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- chukkaphob1
US issues China travel warning
- uh ohchukkaphob
- #ThanksObamacapn_ron
- beginning of WW3?chukkaphob
- hmmKrassy
- all because of Huawei is bad for the business?api
- https://www.forbes.c…api
- Apple won't be happy.fadein11
- sofas1
"China brings over 68 mln people out of poverty in past 5 years"
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english…"As of 2018 the number of people in poverty living below the national poverty line is around 30 million, about 2% of the population.[7] With hopes of eradicating poverty by 2020."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po…- How many went into relative poverty in the west?detritus
- Thanks to America!utopian
- the make a shoe for 10¢ sell it to dumb americans for $50, dumb americans sell it for $250 to dumber public=Profit$$$$_niko
- ^ Thanks Kanyemicrokorg
- but the chances of china failing are quite high so expect this to invert very quickly. Also balls - I dont buy this at all.mugwart
- Nah, they risk 'failing' as the US and EU occasionally falter. China's too big, too rich and too important to fail badly in any meaningful sensedetritus
- If China start to fail they can just call in all the US debt owed to help out.microkorg
- https://www.quora.co…detritus
- 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
- 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."
- AdamWintle0
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Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens
- 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
- 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
- yuekit1
China set to become first nation to issue its own cryptocurrency based on blockchain technology.
- 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…