The new rule from the Trump administration stated that chip manufacturers such as TSMC cannot use American know-how to make semiconductors for Huawei, accusing the Chinese company of undertaking “malign activities contrary to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests.” Since U.S. equipment, software and materials are an irreplaceable part of chip manufacturing, the edict meant that Huawei can no longer use its own chips in its devices.
But Huawei’s smartphones, routers, switches and other hardware can use chips designed by outside parties, even if they’re manufactured with American technology.
It designs 5G chips for both smartphones and base stations, and has them manufactured by TSMC, making it the perfect replacement for the Huawei-designed chips that can no longer be made.
Already a supplier to the Chinese company, MediaTek’s orders from Huawei are reported to have jumped after the restrictions, spurring analysts to raise their outlook for 2020 revenue by 14% and for next year by 29%.
Huawei on Wednesday announced it will invest 2.5b yuan ($360b) in the ecological construction of the all-optical industry in the next five years. Huawei expects F5G, the all-optical network, to bring at least 100b yuan of industrial investment in the same period. Efforts to define solutions for fifth generation fixed networks (F5G) have accelerated with work already progressing in key areas and a trebling in the number of members since the launch of the ETSI ISG F5G in February 2020. Next-generation fixed line networks are needed to complement and support the 5G wireless networks being deployed across the world and support the growing number of cloud services requiring high bandwidth and/or low latency connections. The ETSI ISG F5G industry specification group is aiming to open up new opportunities that will use full-fiber connections (FFC) to drive enhanced fixed broadband (eFBB) and deliver a guaranteed reliable experience (GRE).
TikTok confirmed Thursday that it will establish a new European data center in Ireland, its first in Europe, a move that analysts said displays the company’s determination to strengthen data security and pursue overseas expansion, despite the US’ mafia-style crackdown on the short video app.
The investment in Ireland, to the value of approximately 420 million euros ($500 million), will create hundreds of new jobs and play a key role in strengthening security of TikTok’s user data in Europe backed up with a state-of-the art network security defense system there.
The data center is expected to be operational in early 2022.
TikTok established the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Trust and Safety Hub in the Ireland’s capital Dublin at the beginning of the year. TikTok’s Irish company has recently become the data controller alongside TikTok’s UK company, with the former now the service provider for users across the European Economic Area and Switzerland, according to TikTok.
Why is Trump going to ban TikTok? Here are three possible reasons: 1.A rising Chinese company puts pressure on US tech giants 2.Young Americans love TikTok, Trump who is very fearful of Chinese influence on the youths 3.The US targets foreign companies that threaten its technology superiority.
Major Chinese commercial banks in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong Province, have started testing the application of the central bank-backed digital currency in recent days among their internal employees, under which the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) is used for payments and transfers.
Employees at those banks can download a digital wallet app named “digital RMB” for the digital currency’s closed trial, and each digital wallet account has a corresponding code that is linked to the employee’s identity.
The banks enlisted in the test include the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China and China Construction Bank.
Users can top up the digital wallet by online banking or by using their bank card. So far, the app is not available for public downloads.
The application of DCEP in the tests includes topping-up, withdrawing deposits, transferring payments and paying by QR code, although tests for the last function are rare due to limited consumption scenarios.
In particular, the digital currency’s payment transfer can be completed only by typing the telephone number of the recipient, and employees are also testing the function without network support.
8-14-20 China will launch RMB digital currency pilot projects in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Yangtze River Delta and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and some areas in central and western regions, according to a notice issued by China’s Ministry of Commerce on Friday.
Ottawa will impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to restore a 10 per cent tariff on Canadian aluminum imports.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the measures Thursday evening hours after Trump said he would impose the tariffs during a campaign speech at a Whirlpool factory in Ohio, citing national security concerns.
Freeland, in a statement, said Canada “intends to swiftly impose dollar-for-dollar countermeasures” in response.
China made another breakthrough in battling the coronavirus pandemic, with China National Biotec Group (CNBG) announcing Wednesday that an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine production workshop of its affiliated Beijing institute of biological products, the first and largest of its kind in the world, has passed national examination.
The facility was granted a production certificate and it is now available for use, CNBG, an affiliate of the state-run China National Pharmaceutical Group, said in a statement sent to the Global Times.
