WASHINGTON: China-based DJI sued the United States Defense Department on Friday (Oct 18) for adding the drone maker to a list of companies allegedly working with Beijing’s military, saying the designation is wrong and has caused the company significant financial harm. DJI, the world’s largest drone manufacturer that sells more than half of all US … Read more
The British statement released Friday said only that this is “an area [on] which the U.K. and China must engage, even where viewpoints diverge.” That’s a far cry from Labour’s position in opposition. As Shadow Foreign Secretary, Lammy told POLITICO last March Labour would pursue legal routes towards declaring China’s crackdown on Uighur Muslims a … Read more
Taiwan has signed contracts to purchase nearly 1,000 killer drones from the United States, bolstering its asymmetric warfare capabilities amid rising cross-strait tensions. According to a government procurement website, the Taiwanese army signed two contracts with the American Institute in Taiwan, Washington’s de facto embassy in Taipei, on Tuesday. The contracts, valued at a total … Read more
“The enemy once again used its drones against Kyiv,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said in a post on Telegram. “Russian drones entered the capital of Ukraine in several waves and from different directions.” The State Emergency Service said one person was wounded and warehouses and cargo trucks were damaged in Odessa during the … Read more
As the Iranian minister met with Lebanese and Hezbollah officials in Beirut, Israel continued to pick off top Hezbollah commanders with airstrikes. Hashem Safieddine, seen as Nasrallah’s most likely successor, was possibly among the dead in a series punishing Israeli attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut this week. Israeli officials say they are still … Read more
Just a few weeks after Shenzhen set a world record for the most number of drones in a drone show, the Chinese city smashed the record again. At the start of September, a show there used 7,598 drones to light up the night sky, dazzling crowds with an array of images and animations, beating the … Read more
RUSSIA has deployed war wolves on the Ukraine front line — because the beasts react early to kamikaze drone sounds. Troops say the howling animals have a good sense of smell, are sociable and active, and can warn of danger in advance. 4 Vladimit Putin has deployed war wolves on the Ukraine front line — … Read more
China is stepping up export controls on items that can be used for both military and civilian purposes, in what observers called “a timely move” that safeguards the country’s national security against a set of external hostilities. No details were released of the regulation that was approved last week by the State Council to control … Read more
The German Air Force said separately on Saturday that it had identified five Russian jets flying over the Baltic Sea and had deployed Eurofighters to escort them. This is far from the first time Russian aircraft have wandered toward EU and NATO airspace. Earlier this month, Latvia’s defense ministry said a Russian drone crashed in the Rēzekne … Read more
Meituan, China’s largest on-demand local services provider, said its 7.45 million delivery workers drew 80 billion yuan (US$11.3 billion) in total income from the platform last year, company co-founder and chief executive Wang Xing said in an internal letter on Tuesday. About 4.5 million of those delivery workers are also covered with insurance for occupational … Read more
