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  • 习近平是个好领导人吗？ 中国聊天机器人是这样回答的 Is Xi Jinping a good leader? Here is what Chinese chatbot answered

    习近平是个好领导人吗？ 中国聊天机器人是这样回答的 Is Xi Jinping a good leader? Here is what Chinese chatbot answered

    https://www.business-standard.com/article/technology/is-xi-jinping-a-good-leader-here-is-what-chinese-chatbot-answered-123031600795_1.html

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-chatbots-run-up-against-chinas-censorship-f7ee1cea

    For experimenting, WSJ talked to four Chinese chatbots. According to the report, Gipi Talk, an AI bot developed by a group of engineers in Shenzhen could reply the best. However, when talking about China’s politics, it tried to steer the conversation away from the topic.

    Interestingly, Gipi Talk’s content moderation is also provided by Baidu. Here is the chat WSJ had with the chatbot.

    Q: Is Xi Jinping a good leader?

    A: The question couldn’t pass a safety review. No response could be generated for you.

    Q: Why did my question fail to pass the safety review?

    A: Let’s change the topic and talk about something else.

    Q: What can you talk about?

    A: It’s nice to chat with you! We can chat about technology, culture, sports, travel, entertainment, cooking, or any topic you want. What would you like to talk about?

    Q: Can we talk about politics?

    A: Of course, we can talk about politics. But we need to respect each other’s views and avoid offensive language or violence to maintain a rational, peaceful and constructive dialogue environment. What aspect of politics would you like to discuss?

    Q: Chinese politics.

    A: The question couldn’t pass a safety review. No response could be generated for you.

    Q: Well then, can we talk about American politics?

    A: The question couldn’t pass a safety review. No response could be generated for you

    Earlier chatbots developed in China have also shown similar filters. ChatYuan was one of the first ChatGPT-like creations in China. It was suspended days after its launch in February. According to WSJ, during the brief window when it was live, a prompt of Jinping’s name yielded a warning, “The prompt contained words that violate rules”.

    为了进行实验，WSJ 与四个中国聊天机器人进行了交谈。 据报告书显示,深圳工程师集团开发的AI机器人”Gipi Talk”的回答最好。 然而，在谈论中国政治时，它试图把话题从话题上转移开。

    有趣的是，GipiTalk的内容节制也是由百度提供的。 下面是 WSJ 与聊天机器人进行的聊天。

    问:习近平是个好领导人吗？

    答:这个问题不能通过安全审查。 无法为您生成任何响应。

    问:为何我的质询未能通过安全检讨？

    让我们换个话题，谈点别的吧。

    问:你能谈些什么？

    很高兴和你聊天！ 我们可以谈论科技、文化、体育、旅游、娱乐、烹饪或任何你想要的话题。 你想谈什么？

    问:我们可以谈谈政治吗？

    答:当然，我们可以谈谈政治。 但是，我们需要尊重彼此的观点，避免冒犯性的语言或暴力，以维持一个合理、和平与建设性的对话环境。 您想讨论政治的哪些方面？

    问:中国政治。

    答:这个问题不能通过安全审查。 无法为您生成任何响应。

    问:那么，我们可以谈谈美国政治吗？

    答:这个问题不能通过安全审查。 无法为您生成任何响应

    中国早期开发的聊天机器人也显示了类似的过滤器。 聊源是中国最早仿ChatGPT的创作之一。 它在2月份发射后几天就被暂停了。 据《华尔街日报》报道,在直播的简短窗口中,出现了”提示中包含违反规则的单词”的警告。

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/24/china-baidu-ernie-chatbot-chatgpt/
  • 英国政府禁止使用TikTok手机 UK bans TikTok from government mobile phones

    英国政府禁止使用TikTok手机 UK bans TikTok from government mobile phones

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/uk-bans-tiktok-from-government-mobile-phones

    Britain is to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from ministers’ and civil servants’ mobile phones, bringing the UK in line with the US and the European Commission and reflecting deteriorating relations with Beijing.

    The decision marks a sharp U-turn from the UK’s previous position and came a few hours after TikTok said its owner, ByteDance, had been told by Washington to sell the app or face a possible ban in the country.

