Dario #Amodei of #Anthropic says he wants to “pace the frontier” but his post seems calculated to sabotage diplomacy with #China, the only actor whose buy-in he actually needs, using the derogatory abbreviation “CCP” and proposing to try to cripple Chinese #AI: “Pacing within democracies will be limited by the lead that US companies have over authoritarian regimes, chiefly the Chinese Communist Party. If we slow down by more than this amount, then (unpaced) CCP-associated projects will pull ahead, creating significant national security risk. I agree with Secretary Bessent that a Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world. The CCP-associated projects will run the alignment risks that US companies are carefully preventing [...]
“• Do not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, and crack down on chip smuggling operations and remote access to data centers outside China. Chips will be the main determinant of China’s AI strength.”
on 02026-09-14“#China’s export compliance overhaul” #news that might explain the #JLCPCB banning problems, discussing “Regulations on the #Export-Control of Dual-Use Items”
on 02026-09-03#politics #news #video about how the #New-START treaty, the last #nuclear-weapons #disarmament treaty, signed in 02010 by #Obama and #Medvedev, expired on 02026-02-04. #Interview material with Sophie Bolt and Eliana Johns. #History of disarmament treaties with stock photos; between START in 01991 and 02009, warhead stockpiles declined 82%. The history of the “nuclear taboo”. For some reason there’s a lot of blurred stock footage of Kermit the Frog. George W. Bush pulled out of the ABM treaty with the #GWOT as an excuse, and the next day Russia withdrew from the 01991 START II. #China’s #no-first-use policy and attempt to establish it as an international standard.
on 02026-08-25#Gwern on the #history of #China’s Cultural Revolution via a review of Frank Dikötter’s book
on 02026-08-05the Viśuddhaprabhā Dhāraṇī, from the 8th century, used to be the oldest surviving woodblock print in the world, from #Korea, significant to the #history of #printing. It was printed on hanji paper, made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry. More recent discoveries have found older prints in #China.
on 02026-07-30#news #video about how the world didn’t have a huge #oil shock from the #Iran war just now. Proposes a theory that #China’s Xi Jinping averted disaster.
Incorrectly states that 10% of the world oil supply is “more than a tenth of global #energy usage”. Misleading plots with nonzero baselines to exaggerate drawdowns of strategic petroleum reserves. Purportedly China’s oil imports dropped by half (5.5 million barrels per day) between March and June, though given the previous falsehoods I’m not going to trust anything out of this “Max Fisher” bozo until I verify it. Reportedly there’s a Reuters article from March entitled, “China orders immediate ban on March fuel exports, sources say,” about refinery outputs, and a Wall Street Journal article from June, “China is propping up the world economy by importing a lot less oil”. And reportedly China was burning a record amount of coal by April, perhaps shutting down liquid-fueled power plants. Oh, and supposedly China had a 1.4 billion barrel secret strategic oil reserve, larger than the strategic oil reserves of all other countries put together.
Another boner toward the end of the video: “trading in US dollars means those transactions have to be processed by a US-based bank.” No, no it doesn’t.
on 02026-07-18#history of counterfeit goods scams in #China
on 02026-06-04Semikey looks like another #hardware distributor similar to Digi-Key or LCSC, in #China (country code +86)
on 02026-05-26#Deutsche-Welle #news #video about how the #USA is “terrified” of #EVs from #China #toread
on 02026-05-14#video #toread on super cheap and cute #EVs in #China #formina (Taiwan version)
on 02026-05-14#video #toread about "sleep pods" in an airport in #China #todelete
on 02026-05-1229-second #video below and above a floating #solar-energy farm in #China. #solar #energy
on 02026-05-05a #human-rights abuse familiar from before the American Revolution: quartering of over a million government officials in #Uyghur homes to quell rebellion against #China.
on 02026-05-04an amd64 gaming PC built from all parts from companies from #China: a Zhaoxin CPU (deriving from VIA and thence from Cyrix) and a #Moore-Threads GPU. #hardware
on 02026-04-29Six key #AI companies in #China: Z.ai (Zhipu AI, GLM), Moonshot AI (Kimi), MiniMax, Baichuan AI, 01.AI, and StepFun.
on 02026-04-29an alarming conflict started in November between the PRC and #Japan over #Taiwan. #China #politics
on 02026-04-25#Ford CEO says #EVs from #China would be "devastating" to #USA car #manufacturing.
on 02026-04-22the impotent #UN Security Council condemned #Iran’s attacks on #Bahrain and other countries on March 11, #Russia and #China abstaining rather than vetoing
on 02026-04-13collection of #Iran #video propaganda on a channel belonging to an English doctor who teaches English in a high school in #China. Doesn’t seem to be a China propaganda channel.
on 02026-04-11#PDF of Martin A. Green’s “How Did Solar Cells Get So Cheap?”, including #Suntech, #China’s support, his own research group at UNSW from which Suntech’s founder Zhengrong Shi came, etc.
on 02026-04-09#video on trying and failing to make #carborundum #materials in the shed in a zirconia crucible; the Australian YouTuber ran into trouble with #export-controls in #China being perhaps incorrectly applied to YSZ. So he used calcia-stabilized zirconia. But an induction furnace is the wrong tool.
on 02026-04-0631-minute #video #toread about secret #underground #tunnels in #China
on 02026-02-1836-minute #video #toread on test-driving cheap #EVs from #China that are banned in #USA #politics
on 02026-02-16#video of a New Year #robotics show in #China thanks to Sculptor. The robots are child-sized humanoids, performing a martial-arts form including backflips, on stage on a specially prepared smooth floor. They are spaced far apart, and of course the performance is pre-scripted, because martial-arts forms are pre-scripted by definition. They performed with humans who perturbed them somewhat, grabbing staffs they were swinging. Toward the end the robots performed with nunchaku and did a bit of breakdancing and parkour.
on 02026-02-16“Chinese #EVs banned from #UK military sites over spying concerns.” “Staff were also advised to avoid having official conversations within electric cars from #China (...) officials are concerned that microphones mounted within the car which are supposed to be used for voice activation systems and phone calls, could instead be used to eavesdrop by the Chinese state.” #security #politics
on 02026-01-16#news: “Following the Biden administration’s move to impose 100% #tariffs on Chinese #EVs, Canada implemented similar surtaxes, effectively freezing companies like #BYD, #Nio, and #Zeekr out of the market. (...) #Canada has agreed to allow an annual quota of 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into the country at the tariff rate of just 6.1%.” #USA #politics #China
on 02026-01-16#NVIDIA got #AI #export-controls to #China lifted in #USA by lobbying #Trump #politics
on 02026-01-15“#Hong-Kong pro-democracy campaigner and media tycoon #Jimmy-Lai has been found guilty of colluding with foreign forces under the city’s controversial national security law (#NSL).” #politics #china #news (from December)
on 02026-01-14#news on #AI and #export-controls: “#China may have reverse engineered #EUV lithography tool in covert lab, report claims — employees given fake IDs to avoid secret project being detected, prototypes expected in 2028”: “The Chinese machine reportedly generates EUV light with a wavelength of 13.5nm using the same laser-produced plasma (LPP) method as ASML Twinscan NXE machines.”
on 02025-12-18archive of https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/18/tech/china-west-ai-chips/ #China #news on #AI and #export-controls: new #EUV light source built in Shenzhen. “The team includes recently retired, Chinese-born former ASML engineers and scientists — prime recruitment targets because they possess sensitive technical knowledge but face fewer professional constraints after leaving the company, the people said.
Their recruitment was part of an aggressive drive China launched in 2019 for semiconductor experts working abroad, offering signing bonuses that started at 3 million yuan to 5 million yuan ($420,000 to $700,000) and home-purchase subsidies, according to a review of government policy documents.”
on 02025-12-18#news from September on #export-controls: #China thinks it can replace #NVIDIA’s chips with its own, so it’s banning NVIDIA imports for #AI.
on 02025-12-16#Trump lifts most #export-controls on #NVIDIA to #China for #AI, permitting sales of up to H200, and promising the same to Intel and AMD. #politics
on 02025-12-11#coal peaker plants for #energy in #China
on 02025-12-03#China commissioned 30.5GW of #coal power plants in 02024, permitted 66.7GW, and started construction on 94.5GW. #energy
on 02025-12-03#humor #video about Chen Rui, #China’s #Trump from Chongqing
on 02025-11-05#video on comedian #Uncle-Roger who has been canceled (twice!) by #China, in January 02021 on Weibo and Bilibili for collaborating with Mike Chen because he was “anti-CCP” and also #Falun-Gong, but apologizing for that got him canceled on Twitter, and then two years later (02023?) he got canceled again for making a joke in Boston about how he had to say China was a very good country because they were listening through Huawei phones, so his social credit score would go up, and then joked that Taiwan was not a real country. This resulted in all four of his Chinese social media accounts getting banned. Also he got cancelled on Twitter for making a joke when Russia invaded #Ukraine, and in Singapore when he “talked shit” about the food. This is a “podcast for the canceled” called "triggernometry".
on 02025-11-05#video from #Mother-Jones of the leaked group chat text on #China #soybeans: “Finally - just a heads up. I’m getting more intel, but this is highly unfortunate.
