Thread: The View, from China

Originally Posted by sabang

Begrudgers gonna grudge.

But of course as a fellow snivelling chinky sycophant you are dripping with empathy.

Originally Posted by sabang

By Jerry GreyPublished: May 08, 2022

Irrelevant of the author, The Chinese mouthpiece Global Times = Bla Bla Bla

Originally Posted by sabang

.Why Didn’t Jerry Follow Me Back?

More crap from the same author.

Originally Posted by sabang

Also, China has no gun deaths.

So long as we ignore executions.

Originally Posted by Shutree

So long as we ignore executions.

They'll be listed as death from Lead Poisoning.

Oh oh your posts are getting longer. Probably caused by lengthy explanation, in support of lies. (Propaganda).

Maybe we should listen to them more.

Originally Posted by sabang

Maybe we should listen to them more.

Sabang addresses the other wanketeers.

Tianzhou-4 cargo spacecraft delivers supplies to Tiangong in 1st of six China Space Station construction missions


By
Deng Xiaoci

and Fan Anqi Published: May 10, 2022 08:06 PM

"With a mission to ferry supplies for the upcoming Shenzhou-14 manned spaceflight mission and materials for the in-orbit assembly of the Tiangong China Space Station, the Tianzhou-4 cargo spacecraft successfully carried out an automatic and fast rendezvous and docking with the orbital space station combination on Tuesday morning, some seven hours after its launch.

The ultra-fast and smooth rendezvous and docking by the spacecraft took place at 8:54 am on Tuesday, after it was launched with a Long March-7 Y5 carrier rocket that took off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center, located in South China's Hainan Province, on Tuesday around 1:56 am, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said in a statement.

Similar to the previous cargo mission launched in September 2021, it docked at the rear of the core module, joining the in-orbit Tianhe and Tianzhou-3 space station combination, the CMSA revealed. The Tianzhou-2 mission, which was the first supply run heading toward the space station, detached from the core module about a month ago after accomplishing its mission.

According to the spacecraft developer, the China Academy of Spacecraft Technology (CAST), the Tianzhou-4 carries more than 200 parcels of cargo weighing some 6.2 tons, which will supply the astronauts, space station systems and space application domains. Propellants totaling 750 kilograms are also onboard.

One of the highlights in this supply run is a set of replacement parts for the station's urine treatment system, which turns urine into water and supports the long-term stay of astronauts in space.

The system has processed nearly 1,700 liters of urine and produced more than 1,400 liters of distilled water in the past year in orbit, which has fully verified the stability and reliability of its functions, the Global Times learned from the system's developers - the 206 Research Institute of the Second Academy of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC).

The cargo ship also possesses capabilities of controlling the space station's flight form and orbit, providing remote monitoring and data transmission services to the space station, and supporting in-orbit science experiments.

"Our cargo ship is characterized by a much higher load capacity than any other spacecraft in service," Song Zhongping, a space analyst and TV commentator, told the Global Times on Tuesday. "Tianzhou-4 weighs about 13 tons, and is able to carry a payload of six and a half tons. This ratio is higher than any other cargo spacecraft in the world, indicating that China's overall design is relatively advanced."

China's cargo spacecraft aims to become more "user-friendly," and more automated, even including artificial intelligence in the management of goods carried onboard, Song noted.

Tianzhou-4's journey to space and its docking operations were secured by a "sky road" established by the "handshake" of a relay terminal and satellites, the CAST said in a statement it sent to the Global Times.

By establishing a space-based telecommunications system, the relay terminal can simultaneously "remote pilot" the Tianzhou-3, Tianzhou-4 and the Tianhe core module, transmit data such as images of rendezvous and docking to the ground in real time, and provide communications support for the entire process.

Once the telecommunication link is established, the ground's control and monitor coverage rate of the Tianzhou-4 will be improved by more than 90 percent, ensuring that the craft can stay in touch with the ground most of the time, CAST revealed.

The Tianzhou supply series has experienced a significant reduction of rendezvous and docking time over the years. The first Tianzhou mission, which launched and docked with China's Tiangong-2 space lab module in 2017, took about two days. The second mission of Tianzhou-3 in May 2021 took a mere eight hours to achieve the same feat.

Having reduced the docking time to 6.5 hours, deputy chief commander of the cargo spacecraft Li Zhihui told media that they are looking to further shorten it by 4.5 hours. "From the moment it is launched, it will only take two hours and 15 minutes to dock with the space station," Li said.

Being a fully sealed spacecraft, Tianzhou-4 is by far the world's largest in-service cargo spaceship with the most comprehensive in-orbit support capability, the CAST noted.

