Great piece from a Stanford Chinese history prof, not some Guardian hack.
How China went from celebrating ethnic diversity to suppressing it.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... nist-party
Chinese imperialism and future Australian sovereignty
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Good opinion piece here about how China is shifting it's focus from wealth creation to wealth re-distribution.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-eco ... 58lf9.html
Summary is that for decades China has been following the policy of wealth creation by letting some people get very rich. Now they've clearly decided they're rich enough and have started putting controls in place over the tech sector and "encouraging" billionaires to "donate" cash to good causes. Most of them seem to have seen how the dud who owns AliBaba had his ears pinned back and are falling over each other to comply.
it will be interesting to see what happens, whether there's any push back or running with the cash or just plain economic downturn.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-eco ... 58lf9.html
Summary is that for decades China has been following the policy of wealth creation by letting some people get very rich. Now they've clearly decided they're rich enough and have started putting controls in place over the tech sector and "encouraging" billionaires to "donate" cash to good causes. Most of them seem to have seen how the dud who owns AliBaba had his ears pinned back and are falling over each other to comply.
it will be interesting to see what happens, whether there's any push back or running with the cash or just plain economic downturn.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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This Bloomberg piece will confirm what you already know. The problem is that no official inter/national body is seriously addressing and exposing international cyber attack information because everyone's doing it (some obviously much more than others, though), and everyone wants to reserve the right to do it, leaving countries like Australia highly vulnerable. International standards and treaties are a must right now.
Essentially, it's low-level warfare but without public scrutiny. We already know about the secretive drone attacks. The step from drones to more sophisticated robots isn't that great. It's all cybersecurity now, and no one is pushing governments to address the matter in the public sphere.
However, if you take the fist-waving evil China and Russia line, as if this is only a problem associated with hostile powers, you'll lose the real battle here. This is an international problem that needs an international solution.
People need to demand more transparency from their own governments on cyber attacks generally (regardless of who is doing them to whom), or the problem will keep being swept under the rug and cyber-defence farmed out to shadowy firms, much like the ones paid billions to 'train' the Afghanistan army.
That way lies losses from both the authoritarians and chancers without, and the usual scumbag grifters within. It's a new arms race building up under the BS cover of national security. Imagine all the slimy backroom deals that accompany it already.
Essentially, it's low-level warfare but without public scrutiny. We already know about the secretive drone attacks. The step from drones to more sophisticated robots isn't that great. It's all cybersecurity now, and no one is pushing governments to address the matter in the public sphere.
However, if you take the fist-waving evil China and Russia line, as if this is only a problem associated with hostile powers, you'll lose the real battle here. This is an international problem that needs an international solution.
People need to demand more transparency from their own governments on cyber attacks generally (regardless of who is doing them to whom), or the problem will keep being swept under the rug and cyber-defence farmed out to shadowy firms, much like the ones paid billions to 'train' the Afghanistan army.
That way lies losses from both the authoritarians and chancers without, and the usual scumbag grifters within. It's a new arms race building up under the BS cover of national security. Imagine all the slimy backroom deals that accompany it already.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... ies-hacked[/quote]“China’s cyber reach is detectable on almost every government server,” Potter said. “It isn’t subtle and it increases and decreases in a way that correlates to our overall relationship.”
Beijing’s retaliation against Australia’s repeated calls for an international probe is a clear example of what can happen to even the wealthiest nations if they annoy China enough, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Interesting read on the little revolution quietly happening at the moment in China. Ole Xi is stamping his image on stuff.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-03/ ... /100421752
But wait, there's more
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-03/ ... /100421752
Apart from that, he recently wiped billions in value off Tech companies, now he's really getting paternalistic.It takes a tremendous amount of political power to successfully destroy millions of jobs and bankrupt large companies with a single decision.
And it takes an even more extraordinary level of power, unseen in modern times, for those most affected to stay publicly silent about it.
And yet that's where Xi Jinping's China is at.
Last month, with a sudden, jarring policy announcement designed to ease the financial burden on families paying for extra tuition for children, he decimated the country's private tutoring sector that is estimated to employ 10 million people.
The way I read that, it's not just a recomendation to limit on line gaming to 3 hours a week but he's making the tech companies enforce it.A swiftly implemented regulation this week will limit minors to three hours of online gaming per week over one-hour fixed blocs on weekend evenings.
The big tech companies affected, including Tencent, have offered no criticism of a plan formed with good intentions, but implemented with a very restrictive and paternalistic framework.
