US, Australia agree plans on space surveillance

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AFP, Nov. 8, 2010.
http://public.dawn.com/2010/11/08/us-australia-agree-plans-on-space-surveillance.html


------------------------Separate'y
(1) 日本加强收集中国军事情报
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2010/11/101109_jp_collect_china_intelligence.shtml
("'当时共同社说，为了防备中、台可能的反弹，防卫省打算先在与那国岛配备'沿岸监视部队'”)

My comment: Muchas gracias. Japan is wary of Taiwan now, thanks to the Ma administration's hostility against Japan.

(2) rare earth
(a) William J Broad, Mining the Seafloor for Rare-Earth Minerals; Entrepreneurs may find success with manganese nodules. New York Times, Nov. 9, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/science/09seafloor.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=manganese&st=cse

My comment: Reading the first paragraphs is enough.

(b) 日美联手应对稀土问题
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20101109-JAPAN-US-RARE-EARTH-106951833.html

Note:
(i) 对话框架 dialogue framework
(ii) 本瑞穗综合研究所亚洲调查部中国室首席主任研究员 铃木 贵元
Takamoto SUZUKI (whose title in Japanese: みずほ総合研究所 アジア調査部 上海駐在 上席主任研究員)

* Mizuho Research Institute Ltd. みずほ総合研究所 (http://www.mizuho-ri.co.jp) is the thinktank of Mizuho Financial Group (both based at Tokyo).

* 瑞穂の国 【みずほのくに】 (n) Japan, the Land of Abundant Rice
From Jim Breen's online Japanese dictionary

The origin of this term came from 日本書紀 (Nihonshoki, completed in 720 AD at Nara, then capital of Japan): "葦原千五百秋瑞穂の国は、是、吾が子孫の王たるべき地なり。爾皇孫、就でまして治らせ。行矣。宝祚の隆えまさむこと、当に天壌と窮り無けむ。"  Which means 皇室が日本を永遠に統治する Japanese temperor will reign over Japan forever and ever--much like God promised Abraham: "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast hearkened to my voice." Genesis 22: 18 (King James version).   

(iii) 清水 浩, 慶應義塾大学環境情報学部教授
Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information  Studies, Keio University (he leads Electric Vehicle Laboratory  of the university)

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