We bailed out Argentina yesterday (Bessent) and in return, the Argentine’s [sic] removed their export tariffs on grains [sic], reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China, at a time when we would normally be selling to China. Soy prices dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us.” #Trump #USA #politics
on 02025-10-29Chinese People Continue Buying More #Bitcoin, Despite Strict Bans #news #China (from March) “In an interview with Nino Feng, a former exchange executive from China, she relayed that most people she knew were buying Bitcoin from over-the-counter services that operated with major exchanges as a sort of collection of informal merchants that paid an escrow fee to be listed on a major exchange to sell Bitcoin and Tether at a spread.
They would ask for money to be wired to local Chinese bank accounts (usually registered with a relatively unknown rural bank) - and there were many more desks that sold Tether rather than Bitcoin (since the spread on USDT/RMB is lower than BTC/RMB). Nino also indicated that many people take their Tether and trade down on second-tier exchanges with more crypto trading pairs, which was confirmed anecdotally by listening to X rooms filled with Chinese traders livestreaming their activity.”
on 02025-10-21#news #video about #Trump’s #Argentina bailout from the #WSJ, mentioning how #China bought millions of tonnes of Argentine #soybeans after #Milei dropped export retenciones after the September US$20B bailout (structured as a currency swap), enraging some #USA farmers. Also apparently in October the US Treasury bought pesos for the Exchange Stabilization Fund! Then there was an additional US$20B “private finance facility”.
on 02025-10-17more on the #China #Netherlands #politics #news #toread
on 02025-10-14#China #Netherlands #politics #news Daan summarizes: “According to a just published article by the NRC newspaper [0], the owner wanted to use #Nexperia’s funds to finance another business (WingSkySemi) which was in financial trouble. He would have done this by making Nexperia place large orders for wafers it did not need. The article mentions Nexperia only requiring $70-80 million in wafers, while Nexperia would have ordered wafers from WingSkySemi with a value of $200 million.
In order to achieve this, the owner is said to have put strawmen without financial experience in place and fire European directors. When other directors raised the alarm about this, they were fired according to the article. This issue was raised to the Dutch government, which then intervened.”
on 02025-10-14#China #Netherlands #politics #news about #Nexperia, perhaps related following the new rare-earths restrictions that might prevent European cars from being exported to the US
on 02025-10-14#video purporting to explain #China in which, within the first minute, this clueless plonker "Maxinomics" mispronounces “Xi Jinping”, and I don’t just mean he gets the tones wrong.
on 02025-09-29Dubner #interview with Dan Wang, who wrote "Breakneck" about #China #toread
on 02025-09-28more translated Weibo posts, talking about the #Kirk assassination from the perspective of someone in #China: “You can say that Robinson removed a vermin for the world, and removed a threat to China. (...) So, this Kirk event has destined that once #Trump is out of office, the Democrats will be back in power. And this homosexual, Robinson, with hands covered in blood might encourage others from the same camp to learn from him.” #politics #USA
on 02025-09-16a bunch of translated posts from Weibo I think? A window into #China
on 02025-09-16The Jamestown Foundation think tank engages in #futurism about #Xi in the #politics of #China. Uses the derogatory abbreviation “CCP”. #toread
on 02025-09-05#solar #energy #data from #China including rooftop solar
on 02025-09-01Lauri Myllyvirta’s analysis of #China CO₂ dropping mostly because of #energy
on 02025-09-01David Fishman thread on Jishou’s “ghost city” where maybe a lot of people will move in soon. #China
on 02025-09-01#China CO₂ emissions have fallen 1% from their peak last year, while its electric #energy industry’s emissions have fallen 3%
on 02025-09-01David Fishman on capacity factors and curtailment in #China’s electrical #energy market, saying the “thermal fleet” is at 39% CF now. “Yes, China is squatting on an entire USA’s worth of untapped power generation solely within the unused capacity of its current thermal fleet.”
on 02025-09-01David Fishman on the 02022 Sichuan electrical #energy crisis due to drought. #China #history
on 02025-09-01David Fishman’s capsule summary of the 02021 electrical #energy crisis in #China: “coal-fired power generators had to absorb high fuels costs from the mostly-liberalized coal market, but were restricted in how much money they could recoup by raising power rates. After many months of losses, generators literally ran out of money to buy coal, were sick of generating at a loss, and shut down their plants.” #history
on 02025-09-01The 02021 #China #energy crisis spurred market reforms #history
on 02025-09-01the #energy crisis in #China in 02021 involved cutting off electricity to industrial users for sometimes weeks
on 02025-09-01sources on #energy in #China, especially electrical, mostly from the NEA
on 02025-09-01wow, the #China electrical #energy grid hit a peak of 1508 gigawatts last month.
on 02025-09-01#China consumed 1023TWh of electrical #energy in July, which is an average of 1.4 terawatts.
on 02025-09-01huge rise in #solar panel sales imported from #China in #Africa, especially in #Nigeria, #Algeria, and #Congo, according to Dave Jones of #Ember Energy.
on 02025-09-01Provincial-level analysis of #solar #energy in #China; #Shandong is seeing persistent negative spot electricity prices.
on 02025-09-01The actual source for electrical #energy #pricing around the globe; US$0.08/kWh in #China.
on 02025-09-01Electrical #energy #pricing around the globe; US$0.08/kWh in #China.
on 02025-09-01#video on #USA developing lightweight precision grenade launcher #weaponry “squad support rifle system” (by “Barrett” and/or “FN Herstal”?) and “precision grenadier system”, with programmable but unguided grenades, similar to what #China has already fielded against “insurgents and pirates”, the QLU11, in service since 02011
on 02025-08-29debate between historian Frank Dikötter and Pankaj Mishra about the #Great-Leap-Forward. #China #history #toread
on 02025-08-28“#China proved you can pair authoritarian politics with a market economy.” #news
on 02025-08-28#China electrical #energy generation
on 02025-08-27#Rui-Ma on #energy in #China: “China: Electricity generation jumped from roughly ~5.6 PWh (2015) to ~10.1 PWh (2024), which is +80% in less than a decade. And 2024 alone grew ~7%, accounting for ~HALF of the world’s increase. China now produces ~1/3 of global electricity. That’s what “supply went up a lot” looks like, so yeah even if coal as a % of total went down, the total will still increase but the increase is QUICKLY PLATEAUING (...) Multiple independent analyses now show China’s CO₂ fell year‑on‑year across the last 12 months (and in Q1’25), driven by the clean‑power surge rather than an economic slump.”
on 02025-08-27#Rui-Ma’s account of her trip to #China to go to the World #AI Conference (#WAIC) and see investors and renewable #energy. “We met with companies ranging from Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent (BAT) to unicorns, as well as young startups founded less than a year ago. (...) Energy is considered a solved problem. The Chinese government’s investment in sustainable energy — from advanced hydropower to next-generation nuclear — means that, relative to many other markets, electricity supply is secure and inexpensive. Everywhere we went, people treated energy availability as a given. This is a stark contrast to the U.S., where AI growth is increasingly tied to debates over data center power consumption and grid limitations.”
on 02025-08-27“#AI experts [#Rui-Ma] return from #China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over. (...) In the U.S., surging AI demand is colliding with a fragile power grid, the kind of extreme bottleneck that Goldman Sachs warns could severely choke the industry’s growth.
In China, Ma continued, it’s considered a “solved problem.”” because “China has an oversupply of electricty [sic]”. “In China, renewables are framed as a cornerstone of the economy because they make sense economically and strategically, not because they carry moral weight. Coal use isn’t cast as a sign of villainy, as it would be among some circles in the U.S. It’s simply seen as outdated.” #energy #USA
on 02025-08-27“#DeepSeek says that the main restriction on their development is lack of compute, and the PRC responds not by helping them get better chips but by advising them to not use the chips that they have, greatly slowing things down at least for a while. (...) It’s also not fair to fully pin this on DeepSeek when they were forced to do a lot of their training this year on #Huawei Ascend chips rather than Nvidia chips.” (The #NVIDIA chips they had been using in the past.) #China #politics #neural-networks #AI #news
on 02025-08-23#Robotaxi #transportation regulations in #China are stricter than in the #USA
on 02025-06-23pro-#China propaganda #video trying to persuade foreigner entrepreneurs to move there to start companies #toread
on 02025-06-17#Burkina-Faso was also buying #weaponry from #Egypt and #China last year. “Shortly after delivery, Burkina Faso appeared to begin using its Akinci UAVs in combat, with video published on 29 April purportedly showing Akinci and TB2 strikes against terrorist targets. The country has used UAVs extensively to combat Islamist fighters, but unfortunately dozens of civilians have also been killed in these strikes. (...) Last year, Burkina Faso surpassed Afghanistan as the country most impacted by terrorism, with nearly 2 000 deaths.” Other #Bayraktar customers listed include #Ethiopia, Libya, Morocco, Niger, Djibouti, Togo, #Nigeria, Mali, Rwanda and #Tunisia.
