Tiwary says in his book, Ramachandaran creates a counter-current, especially when the prevalent India-China discourse is set within the binaries of a zero-sum game
HS 15.11.23 Kiinan keskiluokka viettää Xinjiangin maakunnassa unelmalomia, joilla lasketellaan ja herkutellaan. Samaan aikaan vähemmistökansat kärsivät vankiloissa, ja heitä valvotaan omissa kodeissaankin. HS:n Kiinan-kirjeenvaihtaja Mari Manninen kävi selvittämässä, millaista on turismi Kiinan sorretuimmassa kolkassa.
Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when tensions between the three major nuclear powers have risen to their highest in decades.
It was a photo op for the ages: a visibly well-disposed President Xi Jinping receiving centenarian "old friend of China" Henry Kissinger in Beijing.
Luttwak vs Kissinger (and Brzezinsky)
May 20, 2022 A 30 mins panel discussion led by Ms Liu Xin, a very important TV personality known to CGTN's 150 million viewers because of her program "The Point".
ury Tavrovsky, chairman of Experts Commission of Russian-Chinese Committee for Friendship, Peace and Development
Ulrich Brückner, professor, Stanford University in Berlin
Michael E. O’Hanlon, senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution
Brian Berletic, Geopolitical Analyst, Bangkok
Jan Oberg, Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, TFF, in Lund, Sweden.
China’s Global Security Initiative should be carefully considered and discussed. Even a brief survey of world events indicates the pressing need for a different set of security arrangements from those currently pursued by the US and NATO allies.
HS 2.6.23 och Euractiv 5.6. Avtalet slöts under A. Blinkens besök i Helsingfors. Franska versionen rubricerades La 6G, nouvel outil de défense face à la Chine
After their meeting, Xi said that Europe is an “independent pole in a multipolar world.” That the Chinese leader should make such a statement is not surprising. That a major American European and NATO ally should sign on to it is. The joint declaration issued by Xi and Macron following their talks declares that “They seek to strengthen the multilateral international system under the aegis of the United Nations, in a multipolar world.”
One week after Macron flew out of Beijing, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva flew in. Like Macron, he arrived with a huge entourage of business executives. Accompanied by 240 business representatives, Lula and Xi signed several agreements on trade and investment
av Kate Fitz Gibbon, Artikel i Cultural Property News, maj 2019 om den kinesiska regeringens förtryck av uigurerna i Xinjang.
The Security State and Destruction of Uyghur Culture in Xinjiang
The Chinese government’s campaign to eradicate identity, religion, and culture.
Presentation of Surveillance StateInside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control Author: Josh Chin and Liza Lin; read by Brian Nishii
The authors of Surveillance State" discuss what the West misunderstands about Chinese state control and whether the invasive trajectory of surveillance tech can still be reversed.
the old social contract, which promised better returns from an economy steered by an authoritarian government, is strained—and a new one is needed.
As Chin and Lin observe, the Chinese government is now proposing that by collecting every Chinese citizen’s data extensively, it can find out what the people want (without giving them votes) and build a society that meets their needs.
Britannica : Qin Shi Huang, also called Shihuangdi, Wade-Giles romanization Shih-huang-ti, personal name (xingming) Zhao Zheng or Ying Zheng, (born c. 259 bce, Qin state, northwestern China—died 210 bce, Hebei), emperor (reigned 221–210 bce) of the Qin dynasty (221–207 bce) and creator of the first unified Chinese empire (which collapsed, however, less than four years after his death).
WSJ Nov 4, 2022: A U.S. flag officer talks candidly about the fading U.S. deterrent. “This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup,” said Navy Adm. Charles Richard, the commander of US Strategic Command. “The big one is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested [in] a long time.”
Reuters 23.2.2023. US News is a recognized leader in college, grad school, hospital, mutual fund, and car rankings. Track elected officials, research health conditions, and find news you can use in politics, business, health, and education.
