Video: Austrian talks to over 100 HK Protestors. What he finds is SHOCKING. They actually do not support democracy nor they read HK homeland security law 奧地利人與 100 多名香港抗議者會談. 他所發現是令人震驚的, 香港抗議者並不支持民主也從未閲讀過香港國安法. https://youtu.be/zYK-cC9mw6c In this episode of SOFTtalk, we speak to Lasse Boysen from Vienna, who founded his own NGO aiming to strengthen mutual understanding between Europe and China, and delve deep into the problems which Hong Kong has been facing over the past few years and how we should move forward as a city into the future. *Disclaimer: Views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on this program does not imply an endorsement of them. 0:00 Trailer 1:24 Introduction 2:23 Hong Kong 2019-now 9:33 Austrian View on Hong Kong National Security Law 13:01 Conclusion and Channel Update
Video: Why China not afraid to talk Democracy! Democracy is not only voting rights. There are different forms of Democracy. Democracy not equal to politicians doing all the BS during election. After election voters are ignored (except those with lots of money). This kind of money Democracy is not Democracy.
US politician’s bias against DJI stems from political calculation by Global Times Oct 20 2021
US DJI Illustration – Out of self-interested political calculation, an anti-China American politician on Tuesday called for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to impose new restrictions on China-based drone maker DJI, one of the most successful Chinese technology companies which are eyesores of Washington.
The FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said in a statement that the telecommunications regulator should commence the process of adding DJI to the FCC’s so-called Covered List which would prohibit federal Universal Service Fund (USF) dollars from being used to purchase the company’s equipment.
According to FCC, USF “operated as a mechanism by which interstate long distance carriers were assessed to subsidize telephone service to low-income households and high-cost areas.”
The so-called security risks, cited by Carr, are baseless. The drone maker has encountered multiple rounds of ill-intended crackdowns in the US. Last December, the US Commerce Department announced to put DJI on its entity list, cutting off American supplies to the company.
However, the impact on DJI appears to be limited, and so will the latest threat of new restrictions. After being blacklisted by the US Commerce Department, the drone maker replied that “customers in America can continue to buy and use DJI products normally.”
Apparently, the anti-China politicians in Washington have been using the topic to advance their own political interests. Their thinking reveals a skewed confrontational mindset of the politicians which blocks normal cooperation between businesses of the two countries.
In fact, whether it is DJI or other Chinese technology companies, the US crackdown is having a diminishing effect. Of the global drone market, DJI now accounts for over 70 percent of the total market share, and more than 50 percent of drone sales in the US.
Huawei, another Chinese technology giant, has also endured the US government’s crackdown for years. The company has stepped up efforts to realize core technology independence, and is making forays to new business lines, such as smarter ports, data centers, intelligent mining and 5G-enabled electric vehicle navigational system.
Chinese technology firms and their products have been growing despite external pressures, from space technology to 5G high-speed mobile networks. Moreover, China has sufficient tool kit to cope with vicious outside attacks and protect the legitimate interest of its businesses.
China in June also passed the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law to counter bullies. In line with international law and the basic norms governing international relations, the law offers legal tools to protect Chinese businesses.
As a matter of fact, confrontation is the worst path for bilateral corporate relations between the two countries. Many American companies want to cooperate with their Chinese counterparts to make the most out of China’s huge market.
The article was compiled based on an interview with Ma Jihua, a veteran industry analyst. bizopinion@globaltimes.com.cn
The ugly reality of the American empire by Alex Lo, October 20, 2021
An American columnist says that building functioning, legitimate states is woven into the diplomatic DNA of the USA. That’s the beautification of empire. The reality of empire is how many dysfunctional and illegitimate states have been created by and through US intervention.
“For better or worse, nation building is woven into America’s diplomatic DNA. The effort to build functioning, legitimate states in troubled societies has been part of US foreign policy since America has been a global power.” – Hal Brands, Bloomberg opinion columnist, on the aftermath of the Afghanistan disaster.
