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Finns trust the US about as much as they do Russia, ChinaFinns place almost as little trust in the United States as they do in China and Russia, according to a new poll.https://yle.fi/a/74-20217017#Finland #Trust #UnitedStates #China #Russia

@i47i two employees and a contractor routed chips through Southeast Asia. the export control regime assumed companies would self-enforce. they didn't. the supply chain is more creative than the regulation.

@delta thank you very much!

Around and around until you reach the top #Pxlmo #Bridge #ShotOnPixel #Travel #TeamPixel #Photography #China #Pixelfed #Fotografie #Xiamen #Fujian #ThrowbackThursday

What is behind China’s rapid rise as a pharmaceutical powerhouse? > The next time you take a new prescription drug, there is a growing chance it was first developed in a laboratory in China.> The country has become one of the biggest sources of new drug candidates entering human trials globally.> According to Goldman Sachs Research, 46 per cent of new drug molecules entering human trials worldwide in the first half of 2025 came from Chinese biopharma companies.> Much of this activity is happening in Zhangjiang, a district in Shanghai where the streets are named after famous scientists such as Thomas Edison and Cai Lun.> Once known mainly as a technology hub, the area has earned a new nickname in recent years – “Pharma Valley” – because of the large number of biotech firms based there.> These companies are becoming an important source of innovative drugs and an increasingly significant part of the global pharmaceutical supply chain.https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/china-drugs-pharmaceutical-powerhouse-biotech-cancer-artificial-intelligence-5951486 ##Biopharma #China @schizoidman https://lemmy.zip/post/59750982

The Chinese party-state's campaign to erase "minority languages" continues"A years-long trend of replacing Mongolian-, Tibetan-, and Uyghur-medium instruction with Mandarin Chinese-medium instruction is now codified in law. Students in these communities will now only be taught their mother tongue as a single, standalone class; all other classes will be taught in Chinese."https://www.nchrd.org/2026/02/chinas-erasure-of-ethnic-minority-languages/#China #Tibet #Uyghur #linguistics #language #HumanRights

China confirms visa-free travel for UK and Canadian nationals > UK and Canadian nationals will be able to travel to mainland China for up to 30 days without a visa from 17 February.> China's foreign ministry said visa-free entry would be permitted for tourism, business or visits to family and friends, with the policy set to stay in effect initially until 31 December.> It follows Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's official visit to China last month, where he and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed travel rules would be relaxed.> Sir Keir said the agreement would make it easier for businesses to expand to China, though critics say Downing Street's push to reset relations with Beijing overlooks human rights and national security concerns. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c875d3d3x34o #ChinaVisaFree #VisaFreeTravel #ChinaTravel #China #Travel #VisaFree #UK #Canada

"China is moving quickly to try to dominate the industry. Humanoid-robotics companies are sprouting up from Shenzhen to Suzhou, with more than 140 and counting. Tapping a vast ecosystem of parts suppliers and engineering talent, they are starting to produce humanoid robots at scale and actively introducing them into real-life scenarios in factories, hotels and offices.Setting the broader industry direction is Beijing, which has identified “embodied AI”—the fusion of artificial intelligence with physical systems—as a cutting-edge technology area China wants to own in the coming five years.Local governments are showering companies with land and discounted office rent. Banks are offering favorable loan terms. Since late 2024, Beijing, Shenzhen and other cities have established investment funds totaling more than $26 billion to inject capital into the industry, Morgan Stanley calculates. Government agencies and state-owned companies are also serving as early adopters, buying up humanoids and deploying them in museums, at events and on the street as robocops performing traffic control. The deployments are helping firms to build a market and collect data to make the robots work better.Some local governments are offering subsidies to buyers, paying around 10% of the price of humanoid robots to lower the bar for customers to try them. (...)With humanoid robots, “China is once again mobilizing state support, supply-chain depth, and rapid commercialization to build a new strategic sector,” said Sunny Cheung, a fellow for China studies at the Jamestown Foundation. Success will depend on who can best solve the myriad technical problems associated with humanoid robots, he said.The industry is still in its early days, and it may take years to take off—if it ever does. Skeptics say humanoid robots are a bubble, and may never find a true use case."https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-is-going-all-in-to-beat-the-u-s-on-humanoid-robots-b9c434d2#China #Robots #Robotics #EmbodiedAI #HumanoidRobots

Chinese semiconductor engineer Xu Zhenpeng says he left US to find freedom.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3342299/chinese-semiconductor-engineer-xu-zhenpeng-says-he-left-us-find-freedom#china #usa #news

Close by the Giant Buddha is a well-crafted but often overlooked bridge. A1II FE2470GMII 70mm 1/125s f8 ISO2000 #photography #landcapephotography #photographer #landscapephotographer #sonyalpha #travel #sichuan #leshan #china

@LuisCrespo anche in africa...da decathlon abbigliamento ex made in prc oggi made in ethiopia