Asked about prospects for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Zelenskiy told a news briefing in Kyiv: "We would like to meet with China."
"This is in the interests of Ukraine today," he told the joint briefing with visiting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
James Meadway , Jan 30, 2023. Are we seeing the collapse of the dollar-dominated global economy?
Financial shocks in recent years are forcing the global monetary architecture to change, say some economists
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported the development by the team led by NPU’s Professor Li Xuelong, who decided to approach the “drone-laser relationship from another angle.”
21 jan 2023
They sought to fit a drone with a photoelectric conversion module (or a solar panel) that converted light energy into electricity and used a high-energy laser beam to track and power it remotely.
A world war was declared on 7 October. No news station reported on it, even though we will all have to suffer its effects. That day, the Biden administration launched a technological offensive against China, placing stringent limits and extensive controls on the export not only of integrated circuits, but also their designs, the machines used to ‘write’ them on silicon and the tools these machines produce. Henceforth, if a Chinese factory requires any of these components to produce goods – like Apple’s mobile phones, or GM’s cars – other firms must request a special licence to export them.
General Laura Richardson at Aspen Institute , July 2022: U.S. Southern Command's commander said she's working to grow that neighborly feeling among the U.S. and Latin American and Caribbean nations.,
Walden Bello:
". Let us just say that China is not engaged in an arms race with the U.S. and that its strategic posture is defensive. This does not mean that it does not engage in the tactical offensive in areas where it feels it faces an existential threat, like the South China Sea."
"In May 2021, Beijing successfully landed a spacecraft on Mars, only the third country to accomplish that after the U.S. and Russia. Nor was this a fluke. Baidu launched a quantum computer that people will be able to access via a smartphone app. Construction is underway on the largest pulsed-power plant in the world, leading specialists to predict that China could achieve nuclear fusion energy by 2028. Beijing is even funding civilian hypersonic transport."
A strong state, it might be noted — one that was far stronger owing to its revolutionary origins than the classic developmental states of the Asia Pacific rim — had made the difference.
In any event, China is now the center of global capital accumulation. In the popular image, it’s the “locomotive of the world economy,” accounting for 28 percent of all growth worldwide in the five years from 2013 to 2018 according to the IMF — more than twice the share of the United States.
Oct19 Biden has forced all Americans working in China to pick between quitting their jobs and losing American citizenship. Every American executive and engineer working in China’s semiconductor manufacturing industry resigned yesterday,
The Ukraine – a decisive transfer of the balance of power from west to east
By Cameron Leckie
Mar 30, 2022
The 2022 Russo-Ukraine is also a proxy war between Russia and the Western world. We should be prepared for a decisive transfer of the balance of power from West to East.
2021. The 2 GW plant is expected to be connected to a storage facility with a capacity of 300 MW/600 MWh. Elsewhere, manufacturers Longi, Jinko, Trina Solar and Chint were the winners of a 5.5 GW solar panel procurement tender held by the China Energy Investment Corporation.
Age of Decline? 50,000 manuscripts, scrolls, booklets and paintings on silk, hemp and paper were found literally stuffed into it.
One of the manuscripts was the Diamond Sutra, the world's earliest dated, printed book (868).1
China is working on a master plan for the internationalisation of its domestic journals and plans to pursue an open science strategy at a national level
John ilpger , July 2020: The target is China. Today, more than 400 American military bases almost encircle China with missiles, bombers, warships and nuclear weapons.
Counterpunch, March 22, 2021. By Melvin A. Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University.
The National Interste, March 14, 2021
Earlier this week, China’s National Space Administration and Russia’s Roscosmos issued a memorandum of understanding outlining the construction of a space outpost called the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS).
“China and Russia will use their accumulated experience in space science, research and development as well as the use of space equipment and space technology to jointly develop a road map for the construction of an international lunar scientific research station (ILRS),” read a statement by China’s chief space agency. According to the Chinese government, the joint initiative will include “planning, demonstration, design, development, implementation, and operation of scientific research station projects, including project promotion to the international aerospace community.”