Brands is being historically “modest”. The United States was frequently intervening throughout the late 18th and 19th centuries, in what would become Canada, in Mexico, and up and down the entire South America. After all, the practice of the Monroe Doctrine, which treated the western hemisphere as its own geopolitical and economic backyard, was enunciated as early as the 1820s. And that was when the US was only a regional power. So, it’s hardly surprising the US began intervening everywhere around the world – once it became a global power. DNA indeed! Have you ever wondered why and how the US has been at war in 229 years of its 245 years in existence, equivalent to 93 per cent of its history? This doesn’t count foreign subversions, coup sponsorships, assassinations and war by proxies.
Be that as it may, among many within the US political elite, Brands’ statement is self-evident. For most people in the rest of the world, though, it is arrogant, distasteful, repulsive. To be fair, most Americans I know would also reject the statement. But then, they are not part of the US elites.
Brands is articulating the logic of empire and its beautification. The first part (the logic of empire) is well understood by the ruling and military-industrial elites in the US; the beautification of empire is left to scholars and columnists such as Brands to sanitise the horrors, war crimes, suffering, poverty and mass killings the US has inflicted on the rest of the world. You need the second part to hide the first. In the modern world, it won’t do just to take over someone else’s economy and undermine their government and society. You have to do it for their own good, to give them freedom, democracy and free market, to protect their human rights.
“The effort to build functioning, legitimate states in troubled societies…”: That’s the beautification of empire talking. The reality or the logic of empire is how many dysfunctional and illegitimate states have been created by and through US intervention – by worsening already “troubled societies” and by collapsing otherwise functioning societies into troubled ones or even failed states.
Alex Lo has been a Post columnist since 2012, covering major issues affecting Hong Kong and the rest of China. A journalist for 25 years, he has worked for various publications in Hong Kong and Toronto as a news reporter and editor. He has also lectured in journalism at the University of Hong Kong.
The double face of the Dalai Lama – Tibet, the other side of the story by Frans Vandenbosch. Published Mar 16, 2017
Tibet was, after several invasions, annexed by the Mongols and became part of the Mongol Empire in 1240. The same fate also underwent China: Genghis Kahn defeated the Western Xia (China) and the Jin Dynasty (China). In 1279 also the Song dynasty was overtrown by the Mongols.
Genghis Khan and his sons / successors caused throughout Eurasia an unprecedented never matched bloodbath. In China, between 1195 and 1235, they reduced the population from 50 million to 8.5 million.
Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis, founded the Yuan Dynasty, ruling over all of China, including Tibet. Kublai Kahn, during his reign as emperor of China, adopted to the Chinese culture and political system; he made his own Mongolian language and culture subordinate to the Chinese.
After the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty came the Ming dynasty (1368 – 1644/1683) and then the Qing dynasty (Manchu) until the chaos and collapse in 1912. All these seven centuries Tibet remained part of China, as many other (by the Mongols conquered) areas.
At the beginning of the Republic of China (the period from 1912 by Sun Yat-sen, the warlords, the fake emperors, military leaders, the riots, famine and great distress) a number of areas and vassal states disengaged from China. So also Tibet. Tibet became de facto independent, but was never recognised by any other country, not even by the US or UK.
Upon the withdrawal of the Guómíndǎng (Kuomintang) to Taiwan in 1949 and the founding of the PRC, the Communists of Mao Zedong of the People’s Liberation Army invaded Tibet in 1951. Tibet, after some 40 years, became part of China again. Mao promised Tibet independence, but later he only spoke about autonomy.
In the 1960ties, the US (military and CIA) actions in Tibet amounted 1.7 bil. USD/year, including a yearly subsidy of 180000 USD for the Dalai Lama. (his brother, Gyalo Thondup, was a CIA agent)
In an agreement between China and the US in 1980, the CIA actions would cease. But soon after the NED (the “CIA2”) has taken over the sponsoring; until today. In 2014, the NED sponsored 22 organisations in Tibet with 621134 USD
Further details: read Richard M Bennett “Tibet, the ‘great game’ and the CIA”
US-sponsored separatists groups, backed by Washington for decades, are being mobilized to attack and undermine activities related to the Beijing 2022 Olympics starting with the torch relay in Greece.