The CAST also made improvements based on suggestions from taikonauts who have visited the space station. For example, to facilitate taikonauts who are searching for goods in-orbit, Tianzhou-4 has added labeling designs and applied colors to packages' handles.

Dang Rong, deputy chief designer of the craft, told the Global Times that Tianzhou-4 also carried a payload for special experiments and would release a satellite as part of the process.

It was the fourth time that the 53.1-meter-long, 3.35-meter-diameter Long March-7 rocket had carried its Tianzhou passengers into space. Having established perfect coordination between the two space buddies, the rocket's flight reliability assessment value has reached 0.9838, an internationally advanced level, indicating a stabilized overall technical status of the rocket.

For this mission, the first run to China's space station core module this year, the rocket has had 17 technical upgrades, optimizing pre-launch processes, shortening preparation time, and reducing the requirements for personnel, equipment, weather and other conditions.

Through these changes, the rocket's test and launch cycle has been reduced by four days previously to 27 days now. This is also the first time that a Long March-7 rocket has been tested and launched within one month.

The Tuesday mission marked the first of the six space station-building launch missions in 2022. By the end of the year, the China Space Station will be fully built and operational.

With 2022 marking the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the country's manned space engineering project, the completion of Tiangong is a key target of the three-step strategy, and an important symbol of China becoming a strong space power in the world, Hao Chun, the director of the CMSA, revealed at a press conference following the triumphant return of Shenzhou-13 crew in mid-April.

The six flights are the Tianzhou-4 cargo spacecraft, another supply run for the next shift, launched Tuesday; the Shenzhou-14 manned mission in June; the Wentian experimental module in July; the Mengtian experimental module in October; another cargo mission, the Tianzhou-5, and a manned mission, the Shenzhou-15.

The Shenzhou-14 and -15 manned missions, which will each carry a crew of three members, will meet and stay together in the station for about five to 10 days when the two crews rotate, said Huang Weifen, head of the taikonaut training system at the same press conference. It means that China's space station will have, for the first time, six taikonauts staying in orbit at the same time, testing the station's maximum capacity for short-term human stays"

Tianzhou-4 cargo spacecraft delivers supplies to Tiangong in 1st of six China Space Station construction missions - Global Times

You can ban demonstrations and lock up people for no reason, but a virus can not be banned, forbidden or locked up.

Covid could become the saviour of China. After all it was "MADE IN CHINA"

Originally Posted by panama hat

According to government statistics, police confiscated 146,000 guns in 2018.

And no gun deaths, right-ho! All is rosy then.

Like all Chinese statistics, we can only speculate on their accuracy. I couldn't help noticing that if you divide 146,000 by 365 then you get exactly 400. Just chance, I guess.

WHO Chief Censored in China After Calling Its ‘Zero COVID’ Policy Unsustainable


China’s zero-tolerance mindset to COVID-19 appears to be extending to even just criticism of its pandemic policy, signaling the country’s intent to uphold some of the world’s harshest measures to contain the coronavirus despite growing economic and social costs.


The country’s internet censors have removed comments critical of China’s “zero COVID” approach, including remarks from the WHO chief that the country’s absolutist pandemic policy isn’t sustainable.

Video clips of WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s Tuesday remarks calling for a change in strategy have been largely scrubbed off the Chinese internet. Screenshots of foreign media reports on his comments were also blocked on Chinese social media.

MORE WHO Chief Censored in China After Calling Its ‘Zero COVID’ Policy Unsustainable

Originally Posted by Shutree

And no gun deaths, right-ho! All is rosy then.

Like all Chinese statistics, we can only speculate on their accuracy. I couldn't help noticing that if you divide 146,000 by 365 then you get exactly 400. Just chance, I guess.

Not quite sure the relevance of that stat. However if you divide the 146,000 into their population it equates to 1 in 10,000. Be difficult to justify a gun problem.

Originally Posted by Iceman123

Not quite sure the relevance of that stat. However if you divide the 146,000 into their population it equates to 1 in 10,000. Be difficult to justify a gun problem.

True that. The rest of the population still have their guns.

Chinese border police 'clipping' passports of citizens as they arrive back home


Border police in Guangzhou have stepped up controls on incoming Chinese citizens, questioning them about their overseas activities and confiscating passports, amid ongoing controls on people leaving the country.


Passengers arriving in Guangzhou aboard China Southern flight CZ3082 from Bangkok on Sunday morning were all questioned individually by immigration officials at the airport, according to a social media post from one of the passengers.


Border guards wanted to know what they had been doing in the countries they were returning from, why they were coming back to China, and whether they planned to leave the country again, the post said.


Some passengers had their passport corners clipped, invalidating them for further travel, the post said.


