city:beijing

Edward Snowden’s NSA surveillance revelations strain China-US relations | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/13/snowden-revelations-nsa-china-relations

On a visit to Washington where he met the US secretary of state, John Kerry, [the British foreign secretary William] Hague said: “No two countries in the world work more closely to protect the privacy of their citizens than the United Kingdom and the United States.”

The houses built on China’s ’poisoned’ land | Environment | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/06/houses-chinas-posioned-land

Gao Shengke and Wang Kai have won the prize for Best Investigation atchinadialogue’s and The Guardian’s China Environmental Press Awards - 2013 for their investigation into contaminated earth in Chinese cities. Here is the first of their three-part series of reports.

The excavators are rumbling and dust swirls all about at the second phase of the Kangquan New City construction project in Guanzhuang village, Chaoyang District, outside Beijing’s east fifth ring road.

A 20-metre deep pit has been dug on the site. A foul stench rises from the pile of earth that has been removed. Until now, few people knew about the secret that was buried here.

This plot of land was previously the site of a factory owned by the Ministry of Railways that made anti-corrosive railway sleepers. The plant was in operation for more than 30 years; many kinds of organic pollutants continuously seeped into the topsoil, deeper soil layers, and into the groundwater. Some seven or eight years ago, the factory was relocated and this plot of ground was left unused. In January 2011, the city administration decided to convert the land into a development for affordable housing and it was taken over by the Residential Construction Service Centre for Civil Servants to build low-cost housing for civil servants from all ministries.

#pollution #contamination #logement #arnaque #santé

Que sont devenus les manifestants contre les #PIPA #SOPA #CISPA et autres tentatives de #censures_Internet ? On ne les entends pas au sujet de #PRISM. Autres pièces au dossier : Zimmermann : « Faire confiance à Google ou Facebook, c’est être à poil sur Internet » - http://www.lepoint.fr/technologie/zimmermann-faire-confiance-a-google-ou-facebook-c-est-etre-a-poil-sur-intern - Edward Snowden’s choice of Hong Kong as haven is a high-stakes gamble - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-hong-kong-gamble

4 Films Belges participent au 16th Shanghai International Film Festival（15-23/06/2013）
http://www.chinefrancophonie.com/t2208-4-films-belges-participent-au-16th-shanghai-international-f

Tango Libre / en présence du réalisateur Frédéric Fonteyne (Durée：90’)
自由探戈 / 弗德里克.方腾 (时长：90分钟)

JC est gardien de prison. C’est un homme sans histoire qui se protège derrière le règlement. Il n’a qu’une seule fantaisie : il apprend le tango...

Le corps (4/4) : « Le troisième sexe », Sur les docks (#France_Culture)
http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-sur-les-docks-le-corps-44-%C2%AB-le-troisieme-sexe-%C2%BB-201

Et si lorsque l’enfant paraît… Il n’est ni fille, ni garçon ? Quelle case cocher ? L’état civil n’en prévoit que deux pour déclarer le #sexe d’un individu, ignorant ainsi en quelque sorte les cas d’ambigüité sexuelle du nouveau-né.

Ces troubles du développement concernent entre 1,7 et 4 % des naissances selon la définition des cas d’#intersexualité. Beaucoup de ces enfants intersexués ont grandi dans un climat de secret ; celui de leur différence, mais aussi celui de chirurgies ou de traitements médicaux souvent décidés dès leur naissance.

Dans ce documentaire, certains d’entre eux parlent pour dénoncer ces mutilations, mais aussi pour oser la question… et pourquoi pas un troisième sexe ?

http://media.radiofrance-podcast.net/podcast09/10177-06.06.2013-ITEMA_20487823-0.mp3

La biologiste #Anne_Fausto-Sterling parle même de 5 sexes : féminin, masculin, herm (hermaphrodite complet), ferm (hermaphrodite tendance féminine), merm (hermaphrodite tendance masculine) : "The Five Sexes : Why Male and Female Are Not Enough"
http://capone.mtsu.edu/phollowa/5sexes.html

"The Five Sexes, Revisited" (l’article initial avait reçu des critiques, elle les a prises en compte dans ce second papier) :
http://www.neiu.edu/~lsfuller/5sexesrevisited.htm

