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• China’s president Xi Jinping, who has attended every meeting of this summit since 2013, is not going.
• Xi is busy dealing with significant economic problems at home, while also rejigging his foreign policy approach away from the aggressive “wolf warrior” diplomacy, a strategy he has pursued since 2017.
• It can also be seen as an effort to establish more partnerships internationally, rather than antagonise the entire western world.
• The recent visit of UK foreign secretary James Cleverly to Beijing may have been indicative of China’s new softly softly approach.

China the peacemaker?

• The move away from wolf warrior diplomacy has also been part of a changing image that China has sought to promote in recent years.
• US rhetoric towards China during the Trump administration was as belligerent as the wolf warriors, which contributed to the crude nature of Sino-American interactions.
• The Biden administration, for instance, has continued many of the previous administration’s policies towards China.

Is this a significant change?

• But some of China’s core aims have been retained, but in a different form.
• In this way, it adds Asian allies and ramps up anti-Japanese feeling, as well as extending China’s diplomatic influence further.

• It is unprecedented in the history of the nuclear industry and will bring long-term and unpredictable consequences, scientists and researchers said at a seminar organized by China Association for Science and Technology in Beijing on July 18.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently said Japan's plan to discharge the "treated" contaminated water into the ocean is consistent with IAEA safety standards.
• Japan's ocean discharge plan is largely limited and incomplete, and its so-called "treated water" should be questioned.
• The plan has focused on the treatment of tritium and carbon-14, which is the common difficulty faced by the nuclear industry and makes the plan sound more acceptable.

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• DALLAS, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J) has designed and built a robotic tool to obtain crucial information about the state of a damaged nuclear power reactor at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.
• The remotely operated device will collect pebble-like debris that was deposited at the bottom of the reactor containment vessel after the meltdown caused by the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
• The exact nature of the debris is currently unknown, and examination of the retrieved debris samples will provide crucial data for the next steps in the clean-up and decommissioning of the Fukushima reactors.
• Designed by Jacobs' engineers in the U.K., the robotic tool had to meet more than 300 functional, operational, performance and geometric requirements.