city:beijing

Bienvenue dans « l’usine à génomes » chinoise
▻https://www.letemps.ch/sciences/2017/05/31/bienvenue-lusine-genomes-chinoise

La firme BGI, basée à Shenzhen, domine le séquençage génétique sur le plan mondial. Cela lui a permis de décoder le génome du panda et de comprendre comment les Tibétains se sont adaptés à la haute altitude Mai 2011, le nord de l’Europe est frappé par une vague d’intoxications alimentaires provoquée par une variante particulièrement virulente de la bactérie E. coli. Les malades tombent comme des mouches. En trois mois, 53 personnes meurent. Un échantillon de la bactérie est envoyé chez Beijing Genomics (...)

#BGI #biométrie

China Pushes U.S. Aside in Pakistan - WSJ
▻https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-pushes-u-s-aside-in-pakistan-1497783600

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China is now staking a claim to supplanting the U.S. with tens of billions of dollars of investment, an embrace that promises Pakistan economic benefits and saddles it with debt—ensuring the relationship will last.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has made #Pakistan his flagship partner in a program to spread Chinese-built infrastructure—and Beijing’s sway—across Asia and beyond. Pakistan has so far signed on to $55 billion in Chinese projects, many of them guaranteeing China a high return on its investments and granting tax breaks to Chinese companies.

Former President Barack Obama’s “Asia pivot” is giving way to Mr. Xi’s infrastructure juggernaut, in a model that could be replicated across the region.

“China came in when no one else was willing to invest,” said Commerce Minister Khurram Dastagir. The U.S. missed its chance, he said.

#etats-unis #Chine

Amid overdose crisis, China’s opioid producers embrace the Dark Web - The Globe and Mail
▻https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/amid-overdose-crisis-chinas-opioid-producers-embrace-the-dark-web/article35355090
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most of the opioids such as fentanyl and its chemical precursors arrive in small packages through the mail from China, predominantly in the Vancouver area.

(…) a formal intelligence-sharing agreement between the RCMP and Ministry of Public Security.

In exchange for Chinese co-operation to stop the flow of illicit synthetic opioids, Beijing expects the RCMP to provide intelligence and help track down Chinese nationals living in Canada who are accused of economic crimes such as money laundering, bribery and theft.

Chief Supt. Doran said Chinese authorities are just as frustrated as the Mounties in trying to arrest the opioid dealers who are embracing the Dark Web and sending the deadly drugs to Canada.

#dark_web #canada #chine #drogue #fentanyl #carfentanil

The benevolent great power
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/06/the-benevolent-great-power

Earlier this month, world leaders gathered at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing to learn about what could possibly be the most ambitious economic mega project in human history: China’s One Belt One Road Initiative (OBOR). According to some estimates, the OBOR will encompass “4.4 billion people, 64 countries [with] a…

L’app de rencontres gay Grindr est entièrement rachetée par le chinois Kunlun
▻http://www.numerama.com/business/261103-lapp-de-rencontres-gay-grindr-est-entierement-rachetee-par-le-chino

La plus populaire des applications pour rencontre entre hommes vient d’être entièrement rachetée par le sulfureux géant du jeu vidéo chinois Kunlun. L’entreprise de Beijing est souvent accusée de collusion avec le pouvoir communiste. Fondée en 2009 à Los Angeles, l’entreprise derrière Grindr, première application de rencontres gay au monde, est aujourd’hui intégralement chinoise. Avec plus de deux millions d’utilisateurs au quatre coin du monde, l’application est le plus important réseau social pour (...)

#Grindr #surveillance #LGBT #Kunlun

Ambition to meet reality as China gathers world for Silk Road summit | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-silkroad-summit-idUSKBN18631D
▻http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20170511&t=2&i=1184204764&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYN

When leaders of 28 nations gather in Beijing next week for a summit to map out China’s ambitious new Silk Road project, one question is likely to be on attendees’ minds - what exactly is the Belt and Road Initiative?

Proposed in 2013 by President Xi Jinping to promote a vision of expanding links between Asia, Africa and Europe underpinned by billions of dollars in infrastructure investment, the project is broad on ambition but still short on specifics.

#route_de_la_soie #chine

China seeks up to 85 percent stake in strategic #port in #Myanmar – gCaptain
▻http://gcaptain.com/china-seeks-85-percent-stake-strategic-port-myanmar

China is looking to take a stake of up to 85 percent in a strategically important sea port in Myanmar, according to documents reviewed by Reuters, in a move that could heighten tensions over China’s growing economic clout in the country.