Le #livre, traduit en français chez Payot
http://www.payot-rivages.net/livre_Les-cinq-sexes-Anne-Fausto-Sterling_ean13_9782228908856.html

#intersexes #genre #audio #radio

Australian ruling elite prepares further military interventions into South Pacific - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/30/paci-m30.html

Australian ruling elite prepares further military interventions into South Pacific
By Patrick O’Connor—SEP candidate for the Senate in Victoria
30 May 2013

The Socialist Equality Party condemns the Labor government’s plans to step up the militarisation of the South Pacific, as revealed in its Defence White Paper this month, and warns workers and young people in Australia and the region that a new round of predatory interventions is being prepared.

The White Paper, the policy document that outlines Canberra’s current strategic and military agenda, underscores the extent to which Australian imperialism is committed to Washington’s so-called “pivot” to East Asia and the Pacific. The Obama administration is provocatively encircling and preparing for war against China in a bid to maintain Washington’s strategic domination over the entire region.

#pacifique #militarisation #australie #nouvelle-zélande

How the U.S. Government Hacks the World - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-23/how-the-u-dot-s-dot-government-hacks-the-world

“Look who’s talking...”

... the NSA now focuses much of its espionage resources on stealing what spies euphemistically call “electronic data at rest.” These are the secrets that lay inside the computer networks and hard drives of terrorists, rogue nations, and even nominally friendly governments. When President Obama receives his daily intelligence briefing, most of the information comes from government cyberspies, says Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence under President George W. Bush. “It’s at least 75 percent, and going up,” he says.

The key role NSA hackers play in intelligence gathering makes it difficult for Washington to pressure other nations—China in particular—to stop hacking U.S. companies to mine their databanks for product details and trade secrets. In recent months the Obama administration has tried to shame China by publicly calling attention to its cyber-espionage program, which has targeted numerous companies, including Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), and Intel (INTC), to steal source code and other secrets. This spring, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, traveled to Beijing to press Chinese officials about the hacking. National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon is scheduled to visit China on May 26.

The Chinese response, essentially: Look who’s talking.

...

Ai Weiwei’s Music Video, Recreating His Detention - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/arts/design/in-new-video-ai-weiwei-recreates-his-detention.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=

BEIJING — When the rebel artist Ai Weiwei was illegally detained in 2011, he recounts, his young paramilitary guards asked him to sing for them. He belted out decades-old Communist revolutionary tunes, and they were stunned that he knew them, he said.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/05/22/arts/22AI/22AI-articleLarge.jpg

#art #chine #résistance #al_wei_wei

US seeks defence agreement with Maldives - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/21/mald-m21.html

US seeks defence agreement with Maldives
By K. Ratnayake
21 May 2013

The US is pushing the Maldivian government to sign a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) to build military bases in the island country, which is in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It is another significant move by the Obama administration in its aggressive “pivot to Asia” to militarily encircle China in the vast Indo-Pacific theatre.

et New Zealand to increase military presence in South Pacific - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/21/paci-m21.html

New Zealand to increase military presence in South Pacific
By John Braddock
21 May 2013

New Zealand is preparing to increase its military presence in the South Pacific, in close collaboration with the Australian government. The moves further align the two regional imperialist powers with the US Obama administration’s “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific and its aggressive confrontation of China.

#asie_pacifique #etats-unis #défense #géostratégie #nouvelle-sélande #maldives

Thomas Jones reviews ‘The Carbon Crunch’ by Dieter Helm, ‘Earthmasters’ by Clive Hamilton and ‘The City and the Coming Climate’ by Brian Stone · LRB 23 May 2013
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n10/thomas-jones/how-can-we-live-with-it

...if climate change is not only inevitable but already underway, how are we to live with it? The shift in emphasis towards adaptation will be reflected in the IPCC’s fifth assessment report, due next year.

