Inside look at China’s fleet of high-altitude balloons 内观中国高空气球舰队
https://youtu.be/oPlzg-jvOMk Satellite images show China’s extensive balloon program based on Hainan Island in the South China Sea, and U.S. officials say they know that is where the Chinese balloon launched before making its way across the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. believes a fleet of Chinese airships and balloons has flown over dozens of countries conducting... Read More
Gravitas: China’s Elderly V/S Xi Jinping 格雷维塔斯: 中国老年V/S习近平
https://youtu.be/XrxR_ZsB4ZM 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。 Read More
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.... Read More
White House says it may never be able to identify three objects shot down after China’s surveillance craft白宫说,它可能永远无法确定中国侦察机被击落后的三个物体
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-may-never-identify-three-objects-shot-down-chinas-surveillance-craft In the last two weeks, U.S. military fighter jets shot down at least four aerial objects, including a Chinese spy balloon that flew across country from Alaska to South Carolina over an eight-day stretch. President Biden addressed the situation for the first time on Thursday, more than two weeks after the initial Chinese spy flight... Read More
Elderly in China protest over slashed health benefits 中国老年人抗议大幅削减医疗福利
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64658729 Crowds of retirees in China have again taken to the streets to protest against cuts to their medical benefits. They gathered on Wednesday for a second time in Wuhan, where Covid was first detected, and also in the north-eastern city of Dalian. The second round of protests in seven days puts pressure on President... Read More
China, top fentanyl source, blames US for ‘drug culture’ as Americans die from overdoses. 中国如何助长美国的毒品流行| 毒品新闻中国,最大的芬太尼来源国,指责美国的”毒品文化”,因为美国人因过量服用芬太尼
https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-top-fentanyl-source-blames-us-for-drug-culture-as-americans-die-from-overdoses According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, China continues to be the primary source of fentanyl being imported into the United States, killing more than 100 Americans every day. It also continues to be the primary source of fentanyl for the rest of the world. "Currently, China remains the primary source of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked... Read More
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... Read More
Encounters of Chinese Nationals at Southern Border Outpace Past 2 Years Combined 中国公民过去两年在南部边境外滩的遭遇汇总表
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/14/encounters-of-chinese-nationals-at-southern-border-outpace-past-2-years-combined/ Chinese nationals are arriving at America’s southern border in exploding numbers. In January 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says, it encountered 89 illegal aliens from the People’s Republic of China on the southern border. That number grew over tenfold last month, to 1,084. A similar increase has occurred in encounters with illegal immigrants from Russia,... Read More
Chinese balloon: Xi Jinping’s ‘big mistake’ revealed 中国气球:习近平的”大错误”暴露无遗
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/chinese-balloon-xi-jinpings-big-mistake-revealed/TQ2GZBF6FBBFBPHFCLZJT4UQLY/ Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made a “deep mistake” with Beijing’s spy balloon saga, a former head of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service says. Sir Alex Younger, the former head of Britain’s spy agency, told the BBC that China’s assumption of how the US would react to surveillance balloons being sent across its territory... Read More
What we know so far about the Chinese spy balloon and the other objects shot down 到目前为止,我们对中国间谍气球和其他被击落物体的了解
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/chinas-spy-balloon-unidentified-objects-shot-down-what-we-know-so-far/ When a Chinese spy balloon floated across the U.S. earlier this month, it ignited a firestorm of concern on Capitol Hill and led to the cancellation of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's trip to China amid already fraught relations between the two countries.  China has maintained it was a weather balloon that veered off course. But the balloon... Read More
‘Total miscalculation’: China goes into crisis management mode on balloon fallout 「计算完全错误」: 中国进入气球落尘危机管理模式
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/06/china/china-response-suspected-spy-balloon-intl-hnk/index.html China maintains the vessel, which was shot down by the US over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, was a weather balloon thrown off course. And it has shown signs of both being caught off guard by the incident and wanting to stem the potential damage, analysts say, not only framing the situation as the... Read More
Chinese spies charged in Huawei obstruction case after sending Bitcoin bribes 中国间谍在华为受贿案中被指控
https://mashable.com/article/china-spies-huawei-justice-department-doj In a press conference on Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice detailed(Opens in a new tab) newly-unsealed charges against two alleged spies(Opens in a new tab) from China. According to the DOJ brief, Chinese intelligence officers Guochun He and Zheng Wang had attempted to obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation of a "global telecommunications company" based in China through bribery... Read More
Four scenarios for a world in disorder 一个混乱世界的四种情景
https://theconversation.com/four-scenarios-for-a-world-in-disorder-193132?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+October+26+2022+-+2440524417&utm_content=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+October+26+2022+-+2440524417+CID_8b060758ab51c82f11a1a2fe2344b9f0&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Four+scenarios+for+a+world+in+disorder Russia’s war in Ukraine US-China relations Populism Inflation 1.俄罗斯在乌克兰的战争2.美中关系3.民粹主义4.通货膨胀 hinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent speech to the Communist Party Congress could be one of the most consequential of the decade. He told the audience – and the world – that his economic growth-crushing zero-COVID policy is here to stay, and that Beijing is more determined than... Read More
Explaining the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China: Struggle and fight Xi Jinping is consolidating power within the Chinese Communist Party 解读中国共产党第二十次代表大会:斗争和战斗习近平正在巩固中国共产党内部的权力
https://globalvoices.org/2022/10/26/explaining-the-20th-congress-of-the-communist-party-of-china-struggle-and-fight/ The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) closed on October 22. As expected, the party's Chief Secretary and Chinese President Xi Jinping secured his third term as the party’s top leader for another five years. Global Voices is publishing a series exploring the language used during the 20th congress and analyzing its implications... Read More
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... Read More
China play with fire – spy balloon 中国玩火. 间谍气球. 如果中国玩火,中国就会被烧死。
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=Aw96R86OBcg&feature=share If China play with fire, China will get burned.     https://youtube.com/watch?v=Aw96R86OBcg&feature=share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHngBBAu5IY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X62frkeHc6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP7JlAG5o6U Read More
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。 Read More
Ethiopia’s China Addis Ababa rail collapse $60m problem | Semafor 埃塞俄比亚的中国亚的斯亚贝巴铁路坍塌6000万美元问题
The Chinese-built light rail network in Ethiopia’s capital is on the brink of collapse, with only a fifth of its trains still in service seven years after its launch and the network requires a revamp that would cost more than $60 million. — Read on www.semafor.com/article/02/02/2023/ethiopias-china-addis-ababa-rail-collapse-60m-problem 中国在埃塞俄比亚首都建造的轻轨网络濒临崩溃,其列车在推出七年后仍在使用,该网络需要进行耗资6000多万美元的改造。 Read More
UK and Australia launch pact against Chinese economic ‘coercion’ – POLITICO 英国和澳大利亚发起了反对中国经济“胁迫”的协议
Move will be seen as an attempt to counter pressure placed on companies by Beijing to toe the line. — Read on www.politico.eu/article/uk-and-australia-launch-pact-against-chinese-economic-coercion/ 此举将被视为试图抵制北京对公司施加的压力,迫使他们走这条线。 Read More
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... Read More