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Comment Re:You still don't have civil rights in China (Score 1) 240

by hackingbear (#66097262) Attached to: US Jobs Too Important To Risk Chinese Car Imports, Says Ford CEO

You go to China and you live there and you criticize the government and ask me how that goes for you.

In the US, see how far you can go if you're making racist speech publicly, or even just praise Hamas and criticize Israel.

Why? Because racism matters in the US while it is not a major issue in China. Politics is in reverse situation.

Look, what do you get for criticizing government in the States? You end up with talk show host, political fanatics, and psychopathy running the country. That's the eventual outcome.

In the Sates, there have been massive riots, usually race related like the George Fergerson protest, once several years and the US government sent in National Guard to crush them and opened fire to kill some on the first few days. In contrast, riots had been going for over half year in 2019 Hong Kong and the police didn't kill a single person. If "free speech" is allowed, then there will be massive riots in short time and if the government crush the riots, it will invite heavy trade sanctions from the US since the US wants to weaponize it and cause massive unemployment.

Or try to unionize.

China has the largest trade union in the world. And also company doing wage theft in China will get the company owner in jail.

Which is hilarious because they pretend to be communist. Never mind the fact that they have an American style Private healthcare system.

1. China is socialist currently. "Communism" serves the same role as emperor/king in UK/Japan. Nobody actually cares.
2. China has a dominant public-run healthcare system with universal coverage (still ramping up); it is supplemented by private practices. You can choose which hospital you go to,

Comment Re:So enforce the same working standards (Score 1) 240

by hackingbear (#66097228) Attached to: US Jobs Too Important To Risk Chinese Car Imports, Says Ford CEO

Slavery is definitely part of the equation.

Define SLAVERY.

In China, workers can quit if they don't like the work or pay. "Low pay" is not slavery otherwise you making $200k in San Francisco are still a slave as you would be priced out by rent and healthcare costs to the street very quickly once you stop working. Oh, by the way, Chinese wage has gone up over 10x in the last couple of decades while one pays about $10 for regular doctor appointment.

Submission + - China's Green Energy Bets Make It a Winner from Iran War (yahoo.com)

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hackingbear writes: While the Strait of Hormuz has remained closed to the United States and its allies for over two weeks now, Iran has continued to send at least 11.7 million barrels of crude oil through to China. This is on top of China’s already significant strategic oil stockpiles, which it built to new heights in the months leading up to the war. The country’s true advantage will come from its ‘supergrid’ and its years-long push to wean itself off of fossil fuel imports and buildout of renewable energies to become the world’s first electro-state. A huge part of China’s energy spending has been directed toward building out and fortifying its power grid for greater resilience. “China’s infrastructure build-out is far more efficient than that of most countries, and the power grid is no exception,” Penny Chen, a senior director with Fitch Ratings, recently told Fortune. And as AI and manufacturing continue to ramp up strain on global power grids, this will give China an even greater leg up in the competition for global tech and energy production – a race that it's already winning handily. “In some ways, the grid investments highlight how energy security — once viewed as a lofty, long-term goal of President Xi Jinping — is now becoming an immediate and crucial source of economic insulation,” reports Fortune. China invested almost $1 trillion in renewable energies in 2025 alone and has 38 nuclear reactor units under construction in addition to its massive solar and wind energy production. Its macro-economic data seem to be improving with stronger-than-expected industrial production (+6.3% year-over-year) and retail sales figures (+2.8% year-over-year) for January-February released Monday, while deflation is starting to ebb. Veteran strategist David Rosenberg regards China's as a victor in the trade war with America so far, by virtue of the $1.2 trillion trade surplus it recorded in 2025. Moreover it is "gaining serious ground" in the hotly-contested competition for AI supremacy.

Submission + - AI Suspected in Bombing of Iran Girls School (futurism.com)

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hackingbear writes: In the aftermath of airstrikes that leveled a school and claimed the lives of 165 Iranian elementary students and staff, the Pentagon has refused to say whether the attack was suggested by an AI system. Given the United States’ reported use of AI to select at least some military targets in Iran, a major question remains unanswered: did the US use Anthropics' Claude to decide whether to annihilate an elementary school? When Futurism reached out to the Pentagon regarding the use of AI in recent military operations — specifically the targeting of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school — we were referred to US CENTCOM, one of eleven unified commands under the Pentagon’s umbrella. “We have nothing for you on this at this time,” CENTCOM said. Back in April of 2024, an investigation by +972 Magazine revealed that the Israeli army had leveraged an AI system called “Lavender” to select targets in its war on Gaza where a UN school was hit, similarly to how the Pentagon is reportedly using Claude in Iran.

