âThese technologies are going to be the foundation of economic strength over the next decades, and there are significant concerns about what the world would look like if China gained the upper hand,â Martijn Rasser, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told me. âIt wouldnât be a world that I would want to live in, and I donât think most Americans or most of our friends and allies would want to live in it either.â
U.S. Puts Sweeping Restrictions on Chinaâs Access to Chip Technology The new limits on the sale of semiconductors to China aim to cripple Beijingâs access to technologies needed for supercomputing and guiding weapons. The moves are the clearest sign yet that a dangerous standoff between the two major superpowers is increasingly playing out in the technological sphere.
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What might once have seemed like a precisely targeted rifle shot approach to sanctioning China now looks like a shotgun blast.
A cynic might wonder when the US government will pressure New Zealand to curtail exports of dairy products so that Chinese youngsters donât grow up to be big strong soldiers. The serious question is, how and when will China retaliate?
Puerto Ricoâs current situation benefits the US, which reaps billions of dollars by taxing imports to the island. American elites have begun settling in Puerto Rico to avoid federal income taxes. While exchanges on Puerto Ricoâs political status are beginning to attract more media attention, it is very unlikely that authorities will change a dynamic that benefits the most powerful.
The Estado Libre Asociado lost a substantial portion of its powers with the imposition of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act in 2016. Most economic policy is now controlled by the Financial Oversight and Management Board, a group of unelected officials appointed by the US president. Consequently, Puerto Ricans have grown apathetic towards elections. Voter turnout is decreasing, even as the annexationist-pro Estado Libre Asociadoâs two-party dominance is being challenged by the emergence of new minority parties which seek to upset the status quo.
After the visit, Beijing said it would impose unspecified sanctions against Ms. Pelosi and her family members. It also said it canceled or suspended several exchanges between the two countries aimed at improving communication between the militaries and building cooperation on issues such as international crime, climate change and drug control.
Maybe Taiwan should be added to NATO too...
And here I thought that Pelosi should swing by Beijing and explain to the Chinese leadership how the Monroe Doctrine works.
Besides China and the USA have so much in common. The USA supports the demographic flooding of the Western Sahara and the West Bank of the former Palestinian mandate. China supports demographically flooding Tibet and Inner Mongolia.
After the visit, Beijing said it would impose unspecified sanctions against Ms. Pelosi and her family members. It also said it canceled or suspended several exchanges between the two countries aimed at improving communication between the militaries and building cooperation on issues such as international crime, climate change and drug control.
The addition of the Chinese companies to the export ban list followed a warning from Gina Raimondo, the secretary of commerce, who said in March that Chinese companies that defied U.S. restrictions against exporting to Russia could essentially be shut down. Companies that produce technology such as microchips that are made with American equipment and software can be crippled if they are added to the U.S. âentity list.â
The Chinese Embassy in Washington said on Wednesday that China and Russia were maintaining normal energy and trade cooperation and that China would take necessary measures to safeguard the rights of its companies.
âThe unilateral sanctions and so-called âlong-arm jurisdictionâ imposed by the U.S. on other countries in accordance with its domestic laws are against international law and basic norms governing international relations,â said Shao Hesong, a representative of the embassy.
Emily Feng å¯å²è¸@EmilyZFengNEW: China put thousands of Uyghur kids in state boarding schools and taught Mandarin and political ideology, many of them after their parents were detained or arrested. For the first time, two children share their story from inside. With @AbduwelA.
ISTANBUL â In quiet, polite voices, Aysu and Lütfullah Kuçar describe the nearly 20 months they spent in state boarding schools in China's western region of Xinjiang, forcibly separated from their family.Under the watchful gaze of their father, the two ethnically Uyghur children say that their heads were shaved and that class monitors and teachers frequently hit them, locked them in dark rooms and forced them to hold stress positions as punishment for perceived transgressions.By the time they were able to return home to Turkey in December 2019, they had become malnourished and traumatized. They had also forgotten how to speak their mother tongues, Uyghur and Turkish. (The children were being raised in Turkey but got forcibly sent to boarding school during a family visit to China.)
Since 2017, authorities in Xinjiang have rounded up hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, a largely Muslim ethnic minority group, and sent them to detention centers where they are taught Mandarin Chinese and Chinese political ideology. Camp detainees have reported being forced to work in factories during their detention or after they are released. The children of those detained or arrested areoften sent to state boarding schools, even when relatives are willing to take them in.
Experts say this is part of Chinese authorities' efforts to mold minority children into speaking and acting like the country's dominant Han ethnic group.
"This ideological impulse of trying to assimilate non-Han people corresponded with this punitive approach of putting adults in camps, and therefore lots of young children ended up in boarding kindergartens and boarding schools or orphanages," says James Millward, a professor at Georgetown University who studies Chinese and Central Asian history. "It really is an effort to try to make everyone Chinese and see themselves as Chinese and have a single cultural background."
These family separations have contributed to a slow erasure of the Uyghur language and culture in China, experts say â one of the reasons officials in the U.S., Canada, France, the Netherlands and other countries have declared that China's policies in Xinjiang amount to genocide.