Beijing has been pushing for preferential access to the deep sea port of #Kyauk_Pyu on the Bay of Bengal, as part of its ambitious “#One_Belt_ One_Road” infrastructure investment plan to deepen its links with economies throughout Asia and beyond.
[…]
Well-placed sources told Reuters last month that China had signaled it was willing to abandon the controversial $3.6 billion Myitsone dam project in Myanmar, but would be looking in return for concessions on other strategic opportunities in the Southeast Asian nation – including the Bay of Bengal port.

Kyauk Pyu is important for China because the port is the entry point for a Chinese oil and gas pipeline which gives it an alternative route for energy imports from the Middle East that avoids the Malacca Straits, a shipping chokepoint.

Pour le moment, le port en eau profonde à l’air plutôt embryonnaire…
▻https://www.google.fr/maps/place/Kyaukpyu,+Myanmar+(Birmanie)/@19.4173657,93.5251327,8398m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x30ba0f3a71728015:0xcc8c0c1341c5be03!8m2!3d19.421202

@aude_v
#OBOR

Sandstorm pushes Beijing smog off pollution charts - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/04/asia/beijing-sand-storm-pollution-beyond-index/index.html

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Beijing’s air quality reached hazardous levels Thursday, as a large sandstorm swept through the Chinese capital, turning the sky a murky yellow and forcing many residents to keep indoors.

Sandstorms are common across north east Asia during the spring, with prevailing winds carrying sand and dust particles from the Gobi Desert across the region.

But the speed with which the storm set in astounded locals — between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Thursday, the city’s air quality index (AQI) jumped from under 100 to over 500 — from “moderate” to a rating of “beyond index.”

By midday, the AQI level had hit a peak of 621, with PM2.5 levels of 684 micrograms per cubic meter.
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Research by Nanjing University’s School of the Environment has linked smog with nearly one-third of all deaths in China, positioning it on a par with smoking as a threat to public health.

Published in November last year, the study analyzed over 3 million deaths across 74 cities throughout China in 2013.

The findings revealed that as many as 31.8% of all recorded deaths could be linked to pollution, with major cities in Hebei, the province that encircles Beijing, ranked among the worst.

Yan Jun & Jun-Y Ciao live
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/moacrealsloa/yan-jun-jun-y-ciao-live

Tonight are two guests our from China. Yan Jun (Beijing) & Jun-Y Ciao (Shanghai) came for a talk and live play at Radio Panik.

They will talk about there way of making music, how it is to make this kind of music in China and how to deal with censorship in China.

Playlist :

Yan Jun : The Last Night, Rain Drops Falling On The Window

Yan Jun & Ciao Jun-Y : live part 1 Radio Panik

Yan Jun & Ciao Jun-Y : live part 2 Radio Panik

Yan Jun & Ciao Jun-Y : live part 3 Radio Panik

Yan Jun : 20 For Lona

▻https://yanjun.bandcamp.com

▻http://www.whereisthezeitgeist.org

▻https://www.facebook.com/whereisthezeitgeist

▻http://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/moacrealsloa/yan-jun-jun-y-ciao-live_03521__1.mp3

Tensions erupt between the Philippines and China over disputed island - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/03/30/phil-m30.html

Tensions erupt between the Philippines and China over disputed island
By Joseph Santolan
30 March 2017

Over the past several weeks, sharp tensions emerged between Beijing and Manila over the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, exposing the advanced character of the crisis gripping the Philippines, a result of Washington’s preparations for war with China.

The Scarborough Shoal is a triangular chain of rocks and atolls located 140 miles west of the Philippine island of Luzon. In the wake of the Obama administration’s launching its “pivot to Asia” in 2010, this collection of rocks in the South China Sea became the subject of fierce contention. Manila and Beijing came to the brink of a shooting war over the shoal in a military stand-off that lasted for months in the first half of 2012.

#mer_de_chine_méridionale

Europe-Asia capacity crunch a sign of shifting trade patterns, says Maersk - The Loadstar
▻http://theloadstar.co.uk/europe-asia-capacity-crunch-sign-shifting-trade-patterns-says-maersk

The eastbound capacity crunch hitting shippers to Asia is not temporary, but the beginning of a more permanent shift in trading patterns, Maersk Line told The Loadstar today.