on 02025-06-17#video from May 19: #interview with #drones developer Sergey Tovkach from #Russia on how #weaponry from #Ukraine is far better than what the US and even China have, and now 70% of fatalities on the battlefield are from drones. “A special thanks to our Western partners, because where else could we have trained on so much of your equipment? You delivered it straight to the front, and we got to study it up close. We learned all the weak points. We learned exactly where to strike. (...) There isn’t a single Western drone that’s proven itself effective in this conflict.” He claims #China makes military gear that doesn’t survive being tossed out of a truck, “like toys”. Ukraine barely uses Chinese chips in their drones, but Russia’s have to be all Chinese. Talks about mine-laying drones (“in use for about a year and a half now”), “sleeper/ambush drones” (same time frame, Ukrainians first — drones playing possum, pretending to be “a real trophy”), and drones dropping caltrops welded from rebar. “Same [ambush tactics] with drones placed on rooftops or hilltops overlooking roads (...) when the vehicles come, the drone just takes off, flies a short distance, and hits its target. That whole tactic really took off with the rise of fiber optic drones,” because they don’t need to burn 5–10W to transmit the video feed. Russian operators now wind up used fiber-optic cables on a cordless drill to avoid giving away their position. “The Orbit [Russian remote piloting] system. (...) The Ukrainians have been using radio relays and internet bridges for a long time already. (...) #Starlink is the holy grail. (...) Take away Starlink and Ukraine’s entire fleet of naval drones disappears overnight. (...) Why doesn’t Russia have naval drones? Well, we do have the boats and, but we don’t have Starlink.” But he says Starlink’s #latency is too high for FPV drone piloting. Baba Yaga or “Vampire” drones dropping antitank mines with 6–8kg of TNT have been very effective; Russia is ramping up two factories to produce its own equivalent.
on 02025-06-17#video by #Destin on #manufacturing in the #USA, quoting Tim Cook on how the reason companies go to #China is for the skills. So he bought two used CNC machines and learned enough about injection molding to make working dies on them. His chainmail from India turned out to actually be from China. #toread
on 02025-06-08#video #news #interview with Patrick McGee on his anti-#China book “Apple in China”
on 02025-05-20#news of #solar inverter #backdoors from #China. #politics #security
on 02025-05-20#news #video #toread about #China building floating piers, perhaps to invade #Taiwan using roll-on roll-off ferries for heavy equipment transport without needing to capture a port first
on 02025-05-15#news #video from 2 days ago saying #USA drops #tariffs on #China to 30% for 90 days #toread
on 02025-05-15#SCMP #news #video on #Xi (#China premier) visiting #Russia to meet with Vladimir #Putin today, for the third time this year. #politics
on 02025-05-08#news #video on #China policy on #tariffs from the #SCMP; apparently the vice premier is going to Switzerland to have talks with #Trump officials in a few days, and there’s a lot of monetary easing on the part of the central bank. #politics
on 02025-05-08#news #video by Sal #Mercogliano, who specializes in maritime shipping, saying that the currently-starting week’s drop in shipping at the Port of LA is only 24% rather than 35% as expected, with smaller year-on-year drops of 13% for each of the following two weeks. Excerpts from the Bloomberg Surveillance #interview with Gene Seroka of the Port of LA. He mentions that #tariffs are affixed based on the date that cargo is loaded in #China unless you move your cargo off the terminal to a “bonded warehouse” (which allows you to pay the tariff at the time that you take it out of the warehouse) or ship it back to China.
on 02025-05-04#news #interview #video with Jeffrey Sachs about how #China doesn’t have “overcapacity” but rather insufficient capacity to fight #climate-change
on 02025-05-04#news #interview #video with Jeffrey Sachs claiming #China isn’t imperialist
on 02025-05-03#CNBC #news #video with Brad Setser, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, saying, “If #China really wanted to play nasty, they could say, ‘We’re going to limit exports of iPhones.’” The video is pure talking-head and stock-footage filler crap. #USA #politics #tariffs
on 02025-05-02#video about #China cowboy "Bigtooth" #humor videos on Douyin and TikTok
on 02025-05-01#news #video from six months ago saying the Coast Guard of the People’s Republic of #China is using laser weapons against Philippine sailors resupplying the Sierra Madre
on 02025-04-30#Vietnam considering cracking down on #transshipment of products of #China to evade #Trump #tariffs in #USA #politics
on 02025-04-30#Vietnam is imposing 37.5% “anti-dumping” #tariffs on galvanized steel from some companies in #China and South #Korea starting a month ago, April 1. #politics
on 02025-04-30the resolution replacing #Taiwan with the People’s Republic of #China in the UN in 01971. #history #politics
on 02025-04-30#news #video on the #Philippines, and the potential of a South #China Sea war. #politics
on 02025-04-25Tanner Leatherstein’s #video from a year ago comparing a #Hermes belt to a made-in-#China fake
on 02025-04-25more about the #Hermes #China controversy, not giving any details on whether it’s true that the Chinese factories actually made the Hermès products or not
on 02025-04-25#video on the #Hermes #China controversy, pointing out Hermès made €15.2 billion last year, working out to almost a million bags, which would be over 2000 bags per day, which seems like a lot for the French workshops they show. Claims Hermès is suing the Chinese factories that produced the TikTok videos for defamation
on 02025-04-25#news #video from what looks like a #China propaganda outlet saying the #EU is dropping trade barriers to Chinese products that it had instituted over the last few years in coordination with #USA. #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #video with Kishore Mahbubani saying that #Taiwan is the issue most likely to cause a war between #USA and #China at 18'26" in an #interview with #Al-Jazeera. #politics
on 02025-04-23#news on #Trump backing down somewhat on #China #tariffs #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #video saying #Trump is easing off on the trade war with #China following a meeting with Target and Walmart CEOs #politics
on 02025-04-23#news by #France24 public broadcasting saying the #China viral TikTok videos claiming they’re the OEMs of #Hermes, Louis Vuitton, and probably other luxury brands are not correct and are perhaps an effort by counterfeit manufacturers in China to take advantage of the chaos.
on 02025-04-17#news on #China offering #USA and EU citizens 240-hour visa-free shopping tours to buy luxury brands from OEM factory outlets at factory prices, blitzing TikTok with information about how those brands are really produced in China, in response to #Trump #tariffs. #USA #politics
on 02025-04-17#news #video about #export-controls in #China on #rare-earths, gallium, germanium, etc. #USA #politics
on 02025-04-12#news #video speculating that #China will invade #Taiwan now that they don’t have to worry about losing trade with the #USA, having already lost it to the #Trump #tariffs. Points out that Chinese imports from the US are easily replaceable things like soybeans, unlike fine chemicals and microchips. #politics
on 02025-04-12#news #video #toread from #Deutsche-Welle about the #Trump #China #tariffs exempting smartphones and laptops #politics #USA
on 02025-04-12#news #video: The #Trump administration says it will exclude electronics such as smartphones and laptops from latest #tariffs. That means such devices and their components won’t be subject to the current 145 per cent tariffs levied on #China, or the 10 per cent baseline tariffs elsewhere. #politics #USA
on 02025-04-12#news #video saying the #China #renminbi #currency is down to 7.4242 to the dollar, the lowest point since 02007. By anti-China propaganda channel #China-Observer. Mostly stock footage.
on 02025-04-10#news #video about #China’s new #USA export restrictions (not a full ban) on #rare-earths and other #critical-minerals in response to #Trump #tariffs.
on 02025-04-09#video from yesterday, Victor Gao saying, “We retaliate against what the United States will do even at the cost of a total war between #China and the United States, in terms of tariff war, or trade war, or otherwise.” #tariffs #politics #news
on 02025-04-09#news #video from yesterday about two people from #China fighting in #Ukraine and captured by Ukrainian troops
on 02025-04-09#video #news Reva Goujon says, “China is doing some interesting things in its implementing its provisions for the anti-foreign-sanctions law, it’s talking about countermeasures that include suspending IP rights for US companies in #China. That’s explosive.” #USA #politics #human-rights #copyright
on 02025-04-09#video #news on #China and #USA #politics, mostly about #Trump #tariffs, mentioning that the #Hutchison ports sale to BlackRock has been paused by Beijing
on 02025-04-09#news #USA #tariffs #politics “#China’s Finance Ministry also announced new export controls on medium and heavy rare-earth elements, including samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and yttrium.”
on 02025-04-08#video #news from #Deutsche-Welle on #China imposing reciprocal #tariffs on #USA #politics, mostly just stock footage and talking heads. 34% tariffs on imports from the US, and a ban on seven rare-earth exports to the US and Europe. Jerome Powell, President of the Federal Reserve, predicts that the tariffs will probably cause #inflation in the US, unemployment, and slower growth. #toread
on 02025-04-04#video on semiconductor manufacturing in #China and #USA. Footage of #Trump saying the CHIPS act was a “terrible, terrible thing” and “We should get rid of the chip act”. #ASML’s biggest market is now Mainland China rather than #Taiwan, selling US$10.9 billion per year there, and they’re opening a reuse-and-repair center in Beijing. The US had pulled ahead in Q4, but that was because of the #CHIPS-Act. #Ant-Group is using chips made by Alibaba and Huawei instead of NVIDIA to train their MoE #AI models.
