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Comment Australia is not China (Score 1) 94

by hackingbear (#64340221) Attached to: Could a Guilty Plea Free Julian Assange From Jail?

If the US Government cannot produce such evidence, admit it.

The US Government will never its wrongdoing in geopolitical bullying. The most it would do is to save face by agreeing to a no-lost-no-win bargaining deal, but that's only if it is confronting its only formidable rival on this planet -- China (*).

Australia is no China. Australia is just a puppet state of the USA. It cannot and will not fight for its citizen Assange, not to mention its own military had committed equally bad war crimes and prosecuting its whistleblower.

(*) And for those who have claimed China achieving so by hijacking innocent Canadians, they have been slapped in the face by the same Canadians who admitted to spying in China and blame the Canadian government for his misfortune. (And US media outlets including Slashdot [November 19, 2023] refused to let you even see the story.)

Comment Not really (Score 2, Insightful) 148

TikTok is known as Douyin in China. It is a copy of the Douyin for the international market. The Chinese government does not care about the app; it cares about the contents and data storage. Operators can choose how to compile with the content censoring requirements, just like Toyota has to registered a subsidiary company as Toyota America in the US and obey American labor and environment laws.

If China does not allow US social networks, how can LinkedIn operate there for year? Is LinkedIn a Chinese company? If China does not allow US internet company, why did US lawmakers urge Bing to pull out of China? Is Bing a Chinese search engine? If China bans Google, why did Google waste time and money creating Project Dragonfly?

It is very important to understand that the same content censoring laws are applied to both Chinese firms and foreign firms, just like both GM and Toyota must obey the same labor laws regardless if Toyota likes those laws or not. If Google and Meta want (*) to operate in China, they can just agree to censor contents and keep data within China, like Microsoft and Apple do. If they don't, then they can't operate there, just like if you don't agree with American laws you can't do business here. Period.

Oh why does the Chinese government want to censor contents? It is a long story, but maybe because of the bad history of some spy agencies?

(*) And in fact, both want to but they are stopped by American populism as shown in the outcome of Project Dragonfly.

Comment Re:Misinformed or lying (Score 1) 147

by hackingbear (#64318143) Attached to: China Hits Out at US Push To Ban TikTok

So you changed your pitch from "blocking entry" to "stealing tech" (*). Typical of American shills -- keep changing the narratives,

* as if the US didn't commit that in its history or YouTube short didn't copy TikTok. And neither this claim is true as foreign companies have a very favorable win rate in the Chinese patent courts. Of course, your media never told you these.

Comment Disinformation (Score 1) 147

by hackingbear (#64317013) Attached to: China Hits Out at US Push To Ban TikTok

China has banned Facebook and other US social networks for years in China. So this is nothing new, and they have nothing to complain about.

You premise is totally false.

* If China does not allow US social networks, how can LinkedIn operate there for year? Is LinkedIn a Chinese company?
* If China does not allow US internet company, why did US lawmakers urge Bing to pull out of China? Is Bing a Chinese search engine?
* If China bans Google, why did Google waste time and money creating Project Dragonfly?

Maybe I can give you some hints: Microsoft and Apple agree to abide Chinese laws, just like Toyota North America agrees to abide American labor and environment laws. Facebook and Google don't, or more precisely can't, but that's because they can't fight American populism.

But I still don't quite understand why your obvious hoax is marked as insightful.

Comment Misinformed or lying (Score 1) 147

by hackingbear (#64315847) Attached to: China Hits Out at US Push To Ban TikTok

"It's a great business," he said. "It should be owned by a US business. There's no way the Chinese would ever let a US company run something like this in China."

In addition to banning US social media, ANY foreign company requires 51% Chinese ownership to operate inside China.

* Is Microsoft 51% owned by Chinese?
* Is Tesla 50% owned by China?
* Is Cayman Islands part of China's territory now?
* Are Sequoia Capital, SoftBank et. al. owned by China too?
* Is 88% smaller than 49%?

ByteDance's owners include its founders and Chinese investors (20%), global investors (60%), and employees (20%).[33] In 2021, the state-owned China Internet Investment Fund purchased a 1% stake in ByteDance's main Chinese subsidiary, Beijing ByteDance Technology (formerly Beijing Douyin Information Service)

Around 44% of Alibaba shares are held by the general public and around 40% are held by institutions. Around 14% are hold by SoftBank Group.