The Beijing institute took only two months to finish building the facility on April 15. Related government departments conducted a thorough biosecurity examination of the production workshop in July, and concluded the facility met national standards, and could go into operation for mass production of COVID-19 vaccines, read the statement.
After the Beijing manufacturing workshop and another production facility belonging to CNBG’s Wuhan institute of biological products begin operations, CNBG will be capable of ensuring an annual capacity of 220 million doses of vaccines, according to its developer.
The 220 million doses are large to first immunize medical staff and personnel working at airports and border checkpoints, Tao Lina, a Shanghai-based vaccine researcher, told the Global Times Wednesday.
“It is possible that China could have a COVID-19 vaccine as early as the end of October as some domestically made COVID-19 vaccines have entered phase three clinical trials and needs about a month to observe their effects on samples,” Tao said.
After securing a certain amount of vaccine for China’s strategic reserves, exports can be considered, Tao noted, adding countries such as the Philippines and Brazil are potential destinations.
Sinopharm is launching the fourth major COVID-19 vaccine trial in Brazil and will seek regulatory approval soon, Reuters reported on July 30.
The company’s candidate vaccine is already being tested in the United Arab Emirates with 15,000 local volunteers, including UAE nationals and expatriates there, since middle July.
In another major step, German firm BioNTech and its Chinese partner Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical announced Wednesday that 72 trial participants have been dosed with BNT162b1, a COVID-19 vaccine candidate based on BioNTech’s mRNA technology, following the Chinese regulators’ examination and approval. The two firms are jointly developing the coronavirus vaccine candidate in China too.
In another sign of progress, scientists from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions announced Monday a breakthrough in the development of a recombinant COVID-19 vaccine, envisioning the vaccine’s mass production to be feasible at a low cost in the future.
A spokesperson for Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in late July that China has 13 firms that have begun capacity building for COVID-19 vaccines, and nine have been approved to start clinical trials.
Four of the nine firms are pushing for an inactivated vaccine technical route, three are focusing on nucleic acid vaccines, one is based on adenovirus vector vaccines and one has opted for recombinant protein vaccines, media reports say.
The nation’s advances in the research and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines have been translated into remarkable gains in vaccine-related stocks on the A-share market.
Shares in the Shanghai-listed Fosun Pharmaceutical soared by the 10 percent daily trading limit to close at 74.01 yuan Wednesday, having rallied 182 percent for the year.
In another sign that the nation’s capital market is expected to fund its biotech capability, Hong Kong-traded CanSino Biologics is set to debut in the STAR Market tech board in Shanghai , making the vaccine maker the first dual-listed vaccine company in China .
CanSino Biologics revealed in late June that a recombinant novel COVID-19 vaccine it developed with a military research team has been granted a special one-year military drug approval.
Swan: “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the US is really bad. Much worse than Germany, South Korea, et cetera.”
Trump: “You can’t – you can’t do that.”
Swan: “Why can’t I do that?”
Trump: “You have to go by, you have to go by – look. Here is the United States – you have to go by the cases. The cases of death.”
Swan: “Why not as a proportion of population?”
Trump: “What it says is when you have somebody, where there’s a case, the people that live from those cases.”
Swan: “Sure. It’s surely a relevant statistic to say if the US has X population and X percentage of death of that population, opposed to some-”
Trump: “No, because you have to go by the cases.”
Swan: “In South Korea, for example – 51 million population, 300 deaths. It’s like, it’s crazy compared to other countries.”
Trump: “You don’t know that. You don’t know that.”
Swan: “I do. You think they’re faking their statistics? South Korea?”
Trump: “Ahhhhh, I won’t get into that, because I have a very good relationship with the country. But you don’t know that. They have spikes.”
Swan: “Germany, low 9000s?”
Trump: “Here’s one right here, United States. The number of cases – have a look. We’re last. Meaning we’re first.”
Mr Trump was brandishing another chart at this point.
Swan: “Last? I don’t know what we’re first in.”
Trump: “Take a look, it’s cases. And we have cases because of the testing.”
Swan: “I mean, a thousand Americans are dying a day. But I understand, on cases, it’s different.”