Exploring variety of shops lining each of these alleyway with unique lighting #Alleyway #Pxlmo #ShotOnPixel #Travel #TeamPixel #Photography #Fotografie #Fuzhou #Fujian #Pixelfed #China #ThrowbackThursday

Here at Fediverse (also Mastodon) there are @loops@loops.video as an alternative to TikTok.First of all, it collects almost no data (only for functionality) and is decentralized. This means that people can choose their provider, who will respond to them. In addition, all the vidios in the Fefiverse, who also do not have a Loops account, thus see unrestrictedly more popular on the Web. (I had never used @loops@pixelfed.social)3/x📺 https://joinloops.org #loopsvideo #fediverse #tiktok #TikTokUS #us #freedom #loops

Had to wait patiently for crowd to leave train station #Subway #Train #Pxlmo #Fujian #ShotOnPixel #Travel #Xiamen #TeamPixel #Photography #Fotografie #China #Pixelfed #SilentSunday

interestingengineering.com/inn…when peeps speak of "legacy computing" i doubt many had thought of this wonder. pretty bloody amazeballs, afaict.@frogglin -- a wee "expansion project" for you, perchance?#engineering #weaving #looms #automation #china #WesternHanDynasty #computer #legacycomputing

@thejapantimes they need batteries, but maybe we don't need ai so much, and it seems Usa next target will be Europe, not China

"By comparison, at least, the way the Chinese government speaks about AI is more modest. Yes, China’s economic leadership views AI as a priority and has boldly claimed it seeks to lead the world by 2030. Yet the rhetoric lacks the eschatological tone common in Silicon Valley. Chinese economic planners appear more interested in AI as a tool for industrial processes than as a means of creating a superintelligence that will reach the singularity. The State Council’s 2025 “AI+” initiative is focused entirely on efficiency-enhancing applications rather than intelligence explosions.There is another important difference. China is banking far more heavily on simpler, lower-cost open-source AI models. In the US, most of the leading “frontier” AI models are secret and proprietary, in part as a business model and in part due to the apocryphal fears that the wrong actors could trigger human extinction. The smaller, lower-cost Chinese models may be seeking, in that sense, to be the more nimble 1970s Toyota rivals to the giant American cars produced by General Motors.More importantly, China is hedging its bets by investing heavily in a wide range of other technologies that might reasonably be described as “the future”. In 2024, the country invested an estimated $940bn in clean-energy capex, broadly defined as renewables, electricity grids and energy storage (batteries), dwarfing its AI investments. In these sectors, AI is meant to be a complement — the glue rather than the structure.While China’s overall economy remains weaker than it was in the 2010s, elements of this broader strategy seem to be bearing fruit."https://www.ft.com/content/12581344-6e37-45a0-a9d5-e3d6a9f8d9ba#USA #China #AI #AIHype #AIBubble

US government has published its National Security Strategy 2025. There's some valid criticism of Europe there, and there's some silly projections and "now you kiss" naivety towards #Russia that was so much visible in recent Trump advisors statements. Most importantly, Russia is not even mentioned there as a party that US expects anything from. There's lots of things that US expects and plans in relations with #China, Asia, South America, Europe etc. But there's literally zero mentions of US policy towards Russia, as if Trump considered Russia to be some kind of natural phenomenon that you simply accept as it is. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

A Chinese firm bought an insurer for CIA agents - part of Beijing's trillion dollar spending spreeIn an astonishing intelligence coup, the CIA was caught off-guard when Fosun Group—a Chinese firm with deep ties to Beijing—quietly bought Wright USA, the insurer providing liability coverage to its agents.For years, a Chinese-owned company had legal access to the personal details of America’s top spies. The 2015 deal only came to light in 2016, sparking a CFIUS inquiry and forcing a sale back to U.S. owners. It was a wake-up call: China’s $2.1 trillion global spending spree isn’t just about business—it’s about strategic leverage. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g311jn1m9o #China #CIA #FBI #MAGA

China's shift to electric trucks may reshape global fuel demand> China is replacing its diesel trucks with electric models faster than expected, potentially reshaping global fuel demand and the future of heavy transport.> In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran on diesel. By the first half of 2025, battery-powered trucks accounted for 22% of new heavy truck sales, up from 9.2% in the same period in 2024, according to Commercial Vehicle World, a Beijing-based trucking data provider. The British research firm BMI forecasts electric trucks will reach nearly 46% of new sales this year and 60% next year.> Heavy trucks carry the lifeblood of modern economies. They also contribute significantly to global emissions of carbon-dioxide: In 2019, road freight generated a third of all transport-related carbon emissions.> Trucking has been considered hard to decarbonize since electric trucks with heavy batteries can carry less cargo than those using energy-dense diesel. Proponents of liquefied natural gas have viewed it as a less polluting option while technology for electric heavy vehicles matures.> Liquefied natural gas, or LNG, is natural gas cooled to a liquid fuel for easy storage and transport. https://apnews.com/article/china-truck-lng-ev-diesel-transport-70f3d612de4b45b6f954a7f557f7f741 #China #EV #electricvehicles #LNG #fossilfuels #naturalgas #pollution