Submission + - ByteDance Suspended AI Facial-to-Voice Feature due to Excessive Realism (technode.com)

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hackingbear writes: China's Bytedance has released Seedance 2.0, an AI video generator which handles up to four types of input at once: images, videos, audio, and text. Users can combine up to nine images, three videos, and three audio files, up to a total of twelve files. Generated videos run between 4 and 15 [or 60] seconds long and automatically come with sound effects or music. Its performance is unfortunately proven by the immediate blocking of its facial-to-voice feature after the model reportedly demonstrated the ability to generate highly accurate personal voice characteristics using only facial images, even without user authorization. In a recent test, Pan Tianhong, founder of tech media outlet MediaStorm, discovered that uploading a personal facial photo caused the model to produce audio nearly identical to his real voice — without using any voice samples or authorized data. The revelation has quickly raised public concerns over AI-driven identity forgery. If misused, the technology could enable new forms of abuse, including deepfake news, scams, and reputational attacks. Technically, Seedance 2.0 leverages a dual-branch diffusion transformer architecture to generate video visuals and native audio simultaneously. Users can input text or upload images, and within 60 seconds, the model produces multi-shot sequences at 2K resolution. Swiss-based digital video consultancy company CTOL claimed Seedance 2.0 as the most advanced AI video generation model available, integrated directly into CapCut and surpassing OpenAI's Sora 2 and Google's Veo 3.1 in practical testing.

Submission + - China Consumed Whopping 10 Peta Watt-Hours of Electricity in 2025 (bloomberg.com)

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hackingbear writes: China consumed totally 10.4 trillion kilowatt hours (10.4 petaWh) in 2025 according to data from the National Energy Administration. That’s the highest annual electricity use ever recorded by a single country, and doubled the amount used by the US and surpassed the combined annual total of the EU, Russia, India and Japan. The surge in demand for power are results of growth in data centers for artificial intelligence (+17% over 2024) and use of electric vehicles (+48.8%). The State Grid Corp. of China said this week that it will lift fixed-asset investment by about 40% over the next five years, as the nation races to expand its power network. However, on a per-capita basis, China uses about 7,300 kWh per person vs about 13,000 kWh per American. New and electric vehicles (NEVs) drove China’s passenger vehicle market crossing the 30-million-unit mark in both production and sales in 2025. Passenger vehicle output reached 30.27 million units, while sales totaled 30.10 million units, up 10.2% and 9.2%, respectively, year over year, making it the world’s largest auto market for the 17th consecutive year. As policy support for NEVs has also been scaled back and NEVs no longer enjoy a full purchase tax exemption, growth in China’s auto market is expected to moderate in 2026 following a very strong 2025, which likely absorbed a large portion of pent-up demand. In a related development, China reported a world-record trade surplus of nearly $1.2 trillion in 2025, led by booming exports to non-U.S. markets as producers looked to build global scale to fend off sustained pressure from the Trump administration. Its December dollar-valued exports up 6.6% Y/Y, imports up 5.7%; beat forecasts. China, the world's top agricultural importer purchased a record volume of soybeans in 2025, buoyed by a sharp increase in shipments from South America, with Chinese buyers holding off from U.S. crops for much of the year as trade tensions lingered.

Comment Re:Sigh... (Score 1) 91

by hackingbear (#65931588) Attached to: Canada Reverses Tariff On Chinese EVs

This was not the action of 'a western democracy' but the action of a criminal, which said western democracy is now prosecuting him for.

If he succeed to provoke NK to attack and the war broke, then nobody will charge him -- that's his whole plot. It is Kim who stopped the plot and led Yoon to be charged.

Oh... every time the west done something terrible, it is the fault of some individuals or a few companies, whereas NK, China, Russia etc did (or didn't actualy do but accused of doing) were the fault of the regime, the country, and their culture.