Close Comparison Reveals Negotiators Repeating TPP's Mistakes A secretive trade agreement currently being negotiated behind closed doors could lay down new, inflexible copyright standards across the Asia-Pacific region. If you are thinking of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), think again—we're...
"RCEP fails to improve much on the TPP in areas where it quite easily could; most notably in the language on limitations and exceptions, which fails to require countries to include an equivalent to fair use in their copyright laws.
Finally, the proposed language on related rights for broadcasters is actually worse than the TPP. The TPP negotiators were wise to mostly avoid this topic, being that it is currently still under negotiation at WIPO, whereas RCEP has plunged ahead and sought to enshrine obligations for the protection of broadcasters that remain controversial and untested around the world.
Worst of all is that none of these problems would have come to light if the text of the agreement had not been leaked. Like the TPP before it, the RCEP is being negotiated in a secretive fashion, behind closed doors, without adequate input from Internet users or any other of the stakeholders whose lives and livelihoods it will affect. "
BRI, Shipping, "From Zeebrugge and Liège to the ports of Italy, Spain and France and to the Eastern part of the continent, Chinese corporations and the Belt & Road Initiative are accelerating the development of infrastructure megacorridors, putting trade in front of people and planet." "There is also the question of how the rest of the world will react to this new restructured global capital and the even more pervasive issue of accessing the last remaining natural resources. Is the trade war, which is very much about technology, only the beginning of a more serious conflict?
The Guardian November 20, 2018: Erik Solheim quits after Guardian reveals excess travel and rule breaking which led to withholding of funds.
"Numerous Unep staff have contacted the Guardian criticising Solheim’s perceived closeness to China and the project he initiated related to the environmental sustainability of China’s huge infrastructure Belt and Road Initiative. The US in particular was concerned and its representatives raised a long list of questions as far back as April, including about how the project was funded and how intellectual property rights would be protected."
"Another concern to staff was the $500,000 sponsorship Solheim agreed to give the Volvo Ocean Race, despite it not being mentioned on the VOR sponsors’ web page or announced by Une"
China Daily December 11, 2020. Erik Solheim, the former head of the UN Environment Program, said that by showing the world a green recovery from the pandemic is possible, China can provide global leadership in sustainable development in the post-COVID-19 world.
Council on Foreign Relations , Blog Post by Steven Feldstein November 30
Democracies should ask themselves whether forming yet another elite club of wealthy states represents the best means to counter China’s and fellow authoritarians’ digital rise.
How Should Democracies Confront China’s Digital Rise? Weighing the Merits of a T-10 Alliance. "Finally, before the United States assumes global leadership on tech policy, it needs to determine what its own orientation will be."
by Michael Keane, Feb 1 2020. China is intent on consolidating a digital civilization; which has widespread implications for industry, governance, population management, and international relations.
by Luo Weiteng , China Daily 10 Jul 2020
Each day for nine months, Bi Fang got up at the crack of dawn and spent three hours writing the next chapter of her wuxia novel before making a mad dash off to work.
by Luo Weiteng, China Daily 9 Oct 2020.
Yang Lu, a former librarian in Chengdu, Sichuan's provincial capital, regarded Wu's story as the epitome of well-developed public services and the wisdom of urban governance in the Pearl River Delta region, where the public library makes a living embodiment.
"However, it should be noted that such library services are not necessarily accessible in many less-developed areas. The hard fact is that many people have never been to or even heard of a library in their lives."
(Wikipedia China Daily (Chinese: 中国日报; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rìbào) is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.)
The list of Top Chinese Online Literary Works in 2019 was released yesterday in Shenzhen. After three rounds of assessments and online voting by 1.79 million readers, 19 works and projects made the list, including nine novels from the China Literature Group under Tencent .
