Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Quick notes: Gulags in Tibet | Chinese tech...

  • Gulags are thriving: China is pushing Tibetans off their lands and turning them into factory workers . 500K Tibetans were forced into labor camps this year and quotas were set for transfers outside the region.

    Xinjiang’s system of militarized vocational training comes to Tibet.

    Himalayan villagers support Indian troops: “We want to help the Indian army to secure their positions immediately. We are carrying supplies to them, doing multiple rounds in a day, to ensure that the army doesn’t face too many problems.”.... The Tibet factor.


  • China's tech prowess: Increasingly, China is supplying the kind of sophisticated machinery that German manufacturers once dominated, like high-end tunnel borers and hydraulic valves and pumps used in wind turbines. “It’s only a matter of time until Chinese firms are No. 1,” says Ulrich Ackermann of German Engineering Association. 


  • State Media: Chinese tech companies going abroad are ‘spreading China’s influence’


  • Good riddance: Facebook may leave Europe if Ireland enforces ban on data sharing with US


  • China’s 40-Year, Billion-Tree Project: Launched in 1978 to protect the north, northwest, and northeast, three regions affected by sandstorms sweeping out of the Gobi Desert, the so-called Three-North Shelter Forest Program aimed to grow 87 million acres of new trees—a forest the size of Germany—across the country’s north by 2050.


  • Turning Gray into Green: Meishe River Greenway and Fengxiang Park, Haikou, China


  • Pakistan begins phase-3 trial of Chinese vaccine: It was an “honor” for Pakistan to be among the few countries participating in “the biggest and relatively difficult” phase-3 study of a vaccine.

    Irony: China struggling to convince citizens to take Chinese-made flu shots


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