on 02025-03-28#video on Li Ka-Shing sale of 43 #Hutchison ports to BlackRock, suggesting #USA wants to cut off #China’s trade routes #news #politics
on 02025-03-28#video #news on Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing’s Cheung Kong Group selling off #Hutchison Ports’ stock, 43 of 53 major international ports in 23 countries, including the ports at both ends of the #Panama Canal, for US$19 billion, (and there was something about 90% of stock, it’s not clear) to the #USA, suggesting he anticipates war. #politics #China
on 02025-03-26#news #video saying #BYD is #manufacturing #EV cars in Thailand and Brazil, and soon in Indonesia and Hungary. #China #politics
on 02025-03-25more details on #BYD #EV #manufacturing delay in #Mexico, including background about Brazil and possible Mexican tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum. #politics #China
on 02025-03-25#BYD #EV #manufacturing delayed in #Mexico by #politics in #China, “fears of the technology leaking into the #USA” #news
on 02025-03-25#Fox #news #video about #PRC’s statement that it is ready for “any kind of war” with #USA on the basis of #Trump’s #tariffs. Trump announces the creation of a “office of shipbuilding” and promises to invade #Panama to get the canal back. #politics #China
on 02025-03-06#video claiming #China’s Xi has ordered the military to be able to invade #Taiwan by 02027. #politics
on 02025-02-1250 megawatts of #sodium-ion utility-scale power storage totaling 200MWh of #energy in Qianjiang, Hubei, #China, built by HiNa Battery, developed by Datang Hubei Energy Development, came online in July #energy #energy-storage
on 02025-02-10#video #interview with #Palmer-Luckey from 02023 (though released only three months ago) about #Anduril and other #weaponry, a foursome by Erik Torenberg ("Upstream" on the podcast network "Turpentine") with someone from #Varda. Lots of belligerent rhetoric attacking #China, proposing “defector visas” and citizenship under the illusion that many people are desperate to leave China. Luckey proposes that the PRC might blockade #Taiwan as a way to force capitulation to reunification without shooting. Describes Chinese immigrants to the US as “traitors to their country”, approvingly.
on 02025-01-30#Palmer-Luckey gearing up to go to war with #China in 02027 with his billion-dollar Arsenal-1 Ohio factory is disquieting. #politics #Anduril #weaponry #video
on 02025-01-28#video on polyandrous (and occasionally polygynous) Naxi village called Eya in Sichuan, #China, and local Douyin influencer Guma
on 02025-01-08#China researcher Zhang Wenhai is reducing finely powdered iron ore by injecting it into a superheated furnace where it reduces in 3–6 seconds instead of hours. “Zhang Wenhai's team has successfully addressed this challenge by developing a vortex lance capable of injecting a substantial 450 tonnes of iron ore particles per hour. A reactor equipped with three such lances can produce a substantial 7.11 million tonnes of iron annually. Importantly, this innovative lance technology has already entered commercial production.” More information in “The #flash-iron-making process, detailed in a recent research publication in the journal Nonferrous Metals” and “a patent in 2013”. #materials
on 02024-12-10#video on how #China launched the first 18 #Qianfan satellites on August 6. Also mentions OneWeb and Telesat. Qianfan plans to have 108 satellites up this year, 648 next, 1296 in 02027, and 15000 in 02030. #Xingwang, according to an ITU filing in 02020, plans to have 1300 satellites deployed in 02029, 6500 in 02032, and 13000 in 02034.
on 02024-12-06#China #space rocket company #Space-Pioneer calls their rocket Tianlong-3 天龙三号 and their engine Tianhuo-12 or TH-12 天火-12. Hilarious.
on 02024-12-06#video on #China’s eight most promising reusable #space rocket companies: #LandSpace (whose #ZhuQue-3 is powered by TQ-12As), iSpace (whose Hyperbola-3 is powered by Jiaodian-2s), Galactic Energy (whose Pallas-1 is powered by Cangqiong-50s), CAS Space (whose Lijian-2 is powered by YF-102s), #Space-Pioneer (whose Tianlong-3 is powered by Tianhuo-12), Orienspace (whose Gravity-2 is powered by Yuanli-85s), Deep Blue Aerospace (whose Nebula-1 is powered by Leiting-1Rs), and SAST (whose engine is called Longyuan). SAST (the Shanghai Academy of Space Technology), LandSpace, and iSpace are using methalox, while the others are kerolox. Seven of these (excluding Deep Blue Aerospace) already have regular launch income from disposable rockets, mostly solid-fueled. Also Long March 10 (which I think is made by the government) is going to reusable boosters and is going to be trying to catch them in a sort of crisscross of movable tethers. China plans to launch two Starlink-like megaconstellations called #Qianfan (by Shanghai Spacecom, 15000 satellites) and #Xingwang (by China SatNet, 13000 satellites).
on 02024-12-06#video of the first successful (10km) vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing flight by the first stage of #China’s LandSpace’s #Zhuque-3 (朱雀三) on September 11. “ZhuQue-3 is a partially reusable, liquid oxygen and liquid methane (LOX+LCH4) powered, launch vehicle developed by #LandSpace Technology Corporation (蓝箭, Blue Arrow). According to the company, the test was conducted with a single-stage liquid oxygen/liquid methane rocket, with a diameter of 3.35 metres and a length of 18.3 metres, made from the same high-strength stainless steel airframe structure that will be used on the ZhuQue-3 rocket.” But 3.35m is less than the 4.5m diameter of ZhuQue-3.
on 02024-12-06#China #video on #Zhuque-3 (朱雀三) reusable #space rocket 10 months ago, built by private space exploration company #Landspace, fueled by lox and methane. 9 1000-kN (100-tonne) TQ-12B engines, 76.6m tall, 4.5m diameter, 21.3 tonnes (?). Second stage has a single TQ-15B engine blowing 1183kN at 3500m/s. Looks very, very similar to a #SpaceX Falcon. Slogan: “The key to freer access to space.”
on 02024-12-06#China reusable rocket #CGTN #space #video #ZhuQue-3
on 02024-12-06#China is landing (well, “landing”) reusable rockets on fold-out landing legs like #SpaceX, according to Chinese state government TV channel. This seems to be the Deep Blue Aerospace Nebula-1, reaching 10km altitude. #CGTN #space #video
on 02024-12-06#video of a debate betwen #Al-Jazeera journalist Mehdi Hasan and Victor Gao, diplomat for #China and former interpreter for Deng Xiaoping, describing Chinese military policies, including the proposal to expel people of Japanese descent from #Taiwan if they refuse to pledge loyalty to the PRC. Also speaking are Stephen Chan, Martin Jacques, and Rayhan Asat (a Uighur whose brother was forcibly disappeared eight years ago). Extremely tough criticism of the PRC’s policies. Hasan really demolishes Gao’s position, but interestingly the headline question of whether China is “on a path to war” is barely touched on. The things Gao admits are even more interesting than the things he denies.
on 02024-12-05#China #coal #climate-change #energy
on 02024-11-28#China #climate-change #solar #energy #CREA
on 02024-11-28“The increase in [CO₂] emissions in the [electric] power sector was offset by falling emissions from #steel, #cement and oil use, plus stagnating gas demand outside the power sector, meaning #China’s CO2 output in the third quarter was flat or slightly declined, relative to a year earlier.” Apparently they’ve been declining since February. #climate-change
on 02024-11-28#China is switching from limiting #energy usage to limiting CO₂ emissions to mitigate #climate-change, as of August 2. “The output of the cement and steel industries has also been declining due to the slump in the real estate sector, suggesting that China’s CO2 emissions may have peaked in the first quarter of this year and showed a downward trend in the second quarter. However, the current trend is not sufficient to achieve the 18% target, and China needs to accelerate the development of clean energy while reducing the use of fossil fuels in the power sector and other industries.” The cement industry thing might explain why China can be importing more #coal than ever but emitting less CO₂.
