down a large white balloon. A Chinese spy balloon, the United States declared. China has always denied that and spoke of a weather balloon. Nevertheless, the discovery of the balloon certainly caused a lot of tension between the two countries. After further investigation, the United States found that the balloon, first spotted over Alaska on January 28, could gather information. China could steer the balloon to fly over some loc...

China and the United States, the largest two emitters of CO₂, will cooperate more closely over the next decade to combat climate change. They announced this yesterday at the Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.   By 2030, they want to reduce methane emissions faster and phase out coal more quickly, although no concrete targets were mentioned. Last night at the COP26, the Climate Change Conference in Glasgow was a bit of a surprise. Suddenly there were the press conferences of the Chinese climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua and his American colleague John Kerry. Each separately, but with a common message. The two countries announced that they would work more closely together to combat climate change and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. They commit to a faster reduction of m...