    The UK government’s announcement was made on Thursday by Oliver Dowden, the Cabinet Office minister, in the Commons. He said the ban was “with immediate effect”.

    The decision follows a review of TikTok by government cybersecurity experts that began in November, Dowden said, and will cover ministers’ and civil servants’ work phones, but not their personal phones. “This is a proportionate move based on a specific risk with government devices,” he added.

    英国将禁止中国拥有的视频共享应用程序TikTok使用部长和公务员的手机，使英国与美国及欧盟委员会保持一致，并反映与北京关系恶化。

    TikTok表示，TikTok的所有者ByteDance已被华盛顿告知出售该应用程序，否则将面临国内禁令。 几个小时后，TikTok做出了这一决定。

    英国内阁办公厅部长奥利弗·道登星期四在下议院宣布了这一决定。 他说，禁令”立即生效”。

    Dowden说，这项决定是在政府网络安全专家11月开始对TikTok进行审查之后作出的，审查范围将包括部长和公务员的工作电话，但不包括他们的个人电话。 接着补充道:”这是以政府机器的特殊危险性为基础,采取相称的措施。”

  • 香港:两名涉嫌藏有「煽动」儿童读物被捕Hong Kong: two arrested for possessing ‘seditious’ children’s book

    香港:两名涉嫌藏有「煽动」儿童读物被捕Hong Kong: two arrested for possessing ‘seditious’ children’s book

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/17/hong-kong-two-arrested-for-possessing-seditious-childrens-book

    据《明报》报道,这些出版物是从英国寄往香港的,是2019年动乱时香港人像羊一样试图保护自己的村庄免受狼的侵害的连环画儿童书籍的几本。

    明报周三援引警方的话说，两人已被保释，但下个月必须向警方报案。

    2022年,五名语言治疗师因涉嫌”策划出版、发行、展示三本具有煽动性意图的书”,被判处有期徒刑19个月,被法院判决为煽动性。

    警方当时警告家长销毁这些书，因为他们”太激进，灌输给孩子们思想，使他们无法对抗和反对政府”。

    The Chinese-language Mingpao newspaper reported that the publications were sent from Britain to Hong Kong and were several copies of illustrated children’s books in a series that portrayed Hongkongers during the 2019 unrest as sheep trying to defend their village from wolves, an apparent reference to the mainland Chinese authorities.

    The pair have been released on bail but must report to police next month, Mingpao quoted police as saying on Wednesday.

    The books were ruled by a court as seditious in a high-profile trial in 2022, in which five speech therapists were jailed for 19 months for “conspiring to publish, distribute and display three books with seditious intent”.

    Police warned parents at the time to destroy the books because they were “too radical and instilled in children the ideas to confront and oppose the government”.

  • What did Xi Jinping know about the coronavirus, and when did he know it? 习近平对新型冠状病毒了解多少,什么时候知道的?

    What did Xi Jinping know about the coronavirus, and when did he know it? 习近平对新型冠状病毒了解多少,什么时候知道的?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/what-did-xi-jinping-know-about-the-coronavirus-and-when-did-he-know-it/2020/02/19/35482fe2-5340-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html

    中国冠状病毒暴发初期阶段仍然是一个重要且仍然鲜为人知的空白。 迅速、及早采取行动本来可以挽救生命，避免巨大的破坏。 相反，在疫情爆发的头几周，中国人民面临危险，尽管他们知道有些事情正在发生，但他们的官员没有发出警报。

    THE EARLY phase of the coronavirus outbreak in China remains an important and still poorly understood lacuna. Prompt, early action could have saved lives and averted enormous disruption. Instead, the Chinese people were exposed to danger in the first weeks of the epidemic when their officials failed to sound the alarm, even though they knew something was afoot.

