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Doing Business the Chinese Way: Facebook Develops A Censorship Tool
http://www.forbes.com/sites/xian…
- utopian0
- blade runner?Gnash
- totally fuct at the moment with pollution! wife is chinese and she says back home its all everyone is talking about.microkorg
- parents buying air purifiers for school classrooms. people buying purifiers for each room in home - best ones costing around £1500 each (yowch!).microkorg
- Large northern cities lose a lot of talent to the south and the rest of the world because of the bad pollution.microkorg
- utopian0
Record seizure of pangolin scales in China confirms status as 'most trafficked mammal in the world'
- yuekit3
China prepares to celebrate Year of the Rooster with huge sculpture resembling Donald Trump
- lolutopian
- Haha. Trump probably will think this is a positive tribute.monospaced
- it's big and in gold, totally his taste.uan
- nice ball chinscarabin
- utopian1
China Building World’s Highest Gravitational Wave Telescopes
They were proposed almost exactly 100 years ago by Albert Einstein, based on his theory of general relativity, but it was only in February 2016 that scientists proved the existence of gravitational waves. And now, China is starting work on the world’s highest altitude telescope that can detect them.
- mekk0
Currently reading "The Three Body Problem" by Cixing Liu. It's a great Sci-Fi read, a bit like Frank Schätzing.
Its my first chinese book (translated) and I cannot get the charakters apart. Like when you read about people with western names you instantly get how they look but all those Dings and Yangs.. Might need a 2nd read :D
- Thats the reason chinese have 'english' alternative names. It helps us westerners remember their names more easily.microkorg
- Yes... like 'Rainbow' or 'Fragrance' :Dd_gitale
- The best English name I've heard so far adopted by a Chinese person was a woman named 'Vermouth'.BuddhaHat
- This book has nice ideas, but is absolute garbage writing. Exposition up the yinyang and flat characters. Won awards because Chinese and diversity.cannonball1978
- omg2
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma says the US wasted trillions on warfare instead of investing in infrastructure
http://worldglobal.news/2017/01/…
- BuddhaHat1
Illegal oil refineries produce high-risk fuel, dump acid sludge to make toxic lakes
A recent drug crackdown exposed evidence that many illegal oil refineries still operate in China. These refineries sell home-processed diesel and oil to trucks and create safety hazards. Furthermore, leftover acid from the production process is illegally dumped, creating serious environmental issues.
At the end of November 2016, drug enforcement officers from Lüliang's Jiaocheng and Wenshui counties jointly cracked a narcotics trading and producing case. To their surprise, the dealers were selling some of the concentrated sulfuric acid they use to make methamphetamines to an illegal oil refinery in Jiaocheng.
Using concentrated sulfuric acid to "wash" highly impure waste engine oil to produce diesel is a traditional refining method. It has been used by China's oil industry on a large scale for more than a decade, bringing irreversible damage to the environment. After the oil refining process, highly acidic waste products are often dumped into valleys, thrown into creeks or buried in pits.
A ticking time bomb
The director of a Shanxi environmental protection company said the oil sold by illegal gas stations is of poor quality, and contains chemicals that can cause cancer, mutations and deformities, and can taint the environment for a long time.
"The oil quality is very poor. The trucks that are this oil emit lots of black smoke and these trucks are very dirty," said a worker at a Sinopec gas station.
Indeed, the acidic waste produced by the refineries is a ticking time bomb.
It's estimated that Shanxi produces more than 20,000 tons of acidic sludge annually, much of which is illegally dumped rather than reprocessed.
One ton of concentrated sulfuric acid used for the waste oil washing method produces 2 tons of acid sludge.
"Based on conservationists' estimations, more than 10,000 tons of concentrated sulfuric acid is used every year in Shanxi, producing more than 20,000 tons of acid sludge," a person familiar with the waste oil industry told the Southern Weekly newspaper on condition of anonymity.
In July 2016, an "acid lake" in the province entered public view for the first time.
According to locals, the lake first appeared in 2000 after refineries started dumping their sludge there. It is about four meters deep and covers an area of about 30 mu (two hectares).
More here: http://www.globaltimes.cn/conten…
- yuekit1
China set to become first nation to issue its own cryptocurrency based on blockchain technology.
- yuekit0
China plans to build new city nearly three times the size of New York
https://www.theguardian.com/worl…
Official news agency Xinhua said Xiongan’s creation would reduce pressure on China’s car-clogged, 22 million-resident capital, and “usher in a new chapter in the country’s historic transitioning to coordinated, inclusive and sustainable growth”.
“[This is a] major historic and strategic choice made by the Chinese Communist party’s central committee with comrade Xi Jinping as the core."
- Mmmmm, sterile.detritus
- This is amazing - hey, that thing we use just now is a bit fucked, why don't we fix it? No! Let's build another but 3x the size!
Woo!face_melter
- PonyBoy0
- alrays innovatingmoldero
- Innovation Never Sleeps!utopian
- Why did they build a banana?Hayoth
- oh they couldn't do that before?pango
- better late then nevasureshot
- just in timedrgs
- before you diss them, remember that no one wins in war. This should scare the shit out of you.Miguex
- Russia announced yesterday that in a nuclear war the UK would be completely obliterated. Nice thought.microkorg
- We are a tiny island. It's not hard to imagine. Maybe a nuclear war can be avoided?Ianbolton
- Obliterated not because of our size, it'd be because of US airbases and assets on our soil that'd be targets.microkorg
- you see Russia's supersonic missile? 4 times the speed of sound, nothing can stop it (and barely see it).formed
- At least this cold war won't be the slomo missile's flying out of Kansas.formed
- Getting ready for the lizard people invasion. Or the lizard people are biding their time on the dark side of the moon waiting for us to destroy each other first_niko
- Did it come with a warranty?BustySaintClaire
- Why does it look inflatable...pango
- AdamWintle0
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Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens
- PonyBoy0
Introducing the DF-17: China's Newly Tested Ballistic Missile Armed With a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle
https://thediplomat.com/2017/12/…
"Hypersonic gliders, by virtue of their low-altitude flight, present challenges to existing radar sensor technology enabling missile defenses. By flying at a low altitude instead of reentering from a much higher apogee on a ballistic trajectory, adversary radars would detect HGVs with less time for an interception to take place before the payload can reach its target."
- utopian0
Chinese Ships Spotted Illegally Selling Oil to North Korea by U.S. Spy Satellite
- something about the laughable use of both illegal and sell in this context..imbecile
- it's illegal to forcefully prevent the sale of anything b/w two parties which are mutually participating in a voluntary transaction. especially oilbliznutty
- ^ it's illegal for govnt to arrest narcotics dealers and buyers?pango