Considered these:

1. millions of Native Americans were killed under the laws of US which has been a continuing regime marketed as a "democracy".
2. Hitler was elected into power by a democratic process and then went rogue
3. all except one South Korean presidents have been jailed or assassinated -- what kind of democracy is it?
4. Donald Trump has been elected twice by this democratic process -- the second time was even after his clown performance during the COVID pandemic

 

Comment Re:Sigh... (Score 3, Informative) 91

by hackingbear (#65930672) Attached to: Canada Reverses Tariff On Chinese EVs

I don't know what to say... more winning?

No, you should instead admit that the so-called western "democracies" are actually more evil than you are told to. You should ask why the western democracies have decayed into populism and probably soon Nazi

Example 1: relating to Huawei and Canada, China detained two Canadians after the "kidnapping" of Huawei CFO and accused them spying. The western governments and media widely criticized Chinese government for falsifying charges and taking hostages (even though arguably the US+Canada were the one first doing that.) But after these two Canadian returned to Canada, they sued their government for leaking the fact that they spied for Canada and the Canadian government settled the case with C$1m. So what do you see? The Chinese government was actually not making up the charges, Canada was not clean, and the western media was totally biased.

(I tried to post this which is totally relvant to /. but got rejected and even its entry was removed from my submission list. Go figure.)

Example 2: this was what I tried to post on /. but got rejected:

Ex-South Korea President found to Provoke Pyongyang with Drones

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea, a democratic nation, tried to provoke North Korea, an authoritarian state, into mounting an armed aggression to justify his December 2024 martial law declaration and eliminate political opponents, a special prosecutor said on Monday. The prosecutor has confirmed an elaborate scheme allegedly masterminded by Yoon and his defense minister, Kim Yong-hyun, going back to October 2023 to suspend the powers of parliament and replace it with an emergency legislative body. "To create justification for declaring martial law, they tried to lure North Korea into mounting an armed aggression, but failed as North Korea did not respond militarily," special prosecutor, Cho Eun-seok said. The South Korean military flew drones over Pyongyang in October at the order of then Defense Minister Kim. North Korea responded the provocation by blowing up a symbolic road to the South to avoid starting a war. Yoon may have been compelled to act in part because of the unrelenting political pressure he was under stemming from allegations of bribery against his wife, but there was no evidence to suspect Kim was involved in the conspiracy, Park Ji-young, a spokesperson for the special prosecutor's team, said. North Korea has for long time been labeled North Korea as a great threat to world peace.

So you see: the "democratically elected" president of a so-called democratic country SK was trying to provoke a so-called authoritarian regime NK to attack SK, and only stopped by the so-called dictator Kim Jong Un. The Nobel Peace prize should be awarded to Kim but instead awarded to someone who is now trying hard to kiss the ass of a real dictator.
 

Submission + - Canada Reversed Tariff on Chinese EV (washingtontimes.com)

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hackingbear writes: Breaking with the United States, Canada has agreed to cut its 100% tariff [back to 6.1%] on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. He said there would be an initial annual cap of 49,000 vehicles on Chinese EV exports to Canada, growing to about 70,000 over five years. Prior to the 100% tariff, China exported about 41,000 vehicles to Canada in 2023. In exchange, China will reduce its total tariff on canola seeds, a major Canadian export, from 84% to about 15%, he told reporters. Carney said China has become a more predictable partner to deal with than the U.S, the country’s neighbor and longtime ally. After helping the U.S. to arrest Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who has later been released without admitting guilty by the Biden administration after bickering with China, Canada had followed the U.S. in putting tariffs of 100% on EVs from China and 25% on steel and aluminum under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Carney’s predecessor. China responded by imposing duties of 100% on Canadian canola oil and meal and 25% on pork and seafood. It added a 75.8% tariff on canola seeds last August. Collectively, the import taxes effectively closed the Chinese market to Canadian canola, an industry group has said.

