#TradeWar Retaliation Will Hit #Trump Voters Hardest

As Trump imposes #tariffs on products from countries around the world, foreign govts are answering back w/tariffs of their own.

#China has targeted corn farmers & carmakers. #Canada has put tariffs on poultry plants & A/C manufacturers, while #Europe will hit American steel mills & slaughter houses.

#economy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/business/economy/tariffs-trump-maps-voters.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=8B150285-9181-4370-B044-3C628C7B26D9

Russia, China, and North Korea plotting to hack UK economy and ‘grind country to a halt’ | World | News https://www.byteseu.com/835686/ #China #Conflicts #cyberattacks #NorthKorea #Russia

#travel #tourism #China #GreatWall

' ....the pair traveled to the Great Wall of China, the famous 4,000-year-old structure that draws millions to see and walk part of its 13,170 mile length.

The man and woman, however, planned to do more than walking. According to the report, the man dropped his pants while his female companion recorded his posterior for posterity on her smartphone.'

https://unseen-japan.com/japanese-tourists-great-wall-arrested/

According to the Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders 7 out of 10 institutions for these contributions are based in China. Even in disciplines where China produces a lower volume of research, contribution to high impact publishing (based on citations) is on par with other research-intensive nations.

https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/the-source/blog/blogposts-for-editors/china-growing-influence-global-research-nature-index-2024/27731198

China's Baidu launches 2 new free AI models to compete with DeepSeek as industry competition heats up

> Chinese AI startup #DeepSeek's roll-out of AI models which it says is on par with, or even better than, industry-leading models in the United States at a fraction of the cost, has roiled the industry and re-energised the global #AI race

> "ERNIE X1 delivers performance on par with DeepSeek R1 at only half the price," #Baidu said of one of the new models
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/chinas-baidu-launches-2-new-free-ai-models-compete-deepseek-industry-competition-heats-up-5003541 #China #AI

#China #AI #finance #StockMarket #misinformation

'China's securities watchdog will step up monitoring fake information in the stock market and work with the police and cyberspace regulators to crack down on those who disseminate false news, which is being made easier by AI, official media reported on Saturday.'

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-crack-down-stock-market-105825380.html

The Diplomat: Tibetan Language, Epic, and the Bards Safeguarding Heritage. “Set against the background of global pressures of homogenization and tightening of the spaces for acceptable public expression in the Xi Jinping era, this support for Tibetan heritage seems particularly important. Recently, government promotion of the concept ‘minzu gongtongti yishi 民族?

?同体意识’ – […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/16/the-diplomat-tibetan-language-epic-and-the-bards-safeguarding-heritage/

The President of Radio Free Asia posted this statement on the RFA website, presumably before the staff were locked out

"The termination of RFA’s grant is a reward to dictators and despots, including the Chinese Communist Party, who would like nothing better than to have their influence go unchecked in the information space."

https://www.rfa.org/english/about/releases/2025/03/15/rfa-cancellation-a-boon-to-the-chinese-communist-party/

well yes #donaltrump just as his predecessor mostly care about #money

so when #globalization (u know selling companies off to foreign countries mostly #China dismantling whole factories shipping them to #China) was good #money #economic policy of #USA was #globalization

now #China won that game

so now #USA #America #TheWest realizes: this game SUCKS (ok told u 30 years ago but whatever)

and try to turn back the wheel to the 1960s if they turn too far we might end up in 1933

nothing get's build anymore in #USA except sometimes a great song like this #trump #song #music #lol

I mean, it's alright not to know what's diplomatically best to do with #America right now. Nobody really knows. #SouthAfrica is in good company. But surely that's the whole thing.

Go to #Europe, #EU, #China (quietly), all the nations of #Africa ESPECIALLY, and figure it out. Get onside with everybody and be a good, interested, flexible neighbour.

#CyrilRamaphosa meeting #VolodymyrZelenskyy was a good start, let's have more of that.

No more grandstanding. It should not be 'This is what I think', it should be 'What s/he said'.

#German foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that #coronavirus behind #COVID19 #pandemic was accidentally released from #China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, two German newspapers reported
According to report by Die Zeit and Sueddeutscher Zeitung, Germany's spying agency #BND had indications that the institute had conducted gain-of-function experiments, whereby #viruses are modified to become more transmissible to humans for research purposes
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/german-spy-agency-concluded-covid-virus-likely-leaked-lab-papers-say-2025-03-12/

Chinese Hackers Sat Undetected in Small #Massachusetts Power Utility for Months

https://www.pcmag.com/news/chinese-hackers-sat-undetected-in-small-massachusetts-power-utility-for

#Juniper patches bug that let Chinese cyberspies backdoor routers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/juniper-patches-bug-that-let-chinese-cyberspies-backdoor-routers-since-mid-2024/

Some DeepSeek employees have been prevented from traveling abroad and the Chinese government is now playing a role in screening potential investors. Read more at @Techcrunch. #DeepSeek #China #AI #Tech #Technology

China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation program aims to raise people out of poverty by addressing multidimensional poverty, not just income.

The program involves the deployment of millions of cadres to collect data and verify information in impoverished areas.

The use of cybernetics in China's poverty alleviation program involves the collection and analysis of extensive data to identify and address the root causes of poverty.

https://peoplesworld.org/article/cybernetics-with-chinese-characteristics-how-big-data-is-eliminating-poverty-and-building-socialism/

China's state sector continues to play a dominant role in the economy, with social objectives taking precedence over profit.

China's annual 'two sessions' are ongoing, where economic policy is being outlined for the coming year. China has met or exceeded 86% of the targets set in its 'Made in China 2025' and 14th five-year plan.

China's economy is now driven by technological investments, and labor productivity is higher than in the US and Japan.

https://socialistchina.org/2025/03/12/in-china-profit-does-not-rule-social-objectives-do/

There's a common misconception that China's economy development only really took off after Deng reforms. However, the reality is that there's been steady progress since the revolution.

The reason it wasn't as visible initially was due to the fact that China started from a place of extreme poverty.

Citi downgraded US stocks while upgrading China, indicating a divergence in market outlooks.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-11/citi-upgrades-china-stocks-as-us-gets-downgraded-in-markets-divergence