It’s On: Asia’s New Space Race

Some might be surprised about China’s strategies when it comes to space explorations which have come a long way. Since 1980s, Beijing has slowly creating a scope of scientific, business and martial space power that presently give way to participate in other Asian countries even with the technological advancements of Japan, and at the same time showing an asymmetric warning to the United States. For the past ten years, China has introduced a spacecraft that plot the moon, organized a lunar traveller expedition and move around a little space camp. It is constructing a new starter location in Hainan Island with plans for a huge –left lifter.

At the geographical degree, China and Japan have contributed competitor groups to “organize” other small nations in this extensive competition and tie them to their side. China already established Asia Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO), which include Bangladesh, Thailand, and Mongolia. There are advantages that APSCO holds like entry to Chines space orientation, ground camps and satellite improvement projects.

In a national level, the technological pioneer in Asia like Japan has also different new projects. During 2008 the Japanese Diet rebellious laws that stops the foregoing prohibition on military activities in space. Although Japan got high market price of returning to normal state after they encountered the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear disaster, Tokyo has multiple loss on its space projects with a new strategies in high-standing science and human space travel.  The H-II Transfer Vehicle space vehicle of Japan is currently available to give only non-U.S. and non-Russian assistance

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in traduce the aspiring Hayabusa 2 operation, which has a goal to place spacecraft design on an asteroid by 2018 and then bring back the soil samples here on Earth. The Japanese leaders see an impact between their space projects and the economic capacity to send improved technologies.  They are also threatened by China’s space exploration achievements that it might place their technological status into uncertainty. Therefore, they accept the fact that the space exploration activities of China cannot strike them.

J. Moltz

In the list of the most hazardous global environmental concerns, the problem of ozone layer depletion can be viewed as a worldwide concern since 1970s. It mainly refers to two different kinds of depletions which are correlated with each other. One is a steady decline of about 4% in the total volume of ozone in the Earth’s stratosphere which is also called as the ozone layer and the other is springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone around Earth’s Polar Regions which is of much higher level. The second phenomenon is also called as the ozone hole. Apart from these stratospheric phenomena, there are also various other springtime polar troposphere ozone depletion events.

The ozone layer forms an invisible layer of protection around the planet Earth protecting us from the harmful rays of the Sun. Depletion of the Ozone layer of the atmosphere is mainly caused due to the pollution of Chlorine and Bromide found in Chloro-floro carbons commonly referred as CFC’s. When these toxic gases reach the upper atmosphere, it makes a hole in the ozone layer. The biggest and the most threatening of such holes are above the Antarctic.

So, how to resolve this problem? The best can be done through the government of all the nations who must take strict steps to ban the usage of CFCs in industries and consumer products and protect ozone layer which prevents us from harmful UV radiations.

Alex Tan

Global Economy and Europe

Europe as a first world is believed to have declined to 2.1 percent in 2015 as the Eastern Europe was suddenly hit by low fuel prices, a serious disagreement in Ukraine and continuing results of temporary economic decline in the Russian Federation. The Western Europe is receiving advantage from low fuel import value and an average improvement in the member states of the European Union. On the other hand, the growth in Europe is expected to rise by three percent this year as oil prices drop slowly or unlikely to decline. The economy of Russia also improves and Ukraine returns to normal state. The increase of profit is determined by the way the region can handle the challenges such as geopolitical pressures, low oil costs and fixed external economic setup. When it comes to economic breakthrough, Russia is expected to compress by 0.7 percent this year before displaying positive development in 2017. Russia belongs to the top 15 of global economies, with fast improvements compared to Austria, Norway, Belgium, the UK and China, according to the 2016 Bloomberg Innovation Index. Extended period of low oil costs and global agreements will pull economic activity. Investors with poor conviction and high interest rates are alarming the process of investment and a sudden drop in consumer purchasing energy has damage consumption. The price index scored economies using investigative activities that a business chooses to conduct with the intention of making a discovery that can either lead to the development and application of high technologies in public industries. Aside from that, Russia also carried the major position of research application. Furthermore, there are some significant factors that affect the global economy in Europe. Europe has to increase their power to deal with important security issues. The refugee crisis in Europe is a crucial factor that will continue to exist this year. The countries in Europe that will be affected the most are Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Austria and Italy. The short-term economic outcome of increasing migration drift will relatively have increase GDP growth in Germany and Sweden caused by temporary increase in spending funds for the society. The outcome of increasing population is certain in the long-term, decreasing the pressure of growing population.

Jingqian Zhang