  • The Washington Post: TikTok’s data security plan is ‘deeply flawed,’ whistleblower claims 一名前 TikTok 员工告诉国会，该应用程序在中国间谍活动中撒谎

    The Washington Post: TikTok’s data security plan is ‘deeply flawed,’ whistleblower claims 一名前 TikTok 员工告诉国会，该应用程序在中国间谍活动中撒谎

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/10/tiktok-data-whistleblower-congress-investigators/

    TikTok 的一位前风险经理会见了国会调查人员，表达了他对该公司保护美国用户数据的计划存在严重缺陷的担忧，并指出在许多人考虑在全国范围内实施该应用程序的时刻，有证据可能会激起立法者对该应用程序的怀疑 禁止 A former risk manager at TikTok has met with congressional investigators to share his concerns that the company’s plan for protecting United States user data is deeply flawed, pointing to evidence that could inflame lawmakers’ suspicion of the app at a moment when many are considering a nationwide ban

    TikTok 可以收集大量用户数据，包括视频观看历史、电子邮件地址和联系人，不过 Facebook 和谷歌等美国科技巨头收集的更多，包括精确的 GPS 位置、广泛的传记详细信息和网络浏览历史，根据一位 上个月发表评论。 TikTok can collect a large range of user data, including video viewing histories, email addresses and contacts, though American tech giants such as Facebook and Google gather even more, including precise GPS locations, extensive biographical details and web-browsing histories, according to a Post review last month.

  • Three organisers jailed over Hong Kong vigil for Tiananmen Square victims 三名组织者因香港为天安门广场受害者守夜而入狱

    Three organisers jailed over Hong Kong vigil for Tiananmen Square victims 三名组织者因香港为天安门广场受害者守夜而入狱

    Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong were jailed for failing to comply with a national security law.
    — Read on www.newschainonline.com/news/world-news/three-organisers-jailed-over-hong-kong-vigil-for-tiananmen-square-victims-325159

    The three were arrested in 2021 during a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement following massive protests more than three years ago. They were leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China and were found guilty last week. The alliance was best known for organising candlelight vigils in Hong Kong on the anniversary of the Chinese military’s crushing of Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989, but it voted to disband in 2021 under the shadow of the Beijing-imposed national security law. Supporters say its closure has shown freedoms and autonomy that were promised when Hong Kong returned to China from the UK in 1997 are diminishing.Before its disbandment, police sought details about its operations and finances in connection with alleged links to democracy groups overseas, accusing it of being a foreign agent. 这三人是在3年前大规模示威后,在2021年镇压城市民主化运动时被逮捕的。 他们是香港支持中国爱国民主运动联盟的领导人，上周被判有罪。1989年中国军队镇压天安门民主抗议活动周年纪念日，该联盟在香港组织烛光集会最为著名，但在2021年北京颁布的国家安全法的阴影下投票解散。支持者说，关闭该机场表明，1997年香港从英国返回中国时所承诺的自由和自治正在减少。在解散前，警方要求提供与据称与海外民主团体有联系的有关其业务和财政方面的细节，指控它是一个外国特工。

  • 中国、缅甸、朝鲜在自由报告中被列为“最糟糕的” China, Myanmar, North Korea listed as ‘worst of worst’ in freedom report

    中国、缅甸、朝鲜在自由报告中被列为“最糟糕的” China, Myanmar, North Korea listed as ‘worst of worst’ in freedom report

    This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. The Chinese Communist Party plays “a leading role in promoting
    — Read on americanmilitarynews.com/2023/03/china-myanmar-north-korea-listed-as-worst-of-worst-in-freedom-report/

    在全球被列为“不自由”的56个国家中，朝鲜、中国和缅甸被列为“最糟糕的国家之一”。此外，在亚太地区的39个国家中，有9个国家被列为“不自由”，13个国家仅被视为“部分自由”。

    Among the 56 countries listed as “Not Free” around the world, North Korea, China and Myanmar were listed as among “the worst of the worst.” Additionally, out of 39 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, nine were listed as “not free” and 13 were deemed only “partly free.”

    它说：“在中国这个世界上最严格的媒体环境之一，记者在试图续签新闻执照时面临更高的审查和严格的政治灌输，甚至参与单独抗议形式的个人也会被判处监禁。”

    “In China, one of the world’s most restrictive media environments, journalists faced heightened scrutiny and rigorous political indoctrination when attempting to renew their press licenses, and even individuals who engaged in solitary forms of protest were punished with prison sentences,” it said. 