I explain the background of the “Free Tibet” movement and how the US government through the CIA backed it as early as the 1950s and transferred its operations to the National Endowment for Democracy.
Olympic flame arrives in China for Beijing 2022 Winter Games. A timeline of China’s preparations by Xinhua Oct 19 2021
The Olympic flame for the Beijing 2022 Winter Games has landed in the Chinese capital on Wednesday morning after being flown from Athens, Greece.
A welcome ceremony is due to be held later at the Beijing Olympic Tower near the ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium, which hosted the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
The flame was ignited Monday in a traditional lighting ceremony at Ancient Olympia in western Greece, and was handed over on Tuesday to the Beijing 2022 organizers at the Panathenaic stadium in Athens.
China successfully tests 500-ton solid rocket engine by Deng Xiaoci Oct 19 2021
Closely following the heart-stopping and spectacular launch of the Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft on Saturday, China has made another breakthrough in its aerospace technology, as researchers at the Academy of Aerospace Solid Propulsion Technology (AASPT) announced on Tuesday they conducted a successful running test of a domestically developed solid rocket engine, with a thrust of more than 500 tons, in Xi’an, capital of Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, setting a world record in the field,
The Global Times learned from the AASPT, which is affiliated with state-owned aerospace giant China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC), that the 3.5-meter-diameter solid engine’s fuel load reached 150 tons.
The successful test signals significant progress in China’s solid carrier rocket technology and lays the foundation for the development of large-scale, heavy-lift launch vehicle technology.
The development of the 500-ton thrust solid engine has entered the engineering application stage, while the landmark test opened up a key technology link for the development of China’s 1,000-ton solid thrust engine, the academy said in a statement sent to the Global Times.
The research and development of rocket engine technology has led the development of launch vehicles, with several steps along the way.
In 2009, China developed a 2-meter-diameter, 120-ton-thrust solid engine, a record at that time, which directly pushed forward the development of the country’s first solid carrier rocket, the Long March-11.
In 2016, by successfully linking 120-ton thrust engines, the country’s first bundled solid booster launch vehicle – the Long March-6A – won state approval for development.
In 2019, the roll-out of a 2.6-meter-diameter, 200-ton-thrust solid engine drove the project approval of the development of the Smart Dragon-3 (SD-3) commercial carrier rocket.
As the latest member of the CALT Smart Dragon commercial rocket family, the SD-3 gained project approval on December 31, 2020, and China will launch the new make through a seaborne platform in the first half of 2022, Jiang Jie, a CALT rocket expert, told the Global Times.
According to CALT, the 2.64-meter-diameter SD-3 with a 3.35-meter-diameter nose cone is the largest and strongest in the Smart Dragon rocket series. It is capable of sending a payload of 1.5 tons into 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.
Jiang, who is also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed that the SD-3 aims to meet the market need for launches of large-scale commercial satellite constellations, as it is capable of sending as many as 20 satellites in one go.
The SD-3 would reduce the unit cost of payloads to $10,000 per kilogram, said CALT, highlighting the model’s strong market competitiveness.
Researchers with the academy told the Global Times on Tuesday that they believe the new 500-ton thrust engine offers more options for large and heavy-lift carrier rockets.
Observers said that the running test of the powerful solid engine set a new high in the field, lifting China’s large-scale solid rocket engine technology to world-leading levels, and will provide China’s new solid carrier rockets with more powerful and cost-effective advanced power. It will also significantly enhance the competitiveness of solid rockets in the commercial space launch market.
Based on the single 500-ton-thrust solid engine, the academy has set out to research a 3.5-meter-diameter five-stage engine, which would provide a total thrust of more than 1,000 tons, which is expected to be applied in the boosters of large and heavy-lift engines.
Such new technology would meet the demand of China’s space program such as manned moon landings and deep space exploration, the academy revealed.
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