“ZTE ceased major operations since the seven-year ban [on buying from U.S. suppliers] was imposed.”
“The limitations emerged as President Donald Trump announced plans to impose tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports and curb investment in sensitive technology.”
“California police say they have arrested two people for abducting and attempting to deport a 21-year-old foreign flight school student.”
Read more: http://time.com/5293011/chinese-flight-student-kidnapped-deportation/
“Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees on the production line, the military and at the helm of high-speed trains.”
“Since starting Obelisk, we’ve learned a lot about the mining space, as relevant to GPUs, to ASICs, to FPGAs, to ASIC resistance, mining farms, electricity, and to a whole host of other subjects that coin developers should be more aware of.”
Read more: https://blog.sia.tech/the-state-of-cryptocurrency-mining-538004a37f9b
“Proposals under discussion would replace the population-control policy with one called ‘independent fertility,’ allowing people to decide how many children to have.”
“China said this week it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year.”
“In a statement after Trump’s signing of the bill, the Chinese embassy said clauses of the legislation ‘severely violate the one-China principle, the political foundation of the China-U.S. relationship’.”
“Under Xi—the most powerful Chinese leader in four decades—China’s own one-party system is one that is ready to be exported to regimes everywhere.”
“The Chinese Communist Party on Sunday proposed to abolish the two-term term limit for the president and vice-president, sparking an online backlash which it has been trying to control. Critics flooded Weibo and WeChat — China’s version of Twitter and WhatsApp — to protest the plan, but were swiftly met by the country’s censors. Various Chinese characters for terms like ’emigrate,’ ‘lifelong,’ and ‘I disagree’ were banned, alongside … the letter N.”
Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-banned-letter-n-internet-114000473.html
