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Chinese Weather Forecasts Are Top Secret
Beijing (AFP) Dec 25, 2006 China's government, which suppresses a range of information deemed threatening to national security, now wants to keep weather forecasts from falling into the wrong hands, state press said Monday. New regulations to take effect next year will clamp down on the illegal acquisition of Chinese meteorological information by foreigners, the China Daily newspaper reported. The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) has identified about 20 breaches of weather security since 2000, the paper said. "Illegal meteorological surveys and data collection have infringed China's sovereignty... and threatened the country's security," the paper quoted CMA Vice Minister Zheng Guogang as saying. Examples of the breaches include the construction by a Japanese company of an illegal meteorological observation station around a power plant in northwest China last year, it said. This year, a British group built an observation station near the venue for 2008 Olympic yachting events, which also is near a military harbor, in the eastern China city of Qingdao. "Meteorological data plays an important role in the national economy, social development and daily life. It also plays an equally important role in national defense and military activities," the newspaper said. It did not say how weather information could be used against China by foreign forces. China strictly controls information such as military data, planned changes in its political leadership and embarrassing environmental and health information seen as possibly capable of triggering unrest.
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6th SOPS Delivers Critical Weather Data To Warfighters
Schriever AFB CO (AFPN) Dec 20, 2006The motto, "Get data or die" holds special significance for the 6th Space Operations Squadron, an Air Force Reserve Command unit here whose Airmen must deliver data to their customers within 10 minutes of downloading it from their satellites. The squadron's data transforms weather from a force of nature warfighters must endure into a force they can use to their advantage. |
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