{"id":384025,"date":"2026-04-17T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384025\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:12:10","slug":"chinas-3-satellite-surveillance-network-hong-kongs-inflation-surge-scmps-7-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384025\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s 3-satellite surveillance network, Hong Kong\u2019s inflation surge: SCMP\u2019s 7 highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have selected seven stories from this week\u2019s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.scmp.com\/?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article&amp;campaign=rosetta_free_article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\">subscribing<\/a>.1. <a target=\"\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3349862\/3-satellites-track-all-chinese-radar-images-confirm-us-military-fears?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3 satellites to track all? Chinese radar images confirm US military fears<\/a><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Last month, China released a series of undated radar images of the Towa Maru. It marked the first time ever that a geosynchronous orbit (GEO) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite had successfully achieved long-term tracking of a moving maritime target.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a target=\"\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3349797\/chinese-ai-solves-decade-old-maths-problem-hours-no-human-intervention?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese AI solves decade-old maths problem in hours, with no human intervention<\/a><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Chinese artificial intelligence framework has autonomously resolved an open problem proposed more than a decade ago by a US mathematician, according to the Peking University-led team that developed it.<\/p>\n<p>3. <a target=\"\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3349816\/toilet-paper-travel-why-inflation-could-soon-hit-hongkongers-hard?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">From toilet paper to travel: why inflation could soon hit Hongkongers hard<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Customers buy food at a shop in Sham Shui Po. Photo: May Tse\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5f6770de-df52-4b23-bda2-7d2392c8f018_52519f63.jpg\" title=\"Customers buy food at a shop in Sham Shui Po. Photo: May Tse\"\/>Customers buy food at a shop in Sham Shui Po. Photo: May Tse<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With various Hong Kong industries battered by the world\u2019s highest petrol and diesel prices, economists and business leaders predict the oil crisis caused by the Middle East war will trigger a wave of imported inflation, driving up the cost of items ranging from toilet paper and laundry services to asphalt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have selected seven stories from this week\u2019s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[6776,6213,4474,132834,607,4444,11720,4431,1759,30703,111,139,69,1710,147,3747,392,3040,2988],"class_list":{"0":"post-384025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-airbus","9":"tag-asian","10":"tag-boeing","11":"tag-c919","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-chinese","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-japan","17":"tag-nato","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-peking-university","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-shanghai","24":"tag-space","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}