Apparently, majority of the Chinese hi-tech companies are actually owned by foreigners and incorporate in Cayman Islands. Unfortunately, those foreigners are not you but the top 1% in your country. I guess you can blame China for that.

Oh... the Joint Venture requirements? They are implemented by all developing countries and China made (and relaxed) its policies in accordance with the WTO agreements

signed-off by the USA and developed countries. Did China put a gun in head of the USA during negotiation to join this organization set up by the USA? If they didn't, why did your delegates (supposedly democratically elected) and why do you blame China for "mistakes" made by your delegates?

Foreign investment regulation remains an active area of policymaking. In 2020, 67 countries
introduced 152 new measures of which 50 restricted foreign participation or added new obliga-
tions (UNCTAD, 2021). Among developing countries, most new measures encourage inflows
with investment incentives, even as significant restrictions on foreign participation remain in place
(OECD, 2020), most commonly limits on foreign control and mandated pre-establishment screen-
ing. ...

Encouraging policies raised JV exports by $10.3 billion,
and ownership liberalization raised WFOE exports by $27.8 billion. These effects were largely con-
centrated in high-tech sectors, especially those that contribute the largest share of Chinese total
exports.

Submission + - Chinese Semiconductor Firm Cleared US Trade Secret Case (scmp.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: Reuter reported in a very brief article that Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co Ltd was cleared on Tuesday of U.S. allegations that the Chinese chipmaker stole trade secrets, in a case that fanned tensions in an intensifying technology race between the United States and China. U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney in San Francisco on Tuesday found the company not guilty after a non-jury trial, according to an entry in the U.S. online court records system. Chesney concluded that US prosecutors failed to prove that the Chinese state-sponsored company misappropriated proprietary data from Micron Technology Inc., American’s largest memory-chip maker, that allegedly passed through Taiwan’s United Microelectronics Corp. in a manufacturing deal with Fujian Jinhua. UMC assisted the Justice Department in its case against Fujian Jinhua after pleading guilty in 2020 to trade-secret theft and paying a US$60 million fine. The case against Fujian Jinhua was filed in 2018 amid then-President Donald Trump’s trade war with China and touted as a marquee effort to crack down on Chinese spying at US companies and research universities. Micron, meanwhile, appears to have attempted to pacify Beijing, including promising to invest another 4.3 billion yuan (about $600 million USD) in its Chinese chip-packaging plant and sending Chief Executive Officer Sanjay Mehrotra to visit China.

Submission + - Chinese Scientists Create One-Petabit Optical Disk (yicaiglobal.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: A team of scientists at Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics and the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology has developed optical disk capable of holding 1-petabit, which the world's biggest and equivalent to 10,000 Blu-ray discs, according to an article published in Nature yesterday. The team increased the capacity of the optical data storage by extending the planar recording architecture to three dimensions with hundreds of layers and breaking the optical diffraction limit barrier of the recorded spots. The diffraction limit is the smallest feature size that an optical imaging system can resolve and constraint the maximum capacity of common commercial optical discs to 100 gigabits. As the digital economy evolves, the global data output will reach 175 zettabytes, or 1.4 billion petabits, by 2025, and China's share of that is almost 30 percent, higher than that of any other country, data consultancy IDC predicts.

Comment If harvard were a Chinese university (Score -1, Troll) 172

We would have fed with an avalanche of theories "cultural frauds" causing by the Chinese government, the Chinese culture and Chinese people. But since Harvard, along with Stanford, is an American university, despite being the highest of Ivy League of the US, these academic scandals are just of the individuals' problem or at most the institution's issues.

If Boeing were a Chinese company, we would have been educated on why Chinese products are trash and that's the fault of the Chinese government and Chinese culture. But since Boeing is an American company, despite it's the symbolic representation of American manufacturing, their deliberated cover-up of the deliberately faulty designs and recurrent quality mishaps are just the problems of this individual company.

