The Great Game Changer: Belt and Road Intiative (BRI; OBOR)

[xunzi]

Indeed, that is exactly what it is. They even openly say it to us Bangladeshi's that we are dalit (untouchable) converts. You should see the abuse they heap on Bangladeshi posters in Bangladeshi subsection. Because of the same reason they treat Pakistan with more deference. A habit that is thousands of years old is hard to get rid of.

You can see tons of videos on this subject of caste discrimination. I don't want to post videos and make Indian posters more angry. I would recommend two key word searches:
"caste discrimination"
"india untouched"

Can you explain how caste system works in India? From my understanding, the caste system is inherent. So my question is, how do people know which caste people are from or part of, by appearance or registration? Can a dalit pretends to be a high class caste and how do other superior caste find out?

 

[cirr]

Russia plans to place GLONASS ground stations in China

May 22, 15:53 UTC+4

Contries consider ensuring compatibility of the national navigation systems, similar to the American GPS

First Glonass ground station (archive)
© EPA/FERNANDO BIZERRA JR.



Belarus ratifies agreement with Russia on GLONASS cooperation

MOSCOW, May 22./ITAR-TASS/.Russia plans to sign an agreement with China this year to place ground stations of global navigation satellite system GLONASS in China and to deploy Chinese navigation satellite stations Beidou in Russia, deputy head of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Sergey Savelyev said on Thursday.

Russia and China see prospects for co-operation between global navigation satellite systems GLONASS and Beidou in the sphere of regional support and the development of chipsets. They consider ensuring compatibility of the national navigation systems, similar to the American GPS.

Roscosmos together with Russian Foreign Ministry also preparing project of updated intergovernmental space agreement with China. Detailed consultations may begin this summer, Savelyev said.

At the same time the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) did not resume talks with US partners to place Russian ground stations of global navigation satellite system GLONASS in the United States, Sergey Savelyev said.


ERA-GLONASS car terminals go on sale 2015

“Talks did not start yet, but Roscosmos is prepared for them. I hope that we will receive some response from US partners and I hope that talks will take place. It is certainly early to say about their results now. No official response came from American partners yet,” he said.

Space cooperation with India

The Russian Space Agency is interested in setting up a joint venture with India to produce equipment for Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System, a deputy head of the agency said on Thursday.

“We believe that the most perspective sector of interaction with our Indian colleagues is the cooperation in the sphere of the satellite navigation system,” Sergei Savelyev said in an interview with ITAR-TASS on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Russia’s St. Petersburg.


Russia, China agree to create working group for space cooperation projects

He said Roscosmos plans to send its delegation to India in June or July for talks with Indian colleagues on Glonass cooperation.

“We (Roscosmos) have recently received an official invitation from the administration of the Indian Space Research Organization to pay a visit to India with the aim of organizing full-scale meetings on the perspective directions of the bilateral cooperation,” Savelyev said adding that the agency is currently working on the preparations for this visit.

The agency’s deputy head said that Roscosmos also plans to reach an agreement with New Delhi this year on the deployment of three Glonass earth-based stations in India and hopes that the upcoming visit would contribute to such plans.

“I hope that after the visit a joint protocol would be signed and definite decisions on cooperation would be made, including on the deployment of the Russian Glonass stations in India,” Savelyev said.

The Glonass network is Russia’s analogue of the US Global Positioning System (GPS) and the system, which was put into operation in 1993, provides real-time positioning and speed data on the surface objects, as well as on the sea and airborne objects.

There are currently 29 Glonass satellites in orbit time with 24 of them active providing global coverage, while four are kept as backups and one undergoes test flights.

ITAR-TASS: Non-political - Russia plans to place GLONASS ground stations in China

 

[cirr]

Russia plans to place GLONASS ground stations in China

May 22, 15:53 UTC+4

Contries consider ensuring compatibility of the national navigation systems, similar to the American GPS

First Glonass ground station (archive)
© EPA/FERNANDO BIZERRA JR.



Belarus ratifies agreement with Russia on GLONASS cooperation

MOSCOW, May 22./ITAR-TASS/.Russia plans to sign an agreement with China this year to place ground stations of global navigation satellite system GLONASS in China and to deploy Chinese navigation satellite stations Beidou in Russia, deputy head of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Sergey Savelyev said on Thursday.

Russia and China see prospects for co-operation between global navigation satellite systems GLONASS and Beidou in the sphere of regional support and the development of chipsets. They consider ensuring compatibility of the national navigation systems, similar to the American GPS.