The report came days after the National Immigration Administration held a news conference announcing "strict reviews" of travel documents and visas, and calling on Chinese nationals not to leave the country unless absolutely necessary.


Spokesman Chen Jie said immigration authorities were "continuing to maintain the highest level of prevention and control," resulting in "low levels" of outbound passengers at border crossings and airports.


A Chinese national surnamed Zhang said border guards often use passport-clipping as a way to prevent people from leaving the country, and anyone hoping to leave must first get an exit permit, signed by their local police station.


"My passport was clipped two or three years ago now," Zhang said. "There has been a strict requirement for exit permits for two years, and basically the border guards don't want people to leave on Chinese passports."


Students blocked from travel


Reports continue to surface on social media of people leaving China for foreign study having their passports clipped as they tried to board a plane, and also from people who had been denied passports when they applied for them.


"There have been a lot of posts saying that people are being rejected when they apply for passports, or when they try to renew them," a current affairs commentator surnamed Lu told RFA. "It shows that the Chinese government is trying to reduce the number of Chinese people leaving the country," he said.


"They are worried that if they do, they'll find out what the situation is in the rest of the world."


An employee at an overseas study consultancy surnamed Huang said the government has suspended permission for minors in primary and secondary school to study abroad.


"The government has said that nobody should leave the country unless it's absolutely necessary," Huang told RFA. "Parents aren't allowed to send their children overseas too young either."


"Before, parents could send their kids to secondary school in Thailand or the U.K., but they've stopped allowing that now," she said. "They're only allowed to go overseas at university level."


"What does this have to do with the pandemic? They just don't want so many people leaving," Huang said.


She said the government is concerned that children will be inculcated with "Western values" overseas.


"Then, they'll be less easy to control after they get back," Huang said. "The more they know, the more ideas they get; they don't need them to know much, just be a simple worker. Too many ideas and they raise objections to every suggestion: how is that manageable?"


Huang said she expects the restrictions to stay in place even after zero-COVID controls have lifted.


'Illegal entry and exit'


The immigration authorities said a crackdown on "illegal entry and exit" was under way.


"The police have ... strengthened full-time and all-region patrols, controls and investigations, closely cooperating with law enforcement in neighboring countries to crack down hard on illegal entry and exit activities," the agency's Chen said at the April 27 news conference.


"People are coming in and out through illegal channels," Chen said. "Border guards at land, sea and air checkpoints ... are taking measures appropriate to local conditions and circumstances."


But Chen didn't explain which "illegal channels" were being used.


Police in the central province of Hunan in April confirmed to RFA that that residents had been ordered to hand over their passports to police, promising to return them "when the pandemic is over," amid a massive surge in people looking for ways to leave China or obtain overseas immigration status.


A March 31 notice from the Baisha police department in the central province of Hunan posted to social media ordered employers to hand over the passports of all employees and family members to police, "to be returned after the pandemic."


An officer told RFA that the order would be rolled out nationwide.


China's zero-COVID policy of mass compulsory testing, stringent lockdowns and digital health codes has sparked an emigration wave fueled by "shocked" middle-classes fed up with food shortages, confinement at home, and amid broader safety concerns.


The number of keyword searches on social media platform WeChat and search engine Baidu for "criteria for emigrating to Canada" has skyrocketed by nearly 3,000 percent in the past month, with most queries clustered in cities and provinces under tough, zero-COVID restrictions, including Shanghai, Jiangsu, Guangdong, and Beijing.


Immigration consultancies have seen a huge spike in emigration inquiries in recent weeks, with clients looking to apply for overseas passports or green cards, while holding onto their Chinese passports, they said in April.


Chinese border police 'clipping' passports of citizens as they arrive back home — Radio Free Asia

US solar industry in sudden crisis, as China accusations fly


THE US SOLAR POWER industry’s activities have ground to a sudden halt as the US Commerce Department started looking for possible China links. More than 300 large scale solar panel implementations across America have been frozen—and this includes some forest-sized projects.[/COLOR]

“Tens of billions of dollars, and tens of thousands of jobs are at risk,” the New York Times warned. The US will also fall further back on its environmental targets, too.[/COLOR]

The freeze risks US business relationships with other Asian nations and is causing outrage among green campaigners and the “renewable energy” companies they support.[/COLOR]

What has gone wrong?[/COLOR]

It’s a convoluted story. China became the world leader in solar panel production soon after the turn of the century after years of investment. Ten years ago, the US administration took fright at China’s success in producing cheap, popular, exportable renewables and added steep tariffs to make them unaffordable. The Barack Obama administration was honest about their motives: they admitted their 2012 move was done to prevent China dominating the world in solar panel production, and provide some protectionist help for US companies in the same field.[/COLOR]

