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🆕 New Citizen Lab report finds vulnerabilities in the security of cloud-based #pinyin #keyboard apps from vendors Baidu, Honor, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi that could be exploited to reveal

Is Tesla rescinding all its job offers in Shanghai? $tsla open.substack.com/chat/posts/eb6…

TikTok fortune of billionaire Republican mega-donor Jeff Yass threatened by Washington

Fascinating tale of how all the money in the world can't buy you a ticket out of US-China tensions, by Ryan McMorrow Tabby Kinder Demetri & Alex Rogers

ft.com/content/256a45… @ft

I was very happy to see Calvin Quek letter on the apparent contradiction between China's carbon neutrality goal and tidal wave of new coal power construction published on the Financial Times. As I only managed to comment on it after he sent it in, I thought I'd share my additional comments

No other advanced economy runs budget deficits as big as the US and no other advanced economy finances its current deficit as aggressively with short-term issuance as the US (red). The US fiscal train is running completely out of control...

Agree. From China's perspective, sanction of major Chinese financial institutions is the most damaging deterrence the US currently has against China (oil could be equally devastating but increasingly less so as China diversifies the energy mix). Using it now will force Beijing to

China can't quit coal by 2040, researchers say, despite global climate goals reuters.com/world/china/ch…

SuperMicro $SMCI must be very worried to have hired this law firm 'In a letter to Reuters on behalf of Super Micro, U.S. law firm Clare Locke said its client 'goes above and beyond what U.S. export restrictions require' by proactively taking steps to ensure its customers do not

Quick take on the new #PLA Information Support Force #ISF airuniversity.af.edu/CASI/Display/A…

nicely timed leak to wsj on eve of blinken visit, doubt the us dares go after any of the major PRC financial institutions - 'The U.S. is drafting sanctions that threaten to cut some Chinese banks off from the global financial system, arming Washington’s top envoy with diplomatic

上海市网信办：上海召开财经类“自媒体”分类指导会，“饭统戴老板”“财经早餐”“秦朔朋友圈”等属地近20家头部财经类“自媒体”负责人参会并签署了《优化营商网络环境自律承诺书》。
会议倡议，要求属地“自媒体”坚持诚实守信原则，合法合规经营，保持客观公正，积极传递正能量。

From prosecutor's office:

'Jian G. is an employee of a Chinese secret service. Since 2019 he has been working for a German member of the European Parliament. In Jan 2024, he repeatedly passed on information about negotiations and decisions in EP to his intelligence client.'

Zeit Online:

'investigators accuse Jian G. of having spied on the Chinese exile opposition in Germany. He is said to have worked in various positions in opposition groups and collected information about Chinese dissidents. He reported this to China'

🚨 More huge news in Germany

An assistant to the far right's lead candidate in the European elections is arrested, suspected of spying for China.

zeit.de/politik/deutsc…

Black Mystery Craft Spotted Slung Under Chinese H-6 Bomber

What is seen hanging underneath an H-6 in a recently picture is not a WZ-8 rocket drone, leaving open multiple possibilities.

Story: twz.com/air/black-myst…

China power generating capacity additions in Jan-Mar 2024:
solar 45.7 GW (vs 33.7 GW in 2023)
wind 15.5 GW (10.4)
thermal 6.4 GW (8.1)
hydro 1.8 GW (2.7)
nuclear 0 GW (1.2)

Last year, almost 300 GW wind&solar was added and now the first months are up 40%!

Chinese institute compiled profiles of Canadian MPs of Chinese descent /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

Investors are bailing on a Ray Dalio-pioneered quant trade after years of sub-par returns bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets after five years of sub-par returns, many of the institutional investors who sunk large sums into risk-parity funds, as they’re known, are demanding the

BREAKING: A top Biden admin official is now calling for an independent investigation into how WADA and Chinese handled positive tests for 23 elite swimmers in the lead up to '21 Olympics, where they went on to win golds and set records. w/tariq panja
nytimes.com/2024/04/22/wor…

1/A year ago, Chinese scientists published data from samples collected at a Wuhan market at the heart of the COVID outbreak - startling many, given it happened years ago. Then the data got retracted.

Maria Cheng and I tried to find out why. Our findings:
apnews.com/article/china-…