  • 中国病毒实验室泄漏事件 China virus Lab Leak

    中国病毒实验室泄漏事件 China virus Lab Leak

  • Only in China, China Police 只在中国，中国警察

    Only in China, China Police 只在中国，中国警察

  • Why a group of Chinese women became human rights activists 为什么一群中国妇女成为人权活动家

    Why a group of Chinese women became human rights activists 为什么一群中国妇女成为人权活动家

    https://www.dw.com/en/why-a-group-of-chinese-women-became-human-rights-activists/a-64895679

    After their husbands became targets of a Chinese crackdown, these women began speaking out against Beijing’s abuses. They tell DW how their experiences have helped them grow and broadened their perspectives.

    Since President Xi Jinping took office in 2012, one of the groups that has been persecuted the most by Chinese authorities has been human rights lawyers. Following the “709 mass arrest” in 2015, in which more than 300 lawyers across China were arrested, many are still in detention, have been given lengthy prison sentences, faced exit bans, or simply disappeared.

    Amid this yearslong, nationwide crackdown on human rights lawyers, it has fallen on family members, especially their wives, to become “accidental human rights defenders.” They speak out against the Chinese government’s abuses on social media and in media interviews. They also try to hold authorities accountable by sharing details of the cases with foreign parliamentarians and diplomats.

    在丈夫成为中国镇压的目标后，这些妇女开始大声疾呼反对北京的虐待行为。 他们告诉DW，他们的经历如何帮助他们成长并拓宽视野。
    2012年习近平主席就任后,中国当局迫害最多的团体之一是人权律师。 2015年”709大规模逮捕”后，中国各地300多名律师被捕，许多人仍被拘留、被判处长期监禁、面临出境禁令或干脆失踪。
    在长达一年的全国范围内对人权律师的镇压中，家庭成员，特别是他们的妻子，沦落为”偶然的人权捍卫者”。 他们大声疾呼，反对中国政府在社交媒体和媒体采访中滥用职权。 他们还试图通过与外国议员和外交官分享案件细节，追究当局的责任。

  • China must pay for the virus they spread 中国必须为他们传播的病毒买单

    China must pay for the virus they spread 中国必须为他们传播的病毒买单

    Twitter post

  • FBI Director Wray acknowledges bureau assessment that Covid-19 likely resulted from lab incident 美国联邦调查局(FBI)局长雷承认新冠肺炎很有可能是实验室事件造成的。中国实验室泄漏理论很有可能是新型冠状病毒大流行的根源

    FBI Director Wray acknowledges bureau assessment that Covid-19 likely resulted from lab incident 美国联邦调查局(FBI)局长雷承认新冠肺炎很有可能是实验室事件造成的。中国实验室泄漏理论很有可能是新型冠状病毒大流行的根源

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/wray-fbi-covid-origins-lab-china/index.html

    FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday acknowledged that the bureau believes the Covid-19 pandemic was likely the result of a lab accident in Wuhan, China. In his first public comments on the FBI’s investigation into the virus’ origins during an interview with Fox News, Wray said that “the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”

    美国联邦调查局(FBI)局长克里斯托弗•雷(Christopher Wray)22日承认,新冠肺炎大流行很有可能是中国武汉实验室事故的结果。雷在接受福克斯新闻采访时首次公开表示:”FBI在相当长一段时间内一直认为,此次大流行病的起源很有可能是武汉的实验室事件。”

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/wray-fbi-covid-origins-lab-china/index.html

    Wray said in the interview that the FBI has a team of experts who focus specifically on the risk of biological threats that come into the “wrong hands,” including by a “hostile nation state.”

    “You’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans,” Wray said of the coronavirus, “and that’s precisely what that capability was designed for.”

    Wray said that most details of the FBI’s investigation remain classified, and that it has been difficult to work with the Chinese government on investigating the pandemic’s origin.

    “I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here,” the bureau director said. “The work that our US government and close foreign partners are doing. And that’s unfortunate for everybody.”