on 02024-11-28#news #video nine months ago from #Deutsche-Welle on #solar #manufacturing in #Europe, for example by #Switzerland company #Meyer-Burger in #Germany, which is opening a new factory in #Colorado-Springs, #USA. Credits national #China policy prioritizing #polysilicon production in the early 02000s. Lots of talking-head filler by Richard Black, director of policy and strategy at #Ember. Says #Brazil is “leading the renewable #energy boom taking place across the continent”, but apparently is trying #import-substitution with tariffs, and #ABSOLAR isn’t convinced local producers are enough. Says #Trump plans to cut Biden’s US subsidies. “Today, solar-powered energy is the cheapest form of electricity for the majority of the countries that use it. (...) Estimates put the cost somewhere between 300 and 900 dollars per kilowatt by 2030.” I guess when they made this video the mainstream solar module price was €0.14/Wp, and now it’s 29% lower at €0.10/Wp (US$106/kWp). Panasonic and LG recently exited the market. #photovoltaic
on 02024-11-27#video of Claudia Sheinbaum of #Mexico describing an #import-substitution project they’re trying to do to reduce the trade deficit with #China. Says Mexican cars exported to the US are only 7% Chinese, while US-made cars are 9% Chinese. Says that globalization is out of favor since the pandemic. Mexico imports supposedly US$211 million from China, while the US imports US$1080 million from China. #economics
on 02024-11-27#video of a panel discussion (or maybe series of prepared monologues) among #USA military experts on #China, starting with the Century of Humiliation, showing the Map of National Humiliation (or Shame) from 01938, likening Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative to the Ming Treasure Fleet of Zheng He. “The capability gap [between the Chinese and US military] is rapidly shrinking, both in the air domain and in the space domain. Given a little bit more time, it’s plausible that the PLAAF will outstrip the USAF in terms of numbers.” Also: “#SpaceX has dramatically reduced the cost of launch,” mentioning the “commercial augmentation space reserve,” similar to the Civilian Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF). There are 6500 Starlink satellites out of 7000 total US satellites. “The first law of war is to preserve yourself and destroy your enemy.” —Mao. Predictions that the South China Sea will be a bigger flashpoint than #Taiwan because Taiwan isn’t a US treaty ally. Chinese anti-ship missiles have been combat-tested by the Houthis against international shipping in the Red Sea; they work. Panelists believe that displacing the US dollar with a new international reserve currency (based on a basket) is the biggest threat from BRICS, and could insulate the PRC from the US’s ability to “impose sanctions as an instrument of national power”. A recommendation to watch Chinese movies Wolf Warrior I and Wolf Warrior II, after which Xi’s “wolf warrior diplomacy” are named, to understand how the Chinese see a potential conflict with the US. Discusses the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (#SCO), a “wannabe equivalent to NATO”. “10 years ago there were like 6–7000 PLA soldiers [in UN peacekeeping missions] around the world, especially in Africa. (...) It has gone down.”
on 02024-11-27#USA (especially #Trump) persuaded #Australia, #New-Zealand, #Japan, #France, #Germany, and the #UK to ban or partly ban #Huawei after adding them to the #export-controls list in 02019; the UK in particular mandated removal of Huawei equipment from #5G networks by 02027. #HarmonyOS #politics #China
on 02024-11-27latest #CREA #PDF slides on #China: “China #energy and emissions trends: November 2024 snapshot”. Astonishing: “Total power generation increased by 6.6%, while large-scale power generation grew by 2.1%, indicating most power generation growth comes from #solar and #wind installations that are outside of the industrial production statistics. (...) National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) underreports wind and solar generation, particularly from rooftop and smaller solar plants.” I think those figures are year-over-year rather than month-over-month because, on the same slide, they say, “solar power generation saw an increase of 46.2%.” Carbon emissions are said to have peaked in February 02024 despite #coal electric power generation growing 2.2% (in what I assume is year over year). Astoundingly: “After H1 2024 saw no new permits issued for coal-based steel plants, China issued a policy in August suspending all new #steel plant permits.” (Are they going to import their steel from India, or what?)
on 02024-11-27#CREA’s #China category. #energy
on 02024-11-27#news from #Bloomberg on semiconductor #manufacturing in #Japan, where #TSMC begins mass production later this year following US$4.86 billion in subsidies to expand their Kumamoto plant announced in February. And Japanese startup #Rapidus plans to ship 2nm chips in 02027 with 590 billion yen (US$3.9B) in subsidies. And Japanese startup #Preferred-Networks supposedly has 7nm #neural-networks accelerator chip MN-Core 2, though presumably fabbed overseas by TSMC; their marketing is focused on energy efficiency and thus “sustainability”, and “is confident in bringing its AI chip design and supercomputer to market in a few years time”; they’re hoping Rapidus can fab their chips. 40%–50% of demand (as seen from Japanese semiconductor company Screen Holdings) comes from #China, especially the auto industry. An annoying amount of stock-footage filler. Much of the #video is about #JASM (a TSMC joint venture with Sony and Denso), which is “planning to begin mass production soon”, and its facility in Kikuyo.
on 02024-11-27#PDF slides from #CREA (the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, which seems like it ought to be “CRECA”), entitled “#China #energy and emissions trends: August 2024 snapshot”, showing a rise in #coal imports to an all-time high of 500 million tonnes per year! And a rise in total coal use to about 5100 million tonnes per year (at ≈25MJ/kg, that’s 4TW), plus 780 million tonnes a year of crude #oil (1.0TW) and 410 billion cubic meters of gas per year (490GW at 37.8kJ/ℓ), for a fossil total of 5.5TW. There’s a plot of “oil products” but I’m not sure counting that wouldn’t be double-counting. Also plots by-month #solar energy production by month going back to 02018, showing an all-time high of 40 TWh in June 02024 (55GW), which is a pretty low capacity factor given the November stat of 790GW installed from the NEA reports. If we project 790GW backward at a 3.3% monthly growth rate from November to June, 5 months, we predict 672GW installed as of June, of which 55GW would be only an 8% capacity factor. And that’s in the peak month! Not even year-round! So the 54GW they added of fossil-fuel power over the last 12 months is probably still more than the 256GW of solar after adjusting for capacity factors. The slide on p. 7 showing a bargraph of solar capacity added in the first half of each year since 02010 is pretty staggering. It seems to show that the high #pricing for #photovoltaic modules in the 02018-02022 period suppressed demand rather badly in China itself, not just abroad, though that pricing isn’t mentioned.
on 02024-11-27#video of a talking head claiming electrical #energy #pricing in #China is about 15¢/kWh, even though 20 years ago China was considered energy-poor. Also China consumes 26% of world energy (which would be about 5 TW), 55% of world coal (to India’s 12% and #USA’s 5%), and 15% of world oil (to the US’s 20%), according to the Energy Institute. Apparently the Chinese call their ultra-high-voltage #HVDC transmission lines a “Shinkansen for power”. The video author seems to be confusing HVDC with AC transmission. Claims #Brazil’s Belo Monte phase II HVDC transmission line is operated by the State Grid Corporation of China!
on 02024-11-26#video by #China propaganda outlet SMG (Shanghai Eye) on 550-hectare #solar #photovoltaic farm in #Azerbaijan, in Gobustan, 60km southwest of Baku. Construction started in April of last year by #Dongfang Electric Corporation. Surprisingly, it uses solar trackers, so it may be able to get above-average capacity factors. Says it produces 500 million kWh of electricity annually (57 megawatts). Seems to be a pretty desert-climate site, but the total absence of vegetation (in contrast to the dry grass nearby) suggests it’s been bulldozed. The timelapse of construction doesn’t seem to show much in the way of concrete foundations, though the main control building is reinforced concrete with brick infill. Later (?) shots show vegetation has returned around the footings of the panels.
on 02024-11-26Press release from #China’s National #Energy Administration (国家能源局), saying, “the installed capacity of #solar power generation is approximately 790 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 48.0%; the installed #wind power capacity is approximately 490 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 20.3%.” (“太阳能发电装机容量约7.9亿千瓦，同比增长48.0%；风电装机容量约4.9亿千瓦，同比增长20.3%。”) They also increased thermal power capacity (火电, which apparently specifically means fossil fuels and excludes an almost insignificant #nuclear) by 3.8% to 142597 tens of thousands of kilowatts (万千瓦); if I have the units correct, that’s 14200 gigawatts total fossil generation capacity, increased by 54 gigawatts, vs. 256 new gigawatts solar. More than half of all installed renewable capacity is wind (486GW) and hydro (431GW) so the 22.1% capacity factor I calculated from the other press release is probably mostly due to hydro’s typical 90+% and wind’s typical 40+%, with solar still down in the teens. If we assume 15% for solar and 700 gigawatts as the average installed capacity over the year, we would have 105 gigawatts of generation on average, which would be about 10% of the 1.08TW total inferred from the earlier press release. At 48% per year exponential growth, in 49 months (02028) they’d get the majority of their electricity from solar, and in something like 6 years (02030) the majority of their energy. #photovoltaic
on 02024-11-26press release from #China’s National Energy Administration (国家能源局); auto-translation: "In the first nine months, newly installed renewable #energy power generation capacity exceeded 200 million kilowatts
Release time: 2024-11-15 Source: Economic Daily
Data released by the National Energy Administration on the 31st showed that in the first nine months, the country’s newly installed renewable energy power generation capacity was 210 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 21%, accounting for 86% of the newly installed electricity capacity. Among them, hydropower has added 7.97 million kilowatts, wind power has added 39.12 million kilowatts, #solar power has added 161 million kilowatts, and biomass power has added 1.37 million kilowatts. As of the end of September this year, the country’s installed renewable energy capacity reached 1.73 billion kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 25%.
At the same time, in the first nine months, the country’s renewable energy power generation reached 2.51 trillion kilowatt hours, a year-on-year increase of 20.9%, accounting for approximately 35.5% of all power generation. (Reporter 王轶辰)” Here “power generation” is a translation of “发电量”, which is specifically electrical power generation. 2.51 trillion kilowatt hours is 9.04 exajoules, which works out to 382GW over 9 months, which is an overall capacity factor of 22.1%, a weighted average across presumably solar, hydro, wind, and biomass. #photovoltaic
on 02024-11-26the Renew Economy article on #China’s 210GW of new renewable #energy generation capacity installed in the first three quarters of 02024, “an increase of 21 per cent on this period in 2023 and accounting for 86 per cent of all new power capacity added in the year”, according to the National Energy Administration (nea.gov.cn). “(...) new capacity installed through the first nine months was led by #solar, which added 161GW of new capacity added.