Trump: “No but you’re not reporting it correctly, Jonathan.”
This is the first country in Europe that will adopt this complex, which experts compare in parameters with the American “Patriot III”. The information is contained in the company’s annual report and was first noticed by the local media Balkanska bezbednosna mreza.
According to the report, these are 3 batteries from this complex, which has a range of 100 km and hits targets at an altitude of 50 to 27 thousand meters.
FK-3 is the export option of the Chinese medium-range system HQ-22, which was first shown in 2016 at the Zhuhai Air Show.
中国FK-3防空导弹系统是红旗-22的外贸版本
The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade issued a warning that “purchasing defense equipment is supposed to be a sovereign decision of a country, yet the Serbian government should understand the ‘short- and long-term risks and costs of doing business with Chinese companies.'”
”The content of Serbia’s defense procurement should be consistent with the Serbian side’s previously announced broader policy goal of EU membership,” the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade added, adding that “defense suppliers from countries other than China are well positioned to provide alternative equipment and, in terms of both quality and cost, are It can be compared to Chinese weapons.”
Sichuan Chengdu Hua Xi Insect Museum curator Zhao Li recently found a giant katydid 螽（音“中”）斯 with a body length of 8cm in Qingcheng Mountain 青城山, which is twice as big as the common katydids of Sichuan past, refreshing the record of Sichuan’s largest katydid.
”Its wings look very broad from the front and back, more like a leaf,” The katydid is the largest katydid in Sichuan, and the largest katydid in China is the giant leaf katydid 巨拟叶螽
giant leaf katydid 巨拟叶螽
from Xishuangbanna 西双版纳 , which can be more than 12.5cm in length.
Zhao Li introduced, this katydid belongs to the subfamily Pseudophyllinae of Arabidopsis katydids, belongs to the insectoid Insecta Orthoptera Orthoptera katydids Tettigoniidae. currently the world records 19 families 260 genera (subgenera) 998 species (subspecies), mainly distributed in the neotropics, paleotropics and subtropics. “A total of 16 genera and 39 species (subspecies) have been recorded in the Chinese subfamily Orthoptera Tettigoniidae.” “All the katydids found in the Sichuan region in the past were small and medium-sized species, the largest being the large katydid that is no more than 7cm in length,” Zhao Li said, “This mountain subleaf katydid has a very fat abdomen, while the abdomen volume of the large katydid with a length of 7cm is only a fraction of its size.” Compared to the carnivorous katydids, the mountain subleaf katydid is a ‘gentle giant’ that is vegetarian and catches insects.” Zhao Li said that when reared so far, it has been found that it not only feeds on the leaves of the Nanmu tree 楠木树 , but also the leaves of plants in the chitin 壳斗科 family.
Nocturnal katydids lay eggs on tree trunks.
”This mountain subleaf katydid is nocturnal and hides in the canopy layer during the day and only goes to the trunk at night to lay its eggs, so its presence is rarely known.” When Zhao Li found it, it was on the trunk of a Nanmu tree , using a spawner to burrow into the bark to lay its eggs.
Nanmu is a very tall tree, reaching up to more than 30 meters in height and up to 1 meter in diameter at breast height. “Because this katydid mimics the leaves of the Nanmu tree, it hides in the tree during the day and won’t be noticed.”
Zhao Li lamented that the giant katydid has not been found because it is too rare, “I’ve seen its limbs before in Jiulonggou九龙沟 and Xiling Snow Mountain 西岭雪山 . All of them are wings or heads left over from being eaten by birds.”
The head of a mountain subleaf katydid. Chengdu Huaxi Insect Museum for a picture of the head of a mountain Asian leaf katydid .
It is known that katydids lay their eggs on the shallow surface of the soil and some larvae die if they can’t get out of the soil, so will the mountain leaf katydid survive if it lays its eggs in the bark of a tree?
”It has a very specific way of laying its eggs and I think the purpose of laying its eggs in the bark is to keep them moist. Also the bark effectively protects its eggs from being damaged by other things.” Zhao Li said the insects have a low survival rate, so they use a strategy of laying large numbers of eggs. “Most katydids have a short lifespan, hatching in the spring and dying at the end of October. However, with artificial warmth, some species of katydids can live until the following spring.”