Une nouvelle génération de chercheuses sur le genre. Réflexions à partir d’une expérience située | Contretemps
http://www.contretemps.eu/interventions/nouvelle-génération-chercheuses-sur-genre-réflexions-partir-expérience-s

Depuis quelques années, en France, les études sur le genre sont en vogue, comme l’indiquent le foisonnement des recherches sur ces thèmes et les signes récents d’une nouvelle reconnaissance institutionnelle.1 Les colloques, les thèses, les articles et ouvrages, les cours, les séminaires, les diplômes2, les manuels 3, les revues 4 et les structures institutionnelles 5 portant le terme « genre » se multiplient. Cette visibilité nouvelle du genre, dont il est encore trop tôt pour évaluer l’ampleur et la portée dans l’univers académique 6, est souvent qualifiée de rupture et est même vue, par ceux qui connaissent le moins bien le champ, comme une importation américaine récente. Or si le terme « genre » est la traduction de l’anglo-américain « gender » et s’est répandu seulement depuis une dizaine d’années pour désigner ce champ en France, les études sur le genre s’inscrivent dans le prolongement de plusieurs décennies de recherches initialement appelées études « féministes », « sur les femmes » ou encore sur « les rapports sociaux de sexe », nées dans le sillage des mouvements féministes de la deuxième vague, au cours de la décennie 1970.

La France leader mondial des terres rares ? C’est possible en s’inspirant du Groenland !
http://www.latribune.fr/blogs/la-tribune-des-expats/20130513trib000764293/la-france-leader-mondial-des-terres-rares-c-est-possible-en-s-inspirant-du

Créé par le gouvernement Fillon en 2011, le COMES s’est orienté vers le recyclage et la prospection des #terres_rares en Guyane et Nouvelle-Calédonie. Parti donc à l’opposé du développement des terres rares polynésiennes, le COMES ne cherche-t-il pas à éviter le durcissement du bras de fer entre Paris et Papeete né de la loi organique du 27 Février 2004 sur l’autonomie ? Son article 14 stipule que les autorités de l’Etat « sont seules compétentes dans le champ des matières premières stratégiques ». A l’ancienne, Paris organise ici l’exploitation sans partage de sa colonie. La Polynésie n’y retirerait donc, contrairement au Groenland, aucun bénéfice direct ou capacité d’autogestion pour renouer localement avec la croissance.

.bzh ou .paris : à quoi servent ces nouveaux TLD et à qui rapportent-ils ?
http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/bzh-ou-paris-a-quoi-servent-ces-nouveaux-tld-et-a-qui-rapportent-ils-39790215.

Cette opération profite tout premier lieu à l’#ICANN : en effet, le dépôt d’un dossier est assorti du versement de la somme de 185.000 dollars, soit environ 140.000 euros. Pour plus de 1900 dossiers déposés, c’est donc un chiffre d’affaires cumulé de plus de 350 millions de dollars juste pour la phase d’appels d’offres. Car ensuite chaque nouveau #TLD fera l’objet d’une redevance annuelle de 25.000 dollars, et des enchères seront organisées pour l’attribution des domaines les plus convoités, comme le .app qui est demandé par 13 entreprises.

La création de nouveaux TLD profitera en second lieu aux « vendeurs de noms de domaine »

#DNS

Cf. communiqué de @AFNIC : https://www.afnic.fr/fr/l-afnic-en-bref/actualites/actualites-generales/6923/show/l-afnic-salue-le-feu-vert-accorde-au-bzh-et-au-paris.html

Et : L’ICANN obligée d’inventer une alchimie des noms de domaines
http://reseaux.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/04/23/icann-alchimie-noms-domaines

À la 46e réunion de l’ICANN à Pékin (Beijing) début avril, le nouveau CEO, Fadi Chehadé a annoncé que l’ICANN allait « déplacer son centre de gravité hors des États-Unis » afin de mieux s’internationaliser, comme le réclament la majorité des États depuis le premier Sommet mondial de la société de l’information il y a dix ans. À l’examen des 1930 projets de noms de domaines de premier niveau que l’ICANN est en train de traiter, on peut se demander par quelle opération de transmutation une telle révolution culturelle peut advenir.

PM says Hawking needs to study facts about Israel | JPost | Israel News
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/PM-says-Hawking-needs-to-study-facts-about-Israel-312664

Netanyahou donne des leçons de science à Stephen Hawking

Asked by The Jerusalem Post about Hawking’s boycott at a press briefing, Netanyahu said, “He should investigate the truth, he is a scientist. He should study the facts and draw the necessary conclusions: Israel is an island of reason, moderation and a desire for peace.”