The current capacity crunch on the Europe-Asia backhaul leg was originally attributed to a severe cull of westbound sailings during the Chinese new year holiday, but there has also been a big spike in demand, according to Maersk.
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[Maersk Line’s trade manager for the route, Sushil Sriram] said there was a definite shift in the Chinese economy towards production for domestic consumption, evidenced by the recent rise in the import of raw materials, including iron ore.

Beijing’s long-term strategy for GDP expansion is for consumer demand to replace exports as China’s main engine for economic growth, and Mr Sriram confirmed there was a big increase in demand, especially for western luxury goods – “everybody wants a BMW or a Mercedes”.

Mr Sriram explained that the euro’s continued erosion of value against the US dollar in the past year, as well as further falls in the value of sterling since the UK’s referendum vote last June, have made European exports more attractive in Asia.

Égalité et discrimination : les femmes et la vie politique...J’avais posté ça ici il y a un temps mais sans le lien...ça marche moins bien...

▻http://www.cartolycee.net/spip.php?article74

La résolution sur la participation des #femmes à la vie politique de l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies souligne, en décembre 2011, que « quelle que soit la région du monde considérée, les femmes restent largement absentes de la sphère #politique ». On peut imaginer la reprise de quelques extraits de cette résolution, ou du début de la déclaration de Beijing pour une confrontation avec la cartographie et le graphique proposés. Ces documents offrent un axe d’étude possible pour la question d’EMC « #Égalité et #discrimination »

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#ressources_pédagogiques #cartographie #womensmarch

China launches new cruise ship tour in South China Sea | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southchinasea-china-ship-idUSKBN16A0A4

A new Chinese cruise ship has embarked on its maiden voyage to the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday, the latest effort by Beijing to bolster its claims in the strategic waterway.

The Changle Princess sailed from Sanya on the southern Chinese island province of Hainan on Thursday afternoon with 308 passengers on a four-day voyage, Xinhua said.

The new ship can carry 499 people and has 82 guest rooms with dining, entertainment, shopping, medical and postal services on board, it added.

Tourists will be able to visit the three islands in the Crescent group of the Paracels, Xinhua said.

China has previously said it plans to build hotels, villas and shops on the Crescent group and has also said it wants to build Maldives-style resorts around the South China Sea, though it is unclear if foreigners will ever be allowed to visit.

US conducts show of force in South China Sea - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/02/20/scse-f20.html

Defying warnings from Beijing not to escalate tensions in the South China Sea, the Trump administration last Saturday said a United States aircraft carrier strike group had begun “routine” patrols in the strategic waterway.

According to a US Navy statement, the guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer is joining the 97,000-ton Carl Vinson along with aircraft from Carrier Air Wing for the operations. The Carl Vinson carries a flight group of more than 60 aircraft, including F/A-18 jet fighters, as well as a crew of 7,500.

#mer_de_chine_méridionale

Kabam cuts Beijing team
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-02-09-kabam-cuts-beijing-team

Legacy of Zeus developers let go as company narrows list of key assets left to sell

#Mobile

Mise en garde d’un officier d’état-major chinois contre le danger croissant de #guerre
▻http://www.wsws.org/fr/articles/2017/fev2017/scmo-f02.shtml

Le site officiel de l’Armée Populaire de Libération (APL) chinoise a publié un commentaire le jour de l’investiture de Donald Trump à la présidence annonçant que le danger de guerre entre les deux puissances nucléaires s’intensifiait. L’article reflète les inquiétudes croissantes du régime chinois à propos des propos belliqueux de Trump et de ses conseillers à l’endroit de Beijing en matière de commerce et sur toute une série d’autres questions.

China military official: War with US under Donald Trump ’becoming practical reality’ | The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-donald-trump-war-us-military-official-practical-reality-preside

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War with the US under Donald Trump is “not just a slogan” and becoming a “practical reality”, a senior Chinese military official has said.

[...]

Mr Trump and members of his administration have consistently voiced a hard line against China. Mr Trump has branded the country a “currency manipulator” and accusing the country of underhand trading and economic tactics.

But more significantly in security terms, Mr Trump has also ignored the US’s longstanding ‘One China’ policy, publicly engaging with the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, in a move that was hugely antagonising for Beijing.

