China’s state-run newspaper People’s Daily just launched a new search engine called Jike — the latest entrant to the country’s Internet search scene that is flat-out dominated by Baidu. Nevertheless it gained support from China’s major Internet companies when it was officially launched, according to aWSJreport. Internet bigs including Sina CEO Charles Chao, Sohu’s Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan and Baidu’s chief scientist William Zhang were all on hand to help launch the site as “supporters” of the new search product....

Reutersreports that two Chinese military officers released a party-run essay which claims that China isshifting military prioritiesto cyber-warfare as the Internet becomes “the crucial battleground for opinion and intelligence.” The essay, written by two strategists from the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Sciences, Senior Colonel Ye Zheng and Zhao Baoxian, reveals that Beijing is focused on honing its cyber-warfare skills, and sees “an unfettered Internet as a threat to its Communist Party-run state....

China launched Tianhe-1, the first and main module of a permanent orbiting space station calledTiangong (Heavenly Palace 天 宫),on April 29. Two additional science modules (Wentian and Mengtian) will follow in 2022 in a series of missions that will complete the station and allow it to start operations. While the station is not China’s first – the country has alreadylaunched two– the modular design is new. It replicates the International Space Station (ISS), from whichChina was excluded....

Vodafone, the world’slargestmobile telecommunications company (measured by revenue), andChina Mobilethe world’s largest measured by subscribers, recently signed a Strategic Co-operation Framework Agreement to continue to cooperate in various areas of their business including: exchanges in corporate management and in technical and operational expertise. In a report bySina,Wang Jianzhou, Chairman of China Mobile andVittorio Colao, CEO of Vodafone Group, signed the agreement at the China Mobile-Vodafone Strategic Co-Operation/CEO Forum which took place duringMobile World Congress....

China Mobile, the largest telecom operator on the globe, grew its profits by 6% in the first half of 2011,according to a Reuters report. It’s the highest half-year growth the company has experienced since it recorded an 18% increase in profits in the second half of 2008. The company has a little over 600 million subscribers, 35 million of whom are already using 3G services, and reported a net profit of 61....