However, what actually happened is that most US firms then started importing solar panels and associated equipment from other Asian nations. Today, more than 80 per cent of US solar power equipment comes from southeast Asia, mainly from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.[/COLOR]

A SINGLE COMPLAINT[/COLOR]

The new problem is that an allegation was made by one US manufacturer that some of the products from east or southeast Asia may be made by overseas subsidiaries of Chinese firms, and some of the components may have originated in China.[/COLOR]

The US Commerce Department has let it be known that they are doing an investigation and the same high tariffs that kept Chinese solar panels out may hit other solar panel companies too. Payments could be demanded retroactively.

More than 300 solar projects in the United States, including a 60-square-kilometer installation in Vermont, have been delayed or cancelled in recent weeks.[/COLOR]

Asian solar manufacturers are as horrified as US dealers in the trade. Even the Chinese solar power specialist firm Trina Solar, who is not directly involved in the conflict, are calling for the freeze to end, calling on the Biden administration to “end this disastrous investigation before its [renewables target] agenda is put out of reach”.[/COLOR]

There’s a very real concern that the most serious crisis in the history of solar power in the United States is motived by needless hostility, and is completely unnecessary.[/COLOR]

“Officials have not yet found any evidence of trade violations,” the New York Times reported.

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Originally Posted by misskit

WHO Chief Censored in China After Calling Its ‘Zero COVID’ Policy Unsustainable


China’s zero-tolerance mindset to COVID-19 appears to be extending to even just criticism of its pandemic policy, signaling the country’s intent to uphold some of the world’s harshest measures to contain the coronavirus despite growing economic and social costs.


The country’s internet censors have removed comments critical of China’s “zero COVID” approach, including remarks from the WHO chief that the country’s absolutist pandemic policy isn’t sustainable.

Video clips of WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s Tuesday remarks calling for a change in strategy have been largely scrubbed off the Chinese internet. Screenshots of foreign media reports on his comments were also blocked on Chinese social media.

MORE WHO Chief Censored in China After Calling Its ‘Zero COVID’ Policy Unsustainable

You could have posted this in sabang's "Brave New World" thread, but hopefully he will see it anyway.

China cuts carbon intensity by 34% in past decade, will further boost green development


By Qi Xijia Published: May 12, 2022 08:54 PM


"China has reduced its carbon intensity by 34 percent in the past decade and will do even more to encourage green development, Chinese officials said at a press conference on Thursday, as they sought to shed light on the country's efforts and achievements in coordinating economic and environmental development since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012.

The decline in carbon intensity is a hard-won achievement that underscores China's contribution to global carbon emissions reduction, and more investment in green development will boost economic growth and better protect the environment, experts noted.

Over the past decade, China's carbon intensity — a measure that shows carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of GDP — fell by 34 percent, and the total installed capacity of wind and solar power generation, along with the production and sales of new-energy vehicles, led the world, Han Wenxiu, an official with the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs, said at the press conference on Thursday.

China has also made significant contributions to global cli-mate governance through its green development and participation in international negotiations. In the past decade, China played an active role in pushing forward the Paris Agreement and rolled out a roadmap for hitting peak emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, making important contributions to addressing climate change, Han said.

In 2021, China generated 2.48 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity from renewable sources, which accounted for 29.8 percent of total electricity consumption amid a drive to develop renewable energy and make the transition to a low-carbon economy, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

"It has been a decade of solid progress in green development with fewer haze-filled days and less black and unclean water, and more blue skies, white clouds, clear water and green mountains," Han said.

China's cumulative decline in carbon intensity in the past decade was a hard-won victory, making it one of the most efficient countries in reducing carbon emissions, Lin Boqiang, director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University, told the Global Times on Thursday.

Despite recent domestic flare-ups of COVID-19 and global geopolitical tensions, the Chinese government has stepped up efforts to support the transition to low-carbon, high-quality development with increased renewable energy subsidies, sustainable infrastructure spending and green bond issuance.

China will vigorously develop the renewable energy industry and build 450 gigawatts (GW) of solar and wind power capacity in the Gobi and other desert regions, officials from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Thursday.

All coal-fired power units with power consumption of more than 300 grams of standard coal per kilowatt-hour should be upgraded, according to the NDRC.

The State Council, China's cabinet, announced on Wednesday plans to allocate 50 billion yuan ($7.36 billion) in renewable energy subsidies to electricity producers.

"The development of new infrastructure and new energy will be more closely integrated in the future. With the popularization of new energy, technological innovation and cost reduction, the new-energy sector could create more jobs and drive long-term economic growth," Lin said.