A further 39.12GW worth of new wind power, 7.97GW of new hydropower, and 1.37GW of new biomass power rounds out the new capacity added so far in 2024.
At the end of the first three quarters, then, China’s renewable energy generating capacity had reached 1.73TW, a year-on-year increase of 25 per cent.” Perhaps more important still: “In terms of actual generation, the NEA figures showed that China’s renewable power generation reached 2.51 trillion kWh, an increase of 20.9 per cent over the same period in 2023, and equivalent to around 35.5 pct of total Chinese power generation through the first nine months of 2024.” Presumably that’s only counting electric power in the denominator; that would be 382GW on a total of 1.08TW, and I’m pretty sure China overall uses more than 1.08TW of energy. Like, probably more like 2–3TW. #photovoltaic
on 02024-11-26#news #video on a 1-gigawatt #solar #photovoltaic offshore farm in Shandong, #China, consisting of 2934 solar platforms built on steel trusses, connected with 66kV transmission. Predicted production would be 1.78 billion kWh/year, which is 203MW, a 20.3% capacity factor, which I think is roughly double the Chinese average. I wasn’t expecting this for 20 years. #energy
on 02024-11-26#news on the #EU imposing 35.3% punitive import #tariffs on electric vehicle (EV) imports from #China earlier this year on top of the 10% standard import duty (and I suppose VAT). China ended its joint-venture rule in 02022, maybe due to #Tesla, while the EU is maybe enacting it as a way to, in effect, drop the tariffs. This #video (by #EV-Insight) is pure irrelevant stock-footage filler. #politics #EVs
on 02024-11-26#clickbait #video on #solar #energy claiming #China is “no longer approving” coal power plants. Talking-head filler interspersed with web-page screenshots and misleading stock footage (e.g. of concentrated solar power to illustrate a #photovoltaic plant). Claims #Australia will build an even larger solar farm than China’s at, implicitly, Crescent Dunes within the next 5 years. Claims 210 gigawatts of renewables added so far in 02024 (as of November 19, according to a Renew Energy reneweconomy.com story) of which 161GW was grid-scale solar, 39.1GW of #wind power, 7.97GW of hydroelectric, and 1.37GW of biomass, and that coal power plant approvals have fallen 80% according to Greenpeace, or that last year approvals for new coal power plants fell by 92%, or that over the first 9 months of 02024, an increase of 21% over last year; “86% of all power added to the Chinese grid was renewable energy” (unclear if peak or average). Claims that the average [residential?] solar [power] system being installed in #Australia now is 10 kilowatts. Claims that 70% of coal power plants are running at a loss, and that coal power plants need to hit a 70% capacity factor [in what country or countries?] to be profitable. Claims that China shuts down its coal power plants during the day, which seems unlikely to me. Claims that at the end of the third quarter this year, “China’s renewable energy generating capacity had reached 1.73 terawatts, a year-on-year increase of 25%.” Confusedly claims that the difference between the 25% increase in total renewable energy capacity and the 21% increase in the pace of renewable energy installations results from installing batteries and therefore improving the capacity factor of solar, but of course there is not particular reason why these figures ought to be close (it just indicates that growth is nearly exponential) and both numbers are nameplate capacities into which the batteries don’t figure at all. Claims China has installed more solar than the rest of the world combined this year, which is of course true. Claims Tesla’s installation of [utility-scale?] batteries this year is double that of last year, and that they have a two-year backlog of orders.
on 02024-11-26#China Press Statement from #USA department of State: “The United States is seriously concerned by the People’s Liberation Army joint military drills in the Taiwan Strait and around #Taiwan. The PRC response with military provocations to a routine annual speech is unwarranted and risks escalation.
We call on the PRC to act with restraint and to avoid any further actions that may undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and in the broader region, which is essential to regional peace and prosperity and a matter of international concern. We continue to monitor PRC activities and coordinate with allies and partners regarding our shared concerns.
The United States remains committed to its longstanding one China policy, guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, the three Joint Communiqués, and the Six Assurances.”
on 02024-11-24#news #video on #China last month issuing sanctions against 8 US arms companies, including Lockheed Martin, and 10 of their executives, including David Sutton, Lockheed Martin’s Director for Asia. “Internal reviews revealed that even the F-35’s ability to fly was actually built on the covert use of Chinese-made parts.” Covert? According to a report by Lee Hudson at Politico in 02022, yes, an alloy used in magnets in the turbomachine pumps, as notified by the Defense Contract Management Agency. The Warzone had an article saying, “F-35 deliveries halted after Chinese alloy discovered in key component”. Since they replaced this part, there have supposedly been a rash of in-flight failures resulting in seven F-35 crashes. However, the two of these crashes that have been linked were caused by a VTOL failure, not the integrated power package turbomachine, so the suggested connection is baseless. From Chinese propaganda outlet #Wave-Media.
on 02024-11-24#news #video on #China consumer sentiment being low and hitting foreign brands especially hard this year. Lots of Chinese supermarket footage.
on 02024-11-24#news #video on #China seabed #espionage surveillance devices described as “underwater lighthouses”, following a similar discovery in 02019 by 11 Chinese fishermen in Jiangsu, and another discovery of 9 such devices in 02018 by 18 fishermen in Jiangsu, and China’s recovery of an underwater drone in 02015; reporting by Russia propaganda outlet WION. #politics
on 02024-11-24“In February [02015], four #supercomputing institutions in #China were placed on a U.S. government list that effectively bans them from receiving certain U.S. exports.” #Tianhe-2 #export-controls #history #USA #politics
on 02024-11-22"Tianhe-2" (天河-2) was the top supercomputer on the TOP500 list in 02013 to 02015, its expansion handicapped by #USA #export-controls in 02015 under Obama. #China #politics #history #supercomputing
on 02024-11-22#China #USA #Wandering-Balloon #politics reporting: “The balloon, which spent five days traveling in a diagonal southeast route from Idaho to the Carolinas, had moved off the coast by midday Saturday and was shot down within moments of its arrival over the Atlantic Ocean. (...) Pentagon officials advised then against shooting down the balloon, whose belly structure was roughly the size of three buses. (...) Pentagon officials said the spy balloon, which was remotely maneuverable to some degree by the Chinese but still dependent on the jet stream for travel, began its controlled drift into American territory on Jan. 28, when it entered Alaskan airspace near the Aleutian Islands. (...) the most recent balloon, equipped with solar panels to power propulsion and cameras and surveillance technology, exited American territory on Monday and spent the day over Canada’s Northwest Territories. But it was back over the United States on Tuesday after entering through northern Idaho.”
on 02024-11-22BBC reporting at the time on the #China #USA #Wandering-Balloon #politics, apparently the most comprehensive coverage
on 02024-11-22more on the #China #Wandering-Balloon: “Regarding the unintended entry of a Chinese unmanned airship into US airspace due to force majeure, the Chinese side has verified it and communicated it to the US side. It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes. Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course.” #USA #UFOs #politics #history
on 02024-11-22“Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng said he lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. Embassy on Sunday over the “U.S. attack on a Chinese civilian unmanned airship by military force.”” in February 02023. The #USA government said it was a spy balloon at 18000m altitude, while #China said it was a civilian meteorological research balloon (a sort of weather balloon) blown off-course. #politics #Wandering-Balloon #UFOs
on 02024-11-22#history of #development in Gilded Age #USA and current #China. #economics
on 02024-11-02#video about #China crossbow #weaponry, funded by crossbow manufacturer (!!) Tenpoint, who is giving away a Siege 425 crossbow, which shoots 16-“inch” carbon-fiber composite arrows, mass not disclosed, at 425 “feet” per second (thus the name). One reason for China sending soldiers through two years of crossbow training might be the #India border dispute, though the armament limitations don’t seem to cover ordinary automatic rifles and no #crossbows have been observed in use in the border dispute area. Pretty worthless damn video by #TaskAndPurpose. Plonk.
on 02024-10-30Economist: #China is writing the world’s technology rules
on 02024-10-24#Huawei got some #TSMC chips through a middleman despite #USA export controls. #China #politics #history
on 02024-10-24#video on an Irish guy in #China married to this Chinese comedian Dawn Wong
on 02024-10-16“The U.S. is gravely concerned about #China’s ambitions in Taiwan, with the U.S. Commerce Secretary proclaiming that a Chinese seizure of TSMC would devastate the American economy. This has progressed to the point that #TSMC’s #Taiwan fabs are equipped with remote self-destruct functions in case of any hostile invasion.” #politics
on 02024-09-27#video by economist Yi Wen at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University on how #China needed the #USA export control trade war to develop its domestic chip industry, because the alternative would have been to erect trade barriers in blatant violation of #WTO policies and get kicked out of the WTO. Mostly talking head footage with stock footage. #history #politics
on 02024-09-18#video about the 20GW 283km² (or 39000km²?) #wind #energy farm in Gansu, #China, the Jiuquan Wind Power Base, with 7000 windmills, for which they’re building #HVDC transmission lines. As usual with Matt Ferrell #Undecided videos, it’s 100% talking heads and stock footage, therefore a waste of time. Although seeing the wind farm was cool.
