China's "artificial sun" set a new world record for plasma temperature by reaching 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds and 160 million degrees Celsius for 20 seconds.
U.S. blacklists CNOOC for âbullyingâ in the South China Sea 1/15/2021
(Bloomberg) Chinaâs biggest offshore driller is being targeted in the final days of President Donald Trumpâs administration for its activity in the South China Sea.
China National Offshore Oil Corp. has for years drilled in waters far from its borders, and within 200 miles of countries including Vietnam and the Philippines. The activity amounts to the oil giant acting like a âbullyâ for Chinaâs military to intimidate its neighbors, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement Thursday announcing the move, which restricts access to U.S. technologies without specific permission.
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An outbreak of electricity shortages has taken China s government by surprise, exposing cracks in the country s energy policies and economic recovery plans.
The first signs of trouble in the energy sector emerged in November as electricity consumption jumped 9.4 percent, spurred by rising industrial production and the start of the winter heating season, as power generation rose only 6.8 percent.
In early December, power demands in southern China s Hunan province led State Grid officials to warn that shortfalls would last until spring, according to state media.
Since then, unusually cold weather has combined with low coal supplies and recovery strains to produce a range of energy shortages in southeastern Jiangxi and eastern Zhejiang provinces as well as Inner Mongolia.