Submission + - Chinese Fusion Reactor Breaks Plasma Density Limit (futurism.com)

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hackingbear writes: Scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) program rang in the new year with a stunning accomplishment: empirical evidence that they used the device to achieve nuclear plasma densities once thought to be beyond human capabilities. To reach a point where fusion reactor can power itself — a sustainable fusion reaction — requires that gnarly plasma to stay hot, dense, and stable for long stretches of time. For years, it was understood that higher plasma densities would inevitably result in instability, collapsing the fuel before it could ignite, a threshold known as the Greenwald limit. In deuterium-tritium fusion, the fuel must be heated to about 13 keV (150 million kelvin) to reach optimal conditions. At such temperatures, the amount of fusion power produced increases with the square of the plasma density. This new research seemingly flips all that on its head. As the EAST team explains, the method basically involves creating a high gas pressure environment in the reactor prior to plasma formation, which allows the plasma to interact with the reactor wall in a much less destructive way than it would otherwise. Scientists also manually pump extra energy into the plasma as it heats, allowing an even rise in density. The result is a plasma that remains stable even as its internal density rises, resulting in fuel densities “far exceeding empirical limits.” While there are still plenty of breakthroughs left before humanity achieves practical power production with fusion, shattering the Greenwald represents a major item on the to-do list — and another notch on China’s lengthy green energy belt.

Comment Re:Tariffs won't bring back rare Earth mining (Score 2) 142

by hackingbear (#65903675) Attached to: The US Effort to Break China's Rare-Earth Monopoly

The problem is we don't treat people poorly enough and we don't let companies make cancer villages so nobody is going to try to compete on that cost.

Really? Or you're living in a bubble?

In contrast, China has been moving toward more environment friendly mining practices:

Through this upcoming regulation, China intends to protect its national interests and industrial security as well as prevent activities, such as illegal mining, destructive mining, unplanned and over-planned production, illegal trading of rare earth products, and destroying the ecological environment, among others.

Of course, the western critics, like yourself, will only emphasize the national security aspect which China should also protect especially as a response to the western sanctions on semiconductor products.

It is also well known that the western world just shift their pollution to the developing world, including China.

Westerners have such a mentality that only paint itself as victim never thought about what the other side has contributed (or suffered) from the relation.

Submission + - Beijing Ruled AI-caused Job Replacement Illegal (globaltimes.cn)

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hackingbear writes: China's state-affiliated Global Times reported that Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security ruled in a labor dispute arbitration that "AI replacing a position does not equal to legal dismissal," providing a case reference for resolving similar cases in the future. A worker with surname Liu had worked in a technology company for many years, responsible for traditional manual map data collection. In early 2024, the company decided to full transition to AI-managed autonomous data collection, abolishing Liu's department, and terminated Liu's labor contract on the grounds that "major changes have occurred in the objective circumstance on which the hiring contract was based, making it impossible to continue implementing the labor contract." Liu objected to the firm's termination, claiming it was unlawful and applied for arbitration. The labor board ruled that the company's introduction of AI technology was a proactive technological innovation implemented by the enterprise to adapt to market competition, and that termination of Liu's labor contract on the grounds that the position was replaced by AI shifts the risk of normal technological iteration onto the employee. The arbitration committee noted that, against the backdrop of the rapid development of AI technology, employers should properly accommodate affected employees through measures such as negotiating changes to the labor contract, providing skills training, and internal job reassignment. If it is indeed necessary to terminate the labor contract, employers must strictly comply with relevant laws and avoid simply applying "major changes in the objective environment" as grounds for termination. "This ruling safeguards Liu's legitimate rights and interests, providing reassurance to the vast number of workers, helping alleviate employees' anxiety about AI," Wang Peng, an associate researcher at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times.

Submission + - Ex-South Korea President found to Provoke Pyongyang with Drones (reuters.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: Former President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea, a democratic nation, tried to provoke North Korea, an authoritarian state, into mounting an armed aggression to justify his December 2024 martial law declaration and eliminate political opponents, a special prosecutor said on Monday. The prosecutor has confirmed an elaborate scheme allegedly masterminded by Yoon and his defense minister, Kim Yong-hyun, going back to October 2023 to suspend the powers of parliament and replace it with an emergency legislative body. "To create justification for declaring martial law, they tried to lure North Korea into mounting an armed aggression, but failed as North Korea did not respond militarily," special prosecutor, Cho Eun-seok said. The South Korean military flew drones over Pyongyang in October at the order of then Defense Minister Kim. North Korea responded the provocation by blowing up a symbolic road to the South to avoid starting a war. Yoon may have been compelled to act in part because of the unrelenting political pressure he was under stemming from allegations of bribery against his wife, but there was no evidence to suspect Kim was involved in the conspiracy, Park Ji-young, a spokesperson for the special prosecutor's team, said. North Korea has for long time been labeled North Korea as a great threat to world peace.

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