Tag: china
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Over the last several years, numerous reports have emerged regarding the shocking treatment of Uyghurs, a Muslim minority ethnic group that makes up a large part of the Xinjiang Uyghur… more ›
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CAIRO — Days after Sudanese soldiers massacred pro-democracy demonstrators in Khartoum in June, an obscure digital marketing company in Cairo began deploying keyboard warriors to a second front: a covert… more ›
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From developments in skyscraper architecture, green energy and driverless transport to social divides within cities and with nations, manufacturers clinging on in the margins and China starting a new metropolis… more ›
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The app’s surge in popularity and sudden backlash from some users highlights how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies raise concerns surrounding identity verification. Zao was uploaded to China’s iOS App Store… more ›
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TikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you’re avoiding it. Hello, person who is, statistically speaking, a human adult aged approximately “millennial” to “boomer. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/style/what-is-tik-tok.html more ›
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HONG KONG — Across the border from Hong Kong, the Chinese Communist Party screams its presence with banners and slogans on nearly every street. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/world/asia/hong-kong-communist-china.html more ›
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China’s president, Xi Jinping, and David Cameron famously sealed their countries’ “golden era” friendship in 2015 over a pint of Greene King IPA at The Plough at Cadsden, a five-minute… more ›
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Though they’ve spent the last few years focusing on the intersection between agriculture and technology, Xiaowei R Wang‘s resume of working with tech in China is long and varied. https://radiichina.com/beyond-techno-orientalism-an-interview-with-logic-magazines-xiaowei-r-wang/ more ›
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Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation https://www.wsj.com/articles/huawei-technicians-helped-african-governments-spy-on-political-opponents-11565793017 more ›
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At 8:00pm on February 22, 2019, 28-year-old Venkataraman walked into a south Indian police station and confessed to strangling his friend Vijay to death with a scarf. But police in… more ›