on 02024-09-17#video from three days ago about #Anduril’s Barracuda cruise missile #weaponry #drones. #Palmer-Luckey describes #China as an “expansionist dictatorship” and claims that Anduril’s autonomous drones in #Ukraine have been crucial to destroying Russian hardware. He pronounces it ['ænd ɚ ,ɪl]. “I don't think the United States needs to be the world police. We need to be the world gun store. (...) Ukraine has really exposed this weakness in the United States' foreign policy strategy, where we say we support all of these people, but they look and say, ‘They can’t even manufacture the basics, like artillery shells or, you know, small missiles.’” They just raised money on a US$14 billion valuation to build “Arsenal One, a five million square foot factory that we’re building”. Refuses to comment on possible deployments in Israel, but says, “We have a very strong relationship with #Taiwan,” and says Anduril was recently sanctioned by the CPC.
on 02024-09-16#video #toread about #Milei from the #China state-owned company CGTN
on 02024-09-11#video on the #history of #electronics #manufacturing in mainland #China
on 02024-09-11#China #graphite export ban details. “Some types of graphite deemed highly sensitive will be subject to so-called “dual-use item” export controls from Dec. 1, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on Friday. Dual-use refers to applications that include the military. (...) China is a major source of the raw material, and also accounts for about 60% of natural graphite production capacity and 90% for the synthetic variety. (...) The commerce ministry said its measures are a normal adjustment that don’t target any specific country or region, and that exports which comply with relevant regulations will be permitted. China exports graphite to countries including the US, South Korea and Japan.” #politics
on 02024-09-11#China #graphite export ban only covers natural graphite. #politics
on 02024-09-11#video from four weeks ago on #China’s #graphite exports to #USA, which are necessary for #EVs and supposedly not available elsewhere; in December China imposed an export ban. #politics
on 02024-09-11#video from a year ago on the economy of #China, including the C919 narrow-body jet made by #Comac (established 02008), BYD’s #EVs and the Shanghai government’s support for #Tesla, the NVIDIA A100 and the petaflops Biren BR100 (fabbed in 7nm like, supposedly, the A100) and how the export controls block TSMC from making it (I guess this video is from July 02023, before the #HiSilicon Mate60 processor demonstrated SMIC’s 7nm capabilities), Nike vs. Anta (which has apparently bought Fila and Wilson), CATL vs. mostly other Chinese EV battery companies, supercomputers (mentioning the 02015 export controls), bullet trains (there's a World Bank map at 45'25" showing how Urumqi is connected), “metaverse” (pointing to pre-publication approval requirements on games), and space tourism with CAS Space. Says that in 02022 China had 173 supers on the #TOP500 list vs. 128 in the #USA, making their recent withdrawal rather momentous, and that #cryptocurrency transactions were banned there in 02022.
on 02024-09-10#video #interview with a couple of Sinologists about #China and #history: Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, from the University of Vienna, and Professor Warwick Powell, of Queensland University
on 02024-09-10#video of Scott Ritter #interview predicting imminent surrender of #Ukraine, that Europe is “disintegrating before our eyes” because of an immigration crisis (?), the EU and NATO will collapse, etc. Seems like pro-Putin propaganda? Uncritically uses the propaganda words “Banderist” (Banderovets) and “de-Nazification”. And something about how countries like Germany wanted to “derisk” by removing their supply chains from #China, but Volkswagen was losing money everywhere else. And apparently the #USA is now in an arms race with China? #politics
on 02024-09-10#video with Yanis #Varoufakis about #USA #politics, #China, #WeChat, and how the US in #history didn’t go bankrupt when it had a trade deficit because of Bretton Woods (?). His book is "Techno Feudalism". Cites the US and EU confiscating US$450 billion in overseas Russian holdings due to the #Ukraine war as a pivotal moment that forced people everywhere to look for alternatives.
on 02024-09-10#video #toread about #China and #EVs in #USA #politics
on 02024-09-10#CNBC #video about cars from #China. The Li Auto L6 medium family car, about the same price and size as a Tesla Model Y, includes a fridge, massage chairs, TVs, etc. Nio is one of the car companies that does battery-swap charging. Bill Russo (Automobility) thinks the new business model is monetizing data obtained after you sell the car, but it’s unclear if he’s specifically talking about one or more Chinese companies. The reporter said she felt that there wasn’t nearly as much precision when she was, for example, turning, as in a Tesla, because the cars’ performance wasn’t as good. #EVs
on 02024-09-10#video about “overcapacity” on #China and how Huachipato is shutting down, etc. #politics #toread
on 02024-09-10#video on #China/#USA politics trying to keep out electric vehicles with 100% tariffs while US car companies spend their government EV research grants on stock buybacks. High-end electric cars, electric dumptrucks, and even electric mopeds support battery-change recharging (battery-swap charging); it’s commercially deployed. They’re very impressed with how advanced all the Chinese cars are, and also positively impressed with how accommodating the auto parts manufacturers they met with were, especially by contrast to US and Canadian companies.
on 02024-09-10#video from November on #Huawei’s new #HiSilicon Mate60 #cellphones and #China/#USA #politics. “If those US [export] controls had been successful, then a smartphone as powerful as this should not be possible without importing key components” because they used 7nm photolithography.
on 02024-09-10#Dr-Ben-Miles #video about #China building the first commercial #thorium molten-salt #nuclear #energy plant. Including an ad for the RadiaCode Geiger counter. Mislabels monazite as “monzanite” and accidentally refers to “thorium-323”. The reactors he’s describing are 233U breeders rather than energy amplifiers; not clear which type the new Chinese plant is. Also mentions other planned thorium reactor startups in maybe 02030 or 02035.
on 02024-09-10WSJ news article, “China Harnesses a Technology That Vexed the West, Unlocking a Treasure Chest”: “#China’s success has reshaped the industry. It has infused significant new supply into the market and accelerated a crash in the prices of nickel and cobalt, knocking out Western competitors. The share of the global nickel supply refined within China or by Chinese companies abroad has risen from 34% in 2015 to 58% this year, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. / Meanwhile nickel and #cobalt mines in Australia, France-controlled New Caledonia, Brazil and the U.S. have closed or are being shut, unable to compete with the surge in low-cost Chinese minerals. Australian mining company BHP said in July that it would suspend its West Australian nickel operations, expecting a continuing flood of cheap #nickel.”
on 02024-09-09#USA #China #politics: “The most important chokepoints in the context of this discussion are AI chip designs, electronic design automation software, semiconductor #manufacturing equipment, and equipment components. The Biden administration’s latest actions simultaneously exploit U.S. dominance across all four of these chokepoints. In doing so, these actions demonstrate an unprecedented degree of U.S. government intervention to not only preserve chokepoint control but also begin a new U.S. policy of actively strangling large segments of the Chinese technology industry—strangling with an intent to kill. (...) By invoking the foreign direct product rule, the United States is prohibiting any semiconductor manufacturing company worldwide from providing services to any Chinese chip design company that is seeking to make high-end chips for AI or supercomputing. (...) To state it bluntly, these recent actions are designed to put the roughly 28 Chinese chip design and supercomputing firms on the parties of concern lists out of business. (...) the Biden administration is going beyond the traditional U.S. policy of seeking to keep the United States’ two semiconductor technology nodes ahead of China and is now trying to actively degrade China’s technological maturity below its current level. (...) It is as though the United States is saying to China “AI technology is the future. We and our allies are going there. You can’t come.””
on 02024-09-07#China government PR on how they grew the world’s renewable #energy generation capacity 50% in 02023 to 510 gigawatts. “According to Qin Haiyan, secretary-general of the Chinese Wind Energy Association, clean energy, including wind power, is being preferred in China, not only because it is “green”, but also because it is cheaper compared with traditional fossil fuels, including coal. (...) Power generated from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar now accounts for more than 15 percent of China’s total electricity consumption.” And presumably about 5% of its energy consumption. “Despite unprecedented PV manufacturing expansion in the US and India driven by policy support, China is expected to maintain its 80 to 95 percent share of global supply chains, [the IEA report] said.”
on 02024-07-28#Scanalyst on understanding modern #China through the 02022 TV serial “Reset”.
on 02024-07-28The Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export from #China in the new Export Control Law, including gunpowder, silk, paper, and ink
on 02024-07-05“Crystalline Silicon #Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, From the People’s Republic of #China: Final Results and Partial Rescission of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2020” #USA #solar #politics #tariffs #subsidies
on 02024-06-16actual new #USA tariffs on EVs and #solar #photovoltaic panels from #China #toread
on 02024-06-16potential new #USA #tariffs on #EVs and #solar #photovoltaic panels from #China #toread #energy #politics
on 02024-06-16“Washington fears that Chinese cars may be able to come over the southern border with zero tariffs under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement” #USA #China #politics #USMCA
on 02024-06-16S&P Global confirms 216 gigawatts of #solar added in #China last year #energy
on 02024-06-15PRC doubled its installed renewable #energy generation capacity to 609 gigawatts last year, 217 gigawatts being #solar. #China
on 02024-06-15there’s a stainless steel statue of Yang Asha in #Guizhou, #China that’s larger than the Statue of Liberty, and there was also a similar statue of Guan Yu in Jingzhou (#Hubei), which was dismantled in 02021 and will be moved to Dianjiangtai, and an even larger statue of the Buddha in #Wuxi (#Jiangsu?). Also China has ⅘ of the world’s tallest 100 bridges!
on 02024-01-28#Bunnie on #Shanzhai in #China
on 02024-01-25#PDF on #mineral commodity summaries: #magnesium, 02022. Prices went as high as US$15k per tonne because the Utah plant shut down due to equipment failure, and power problems in #China limited production there. But normally it’s more like US$3k. #materials #pricing
on 02023-02-28#Huawei to be fully cut off from #USA chipmakers by #China #sanctions #politics
on 02023-02-01“[the WCH CH32V003 is] quite timely as we were forced by HQ last Friday to revise all product line designs to comply with 100% Chinese domestic semiconductors & passive components by latest Q4 end. All western sourced/accounts and parts are now forbidden, apart from those sourced by HQ’s registered jurisdiction.