China strongly regards Taiwan as part of its territory and the US has tacitly respected this for decades, but Mr Trump signalled a departure from this policy.

[...]

Further suggestions China is preparing for conflict emerged this week, with unconfirmed reports the military has moved long range missiles closer to the north east border in Heilongjiang province — within firing range of the US.

#it_has_begun

How China rules the waves — FT.com
▻https://ig.ft.com/sites/china-ports

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Beijing has spent billions expanding its ports network to secure sea lanes and establish itself as a maritime power

January 12, 2017 by James Kynge, Chris Campbell, Amy Kazmin and Farhan Bokhari

#cartographie #transport_maritime

Rien qu’un matin avec Trump sur WSWS ...

1. Trump veut interdire aux Chinois l’accès à leurs îles (artificielles ou non) en Mer de Chine méridionale.

Trump threats on South China Sea heighten risk of nuclear war - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/01/25/pers-j25.html

Trump threats on South China Sea heighten risk of nuclear war
25 January 2017

Just days after taking office, the Trump administration has set course for a conflict with China over the South China Sea that threatens military clashes and war.

President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, on Tuesday backed up an earlier assertion by the administration’s nominee for secretary of state, former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, that Washington would bar Chinese access to islets being built up by Beijing in the South China Sea.

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2. Trump confirme la nomination d’une milliardaire au poste de ministre de l’éducation, opposée à l’école publique.

Senate moves toward confirmation of billionaire opponent of public schools - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/01/25/devo-j25.html

Senate moves toward confirmation of billionaire opponent of public schools
By Isabelle Belanger
25 January 2017

The confirmation of Trump’s pick for education secretary, billionaire proponent of school privatization Betsy DeVos, is being rushed through despite blatant conflicts of interest and her ignorance of basic federal education laws. In a letter Monday, Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, rejected Democratic Party requests for a second hearing. The Republican-controlled Senate will vote on the confirmation January 31.

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3. Trump veut attaquer et détruire des fragile systèmes de santé.

Trump nominee defends administration’s assault on health care - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/01/25/pric-j25.html

Trump nominee defends administration’s assault on health care
By Kate Randall
25 January 2017

In his final appearance before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday, Rep. Tom Price (Republican of Georgia), Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), arrogantly dismissed questioning from committee Democrats about the new administration’s planned assault on Medicare, Medicaid and health care in general.

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4. Trump va relancer Keystone XL et Dakota Access pipelines et en même temps empêcher l’EPA (agence pour l’environnement) de surveiller et analyser les effets environnementaux de ces projets.

Trump’s pro-corporate rampage of reaction
Executive orders approve Dakota, Keystone pipelines
By Patrick Martin
25 January 2017

President Donald Trump has ordered US government agencies to expedite approval of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, running roughshod over opposition by environmentalists and Native American tribes.

The Dakota Access Pipe Line (DAPL) has encountered impassioned opposition, with thousands gathering despite the deep freeze of the North Dakota winter to block completion of the 1,200-mile-long pipeline, which is to bring oil from the Bakken fields to refineries in the Midwest and South. The pipeline’s final link would cross the Missouri River just north of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, threatening its water supply and tearing up land deemed sacred in tribal culture.

#trump #misère #décadence

La Chine renforce sa grande muraille numérique et bannit provisoirement les VPN
▻http://www.numerama.com/tech/227038-la-chine-renforce-sa-grande-muraille-numerique-et-bannit-provisoire

En Chine, où l’accès à un Internet neutre est un parcours du combattant pour les internautes, l’une des solutions privilégiées est souvent celle du VPN. Afin d’échapper aux censures appliquées par le pays sur son web. Mais le gouvernement semble décidé à partir en guerre contre eux. Beijing vient d’annoncer une grande campagne qui se prolongera pendant plus d’un an pour perfectionner sa grande muraille qui isole le web chinois de la plupart des sites et services mondiaux. Le pare-feu très sophistiqué du (...)

#VPN #web #surveillance

Marc Zuckerberg a une team d’une douzaine de personnes pour s’occuper de son image et sa page Facebook

▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-18/this-team-runs-mark-zuckerberg-s-facebook-page

a handful of Facebook employees manage communications just for him, helping write his posts and speeches, while an additional dozen or so delete harassing comments and spam on his page, say two people familiar with the matter. Facebook also has professional photographers snap Zuckerberg, say, taking a run in Beijing or reading to his daughter.