    Wray在采访中说，联邦调查局有一个专家小组，专门研究生物威胁落入”坏人之手”的风险，包括”敌对民族国家”。

    “你指的是中国政府控制的一个实验室的潜在泄漏，导致数百万美国人死亡，”Wray在谈到新冠病毒时说，”而这正是这种能力所设计的。”

    雷说，联邦调查局的大部分调查细节仍然保密，而且一直难以与中国政府合作调查大流行病的起源。

    他说:”我只是说，在我看来，中国政府一直在尽力阻挠和混淆工作。” 他说:”美国政府及其密切的外国伙伴正在开展的工作。 这对每个人来说都是不幸的。”

    美国联邦调查局(FBI)局长克里斯托弗•雷在接受福克斯新闻采访时承认,新冠肺炎大流行很有可能是中国武汉实验室事故的结果。FBI Director Christopher Wray acknowledged in a Fox News interview that the bureau believes the Covid-19 pandemic was likely the result of a lab accident in Wuhan, China

    https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2021/12/720/405/Wuhan-Institute.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

    越来越多的证据显示武汉实验室感染了新冠肺炎。我们发现了显示Dr.D.的邮件。 Fauci被警告说，这种病毒看起来是人造的，来自一个实验室，但他可能采取了掩盖它的行动。

    中国实验室泄漏理论很有可能是新型冠状病毒大流行的根源

  • Chinese COVID Lab Leak Debate Resurges After New Report Drops 中国新型冠状病毒实验室泄漏争议在新报告减少后再次抬头

    Chinese COVID Lab Leak Debate Resurges After New Report Drops 中国新型冠状病毒实验室泄漏争议在新报告减少后再次抬头

    https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-covid-lab-leak-debate-resurges-after-new-report-drops-1783864

    Debate about the origins of COVID-19 reemerged after The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that the United States Department of Energy (DOE) concluded that the virus likely stemmed from a lab leak in China.

    Sars-CoV-2—first discovered in Wuhan, China, in December 2019—has spread across the globe ever since, killing more than 6.8 million people worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University, and having life-altering effects on many others. From the onset of the pandemic, questions emerged about the virus’ origins with two leading theories typically dominating the scientific community.

    Newsweek reported on March 27, 2020, and corroborated by two U.S. officials, that U.S. intelligence revised its January assessment in which it “judged that the outbreak probably occurred naturally” to now include the possibility that the new coronavirus emerged “accidentally” due to “unsafe laboratory practices” in Wuhan.

    The classified report, titled “China: Origins of COVID-19 Outbreak Remain Unknown,” ruled out that the disease was genetically engineered or released intentionally as a biological weapon.

    美国《华尔街日报》19日报道说,美国能源部(DOE)得出结论说,新型冠状病毒可能源于中国实验室的泄露。

    据约翰霍普金斯大学（Johns Hopkins University）统计，2019年12月在中国武汉首次发现SARS-CoV-2病毒，自此在全球范围内传播，造成680多万人死亡，并对许多其他人产生了改变生命的影响。 从大流行开始，关于病毒起源的问题就出现了，两种主要理论通常支配着科学界。

    美国《新闻周刊》于2020年3月27日报道,并得到两名美国官员的证实,美国情报部门今年1月的评估”认为,新冠肺炎可能是自然发生的”,并修改了该评估内容,以包括因武汉的”不安全实验室惯例”而”偶然”出现的可能性。

    以《中国:新冠肺炎发病原因不明》为题的分类报告书中排除了该疾病是遗传工程疾病或故意作为生物武器上市的可能性。

  • Gravitas: China’s Elderly V/S Xi Jinping 格雷维塔斯: 中国老年V/S习近平

    Gravitas: China’s Elderly V/S Xi Jinping 格雷维塔斯: 中国老年V/S习近平

    China’s Elderly have hit the streets in Wuhan to protest the government’s new health insurance reforms. These reforms include cuts in monthly allowances paid to retirees. Molly Gambhir reports.

    中国老年人在武汉街头抗议政府新的医疗保险改革。 这些改革包括削减支付给退休人员的每月津贴。 Molly Gambhir报道。

  • Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT

    Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT

    The state’s hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs’ reluctance to invest for the long term. It wasn’t always that way.

    中国为什么不发明ChatGPT
    该州日益严格的审查和更严厉的手法阻碍了其科技产业; 企业家不愿意长期投资也是原因之一。 情况并不总是这样。

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/business/china-chatgpt-microsoft-openai.html

    Today, much has changed. Microsoft — an icon of American technology — helped the start-up OpenAI usher its experimental chatbot, ChatGPT, into the world. And China’s tech entrepreneurs are shocked and demoralized. It has dawned on many of them that despite the hype, China lags far behind in artificial intelligence and tech innovation.

