Over 3,000 China chip companies close: The path to autonomy full of thorns

  Backlink: THE BL According to statistics, in the first eight months of this year, up to 3,470 chip manufacturing companies in China closed and the number of bankruptcies reached a new high. Meanwhile, China’s integrated circuit (IC) output in August fell 24.7% year-on-year, also the largest monthly decline on record. This shows that under […]

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BGI’s Goal: Customize Humans and Synthesize Biochemical Weapons (Part 1)

  Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES This is the first of three articles that introduce readers to the research and mission of BGI Group, China’s leading genome sequencing company with customers around the globe. Its research involves collecting, studying, and altering human and animal genes to facilitate such things as biochemical weapons development and even customizing humans.   […]

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Chinese military’s Achilles heel exposed: Why it’s not ready for war

  Backlink: THE BL A recently released report points to weaknesses in the Chinese military, known as the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), that directly affect all levels of leadership within the Chinese armed forces. Joel Wuthnow, the author of the U.S. National Defense University report, researched more than 300 senior Chinese officers between 2015 and 2021 […]

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Joe Biden’s Taiwan Remarks “Severely Violate” US Policy, Says China

  Backlink: NDTV In an interview, President Biden was asked whether US troops would defend Taiwan, and replied “yes”, if it were “an unprecedented attack”. “The US remarks… severely violate the important commitment the US made not to support Taiwan independence, and send a seriously erroneous signal to Taiwanese separatist independence forces,” foreign ministry spokesperson […]

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The US limits Chinese imports: Fails to curb ‘dangerous’ investments in the country

  Backlink: THE BL For some years now, the United States and China have been engaged in a fierce trade war through which both seek to legitimize their economic power and make it clear to the world who is the world’s greatest power. Yet, curiously, the flow of Chinese capital to the United States, far […]

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Witnesses to China Telecom fire: There was an explosion, the fire spread very quicklyv

  Backlink: THE BL On the afternoon of September 16, a terrible fire destroyed skyscraper in the center of Changsha – the capital of Hunan province, where the office of the state telecommunications company China Telecom was located. Dozens of floors were engulfed in flames, looking like a giant torch. The scene was full of black smoke […]

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Millions of Newborns Get Routine ‘Heel Prick’ Blood Tests — Why Are States Keeping Those Samples Without Parents’ Consent?

  Backlink: CHILDREN’S HEALTH DEFENSE Close to 4 million babies are born in the United States every year, and within their first 48 hours, nearly all are pricked in the heel so their blood can be tested for dozens of life-threatening genetic and metabolic problems. The heel-stick test is considered such a crucial public health […]

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Scientists Spot the Birth of a Planet in Deep Space

Backlink: CURIOSMOS Scientists have developed a new method to detect elusive newborn planets in faraway solar systems. Protoplanetary disks, which surround young, newborn stars, are said to be where planets are born. Observations of planetary birth and formation within these environments have proven challenging, despite hundreds of these disks being observed throughout the universe. […]

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Chinese martial arts: a ladder to Heaven powered by the great Taoist and Buddhist monks

  Backlink: THE BL Chinese martial arts, also known as “wushu,” are arguably some of China’s most popular and successful cultural exports. Despite their widespread and enduring recognition over time, most people’s fundamental understanding of these practices in the West is limited. The development in America and Europe of the various Chinese martial arts has […]

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U.S. needs satellite constellation to counter China: next space chief

  Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA The U.S. needs to establish a constellation of widely distributed satellites so that adversaries cannot take out vital communication systems in one blow, President Joe Biden’s pick to serve as the next Space Force chief of operations told Congress this week. Pointing to China and Russia, Lt. Gen. Chance Saltzman said: […]

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Mike Pence angers abortion supporters with strong pro-life statements

  Backlink: LIFE SITE NEWS The former VP said a ban on abortion in all 50 states ‘is profoundly more important than any short-term politics.’ Twitter erupted earlier this week in response to former Vice President Mike Pence’s recent remarks on abortion. In an interview with RealClearPolitics on Tuesday, Pence expressed hope that abortion will […]

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Scientific Paper Warns Artificial Intelligence Could Obliterate Humans

  Backlink: CURIOSMOS A paper published by Google Deepmind and Oxford University researchers warns that superintelligent AI is now “likely” to spell the end of humanity. In his book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Professor Hawking responds to the question, “Will artificial intelligence outsmart us?” by writing, “a super-intelligent AI will be extremely good […]

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The strange fear of Chinese society: No one helped him but a little girl

  Backlink: THE BL An 80-year-old Chinese man decided to write a thank you letter after being helped by a little girl while many other people passed by with indifference. He then raised attention to a prominent issue that affects Chinese society these days. From the surveillance video that went viral on Weibo social media, Luo was […]

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