Tag: china
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Space race with China driving investment to counter hypersonic missile threat
As Space Symposium kicked off, retired Gen. John Hyten, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reminded a packed ballroom Sunday marked the 65th anniversary of the first manned space flight around the world. On April 12, 1961, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin, circled the world, beating the U.S. “That…
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China rolls out its version of the H-1B visa to attract foreign tech workers
HONG KONG (AP) — Vaishnavi Srinivasagopalan, a skilled Indian IT professional who has worked in both India and the U.S., has been looking for work in China. Beijing’s new K-visa program targeting science and technology workers could turn that dream into a reality. The K-visa rolled out by Beijing last month is part of China’s…
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US stocks drop toward worst day since April after Trump threatens more tariffs on China
NEW YORK (AP) — A monthslong calm on Wall Street is shattering Friday, and U.S. stocks are falling after President Donald Trump threatened to crank tariffs much higher on China. The S&P 500 sank 2% and was heading toward its worst loss since April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 598 points, or 1.3%, after…
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Journey to the east: UCCS film students experience China through a foreign lens
It’s relatively common for a group of college students to travel abroad as they work toward earning their degrees. But for a group of University of Colorado Colorado Springs students over the summer, they became the first to experience one that was equal parts culture shock as it was on-the-job training that looks to continue…
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Space Force’s 5th birthday brings new training, challenges and growing threats from China
As Space Force celebrated its fifth birthday Friday, the youngest military branch is embarking on new training, a new way to manage part-time service members and facing growing threats. With a little more than two-thirds of the Space Force stationed along the Front Range, many of the initiatives are happening locally, including new classes for…
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DEA links Mexican cartels to drugs in Colorado and Denver’s fentanyl epidemic
Agents from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division on Thursday seized more than 50,000 pills of fentanyl and more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine in metro Denver. Little else is known about the details of the operation, which tallied one of the biggest seizures of the drug so far this year. Authorities told…
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Chinese NBA fan shares international insight into favorite players
Chinese journalists beaming the NBA Finals to their home country don’t know what to make of the Denver Nuggets. “We know the Lakers, the Golden State Warriors and Boston,” said Fan Wu, a producer with Guangdong Radio and Television, or GRT. A television producer named Lin Lin was buying NBA Finals merchandise at Ball Arena…
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Broncos promote Brittany Bowlen, hire China Jude as VP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
The Broncos have promoted Brittany Bowlen to senior vice president of strategy and hired China Jude as vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion, the organization announced Monday. Bowlen, a daughter of late Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, has served in the organization’s front office as the vice president of strategic initiatives since 2019 and most…
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Space Command general tells lawmakers Alabama lacks communications capabilities he needs
U.S. Space Command’s top general admitted to a congressional committee that an expensive secure communications network to connect the headquarters to the Pentagon and other installations would have to be built if it moves from Colorado to Huntsville, Ala. While backing the planned move, Space Command’s Gen. James Dickinson, under furious questioning from Colorado Springs…
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Space Command general gets questions on Alabama move, but has few answers for senators
The general atop U.S. Space Command told federal lawmakers Tuesday that he doesn’t know how much it would cost to uproot his headquarters to Alabama or how many of the command’s civilian workers — two-thirds of his staff — would follow it south. During a Senate hearing, Gen. James Dickinson said the command now plans…