The China Task Force is engaged in a sprint to identify priorities for the Defense Department with regards to the near-peer, Asian competitor, the Pentagon press secretary said. ( read original story …)
Monthly Archives For March 2021
COVID-19 lockdown highlights ozone chemistry in China
In early 2020, daily life in Northern China slammed to a halt as the region entered a strict period of lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19. Emissions from transportation and industry plummeted. ( read…
Australian senator calls to recognise China’s treatment of Uighurs as genocide
Independent Rex Patrick moves after similar parliamentary motions passed in Canada and the Netherlands … ( read original story …)
Japan bummed out by China’s use of anal coronavirus tests on visitors
Japan says its people don’t want to bend over for one of China‘s potentially humiliating COVID-19 tests, which involves sticking a cotton swab into the patient’s rectum to check for the coronavirus. ( read original…
Global Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Market Outlook, Industry Analysis and Prospect 2021-2026
Blockchain is a digital and distributed transaction ledger or decentralized database that can keep constantly updated … ( read original story …)
China using Covid-19 to obstruct foreign journalists: media group
China has used extra surveillance and restrictions ostensibly imposed because of the Covid-19 pandemic to block the work of foreign reporters already struggling with threats of detention and punitive … ( read original story …)
Copying China’s Online Blockade
How other countries’ efforts to control the internet compare with China’s Great Firewall. This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. China’s … ( read…
Biden urged to back AI weapons to counter China
The US and its allies should reject calls for a global ban on AI-powered autonomous weapons systems, according to an official report commissioned for President Biden and Congress.It says that … ( read original story…
China keeps head high facing unprecedented challenges in its global rise
China is facing a more complicated, difficult and diversified external environment for its rise than any other emerging powers in history since the modernization of humanity. International society … ( read original story …)
China’s STAR market had a great year in 2020 despite COVID-19
Over 200 of China’s most promising tech companies listed on China’s Science and Technology Innovation Board (STAR), often regarded as China’s version of the NASDAQ, saw major growth in net profits in … ( read…
China lags behind vaccination goal, but says it aims to have 40pct inoculated by June
China is lagging in its coronavirus vaccination rollout because it has the disease largely under control, but plans to inoculate 40 percent of its … ( read original story …)
UPDATE 1-Some Beijing communities giving COVID-19 shots to the elderly
Some local communities in Beijing have started giving COVID-19 vaccine doses to people older than 60, even as the city’s disease-control authorities publicly advise this age group against inoculation. ( read original story …)
Chasing coronavirus with China vaccines
The mass vaccination of some 80 million Filipinos finally rolled off yesterday with health workers armed with 600,000 doses of Chinese vaccines fanning out initially in Metro Manila to start … ( read original story…