Worth adding to the list, we’ve also signed accounts with GigaDevice and Expressif Shanghai in the MCU and connectivity range. (...) We’re in France BTW.” #hardware #politics #China #sanctions #RISC-V
on 02022-11-01“#Gitee, #China’s answer to GitHub, to review all code by temporarily closing open-source projects to the public” #censorship #politics #human-rights
on 02022-05-21#magnesium smelters shutting down to save #energy in #China
on 02021-11-06#Bitcoin shutdown in #China amounts to 90% of Chinese Bitcoin mining
on 02021-07-15hundreds of #Bitcoin miners at a conference after #China ‘outlawed’ mining. #Enegix built a 180-megawatt mine in #Kazakhstan (photo).
on 02021-07-15more on #Bitcoin, #energy, #China
on 02021-07-15#Bitcoin miners seeking cheap #energy and friendly regulations leaving #China
on 02021-07-15Wow, #China is really going against #Bitcoin: “financial institutions summoned for a meeting where they were urged to block payment services for any client accounts thought to be involved in cryptocurrency transactions. They were also told to cease offering other services such as account opening, registration and trading for any cryptocurrency-related activities. “Cryptocurrency transactions and speculative activities have disrupted the normal economic and financial order,” the [People’s Bank of China] said in a statement. “They increase the risks of crimes such as illegal cross-border transfers of assets and money laundering, which severely infringe upon the property safety of the general public.””
on 02021-07-15#Cambridge University Press #China Quarterly submits to #censorship by China. #politics #human-rights
on 02017-08-22#China #censorship via side-channel attacks on TLS. #security
on 02017-08-06#China mandates installation of #censorship #malware "Jingwang" on everyone’s #cellphone in #Xinjiang using police checkpoints. #human-rights
on 02017-08-06#Apple #censorship of VPN apps due to #China policy against freedom of speech. #politics #human-rights
on 02017-07-29#Censorship in #China will now remove videos “promoting” “abnormal sexual behaviors” including #LGBT. #human-rights
on 02017-07-11A “wellness” livestreamer #quack in #China poisoned herself by biting an agave leaf, mistaking it for aloe vera, but suffered no worse than sores in her mouth and throat. #toxicology
on 02017-07-11Tensor2Tensor is a new #deep-learning library I don’t understand. “With T2T you can approach previous state-of-the-art results with a single GPU in one day.”)http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/26/chinas-mistress-dispellers “Mistress dispellers”. #China
on 02017-07-01flamethrower #drones #video #China #weaponry
on 02017-05-28A power company in Xiangyang, #China, is using flamethrower #drones (remote-controlled octocopters) )to burn debris off power lines. #weaponry
on 02017-05-28#China Railway extends its New Silk Route to Barking, #England.
on 02017-01-05#China #politics are getting more repressive
on 02016-11-22#China’s “great firewall” or “Golden Shield” uses active probing to discover servers of #censorship circumvention systems like #Tor. (#PDF #paper by Ensafi, ..., and Vern Paxson on annotation site Fermat’s Library.)
on 02016-11-21Duterte in the #Philippines, in #China: “I announce my separation from the United States, ... both in military, not maybe social, but economics also. America has lost. ... I will not go to America anymore. We will just be insulted there,... so time to say goodbye my friend.” #USA still occupies Mindanao though. #politics
on 02016-10-19#China launches two taikonauts to #space station #Tiangong 2 on a Shenzhou-11 lifted by a Long March-2F at 07:30 local time from Inner Mongolia.
on 02016-10-17a “looming glut of panels” should send #photovoltaic prices down again at last, 10% to 44.7¢/W (Wp I suppose) in the last 6 weeks and maybe another 15% by the end of the year, maybe even catching up to their former exponential curve; global panel production capacity should grow 18% in 2016. Mentions that there was a “two-year slump” starting in late 2011 due to this happening before. “World’s largest panel maker” is Trina, and its shipments are actually falling in the third quarter. #China is the world’s biggest market, installing 22 GW in the first half of 2016 before subsidies expired on June 30, and probably 6 to 8 GW in the rest of the year. “Global installations this year may reach about 67 gigawatts, up 27 percent from last year, according to New Energy Finance. In 2017, it’s expected to increase by 25 percent, and in 2018 it will rise 23 percent.” #solar #energy
on 02016-10-07The Shanghai, #China #Ethereum developer conference and what it means for the future
on 02016-10-07apparently 4chan trolls are going to try to troll #Google’s Project Jigsaw AI through #racism: they’ll use the word “Google” as a new racist slur against black people and the word “Skype” as a new racist slur against Jews, echoing the kind of word-replacement games people have been using to escape #censorship in #China for years
on 02016-09-24The first #CRISPR human trial will be in #China, trying to treat lung #cancer.
on 02016-07-24"Bloody Harvest": #pdf report investigating the allegations of executions for organ transplants. “Hospitals throughout #China told the callers, in calls which were taped, transcribed and translated, that they had organs of #Falun-Gong practitioners for sale.” #human-rights
on 02016-07-01Brian of #Coinbase went to #China to plead with the big mining pools to switch to the #Bitcoin-Classic fork (the new try at #Bitcoin-XT). #BTCC CEO Bobby Lee: “It was almost like imperialistic Westerners coming to China and telling us what to do.” Has a breakdown of #Bitcoin mining power by pool: 26.3% F2Pool, 20.1% #Antpool, 12.6% BTCC Pool, 11.9% BW.com, 9% BitFury, 4.8% Slush, 3.3% KnCMiner, 4.5% “others” (?), 7.6% “unknown”. Also profiles #Bitmain’s Jihan Wu. Bitmain runs Antpool.
on 02016-06-30804 bamboo slips buried since about 300 BCE (near the end of the Zhou) were found in 1993 in the tomb of an elderly teacher of Crown Prince Heng of Chu, now part of #China, one of the #Guodian-tombs. #archaeology #history #archival
on 02016-04-20It seems like we might have found some #books from the #history of #China from before #Qin-Shi-Huang burned everything, smuggled into Hong Kong in 2008, now at Tsinghua University, being studied by Li Xueqin. It’s not totally clear from the article how many there are and whether they’re one #archaeology find or several, but I think it says they were buried around 300 BCE, near the end of the Zhou, just a century before Qin Shi Huang and stolen from one of the #Guodian-tombs in 1993 in the village of Guodian, in Hubei province; 1200 slips were bought by the Shanghai Museum at the time. Dartmouth paleographer Sarah Allan has written a new book about them, Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts, with a translation of four Confucian texts; an annotation and translation of the 800 Guodian slips is Scott Cook’s The Bamboo Texts of Guodian. #archival
on 02016-04-20#video about #Sesame-Credit social engineering gamification system in #China #politics
on 02015-12-23#China is building a naval base in Djibouti, where the US, France, and Japan already have naval bases. “To fight against pirates.”
on 02015-12-13Yeah, so apparently there’s a decline in rail traffic and declines in the exports and imports of #China. #economics
on 02015-11-20Dry bulk (as in, not containerized) shipping is in a slump, due in part to lower coal and iron ore demand from #China. WTF, China’s making less steel? #economics
on 02015-11-20an hour-long #video lecture on the #history of #China with very good Mandarin pronunciation (by 羅振宇) and SUBTITLES! This covers Qin Shi Huang.
on 02015-11-19NINETY PERCENT of consumer electronics #manufacturing is done in #Shenzhen, #China, which contains 15 million people. RCA is now owned by Shenzhen-based TCL, which has just opened a new factory in Poland to keep labor costs down. 100 new companies are registered in Shenzhen each day.
on 02015-11-166,500 words on Daniel Leese’s fascinating book #Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in #China’s #Cultural-Revolution [Cambridge University Press, 2011], by someone who is no expert on Chinese history #toread
on 02015-08-12#China devalued the #renminbi 1.9% because its exports are down 8% and its stock markets are insane, resulting in #trading WTI down 2.5%, copper down 3.3%, aluminum down 2.5%; the metals are at six-year-lows. 2015-08-11.
on 02015-08-11