Look at the pictures, that's straight child brainwashing.In education, aside from shutting down for-profit extra-curricular tutoring firms, Xi has also introduced his ideology, called "Xi Jinping Thought" into primary schools this week.
The textbook features his image prominently and teaches children that "Grandpa Xi always cares about us".
But wait, there's more
Grandpa Xi don't like these nancy boys.n entertainment, the downfall of high-profile stars for various reasons has coincided with a slew of new restrictions for performers and their fans, a direct intervention to steer China's culture industry in a "healthier" direction.
Such interventions have been prevalent during Xi's nine years in power.
For example, he banned the display of male earrings and tattoos on performers and sports stars in 2018.
But on September 2, he went further via China's National Radio and Television Administration, which published guidelines urging broadcasters to stop programs portraying "effeminate" behaviour and other "warped" content.
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^If the authoritarianism doesn't register, you hope the absurdity at least starts to cause national cringe at some point.
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Keating; as always is an idiot, can’t read the room, can’t see reality, still doesn’t get why he got dumped out of office 25 years ago, Keating still thinks its 1996.
The ‘toothpicks before mountains’ comment tells me he has never read a history book.
The world is finally letting China (the CCP) know it is not the center of the world, not the middle kingdom surrounded by vassal states. The world doesn’t work that way anymore.
Just about every country in the Asia-Pacific region is pushing back against everything China is doing at the moment. Look up illegal fishing.
As former member to an advisory board for a Chinese government bank , I suspect Keating lost a few dollars in Chinese bonds this year.
The ‘toothpicks before mountains’ comment tells me he has never read a history book.
The world is finally letting China (the CCP) know it is not the center of the world, not the middle kingdom surrounded by vassal states. The world doesn’t work that way anymore.
Just about every country in the Asia-Pacific region is pushing back against everything China is doing at the moment. Look up illegal fishing.
As former member to an advisory board for a Chinese government bank , I suspect Keating lost a few dollars in Chinese bonds this year.
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Ole Grandpa Xi really pushing his thoughts.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-25/ ... /100640642
Meanwhile, this disturbing on many levels.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-23/ ... /100642160
Chinese tennis player, puts post on Chinese social media accusing an ex snr party official of rape. Post taken down, player disappeared. Standard CCP response but this time it faces scrutiny from the rest of the world, something the CCP isn't overly used to. A few ham fisted attempts to say "nothing to see here" and countries around the world are considering pulling their teams out of the Chinese Winter Olympics as a protest.
The funniest thing is though, because some people made memes about Xi resembling Winnie The Pooh, any reference to ole Winne is schematically scrubbed from all Chinese internet and social media.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-25/ ... /100640642
Meanwhile, this disturbing on many levels.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-23/ ... /100642160
Chinese tennis player, puts post on Chinese social media accusing an ex snr party official of rape. Post taken down, player disappeared. Standard CCP response but this time it faces scrutiny from the rest of the world, something the CCP isn't overly used to. A few ham fisted attempts to say "nothing to see here" and countries around the world are considering pulling their teams out of the Chinese Winter Olympics as a protest.
The funniest thing is though, because some people made memes about Xi resembling Winnie The Pooh, any reference to ole Winne is schematically scrubbed from all Chinese internet and social media.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
Australia and China are like two exes who spend the entire week squabbling about one another only to end up secretly meeting every weekend for a shag.
Honestly China wants our natural resources as much as Australia wants their money and neither country has the backbone to halt that mutually beneficial arrangement.
Who are they trying to kid?
Honestly China wants our natural resources as much as Australia wants their money and neither country has the backbone to halt that mutually beneficial arrangement.
Who are they trying to kid?
He's mad. He's bad. He's MaynHARD!
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Ole mate Xi really doesn't like democracy much.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-17/ ... /100701702
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-17/ ... /100701702
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I've been following this for a while, China has been wooing The Solomon Islands for months with lots of cash spilling into what some reports say are a corrupt regime. I haven't followed their politics much but it seems that it's been fairly unstable for a fair while. Now they announce a new security agreement.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-19/ ... /101000530
None of the USA, AUS or NZ are happy about this, it's clearly China buying their way into a Pacific base, and they've all been trying for months to talk the Solomons out of doing it, but money talks.
This agreement is of genuine concern in it's own right, but worse, it may be just the start.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-19/ ... /101000530
None of the USA, AUS or NZ are happy about this, it's clearly China buying their way into a Pacific base, and they've all been trying for months to talk the Solomons out of doing it, but money talks.
This agreement is of genuine concern in it's own right, but worse, it may be just the start.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.