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,
Die USA haben mit dem IPEF ein Handelsprogramm vorgestellt, das eine Absage an die Freihandelsidee ist. Eine Reaktion auf Blockbildung und Sicherheitsängste.
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.
D. Ji, and F. Scholz. Reflections on the International Association for Media and Communication Research: Many Voices, One Forum, Palgrave Macmillan, (2023)
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