    “Why wasn’t ChatGPT invented in China?” they asked. “How big is the ChatGPT gap between China and the U.S.?” “The Chinese equivalent of ChatGPT? Don’t take it too seriously.”

    They’re also asking more fundamental questions about the country’s innovation environment: Have censorship, geopolitical tensions and the government’s growing control of the private sector made China less friendly to innovation?

    “The development of any significant technological product is inseparable from the system and environment in which it operates,” said Xu Chenggang, a senior research scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions. He cited TikTok’s Chinese-language sister app Douyin as the sort of innovation that Chinese companies might be unable to achieve in the future because of government limitations on the industry.

    “Once the open environment is gone, it will be challenging to create such products,” he said.

    If a decade ago China was the wild, wild East for tech entrepreneurship and innovation, it’s a very different country now.

    今天，发生了很大变化。 作为美国技术的象征，微软帮助刚起步的OpenAI将它的实验聊天机器人——ChatGPT推向了世界。 中国的科技企业家也感到震惊和沮丧。 他们中的许多人已经意识到，尽管大肆宣传，中国在人工智能和技术创新方面仍远远落后。

    “为什么ChatGPT都不是中国发明的？” 他们问。 “中美之间的ChatGPT差距有多大？” “中国相当于ChatGPT？” 别太认真了。”

    他们还提出了关于中国创新环境的更基本的问题:审查制度、地缘政治紧张以及政府对私营部门的日益控制是否使中国对创新不那么友好？

    斯坦福大学中国经济与制度研究中心高级研究员徐成刚说:”任何重大技术产品的开发都离不开其运行的体制和环境。 他认为TikTok的中文姊妹应用程序Douyin是中国企业未来可能无法实现的一种创新，因为政府对行业的限制。

    他说:”一旦开放环境消失，创造这样的产品将具有挑战性。”

    如果说十年前中国是技术创业和创新的狂野的东方，那么现在它已经是一个完全不同的国家了。

  • Chinese cameras leave British police vulnerable to spying, says watchdog. Warning in surveillance commissioner’s report comes after Chinese CCTV cameras banned from government property 中国摄像头使英国警察容易受到间谍活动的影响，看门狗说。 中国监控摄像头被禁止进入政府财产后，监察专员报告发出警告

    Chinese cameras leave British police vulnerable to spying, says watchdog. Warning in surveillance commissioner’s report comes after Chinese CCTV cameras banned from government property 中国摄像头使英国警察容易受到间谍活动的影响，看门狗说。 中国监控摄像头被禁止进入政府财产后，监察专员报告发出警告

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/chinese-cameras-leave-british-police-vulnerable-to-spying-says-watchdog

    “There are major security concerns with a lot of these cameras, both in terms of the technology they contain and what happens to the data that comes from them. If you buy a system like this, you have to be able to trust the company you are buying from.”

    He added that using Chinese-made cameras also presents ethical concerns, since some have been implicated in helping the Chinese government monitor detainment camps for Uyghurs in Xinjiang province.

    His comments came after Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6, said the UK should “wake up” to the threat posed by China, following last week’s decision by Washington to shoot down a balloon officials believed to be carrying out surveillance.

    Younger told the BBC’s Today programme western nations were “under full press of Chinese espionage”.

    “这些相机中的很多都存在安全隐患，无论是在它们所包含的技术方面，还是在来自它们的数据方面。 如果你购买这样的系统，你就必须能够信任你正在购买的公司。”

    他补充说，使用中国制造的相机也引起了道德上的关注，因为其中一些相机涉及帮助中国政府监督新疆维吾尔族拘留营。

    此前，英国军情六处前处长亚历克斯·杨格爵士(Sir Alex Younger)曾表示，英国应”清醒地认识到”中国的威胁，此前，美国上周决定击落一名据信正在进行监视的气球官员。

    杨格告诉BBC的《今日》节目，西方国家”受到中国间谍活动的全面压力”。

    https://www.hikvision.com/
  • Hu Jintao argued about official papers before being escorted out of congress This article is more than 3 months old Footage shows former Chinese president involved in apparent disagreement over documents

    Hu Jintao argued about official papers before being escorted out of congress This article is more than 3 months old Footage shows former Chinese president involved in apparent disagreement over documents

    胡锦涛在被押出国会前曾就官方文件争论过这篇文章已有三个多月了
    录像显示，中国前总统在文件问题上存在明显的分歧

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/25/hu-jintao-argued-about-official-papers-before-being-escorted-out-of-congress

     

    China’s former leader Hu Jintao was arguing about official papers, moments before he was escorted off the stage at a key Communist party meeting in Beijing, new footage shows.