Netanyahu said that Hawking knows that there are many false théories in science. “There are also false theories in politics, and this [the slandering of Israel] is one of them, maybe the foremost among them,” he said.

Australia’s Defence White Paper and the US “pivot” to Asia - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/10/pers-m10.html

Australia’s Defence White Paper and the US “pivot” to Asia
10 May 2013

The 2013 Defence White Paper, which defines the Australian government’s strategic military orientation, codifies its unconditional support for the Obama administration’s “pivot” to Asia. The document asserts that “the relationship between the United States and China will determine the outlook for our region”, over the coming decades, and foreshadows that Australia will serve as the military adjunct and physical base for US efforts to dominate the entire “Indo-Pacific”. It stresses the importance of collaboration with the US, as well as states such as India, in controlling the key maritime trade passages between

#asie_pacifique #australie #géostratégie_américaine #asie #géopolitique

China commits billions in aid to Africa as part of charm offensive - interactive | Global development | The Guardian

►http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/interactive/2013/apr/29/china-commits-billions-aid-africa-interactive

Series: China in Africa: soft power, hard cash

http://interactive.guim.co.uk/2013/apr/china-in-africa/assets/images/title.jpg

China commits billions in aid to Africa as part of charm offensive - interactive

Database reveals government has backed 1,700 projects on continent since 2000 in apparent attempt to win favour. The country’s financial commitments are significantly larger than previous estimates

Et le projet “AId Data” là
http://aiddatachina.org/content/about_the_project

Et la carte là :
Chinese Investments in Africa
http://www.location-source.com/latest-news/chinese-investments-in-africa.html?goback=.gde_1033567_member_23684

#données #data #statistiques #base_de_données #chine #afrique #chinafrique

Hutong on Behance http://www.behance.net/gallery/Hutong/8494003

While Beijing is moving fast, developing new districts and constructing massive infrastructure projects, there are still some Hutongs which provide daily life which you would expect only in villages far away from modern metropoles as Beijing. The density and the warm and friendly atmosphere feels like entering a parallel universe.

http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles16/736037/projects/8494003/d2b588f840f04cf1fa18d15b70fcfd7a.jpg

#photo

Notes sur une guerre-éclair en coup de vent
http://www.dedefensa.org/article-notes_sur_une_guerre-_clair_en_coup_de_vent_07_05_2013.html

• Quelques jours en Syrie et autour de la Syrie, avec un “wind of war” à partir des attaques aériennes israéliennes. • La crise, ou “guerre syrienne” embourbée a paru soudain “libérée” de son embourbement pour déboucher sur son paroxysme guerrier. •Mais la synthèse ne s’est pas faite, et l’infrastructure crisique a repris le dessus. •La “guerre syrienne” est-elle trop complexe, tout confuse, pour déboucher sur une vraie crise paroxystique précipitant une guerre au sens classique du terme. • Pour l’instant, nous (...)

China commits billions in aid to Africa as part of charm offensive - interactive | Global development | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/interactive/2013/apr/29/china-commits-billions-aid-africa-interactive

China has committed $75bn (£48bn) on aid and development projects in Africa in the past decade, according to research which reveals the scale of what some have called Beijing’s escalating soft power “charm offensive” to secure political and economic clout on the continent.

The Chinese government releases very little information on its foreign aid activities, which remain state secrets. In one of the most ambitious attempts to date to chip away at this secrecy, US researchers have launched the largest public database of Chinese development finance in Africa, detailing almost 1,700 projects in 50 countries between 2000 and 2011.

China’s financial commitments are significantly larger than previous estimates of the country’s development finance, though still less than the estimated $90bn the US committed over that period. Researchers at AidData, at the College of William and Mary, have spent 18 months compiling and encoding thousands of media reports to construct the database, and hope users will contribute further detail on the projects.

The data, which challenges what has for years been the dominant story – Beijing’s unrelenting quest for natural resources – is likely to fuel ongoing debate over China’s motives in Africa.

There are few mining projects in the database and, while transport, storage and energy initiatives account for some of the largest sums, the data also reveals how China has put hundreds of millions of dollars towards health, education and cultural projects.