Submission + - Chinese Company Releases World's First Mass Produced Nuclear Battary (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: Chinese company Betavolt has announced an atomic energy battery for consumers with a touted 50-year lifespan without charging. Betavolt says that its nuclear battery will target aerospace, AI devices, medical, MEMS systems, intelligent sensors, small drones, and robots – and may eventually mean manufacturers can sell smartphones that never need charging. However, the BV100, which is in the pilot stage ahead of mass production, doesn’t offer a lot of power. This 15 x 15 x 5mm battery delivers 100 microwatts at 3 volts. The new BV100 is claimed to be a disruptive product on two counts. Firstly, a safe miniature atomic battery with 50 years of maintenance-free stamina is a breakthrough. Secondly, Betavolt claims it is the only company in the world with the technology to dope large-size diamond semiconductor materials, as used by the BV100. The Betavolt BV100, built using nickel-63 which decays to a stable isotope of copper, is claimed to be safe for consumers and won’t leak radiation even if subjected to gunshots or puncture, unlike power cells developed by the US and USSR in the 1960s. Its 1-watt successor is scheduled for next year, while the company is investigating isotopes such as strontium-90, promethium-147, and deuterium to develop atomic energy batteries with higher power levels and even longer service lives – up to 230 years.

Submission + - Huawei Is Back, with $100 billion in Revenue (cnn.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: Huawei, the tech giant which has been a flashpoint in the escalating rivalry between Washington and Beijing, says it is “back on track” with a strong 2023. The Shenzhen-based conglomerate said Friday it expects to bring in more than 700 billion yuan ($99 billion) in revenue in 2023, partly off a stronger than expected performance in its electronics business. That is a 9% jump from the 642.3 billion yuan ($92.4 billion) recorded in 2022, though still below the approximate $123 billion the company logged in 2019. US policymakers have long claimed that Huawei poses a national security risk, alleging that the Chinese government could use the company’s equipment to spy like what NSA had done to American products. The company has repeatedly denied those allegations as false flag operations. “After years of hard work, we’ve managed to weather the storm. And now we’re pretty much back on track,” Huawei’s rotating chairman, Ken Hu, said in a year-end message to employees. Much of the boost is due to the Mate 60 Pro smartphone, which was released in August and shocked industry experts who didn’t understand how the company would have the technology to make such an advanced device following sweeping efforts by the United States to restrict China’s access to foreign chips. The smartphone has been eagerly embraced by consumers, and has allowed Huawei to snatch market share away from Apple (AAPL) in China, according to Counterpoint Research. The smartphone has been eagerly embraced by consumers, and has allowed Huawei to snatch market share away from Apple (AAPL) in China, according to Counterpoint Research.

Submission + - China Develops New Mach 16 Hypersonic Engine (interestingengineering.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that Chinese engineers claimed to have created a "revolutionary" dual-mode rotating detonating and straight-line oblique detonation engine setup. Designed by Zhang Yining and his team at the Beijing Power Machinery Institute (in conjunction with the People's Liberation Army's 93160 Unit), little is known about the engine beyond a blueprint published in the peer-reviewed journal Chinese Journal of Propulsion Technology in December. The engine operates in two modes, with the first being a sub-Mach 7 mode, which works as a continuous rotating detonation engine (RDE). Air from outside mixes with fuel and gets ignited, which leads to the creation of a shock wave. China has reportedly tested RDE in a drone. In the second mode, when the aircraft travels above Mach 7, the shock wave stops rotating and focuses on a circular platform at the engine's rear. This helps maintain the thrust through a nearly straight-line oblique detonation format. Zhang and his colleagues did not disclose the efficiency of their engine in their research paper; previous it was estimated a nearly 80% conversion from chemical energy into kinetic energy, comparing to 20-30% for conventional engines. Zhang's team claims that their design, which integrates rotational and straight-line detonation across a wide speed range, is a "world first" testament to Chinese ingenuity. “This solution has obvious advantages and is expected to improve the optimal thermodynamic cycle efficiency in nearly all speed ranges, bringing a revolutionary change in aerospace propulsion,” the researchers said. However, they also noted that relying solely on the information presented in the paper would not be enough to create a practical, usable product. This is because certain crucial engineering parameters, such as the limited space available for the airflow path, were not included in the paper.

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