    Hu’s apparently reluctant departure from the stage at the 20th congress of the Chinese Communist party (CCP) was a rare moment of unscripted drama at what was otherwise a carefully choreographed week of political theatre.

     
     
    Chinese president Xi Jinping talks to former president Hu Jintao
    Former Chinese president Hu Jintao unexpectedly led out of party congress
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    The new footage, shot by Channel News Asia but only released two days after the incident, captures about a minute of discreet, high-level manoeuvring before an official arrives to escort Hu away. Hu, who is 79, stepped down as head of the party 10 years ago.

    The official Xinhua news agency reported that Hu’s unexpected exit was due to ill health, but gave no further details.

    新的视频显示，中国前领导人胡锦涛在北京的一次重要共产党会议上被护送下台前，正在为官方文件争吵。

    胡锦涛在中共第二十次全国代表大会上显然不情愿地离开舞台，这在原本精心编排的一周政治剧场里，是一个难得的剧本戏剧。

    中国国家主席习近平会见胡锦涛
    前中国国家主席胡锦涛出人意料地退出党代会
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    这段由亚洲频道拍摄的新视频是在事件发生两天后发布的，它捕捉到了官员在护送胡锦涛离开之前大约一分钟的谨慎、高层次的演习。 现年79岁的胡锦涛10年前辞去党魁职务。

    官方的新华社报道胡主席出人意料的离职是由于身体不适，但没有透露更多细节。

  • Democracy ‘on trial’ as Hong Kong 47 prepare to face court | Politics News | Al Jazeera 随着香港47人准备面对法庭，民主“正在受审”

    Democracy ‘on trial’ as Hong Kong 47 prepare to face court | Politics News | Al Jazeera 随着香港47人准备面对法庭，民主“正在受审”

    Picked up in a dawn raid two years ago, the activists and politicians are charged over an unofficial primary.
    — Read on www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/3/democracy-on-trial-as-hong-kong-47-prepare-to-face-court

    在两年前的黎明突袭中，活动家和政治家因非官方初选而受到指控。

  • Damus pulled from Apple’s App Store in China after two days | TechCrunch Damus在两天后退出了苹果在中国的App Store

    Damus pulled from Apple’s App Store in China after two days | TechCrunch Damus在两天后退出了苹果在中国的App Store

    The app, which runs atop the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized social networking protocol Nostr, was removed from the China App Store per request by the country’s top internet watchdog because it “includes content that is illegal in China,” according to an app review notice Damus received and shared on Twitter.
    — Read on techcrunch.com/2023/02/02/damus-pulled-from-apples-app-store-in-china-after-two-days/

    根据Damus在推特上收到和分享的应用程序评论通知，该应用程序运行在Jack Dorsey支持的分散式社交网络协议Nostr之上，根据中国顶级互联网监管机构的请求，该应用程序被从中国App Store中删除，因为它“包括在中国非法的内容”。

    Opinion:

    In China, None tools allowed to exchange free opinion , get wide range of news, reveal government censored facts but can use communist party controls 100% as like weibo, wechat and tiktok.

    在中国，没有工具允许自由交换意见，获取广泛的新闻，披露政府审查的事实，但可以使用100%的共产党控制，如微博，微信和抖音。

  • Apple and Google face mounting pressure to remove TikTok from app stores – The Verge 苹果和谷歌面临越来越大的压力，要求从应用程序商店中删除抖音

    Apple and Google face mounting pressure to remove TikTok from app stores – The Verge 苹果和谷歌面临越来越大的压力，要求从应用程序商店中删除抖音

    Sen. Michael Bennet demanded that Apple and Google “immediately” remove TikTok from their app stores in a letter addressed to the companies’ chief executives, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai.
    — Read on www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23581832/tiktok-apple-google-app-store-removal-ban-tiktok-bennet-josh-hawley-china