West will feel the force of China's space programme

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
The United States ◽  
Space Science ◽  
Earth Observation ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
New Method ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Set Up

Subject China's space warfare capabilities. Significance China on December 17 launched a satellite that will test a new method for detecting dark matter -- the first of a series of five missions that put China at the cutting edge of space science. Separately, Beijing and Washington last month set up a 'space hotline' to reduce the risk of conflict in space -- an agreement representing acknowledgement of China's space capabilities and the challenge they pose to US strategic and tactical superiority. Impacts China still lags the United States significantly, but is eroding US dominance. Space capabilities will be integral to the success of China's 'anti-access/area denial' strategy. Earth observation and navigation satellites will support civilian enforcement of China's maritime claims. China will seek space collaboration with other developing countries.

Washington will engage more with South-east Asia

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
East Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Set Up

Significance She addressed two key issues during her trip: tensions in post-coup Myanmar and China’s growing regional footprint. Shortly after she left the region, the United States announced that it would donate unused COVID-19 vaccines abroad, including to South-east Asia. Impacts Washington will tighten its sanctions on the Myanmar military while supporting ASEAN’s five-point plan to ease the country’s crisis. The National Unity Government, a parallel administration to Myanmar’s junta set up by its opponents, will try to attract greater US backing. Manila and Washington may extend negotiations over renewing their Visiting Forces Agreement to prevent the pact expiring in August.

China-US deal sets stage for new climate change regime

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bilateral Agreement ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Game Changer

Significance The United States has already committed, in an unprecedented deal with China in November 2014, to reducing its emissions to 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025 (an improvement on its previous 17% goal). China in return pledged that its emissions would peak around 2030. This agreement is a game-changer for combating global climate change, since the two countries are the world's largest sources of carbon emissions, together accounting for 40% of the total, and were not covered under the now-expired Kyoto Protocol. Impacts Washington is poised to reclaim its place, lost after Kyoto, as a leader in global efforts against climate change. US-China climate cooperation initiatives could serve as templates for other developing countries. There are new opportunities for trilateral cooperation involving the EU. Fears that the bilateral agreement makes the UNFCCC obsolete are unwarranted, but it could preclude more ambitious efforts.

scholarly journals An Ecotype of Neorickettsia risticii Causing Potomac Horse Fever in Canada

2016 ◽  
Vol 82 (19) ◽  
pp. 6030-6036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingming Xiong ◽  
Hannah Bekebrede ◽  
Pratibha Sharma ◽  
Luis G. Arroyo ◽  
John D. Baird ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Amino Acid Sequences ◽  
Surface Proteins ◽  
New Method ◽  
Fatal Disease ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Strain Diversity ◽  
Potomac Horse Fever

ABSTRACTNeorickettsia(formerlyEhrlichia)risticiiis an obligatory intracellular bacterium of digenetic trematodes. When a horse accidentally ingests aquatic insects containing encysted trematodes infected withN. risticii, the bacterium is transmitted from trematodes to horse cells and causes an acute and often fatal disease called Potomac horse fever (PHF). Since the discovery ofN. risticiiin the United States in 1984, using immunofluorescence and PCR assays, PHF has been increasingly recognized throughout North America and South America. However, so far, there exist only a few stableN. risticiiculture isolates, all of which are from horses within the United States, and the strain diversity and environmental spreading and distribution of pathogenicN. risticiistrains remain poorly understood. This paper reports the isolation ofN. risticiifrom the blood of a horse with acute PHF in Ontario, Canada. IntracellularN. risticiicolonies were detected in P388D1cells after 47 days of culturing and 8 days after the addition of rapamycin. Molecular phylogenetic analysis based on amino acid sequences of major surface proteins P51 and Ssa1 showed that this isolate is distinct from any previously sequenced strains but closely related to midwestern U.S. strains. This is the first Canadian strain cultured, and a new method was developed to reactivate dormantN. risticiito improve culture isolation.IMPORTANCENeorickettsia risticiiis an environmental bacterium that lives inside flukes that are parasitic to aquatic snails, insects, and bats. When a horse accidentally ingests insects harboring flukes infected withN. risticii, the bacterium is transmitted to the horse and causes an acute and often fatal disease called Potomac horse fever. Although the disease has been increasingly recognized throughout North and South America,N. risticiihas not been cultured outside the United States. This paper reports the first Canadian strain cultured and a new method to effectively culture isolateN. risticiifrom the horse blood sample. Molecular analysis showed that the genotype of this Canadian strain is distinct from previously sequenced strains but closely related to midwestern U.S. strains. Culture isolation ofN. risticiistrains would confirm the geographic presence of pathogenicN. risticii, help elucidateN. risticiistrain diversity and environmental spreading and distribution, and improve diagnosis and development of vaccines for this dreadful disease.

