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FILE IMAGE: 9news . com .au On April 5, China launched an unprecedented in its dimension naval military drills in the South China Sea. The exercises involved the Liaoning aircraft carrier and more than 40 vessels from the North, East and South Sea fleets, which China’s military muscle. “China wants to show the outside world its determination to defend the fruits of its economic reforms over the past 40 years,” Chinese military analyst Zhou Chenming commented on the situation, according to “South China Morning Post”. Chinese military spokesman Ren Guoqiang confirmed that the aircraft carrier would lead large-scale naval drills, but that was “routine” exercises of China’s “defensive” military policy and those activities posed no threat to other countries. “Like the US, China’s military might is one of the government’s political tools to protect the country’s national interests”, Zhou Chenming emphasized. Beijing deployed naval forces in response to the US increasing ...

Airport security in most countries is already tight enough as it is, with multiple points of inspection often present beginning from the arrival area going inward. But there are some who think that security efforts can be increased even further. In Dubai, a new experimental robot is being tested , and its sole purpose is to find and catch suspicious or wanted individuals. Indeed, a robot that is said to have the ability to detect and also report any and all suspicious people will be deployed at Dubai airports very soon. While unprecedented, this initiative is already in its initial stages, with the implementation of the new robot currently undergoing a pilot phase. It is said that the robot will be placed mainly at the arrival section of the airport, and when you think about it, that’s about the best place that it could be positioned in. According to Khalid Al Zarooni, an innovation specialist at the Dubai Custom’s Innovation Center , this suspicious-people-targeting robot c...