Year: 2023

Previously, the regulation said only that the buying and disseminating of sensitive works would be punished. Now, party members face serious warning, disciplinary probation or even expulsion if they are found to have read proscribed materials. Chinese officials must feel they are being ‘followed by shadows’, Xi says The powerful party watchdog has listed the reading of books deemed politically unflattering as a political offence in many of its recent investigations, including those into Zhu Congjiu, once deputy governor Zhejiang, and Liu Liange, the former president of the Bank of…

“Our brain can tolerate defects, meaning it could work despite the presence of dead cells. This is fundamentally different from computers that cannot work with a malfunctioning transistor,” Li said, referring to the primary building block of microchips, including the central processing unit (CPU). “We can learn from experience, unlike computers and powerful AI. [A chatbot like] ChatGPT might tell you that it does not know about the latest news because of its knowledge cut-off at a certain time. Humans are also able to reason based on vague information, while…

China’s immigration authorities have predicted that cross-border travel over the New Year holiday will soar to five times the number recorded last year. The period between December 30 and January 1 is expected to see a peak in border crossings across the country, with an average of 1.56 million entries and exits per day, the National Immigration Administration said in a notice on Thursday. That would equal about 90 per cent of the level recorded in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic swept across China. Chinese travellers put Covid in rear-view…

Three senior Chinese aerospace-defence executives have been stripped of their titles as members of top national political advisory body in a possible sign Beijing is continuing its anti-corruption efforts in the sector that is key to China’s military capacity. Xinhua reported the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) decided at a conference on Wednesday to revoke the seats of Wu Yansheng, chairman of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), Liu Shiquan, chairman of the board of the China North Industries Group Corporation, known internationally as the Norinco Group,…