The novel Library of Heavenly Path, capturing the traditional Chinese spirit of respecting teachers and truth, has become the most popular work on Webnovel. It has been translated into English, Turkish and French, among other languages
Oct 2020
According to market survey organization iiMedia's report, in 2019 there were about 1,000 newly opened study lounges nationwide and the number of paid users soared from 850,000 in 2018 to 2.3 million in 2019. No wonder some media outlets called 2019 the "first year" of study lounge startups.
The sector's rapid growth last year could be attributed to the increasing pressure of employment and shortage of public facilities such as public libraries. According to the 2019 Statistical Bulletin of Culture and Tourism Development of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, there are 3,196 public libraries nationwide, meaning more than 438,000 people sharing one public library.
Chinese Library Annual Conference, Langfang, 5/30/18 to 6/2/18 The Chinese Library Conference: the Annual Conference of the Library Society of China...
2017 Stadsbiblioteket i Tianjin Binhai är en fröjd för ögat. De futuristiska lokalerna spänner över en yta av 33 700 kvadratmeter och huserar över 1,2 miljoner bö
by Mary Beaudoin
November 21, 2019 · by Rise Up Times · in capitalist system, International, manufacturing consent, Media, U.S. Foreign Policy · 2 Comments
But it’s not just the British that protesters appealed to for support. American flags were also prominent in street protests. The leader of the Hong Kong activist organization Demosistō, Joshua Wong, called for outside intervention by the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan to “liberate Hong Kong.”
The US is looking for ways to expand its export market in Asia, and particularly in China. Because there is so much room for growth in the export of meat or meat-like products, the US could use its new plant-based pork products advantageously. US total exports of agricultural products to China totaled $9.3 billion in 2018, America’s 4th largest agricultural export market. Leading US export categories include: soybeans ($3.1 billion), cotton ($924 million), hides & skins ($607 million), pork & pork products ($571 million), and coarse grains (ex. corn) ($530 million). Good tasting plant-based pork products could have a major export impact for the US in China and elsewhere in Asia.
If the market develops and plant-based US-made products are successful in Asia, the growth of US exports could help lower the trade tensions between the US and China, expand American agriculture and agriculture-linked manufacturing exports, create thousands of American jobs, and help improve US political relations with China. In that sense, plant-based meats, especially faux-pork, could be a plus for US national security
Guardian 28 Feb 2018
Amid fallout from the decision to allow Xi to be president for life, censors also crack down on letters, phrases and George Orwell’s Animal Farm
Ylen reportaasi, joulukuu 2018
Tianjinin uuteen kirjastoon tullaan lähinnä ottamaan selfieitä. Siksi hyllyillä voi olla kirjojen sijaan kuvia niistä.
– Tyhjät hyllyt osoittavat, että tila pitäisi täyttää kirjoilla. On poliittisesti kiinnostavaa nähdä, miten tämä kehittyy. Auttaako kirjaston tuoma huomio siihen, että kirjoja tulisi lisää, Maas maalaa.
Wang Xinyu on tullut kirjastoon muutaman sadan kilometrin päästä Shandongista luokkansa kanssa. Hän opiskelee maisema-arkkitehtuuria, joten vierailukohde valikoitui esteettisin perustein.
– En muista, mitä viimeksi luin. En oikein enää lue huvin vuoksi, Wang sanoo.
Tilastojen mukaan kiinalaiset lukevat vielä kansainvälisesti verrattuna paljon, keskimäärin kahdeksan tuntia viikossa. Elektroniset kirjat ovat kuitenkin vallanneet vauhdilla markkinoita painetuilta niteiltä.
reportage sept 2017
Med 1,2 miljoner böcker på 33 700 kvm och en mycket speciell arkitektur är det nya stadsbiblioteket i Tianjin Binhai rena drömmen för bokälskaren.
Taking lessons from a historical pattern called "Thucydides's Trap," political scientist Graham Allison shows why a rising China and a dominant United States...
