In 2019, during the trade war between China and the US, there were numerous reports that tech giants were exploring options to move away from the heat.
U.S. Senate Passes Industrial Policy Bill to Compete with Beijing
Posted by John Chan | Jun 9, 2021
The United States Senate has passed a landmark, bipartisan bill to dramatically increase government spending on technological development. The bill, known as the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, allocates $250 billion to spending in sectors deemed critical to America’s competitiveness against China. It now heads to the House, where it still must be reconciled with a bill authored by more skeptical House representatives. The Wall Street Journal’s John D. McKinnon
The legislation represents a potential landmark effort to turn the tide on several long-term trends in U.S. competitiveness. Those include eroding federal investments in research overall and a shrinking share of the world’s semiconductor manufacturing.
Eid Celebrations Underscore Religious Repression In Xinjiang
Posted by Joseph Brouwer | May 13, 2021
On Eid-al-Fitr, the celebratory conclusion of the Muslim holy month Ramadan, videos of dancing Uyghurs outside of a mosque in Kashgar demonstrated, perhaps counterintuitively, the extent of religious repression in the region. According to social media posts, attendance at the dances was mandatory and believers were banned from prayer and private gatherings. In one village outside of Kashgar, Uyghurs marked Eid by singing propaganda songs. In Urumqi, the national anthem preceded prayer. Strikingly, all the attendees were beardless and old. A new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project shows that imams have been a particular target of China’s campaign of regression against Uyghurs. For The BBC, Joel Gunter detailed the report’s findings:
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Li Pengyi, speaking to IPA as a spokesman for the Publishers Association of China, is quoted, saying. “I think the new law will, from a legal perspective, provide Chinese publishing enterprises and authors with more powerful and professional support, and help them protect their rights and interests more comprehensively.”
As reported by Cissy Zhou for China Macro Economy, copyright proponents may feel they dodged a bullet on one provision that reportedly was removed in the amendment’s final draft. Zhou writes, “The proposed provision within Article 4, which covers literary and artistic properties as well as scientific works such as computer programs, was intended to prevent copyright owners from hindering the ‘normal distribution of works’ and ‘harming the public interest. ”