Putting a magnifying glass on air pollution | The UB Post
▻http://theubpost.mn/2017/01/12/putting-a-magnifying-glass-on-air-pollution

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It’s 6:50 a.m. in the morning. I wake up next to my beeping alarm clock to see the usual blanket of smoke covering the city in my view through the window. With a cup of coffee in hand and its aroma enveloping the room, I look at the poetically beautiful but realistically lethal sight: smoky Ulaanbaatar. In the sky, a beautiful dark gray to blue gradient spans from the north to the south, and a navy blue streak is followed by a thick swatch of dark gray, and then by a softer gray from the sky to the ground.
[…]
Mongolians usually think Beijing’s air is worse than Ulaanbaatar’s. The graph below is a comparison of air quality in Ulaanbaatar and Beijing. Thanks to statistical modeling by Maelle Salmon, I found that UB’s PM2.5 levels have surpassed those of Beijing almost 50 percent of the time since last September. In Beijing, they call their pollution the “#airpocalypse”. Here, it’s no more than a “smoky” weather forecast on your iPhone.

le graphique n’est pas reproduit sur la page, mais je pense qu’il s’agit de celui-ci

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Mongolia’s Air Pollution Is Five Times Worse Than Beijing’s - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-22/world-s-worst-air-has-mongolians-seeing-red-planning-protest

Maelle Salmon, mentionnée dans l’article est l’auteure de ropenaq, cf. ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/559837

Beijing Air Quality : Statistical analysis using R
▻http://www.garethkennedy.net/AQIStats.html

Beijing is known for being one of the most polluted cities on Earth. Often the government clamps down on private vehicles or barbecues in an attempt to control the air quality. However the effectiveness of these measures depends on the source of the pollution, in particular of particles smaller than 2.5 microns. These particles are the major cause of pollution related health issues in humans (e.g. here) and are mostly produced by combustion processes.

The concentration of these small particles is measured by the PM 2.5 index which will be examined here using hourly data from 2008 as measured by the US Embassy in Beijing (available here). To determine the origin of the pollution and examine how the city is cleaned the weather data (available here) for the same time period is examined. The statistical analysis is conducted using a self-written R code which is available here.

http://www.garethkennedy.net/AQIStats/AQICompass.png

Since both the slope and coefficient of determination are useful in examining the effect of the wind on the PM 2.5 pollution level then both of these were combined into a single plot (right). The colour being set by the slope with green being maximum (negative) slope and red being close to zero slope (so no effect of increasing wind speed on decreasing pollution). The transparency (visible as how pale each colour is) shows the coefficient of determination, with wind directions with no correlation to pollution appearing as close to white.

From this figure wind from the NNE direction is the most efficient at cleaning Beijing of PM 2.5, but any wind from the W to the NE direction can also clean the city. The strongest individual cleaning events are from the NW where the wind is the strongest (see above).

#PM2.5 #Beijing #pollution

Beijing redessine la carte de la Lune - Chine Magazine

▻http://www.chine-magazine.com/beijing-redessine-carte-de-lune

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cc @fil

Les scientifiques du programme national d’exploration lunaire dressent actuellement une nouvelle carte géologique de la Lune à l’échelle 1/2,5 millions.

Ouyang Ziyuan, premier scientifique en chef du programme, a indiqué que cinq universités et instituts de recherche avaient élaboré les normes de la cartographie numérique et de la représentation de la structure géologique de la Lune.

Le croquis cartographique, de 4,36 mètres sur 2,2 mètres, sera achevé en 2018 et la version officielle sera publiée avant 2020, ont indiqué les médias. L’objectif de cette nouvelle carte est de fournir des informations sur la géologie, la structure et les types de roches présents sur la Lune.

#planètes #lune #espace #cartographie #esquisse

British Government was warned about Tiananmen Square ’bloodshed’ two weeks before Beijing massacre | The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tiananmen-square-massacre-warning-british-government-1989-beijing-cen

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The British Government was warned the Chinese People’s Liberation Army were preparing to kill hundreds of student protesters in #Tiananmen Square two weeks before the massacre took place, recently declassified documents suggest.

A secret diplomatic cable, recently declassified by the National Archives, showed Britain’s envoy to Beijing had warned officials in London of the potential “bloodshed”.

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At the time, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said she was “shocked and appalled by the shootings”.

#massacre #Chine #diplomatie