Roscosmos together with Russian Foreign Ministry also preparing project of updated intergovernmental space agreement with China. Detailed consultations may begin this summer, Savelyev said.

At the same time the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) did not resume talks with US partners to place Russian ground stations of global navigation satellite system GLONASS in the United States, Sergey Savelyev said.


ERA-GLONASS car terminals go on sale 2015

“Talks did not start yet, but Roscosmos is prepared for them. I hope that we will receive some response from US partners and I hope that talks will take place. It is certainly early to say about their results now. No official response came from American partners yet,” he said.

Space cooperation with India

The Russian Space Agency is interested in setting up a joint venture with India to produce equipment for Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System, a deputy head of the agency said on Thursday.

“We believe that the most perspective sector of interaction with our Indian colleagues is the cooperation in the sphere of the satellite navigation system,” Sergei Savelyev said in an interview with ITAR-TASS on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Russia’s St. Petersburg.


Russia, China agree to create working group for space cooperation projects

He said Roscosmos plans to send its delegation to India in June or July for talks with Indian colleagues on Glonass cooperation.

“We (Roscosmos) have recently received an official invitation from the administration of the Indian Space Research Organization to pay a visit to India with the aim of organizing full-scale meetings on the perspective directions of the bilateral cooperation,” Savelyev said adding that the agency is currently working on the preparations for this visit.

The agency’s deputy head said that Roscosmos also plans to reach an agreement with New Delhi this year on the deployment of three Glonass earth-based stations in India and hopes that the upcoming visit would contribute to such plans.

“I hope that after the visit a joint protocol would be signed and definite decisions on cooperation would be made, including on the deployment of the Russian Glonass stations in India,” Savelyev said.

The Glonass network is Russia’s analogue of the US Global Positioning System (GPS) and the system, which was put into operation in 1993, provides real-time positioning and speed data on the surface objects, as well as on the sea and airborne objects.

There are currently 29 Glonass satellites in orbit time with 24 of them active providing global coverage, while four are kept as backups and one undergoes test flights.

ITAR-TASS: Non-political - Russia plans to place GLONASS ground stations in China

 

[cirr]

Russia plans to place GLONASS ground stations in China

May 22, 15:53 UTC+4

Contries consider ensuring compatibility of the national navigation systems, similar to the American GPS

First Glonass ground station (archive)
© EPA/FERNANDO BIZERRA JR.



Belarus ratifies agreement with Russia on GLONASS cooperation

MOSCOW, May 22./ITAR-TASS/.Russia plans to sign an agreement with China this year to place ground stations of global navigation satellite system GLONASS in China and to deploy Chinese navigation satellite stations Beidou in Russia, deputy head of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Sergey Savelyev said on Thursday.

Russia and China see prospects for co-operation between global navigation satellite systems GLONASS and Beidou in the sphere of regional support and the development of chipsets. They consider ensuring compatibility of the national navigation systems, similar to the American GPS.

Roscosmos together with Russian Foreign Ministry also preparing project of updated intergovernmental space agreement with China. Detailed consultations may begin this summer, Savelyev said.

At the same time the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) did not resume talks with US partners to place Russian ground stations of global navigation satellite system GLONASS in the United States, Sergey Savelyev said.


ERA-GLONASS car terminals go on sale 2015

“Talks did not start yet, but Roscosmos is prepared for them. I hope that we will receive some response from US partners and I hope that talks will take place. It is certainly early to say about their results now. No official response came from American partners yet,” he said.

Space cooperation with India

The Russian Space Agency is interested in setting up a joint venture with India to produce equipment for Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System, a deputy head of the agency said on Thursday.

“We believe that the most perspective sector of interaction with our Indian colleagues is the cooperation in the sphere of the satellite navigation system,” Sergei Savelyev said in an interview with ITAR-TASS on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Russia’s St. Petersburg.


Russia, China agree to create working group for space cooperation projects

He said Roscosmos plans to send its delegation to India in June or July for talks with Indian colleagues on Glonass cooperation.

“We (Roscosmos) have recently received an official invitation from the administration of the Indian Space Research Organization to pay a visit to India with the aim of organizing full-scale meetings on the perspective directions of the bilateral cooperation,” Savelyev said adding that the agency is currently working on the preparations for this visit.

The agency’s deputy head said that Roscosmos also plans to reach an agreement with New Delhi this year on the deployment of three Glonass earth-based stations in India and hopes that the upcoming visit would contribute to such plans.

“I hope that after the visit a joint protocol would be signed and definite decisions on cooperation would be made, including on the deployment of the Russian Glonass stations in India,” Savelyev said.