Taiwan will keep its lead in semiconductors

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Market Share ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Chip Fabrication

Significance TSMC has a market share of more than 50% in chip manufacturing, and makes the vast majority of cutting-edge chips. Securing chip supply is now an issue of national and economic security for the United States, China and other major countries, putting Taiwan's dominance into question. Impacts Chip shortages will not be solved until next year; all aspects of manufacturing will be affected. Most products only need lower-end chips and Chinese producers are likely to satisfy this demand by producing higher volumes. Companies will explore silicon alternatives and shift to cloud computing, where connecting devices can run on slower chips. Competition will intensify for talent necessary to run chip fabrication plants.

Opposition to China will grow in UK politics

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
The West ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up

Subject UK opposition to China. Significance Conservative Party MPs are becoming increasingly concerned with China. They have set up the China Research Group (CRG), a backbench group dedicated to highlighting what they see as the increasing threat China poses to the health, wealth and security not just of the United Kingdom but to the West as a whole. Impacts Parliament will vote to reject Huawei’s involvement in the building of UK 5G unless the government reduces Huawei’s role substantially. The United Kingdom will look to cooperate with other large democracies in finding alternatives to Huawei. The government’s growing opposition to Huawei will make it somewhat easier to strike a free trade deal with the United States.

France’s energy policy to weaken its climate ambitions

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
The United States ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Green Finance ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Climate Transition ◽  
Phase Out

Significance Several French industries have proclaimed low-carbon ambitions but outcomes have been modest: ‘green’ finance is still embryonic and there has been little progress on key decisions such as halting subsidies to fossil fuels. Moreover, France’s energy and climate transition is set to slow, undermining its efforts on the global scene. Impacts Pressure on countries such as Germany to phase out coal will rise. Private-sector and sub-national climate engagement in the United States may increase. The issue of the extent to which developed and developing countries should be treated differently may cause conflict in the run-up to COP24.

scholarly journals Is the West best?: Education for School Information Service Professionals

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Jo Hallein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
School Library ◽  
Information Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Training School ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Set Up

School Library Educators in developing countries have, in the main, been training School Infomration Professionals using models of education developed in the United States and Europe. While there have been some local modifications to these western models few countries have developed truly local education programs for Infomation Servie Professional. This is due, in part, to the fact that the Information Services that students are being educated to work with are global information services often based on series developed in the United States and Europe. Many of the advisers who helped to set up school library training programs are from Western Countries and a large proportion of the staff lecturing in these programs have been educated in Western Countries. The paper will conclude by discussing if western models of education for School Information Service Professionals are the most appropriate models given the increased globilization of information services or whether locally developed models can best service the needs of those training to work in developing countries.

Markets, Technological Change and Economic Growth (The Quaid-i-Azam Lecture)

1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (4I) ◽  
pp. 327-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G. Lipsey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Canadian Institute ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Short Time

I am honoured to be invited to give this lecture before so distinguished an audience of development economists. For the last 21/2 years I have been director of a project financed by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and composed of a group of scholars from Canada, the United States, and Israel.I Our brief is to study the determinants of long term economic growth. Although our primary focus is on advanced industrial countries such as my own, some of us have come to the conclusion that there is more common ground between developed and developing countries than we might have first thought. I am, however, no expert on development economics so I must let you decide how much of what I say is applicable to economies such as your own. Today, I will discuss some of the grand themes that have arisen in my studies with our group. In the short time available, I can only allude to how these themes are rooted in our more detailed studies. In doing this, I must hasten to add that I speak for myself alone; our group has no corporate view other than the sum of our individual, and very individualistic, views.

NCSS notable trade book lesson plan: the girl who buried her dreams in a can

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
Takisha Durm
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
The United States ◽  
Elementary Grades ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Future Date

PurposeThe Girl Who Buried Her Dreams in a Can, written by Dr Tererai, profiles a cultural, yet global experience of the power of believing in one's dream. Through this study of the similarities and differences of how children in the United States and abroad live and dream of a better life, this lesson seeks to enhance students' understandings of the power and authority they possess to effect change not only within their own lives but also in the lives of countless others in world. After reading the text, students will work to create vision boards illustrating their plans to effect change within their homes, schools, communities, states or countries. They will present their plans to their peers. To culminate the lesson, the students will bury their dreams in can and collectively decide on a future date to revisit the can to determine how far they have progressed in accomplishing their goals.Design/methodology/approachThis is an elementary grades 3–6 lesson plan. There was no research design/methodology/approach included.FindingsAs this is a lesson plan and no actual research was represented, there are no findings.Originality/valueThis is an original lesson plan completed by the first author Takisha Durm.

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