"I began writing my novel Soul Mountain to dispel my inner loneliness at the very time when works I had written with rigorous self-censorship had been banned. Soul Mountain was written for myself and without the hope that it would be published."
A Forbes article made one attempt to justify the block based on national security concerns: “The Treasury Department is probably right to be concerned about a Chinese company buying Moneygram and using it as a platform to enter the US payments market,” one Salvatore Babones wrote. “After all, the Treasury Department itself uses the global dominance of Visa, Mastercard and the SWIFT interbank payment system to exert pressure on other countries in the service of U.S. foreign policy goals. As Fintech leads to the consolidation of payments systems under the control of a small number of global giants, it is strategically important that those giants be under domestic control.”
South China Morning Post:
That ban has not only become the latest flashpoint between the world’s two largest economies, it also exposed the soft underbelly of China’s hi-tech ambitions: a dependence on advanced US technology, especially semiconductors.
The US action against Hong Kong-listed ZTE has given fresh urgency to the Chinese government’s efforts to expand the domestic semiconductor industry, which would help the country’s hi-tech companies become less reliant on foreign-developed chips.
China is taking the idea of a credit score to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what you do—your purchases, your pastimes, your mistakes.
"For the Chinese Communist Party, social credit is an attempt at a softer, more invisible authoritarianism. The goal is to nudge people toward behaviors ranging from energy conservation to obedience to the Party. Samantha Hoffman, a consultant with the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London who is researching social credit, says that the government wants to preempt instability that might threaten the Party. “That’s why social credit ideally requires both coercive aspects and nicer aspects, like providing social services and solving real problems. It’s all under the same Orwellian umbrella.” "
Reportage från Rongcheng. Orwellian? "The party is using both coercion and cooperation to integrate the scheme into people’s lives and have it bring benefits to them. “To me, that’s what makes it Orwellian,” says Hoffman of IISS. The social credit system provides incentives for people to not want to be on a blacklist. “It’s a preemptive way of shaping the way people think and shaping the way people act,” she says. And to the extent that people believe they can benefit socially and economically from the Communist Party staying in power, the system is working."
The Times of India said officials at the news conference "spoke at length about close cooperation between China and Russia, another Communist country, in pushing for the "cyber sovereignty" principal at the U.N. and other international bodies."
Preface
Chapter I. Opportunities and Challenges
Chapter II. Basic Principles 1.The Principle of Peace 2.The Principle of Sovereignty
3.The Principle of Shared Governance 4.The Principle of Shared Benefits
Chapter III. Strategic Goals 1. Safeguarding Sovereignty and Security
2. Developing A System of International Rules 3. Promoting Fair Internet Governance
4. Protecting Legitimate Rights and Interests of Citizens 5. Promoting Cooperation on Digital Economy 6. Building Platform for Cyber Culture Exchange
Chapter IV. Plan of Action 1. Peace and Stability in Cyberspace 2. Rule-based Order in Cyberspace 3. Partnership in Cyberspace 4. Reform of Global Internet Governance System 5. International Cooperation on Cyber Terrorism and Cyber Crimes
6. Protection of Citizens’ Rights and Interests Including Privacy 7. Digital Economy and Sharing of Digital Dividends 8. Global Information Infrastructure Development and Protection 9. Exchange of Cyber Cultures
Conclusion
Facebook, Amazon, Alipay and others cut out banks in providing payment services
February 14, 2017
by: Madhumita Murgia and Martin Arnold
"Last October, the Central Bank of Ireland added an unexpected company to its roster of digital payment providers — Facebook Payments International Limited. The licence it granted authorised Facebook to provide basic financial services, such as electronic money transfers, to all citizens of the EU. "“What percentage of bank revenues will come from payments and interchange in 10 years? My bet is it will be a lot smaller than today, because of online services like Ant Financial’s Alipay. That’s a fact of life for banks,” said Mr Parker. “They can either resist it or get on board and exploit it to sell additional services and products.”
