He Jiankui, a scientist in China who said he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies, has been jailed for three years.
He was convicted of violating a government ban by carrying out his own experiments on human embryos, to try to give them protection against HIV.
He was globally condemned when he announced his experiments, and the birth of twin babies, last November.
Xinjiang’s Uyghurs are subject to a comprehensive, targeted campaign of surveillance and control. According to leading researchers and human rights groups, as many as 1.5 million have been placed in camps, which Chinese officials called “Vocational Education and Training Centers”.
“Cyber sovereignty” is a new paradigm for foreign companies to employ “Chinese-style censorship of public opinion”, where the state assumes control of what is shown on a country’s internet and keeps citizens partially cut off from a global internet. This has led to a starkly different world for younger generations of Chinese internet users, where Facebook, Twitter and Google are banned.
On June 9, about one million Hong Kong people marched to the government headquarters to protest the Anti-Extradition Bill, which allows extraditions to mainland China. Since then, the protests has last months, and conflicts between protesters and police escalated.
On August 11th, policed stormed enclosed railway stations, firing tear gas at protesters, leading yet again to dramatic scenes of confrontation.
The next day, protesters gathered at the airport, leading to hundreds of flights being cancelled. A scene went viral, which was a little kid standing in the lobby with this sign. We can’t help thinking, what would be the future of the young kids of Hong Kong if this “One Country, Two Systems” finally become “One County, One System”?
Security was tightened around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Tuesday as China sought to silence any remembrance of the deadly crackdown on student-led protests exactly 30 years ago.
Visitors were subjected to strict identification checks by security forces as they arrived at Tiananmen Square to witness the daily early morning flag-raising ceremony. Foreign journalists were barred from the square and warned not take any pictures of the scene.
To host a World Internet Conference in a country where one can’t access the global internet, that is what’s happening in Wuzhen, China.
Mark Zuckerberg, as the founder of Facebook, a social media network that was banned in China and most of Chinese people never heard of, by attending this tech summit, has made no secret of his interest in the world’s most populous nation with the most restricted internet censorship.
China’s Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has launched an investigation into vaccine manufacturer Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology, revoking its license for human rabies vaccines and beginning a recall of all unused vaccines produced by the company.
Many of the defective vaccines were already on the market and being given to Chinese children, as part of the mandatory national vaccination program.
Social-media users expressed anger and disillusionment at the country’s seeming lack of regard for children’s safety—a problem that has recurred over and over since the 2008 tainted-milk scandal. ”Don’t let children grow up in this land. Otherwise, you’ll be sorry to you children. There was toxic milk powder, then the RYB kindergarten scandal, now toxic vaccines, what’s next?!” one user wrote on social media site Weibo, yet the message was censored and deleted soon.
Ironically, in Chinese, the term Changsheng is a play on words meaning “long life.”
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