China said Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te was spreading "heresy," hostility and provocation following a speech in which he said the island is a country and that there is historical evidence and legal proof of this. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/24/asia-pacific/politics/china-taiwan-president-heresy-sovereignty/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #taiwan #china #laichingte
AI firm DeepSeek is aiding China's military and intelligence operations, a senior U.S. official said, adding that the startup sought to access high-end chips that cannot be shipped to China under U.S. rules. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/24/tech/deepseek-china-military-export-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #deepseek #china #nvidia #semiconductors
Around 84% of oil passing through the Strait is destined for Asia, leaving the economies of China, India, South Korea and Japan vulnerable to an Iranian blockade. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/24/economy/asia-oil-strait-of-hormuz/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #straitofhormuz #iran #unitedarabemirates #oman #shipping #trade #middleeast #oil #asia #china #india #southkorea
China has criticized the United States' weekend strike on Iranian nuclear facilities and reiterated that it’s willing to join international efforts to restore peace in the Middle East. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/23/world/politics/china-iran-beijing-hormuz-trade-route/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #iran #middleeast #straitofhormuz #trade #shipping #china #marcorubio #us
Taiwan is "of course" a country and China lacks both the historical evidence and legal proof to back up its sovereignty claims, President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/22/world/politics/taiwan-tells-china-it-is-a-country/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #china #taiwan #laichingte
China's going to be fine.
"In China, people burned crude oil and gas for heat and light as early as 500 B.C. By the fourth century A.D., they were drilling for these natural resources and transporting it via bamboo pipes."
#HannahOsborne, 2024
"The documentation suggests that [ZuckerBorg and SandBorg] were willing to run FaceBook in China as a government surveillance network. That they would give the Chinese government access to user's data."
#AnnaRawhitiConnell, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/01-04-2025/the-fold-careless-people-adolescence-and-where-meta-is-at
Why wouldn't they? As many of us always suspected and Edward Snowdon's leaks confirmed, that's exactly what they do for the US government.
#privacy #surveillance#MassSurveillance#SocialMedia#FaceBook#China#USA
"What If… The French Revolution Had Happened in China?"
"David talks to world historian Ayse Zarakol about how the East might well have risen to global dominance before the West. What if the key revolutions of the modern world – political and industrial – had happened in Asia first?"
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
(1/2)
#podcasts#PastPresentFuture#DavidRunciman#AyseZarakol#FrenchRevolution#China
@sbb@c.im
Weird, I never had issues to connect to my #xmpp|d from the #Philippines (also worked well from #Vietnam, #Malaysia, #China and #Taiwan) via standard ports. I only had to use other ports or #Tor in some shitty airport wifis.
@raucao@kosmos.social @debacle@framapiaf.org
@sbb@c.im
Weird, I never had issues to connect to my #xmpp|d from the #Philippines (also worked well from #Vietnam, #Malaysia, #China and #Taiwan) via standard ports. I only had to use other ports or #Tor in some shitty airport wifis.
@raucao@kosmos.social @debacle@framapiaf.org