#Chine #Afrique #développement #cartographie
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/7si5954mjn7fuv8/chinafrique.jpg

Les start-ups chinoises : la ruée vers l’or - Steve Blank
http://steveblank.com/2013/04/14/china-startups-the-gold-rush

De retour de #chine, Steve Blank, l’auteur du manuel de créateur de start-ups, revient sur le potentiel des sociétés innovantes chinoises.  Tags : internetactu fing internetactu2net chine économie #innovation

#économie

#H7N9 est en train de disparaître de l’actualité. Il faut le chercher pour le trouver. Raison ? données taries à la source : le CDC de Pékin a cessé de diffuser les chiffres en anglais.
125 dont 23 ?

China H7N9 Bird Flu Cases Rise By Five ; Four Provinces Report Illnesses In One Day - Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2013/04/28/china-h7n9-bird-flu-cases-rise-by-five-four-provinces-report-illnesses-in-on

“Countermeasures have been effective so far, but the situation is still developing as new cases turn up,” Premier Li Keqiang said yesterday at a visit to the Chinese Center for Disease Control in Beijing.  

The center has halted the publication of English-language figures about the spread of the disease since last Thursday.  It didn’t give a reason.

Du coup, il faut tenir le décompte soi-même…

The number of confirmed H7N9 bird flu cases in mainland China rose by five on Sunday, the country’s official Xinhua news agency reported. Four provinces — Zhejiang, Shandong, Jiangxi and Fujian — reported illnesses, the agency said.

Xinhua didn’t provide a total number of cases.

Based on a figure of 120 mainland cases as of Saturday at 7 p.m. Beijing time reported by China National Radio, the total number of cases would be 125. The number of dead is 23, according to a report in today’s Shanghai Daily.

#H7N9 c’est la faute aux marchés (d’animaux vivants)
108 dont 23

Une étude du Lancet sur 4 cas dont 2 décès conclue à la quasi identité entre le virus de ces cas et celui trouvé dans les marchés (où 20% des poulets étaient porteurs). Elle identifie aussi plusieurs mutations favorables à la transmission à l’homme. Et n’a trouvé aucun cas de transmission sur les 303 personnes ayant été en contact avec les malades (famille ou travail) ni chez les 82 membres du personnel soignant exposés sans protection lors du traitement.

Poultry wet market likely source of virus of H7N9 human infection : research - Xinhua | English.news.cn
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-04/26/c_124637927.htm

The team shows for the first time that the patient’s virus is genetically very closely related (>/=99.4%) to the chicken virus isolated from the epidemiologically linked poultry market. Indeed about 20% of the chickens in the epidemiologically linked markets were infected with this virus. The researchers thereby believe that poultry wet market might be the source of virus of avian influenza A H7N9 human infection.

Twitter / aletecno : Argentina pone en órbita al ...
https://twitter.com/aletecno/status/327502117545836544/photo/1

The Big One ? - By Laurie Garrett | Foreign Policy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/23/the_big_one?page=full

Laurie Garrett sur #H7N9 ; tldr

We are at a mysterious fork in the road. One path leads to years, perhaps decades, of spread of a new type of influenza, occasionally making people sick and killing about 18 percent of them. It’s not a pleasant route, strewn as it is with uncertainties, but no terror seems to lurk on its horizon. The other path, however, wrenches the gut with fear, as it brings worldwide transmission of a dangerous new form of flu that could spread unchecked throughout humanity, testing global solidarity, vaccine production, hospital systems and humanity’s most basic family and community instincts

#santé #chine

Mapping the #H7N9 avian flu outbreaks | Declan Butler (Nature)
http://www.nature.com/news/mapping-the-h7n9-avian-flu-outbreaks-1.12863

Flight routes from the outbreak regions would quickly carry any human-transmissible virus to huge population centres in Europe, North America and Asia. Estimated numbers of people residing within two hours’ travel time of destination airport calculated using gridded population-density maps and a data set of global travel times. Map supplied by A. J. Tatem, Z. Huang and S. I. Hay (2013). Unpublished data. (A.J.T., University of Southampton, UK; Z.H., University of Florida, Gainesville; S.I.H., University of Oxford, UK.)

http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.10172.1366797342!/image/flu-flight-routes-map.jpg_gen/derivatives/lightbox/flu-flight-routes-map.jpg

#cartographique #santé #épidémie #chine #avions #vols