China’s sweeping ban on cryptocurrency mining has paralyzed an industry that accounts for over half of global bitcoin production, as miners dump machines in despair.
Cryptocurrency mining is banned in China
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Cartoon: I don’t see any evidence of lab-leak
The debate over the origin of COVID-19 is now burning hot, with increasing demand for an international investigation into the possibility of a lab leak. However, a top scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology denied and told the New York Times there is no evidence, “I don’t know how the world has come to this, constantly pouring filth on an innocent scientist”.
Problem solved: How to boost birth rate in China
Shih Wing-ching, Chairman of Centaline Property Agency, recently wrote an article “How to solve the declining birth rate”. He said “I don’t support birth control. To take the basic birth responsibility as a human, I think people should be forbidden to use condoms unless they already have two children .”
Does that mean you may need to show your children’s birth certificates to buy condoms in China?
Three-child policy: China lifts cap on birth
Shortly after releasing of the population census, China pivots to a 3-child policy to bring a baby boom. However, this won’t make a dent in its declining birth rate because the country’s young couples don’t want kids.
China gets older: 2020 census worries Beijing
China’s birth rate was 1.3 children per woman, well below the replacement level-2.1— the rate needed to maintain a stable population. The data also showed a sharp rise in the percentage of Chinese aged 60 and above, to 18.7% of the population from 13.3% in 2010.
Experts say the slowdown birth rate is rooted in several trends, including the rise of women in the work force who are educated and don’t see marriage as necessary to achieving financial security, at least for themselves. For Chinese couples, many cannot afford to have children as living costs increase and their jobs demand more time and energy. Basically, it’s a society where nobody wants to get married and people can’t afford to have children.
Young Chinese reject rat race, embrace “Lying flat”
Young Chinese are rebelling against society through a simple act of resistance: lying flat. It’s a way of life include not getting married, not having children, not buying a house or a car and refusing to work extra hours or to hold a job at all.
Boy Fight: China vs United States
On July 21, The US ordered China to close its consulate in Houston, Texas. Three days later, China ordered US to close Chengdu Consulate as payback. This tit-for-tat consulate closures were followed on both sides by calls to return to more normal relations.
Chinese dream: Time to wake up
Over 600 million people, more than 40% of China’s population earned only about 1000 yuan (USD 141) per month last year, said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the end of the National People’s Congress in May. Li said that China now faces a daunting task in slashing absolute poverty.
Cartoon: 2020 Spring/Summer Collection
This pandemic has changed our life completely, and face mask has become a part of our daily life.
China says it contained COVID-19
The doctor silenced by China for telling world coronavirus has died
Li Wenliang, the Chinese doctor who tried to warn about the coronavirus outbreak on December 30, 2019, but police told him to stop “making false comments”.
He contracted the virus while working at Wuhan Central Hospital, and died today at age 34.
China jails “gene-edited babies” scientist for three years
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.
Over 1.5 million Uyghur Muslims are sent to “re-education camp”
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”.
China’s Cyber Sovereignty: 6th World Internet Conference
“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.
I don’t need tear gas, I already have tears in my eyes
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”?
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