The government has been leveraging green bonds to support China's low-carbon transition, with the proceeds used to support clean transportation, green architecture, sustainable water resources and sewage treatment.

In 2021, China's domestic green bond issuance exceeded 600 billion yuan, up 180 percent year-on-year, ranking among the top in the world, a vice governor of the People's Bank of China, the central bank, said on Thursday.

The issuance of green bonds and other instruments are "conducive to the technological transition of traditional industries, which will be critical to China's economic transformation and industrial upgrading," Dong Dengxin, director of the Finance and Securities Institute of the Wuhan University of Science and Technology, told the Global Times on Thursday."

China cuts carbon intensity by 34% in past decade, will further boost green development - Global Times

Originally Posted by panama hat

Surely not . . . OhWoe said that everyone in China has the right to freedom of expression

I know, right?

Recently, some Western media outlets run quite a lot reports about "foreign capital leaving China" and "the decline in the intention of foreign companies to invest in China," which constitutes a new round of bad-mouthing China's economy. The latest data released by the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday shows that China's actual use of foreign capital surged by 20.5 percent year-on-year to 478.61 billion yuan in the first four months of the year. In terms of US dollars, the total figure is $74.47 billion, an increase of 26.1 percent year-on-year. This figure displays the mainstream and genuine intentions and choices of foreign entrepreneurs and also shows the rhetoric of "foreign capital leaving China" is again self-defeating.

In recent years, whenever there are short-term economic fluctuations or negative external news, the rhetoric of "foreign capital leaving China" has always been hyped. Every time, some "institutions" or "analysts" could always find the latest excuses, such as that China's economic transformation has resulted in "the failure of manufacture," or that China cannot bear the trade war the US has launched, and even the exaggerated rumor of "half of foreign capital leaving China" has been hyped several times. It is not difficult to find that such rhetoric resonates to a large extent with Washington's competition with China. But it is, most often than, not followed by news that China's foreign investment has hit a record high time and again.

It is particularly worth noting that the FDI in China's high-tech industry logged a sharp year-on-year increase of 45.6 percent in the first four months of the year. Investment from South Korea surged 76.3 percent, while investment from the US and Germany rose 53.2 percent and 80.4 percent, respectively (including investment figures via free ports). These figures clearly outline the current general picture of China's economic exchanges with the world. Acturally, China has remained the world's second biggest FDI recipient for four years in a row, from 2017 to 2020. The FDI in the Chinese mainland expanded 14.9 percent year-on-year to a record high of 1.15 trillion yuan in 2021 ($169 billion), against the backdrop of the sluggish global economic recovery. Moreover, many foreign capitals have entered China against political pressure from Washington and even against the threat of sanctions. These votes of confidence for China's economy with real inflows of capitals are more convincing than the one-sided reports of some Western media.

China's market is open, and it is simply normal for foreign capital to enter and leave. For business decision-making, the pandemic is, after all, a short-term factor while opening up new markets is a medium- and long-term arrangement that requires prudent considerations. In the past years, some companies moved out of China due to factors such as cheaper labor and later they chose to return to China. Even during the worsening of the epidemic, some foreign companies still decided to increase their investment in China. For example, L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics group, recently announced its decision to establish in Shanghai its first investment company in the country. German pharmaceutical company Merck plans to increase investment to expand its existing production base in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu Province.Also, BMW Brilliance recently opened its Plant Dadong Extension in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning Province.

To put it in short, the most important factor in determining whether foreign investment can stay or has to go is the returns on investment as well as the business environment. The returns of foreign investment in China have been profound, be it in the course of development during the over four decades of reform and opening-up, or in the past two years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

And fundamentally, China's stability and confidence has strongly attracted foreign investment. The country's economic fundamentals will remain sound over the long term and its resolve to open wider at a high standard will not change. Besides, China has an enormous market, complete industrial chain support, well-developed infrastructure and abundant human resources. These irreplaceable comprehensive advantages are the deep motivation for foreign investors to invest in China.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202205/1265542.shtml

The latest data released by the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday shows that China's actual use of foreign capital surged by 20.5 percent year-on-year to 478.61 billion yuan in the first four months of the year. In terms of US dollars, the total figure is $74.47 billion, an increase of 26.1 percent year-on-year.

Gee, that's some Capital flight.

Oh look more chinky propaganda.

Qu'elle surprise.

Originally Posted by sabang

These votes of confidence for China's economy with real inflows of capitals are more convincing than the one-sided reports of some Western media.

Some countries are moving their financial assets from the pirate NaGastan banks, to a country whose governments don't steal them.