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22-Sep-2018

WORLD HOLIDAYS: 23 SEPTEMBER-6 OCTOBER 2018
Worldwide

World Holidays: 23 September-6 October 2018
Saturday, September 22, 2018, Worldwide

Public holidays around the world in the coming two weeks include the following:
22 Sep (Sat)-24 Sep (Mon) – Mid-Autumn Festival
23 Sep (Sun) – September equinox
24 Sep (Mon) – Heritage Day (South Africa)
24 Sep (Mon) – Trinidad & Tobago Republic Day
1 Oct (Mon)-7 Oct (Sun) – China National Day celebrations
1 Oct (Mon) – Hong Kong National Day
1 Oct...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/09/22/hot-port-news-from-gac-1900/

China skyrockets its U.S. exports before tariffs hit

By Kyunghee Park, Daniela Wei and Matt Townsend (Bloomberg) — The race is on to get Chinese goods into the U.S. before President Donald Trump’s tariffs bite.

At sea and in the sky, the U.S. president’s trade war with China has ignited a freight frenzy. Hyundai Merchant Marine Co.’s vessels leaving China for the U.S. are full, deliveries to California ports are surging, and cargo rates for journeys across the Pacific are at a four-year high.

The levies that kick in Monday have amplified the busy...

http://container-news.com/china-exports-u-s-tariffs-hit/

China Sent Uninvited Spy Ship to Russian Vostok 2018 Exercise Alongside Troops, Tanks

An undated photo of Dongdiao-class auxiliary general intelligence (AGI) Tianwangxing (852).

Russia recently concluded the 2018 edition of the massive Vostok exercise series that included Chinese forces for the first time. At Moscow’s invitation, Beijing sent People’s Liberation Army soldiers, helicopters, tanks – and one uninvited Chinese surveillance ship.

A PLA Navy Dongdiao-class auxiliary general intelligence (AGI) shadowed Russian Navy assets for the length of the at-sea portion of the...

https://news.usni.org/2018/09/17/china-sent-uninvited-spy-ship-russian-vostok-2018-exercise-alongside-troops-tanks

China Expanding Economic Influence in Americas, Research in the Arctic

China’s icebreaker Xue Long

China’s drive for influence in the Western Hemisphere has zeroed in on economic gain, making the current great powers competition significantly different from the Soviet Union’s attempt to assert military power in the Americas the during the Cold War, a panel assessing the American-Chinese relationship after 40 years of diplomatic recognition agreed.

Stapleton Roy, a former ambassador and now with the Kissinger Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., said...

https://news.usni.org/2018/09/14/36564

Panel: Trade Tensions May Complicate Delicate Security Environment in Indo-Pacific

Washington’s simmering trade war with and tariffs against China are creating some unintended consequences for the U.S. military and its relationships with partners in the Pacific, a panel said today.

Speaking Thursday at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., Yuki Tatsumi, co-director of the East Asia Program at the Stimson Center, said President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum and threats to impose them on automobiles have made Japan and China “kind of strange...

https://news.usni.org/2018/09/13/panel-trade-tensions-in-the-pacific-may-complicate-delicate-security-environment-there

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