The Glonass network is Russia’s analogue of the US Global Positioning System (GPS) and the system, which was put into operation in 1993, provides real-time positioning and speed data on the surface objects, as well as on the sea and airborne objects.

There are currently 29 Glonass satellites in orbit time with 24 of them active providing global coverage, while four are kept as backups and one undergoes test flights.

ITAR-TASS: Non-political - Russia plans to place GLONASS ground stations in China

China's Beidou navigation system makes breakthrough

Editor: Zhang Dan 丨Xinhua

05-09-2014 14:41 BJT

TIANJIN, May 9 (Xinhua) -- China's independently-developed Beidou differential navigation satellite system has achieved a positioning accuracy within one meter, a major breakthrough in marine application, local authorities said Friday.

The Beidou Radio Beacon-Differential Beidou Navigation Satellite System (RBN-DBDS) is an augmentation system that provides improved positioning accuracy of the GPS-like Beidou Navigation Satellite System by broadcasting differential corrections to Beidou receivers in the medium frequency radio beacon band (285-325 khz), said Wang Cheng, a senior engineer of the Beihai Navigation Safety Administration under the Ministry of Transport, the developer of the system.

The RBN-DBDS system has passed an evaluation after more than 130 days of test trials in Tianjin Municipality. It can be applied in sailing, marine exploration and rescue, and maritime charting and monitoring.

After the system's completion, customers can receive free positioning services from Beidou and GPS with a dual-mode receiver.

China's Beidou navigation system makes breakthrough - CCTV News - CCTV.com English

UPDATED: May 22, 2014

China's BeiDou System Standard Ratified by IMO


The International Maritime Organization has ratified the performance standard of a receiver of the shipborne BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), the Ministry of Transport revealed Wednesday.

This is the first BDS to be standard approved by an international organization. It marks the first step for China's home-grown system in its quest to go global, according to the ministry.

The move is key to the application of BDS in the international maritime field and its industrial development, the ministry said.

The first satellite for the BDS plan was launched in 2000. China wants to expand the regional navigation system to global coverage by around 2020.

Also on Wednesday, BDS spokesman Ran Chengqi said at a symposium in Nanjing that China has started the last phase of the BDS development plan, and is expanding the system's market share at home.

As of the end of March, the sale of BDS/GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) modules exceeded two million, Ran said.

Moreover, he said that over 40 million mobile phones with BeiDou positioning function have been put into market, and vehicle-mounted BDS navigators designed for more than 200 automobile types have been on sale.

(Xinhua News Agency May 21, 2014)


China's Beidou navigation system makes breakthrough - CCTV News - CCTV.com English

 

[xunzi]

Russia has a lot of experience with space. We should cooperate on space project with Russia, especially that NASA discriminates us.

 

[cirr]

China Plans to Complete BeiDou Ahead of Schedule

Inside GNSS‎ - 1 day ago

China's BeiDou will accelerate the pace of its development, even as the world's other three GNSS systems are experiencing delays and ...

China Plans to Complete BeiDou Ahead of Schedule | Inside GNSS

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

Can you explain how caste system works in India? From my understanding, the caste system is inherent. So my question is, how do people know which caste people are from or part of, by appearance or registration? Can a dalit pretends to be a high class caste and how do other superior caste find out?

The Whiter you are the higher your status in the caste system & the darker you are.... You get the idea. Kinda like in real life.

The Indian can thank the Aryans for that.

 

[TaiShang]

LOL @ the US...

The specter haunting Washington

Zhao Jinglun

The specter of the China-Russia partnership is haunting the United States, which has committed a cardinal diplomatic sin of simultaneously taking on both great powers.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and the visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a joint statement, agreed to elevate their broad strategic cooperative partnership to a new higher stage, as they plan to work closer together in practically every field.

Most notable is the signing of a decade-long gas deal by which Gazprom will supply China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) with 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas every year for thirty years, beginning no later than the end of 2018. The deal is reportedly worth US$400 billion, and it may be paid not in petrodollars but in Chinese yuan. Some analysts even talked about the yuan becoming a new international reserve currency.

The conclusion of the gas deal will seal the "strategic energy alliance" between the two countries. It signifies Moscow's strategic shift to the Asian market as Europe seeks to cut reliance on Russian energy following the Ukraine crisis.

The two presidents personally attended the opening of the joint naval exercise off Shanghai in the sensitive East China Sea. It was unusual for both heads of state to personally open the drill. And the drill, which will last until the 26th, is of an unprecedented scale with 14 surface ships participating, including six from Russia's Pacific fleet led by its flagship Slava class guided missile cruiser, the Varyag. The rest are from three Chinese fleets: the state of the art 052C guided missile destroyer the Zhengzhou, two submarines and nine fixed-wing aircraft.