"What was different was that it was distinctly China's G20. China did not simply host the G20 for America to sweep in, give its "leadership" and stamp to proceedings, and then to fly off. China, at this G20, made it very plain that it was leading, and to make it clearer still, it made sure that the world should see that the guest of honor was the Russian President, and not the American President (who regrettably experienced some technical difficulties that marred his ceremonial arrival). There was a deeper purpose here: to underline strategic co-ordination with Russia in the context of the display of Chinese leadership. "
"What may emerge in more concrete terms - it is too early to say - is the second strand to President Xi's global vision. In his address to the Chinese Communist Party, Xi said that relations of Russia and China should not be confined solely to economic relations, but rather, these two states should create an alternative military alliance: "we are now witnessing the aggressive actions by the United States against Russia and China. I believe that Russia and China may form an alliance before which NATO will be powerless," Xi said.
By Fu Xiaoqiang Source:Global Times Published: 2016-6-16
"As long as all NSG members reach a consensus over how a non-NPT member could join the NSG, and India promises to comply with stipulations over the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons while sticking to its policy of independence and self-reliance, China could support New Delhi’s path toward the club."
by Philip S Golub
a slow shift towards a tripolar world monetary system no longer exclusively centred in the West
Despite worries over the end of the Chinese economic miracle and harder times because of the aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis, global rebalancing is happening — and quickly. The International Monetary Fund's executive board announced on 30 November that the Chinese currency, the renminbi (RMB) or yuan, would soon be included in the basket of currencies that make up its Special Drawing Rights (SDR), beside the US dollar, the euro, the British pound and the yen. The decision recognised (...)
By Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy (1996-1998, 2006-2008) and former President of the European Union Commission (1999-2004), and David Gosset , Director, Academia Sinica Europaea at China Europe International Business School
BEIJING -- China's future development is about economic transformation. Through green growth and the application of Internet technologies, China can spur new opportunities and foster global sustainable development.
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Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, the Politburo Standing Committee member in charge of the economy, laid out for us the comprehensive dimensions of the plan that will guide China's development over the next half decade. The new buzzwords in his presentation could have been pulled right out of the series of essays by Rifkin -- and responses by global political and thought leaders -- that we have been publishing in recent weeks in The WorldPost. Zhang envisions linking up China's manufacturing and infrastructure through the resource and logistical efficiency enabled by the "Internet of Things" -- what the Chinese call "Internet Plus." He spoke of "circular" use of resources in which waste is recycled and about "weakening the urban concentration of Beijing" by integrating development through decentralized, smart infrastructure in the northern provinces surrounding the capital. Under the new plan, he said, the first criteria in the promotion evaluations of mayors, governors and party secretaries will be their "green" accomplishments."
by By Sounak Mukhopadhyay on June 24 2015, IBTimes: Chinese and Russian media have started suggesting the possibility of a China-U.S. war. While the national news agency in China calls it “inevitable,” a Russian news agency listed a number of indications that it said “proved’ the two nations were heading toward a military conflict.
By Chen Heying Source:Global Times Published: 2015-5-25 0:38:02
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Experts on Sunday warned of a potential military conflict over heightened US surveillance in the South China Sea and cautioned that both sides should try their best to avoid miscalculation in the world's most important bilateral relations.
South China Morning Post 29 July 2014
Taking down a party heavyweight has given the president clout not seen since Deng Xiaoping and energised his anti-graft fight, analysts say
Washington/Wall Street elites - talk about Cold War hubris - always took for granted that Beijing and Moscow would be totally apart. Now puzzlement prevails. Note how the Obama administration's "pivoting to Asia" has been completely erased from the narrative - after Beijing identified it for what it is: a warlike provocation. The new meme is "rebalance".
The $400 billion, 40 year oil and gas deal between China and Russia is a response to the new cold war pressure and sanctions on Russia, says economist Michael Hudson