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Central Japan Railway (JR Central) said on Friday that it had abandoned its plan to complete an ultra-high-speed railway between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2027, Kyodo News reports. ....
Copy Three US senators have written to their nation s Olympic Committee with a request that it forbid American athletes from receiving or using Digital Yuan during the Beijing Olympics – a reference to the Winter Games scheduled to commence on February 4th, 2022. While the Chinese Communist Party insists their efforts are aimed at digitizing bank notes and coins, Olympic athletes should be aware that the Digital Yuan may be used to surveil Chinese citizens and those visiting China on an unprecedented scale, wrote [PDF] Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyoming). The conservative trio added that China hopes that they [athletes] will maintain Digital Yuan wallets on their smartphones and continue to use it upon return. ....