The exercise is not targeted at any third country. But Western observers say it sends a message to Japan and its Big Brother, the United States.

The Western press also stresses the military side of the China-Russia partnership, mentioning Russia's ultra-sophisticated S-500 air defense anti-missile system coming on line in 2018. China would like to have a version of it. And China will acquire dozens of Su-35 jet fighters. China and Russia will work together to develop a wide-body air liner.

The two partners will increase their two-way trade to US$100 billion by 2015 and US$200 billion by 2020.

In April, when President Xi visited Duisburg on the Rhine, he proposed the building of a new "economic Silk Road" between China and Europe on the basis of the Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe railway, which is already running from China to Kazakhstan. That will herald the birth of what is sometimes called a "Eurasian Century".

Both leaders attended the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) which adopted a "Shanghai Declaration." The main points of the declaration are as follows: No country should seek its own security at the expense of the security of other countries; no violation of other countries' territorial integrity and political independence by use of force or threat of force; no country should violate the UN Charter; there should be settlement of disputes by peaceful means; no interference in other country's internal affairs and no support for any action designed to subvert a legitimate government (regime change).

Washington complained that the Asian security architecture excludes the United States. But, as China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi explained: the security of Asia has to be managed by Asian countries themselves.


The author is a columnist with China.org.cn. For more information please visit: Opinion - China.org.cn

 

[SrNair]

That was historic.First clear example of vanishing US hegemony from this world .

Can you explain how caste system works in India? From my understanding, the caste system is inherent. So my question is, how do people know which caste people are from or part of, by appearance or registration? Can a dalit pretends to be a high class caste and how do other superior caste find out?

Caste system is an old cliche.Except some NI South or West dont give much value to this caste system now.Even if they exist it is not that big and dont create any problems in our society.

The Whiter you are the higher your status in the caste system & the darker you are.... You get the idea. Kinda like in real life.

The Indian can thank the Aryans for that.

What ???
You proved your BS claim buy this picture.The one that ride this chariot is considered as a God by Hindus ,Lord Krishna a low caste Yadavs.
Dont derail this topic
Stay on topic.

 

[TaiShang]

That was historic.First clear example of vanishing US hegemony from this world .

Interestingly, though, still no clear news of the settlement currency for the natural gas deal. That, in my view, is as important as the deal itself. Especially if we are going to move toward the point that you mention, de-Dollarization has to accelerate.

 

[SrNair]

Interestingly, though, still no clear news of the settlement currency for the natural gas deal. That, in my view, is as important as the deal itself. Especially if we are going to move toward the point that you mention, de-Dollarization has to accelerate.

So what will be the currency? I thought deal is based on Yuan or Ruble.
If they use USD then US dont have much problem from this deal.

Indians are not that smart to pull off something like that . I only agree they are pigs, but the tiger will eat them.

Your post is reported for off topic.

 

[TaiShang]

So what will be the currency? I thought deal is based on Yuan or Ruble.
If they use USD then US dont have much problem from this deal.

No official information on this, to my knowledge. But I came across several Op-Eds, suggesting the payment currency would be RMB.

I agree, if that does not happen, the US would probably be very little bothered. Maybe only indirectly; considering US itself plans to export natural gas, the bilateral deal would maybe drive gas prices down since China would buy less from international market.

On the other, I do not really see the Chinese government to be willing to make a half-a-trillion dollar payment (overtime) in USD.

 

[eazzy]

China to Pay for Russian Gas in US Dollars – Russian Energy Minister | Russia | RIA Novosti

 

[500]

Channel News Asia in Singapore reported that China could pay 25 billion upfront to Russia in this deal. Also, the transaction will be in Chinese Yuan.

ITAR-TASS News Agency graphics

400 bln for 30 years
38 bln cu. m anually

285 $ per 1000 m3

Gas prices fore various Europe countries. 413 $ per 1000 is average price.

 

[TaiShang]

China to Pay for Russian Gas in US Dollars – Russian Energy Minister | Russia | RIA Novosti

The title and the content of the news do not really match.

Energy Minister does not state it clearly. In fact he says they are working on creating an alternative payment mechanism.

I would like to take news from Russia (especially quoted from some powerful CEOs) with a truckload of salt.

Anyways, it is an extended payment, it may start with the USD and when the mechanism is set up, continue with RMB. Let's just hope that.