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China Rail Photo YouTube Russia is committed to building railroads to China, as the two countries are boosting business ties and mutual cargo flows are growing rapidly. Two railway corridors – from Kemerovo Region and Krasnoyarsk Region – are part of the strategy for economic development of Russia’s Siberian Federal District , according to a document that was published on the government’s website on Monday. One of the proposed lines will see the construction of the North-Siberian railway , which would run through Altay Region to Urumqi – the capital of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region . Feasibility studies, including an investment assessment, are due to be completed in 2025. Earlier this month, presidential aide Igor Levitin said that the North-Siberian line would connect the Eastern Polygon , which is part of the Trans-Siberian Railway transport corridor between Europe and Asia, passing through Siberia, with the Northern Sea route . The estimated cost of the planned 1,9...

AUKUS Australia risks becoming Asian Ukraine as US’ proxy warrior against China’ – ex-Australian ambassador Photo screenshot rt.com On this episode of Going Underground , we speak to a former senior diplomat for over 3 decades for Australia, Ambassador Tony Kevin . He discusses Australia’s participation in the deepening AUKUS agreement as military and political tensions between the United States and China continue to grow, why the Australian public continues to see China as a bogeyman, how Australia’s military alliance with the US against China-their largest trading partner is against Australia’s own self-interest, Australia at risk of becoming and Asian Ukraine proxy war staging ground and much more. F OLLOW Going Underground  http://twitter.com/GUnderground_TV FOLLOW Afshin Rattansi   http://twitter.com/AfshinRattansi SUBSCRIBE on Telegram:  https://t.co/xDEHJ0c6WW LIKE on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GoingUndergroundTV/ Attribution: Image, Video an...

“I look forward to being the first Australian leader to visit China since the onset of the global pandemic – continuing our long-held relationship with China on trade and culture, and further strengthening our deep ties.” The Andrews Labor Government is cementing Victoria’s strong and enduring relationship with China, with Premier Daniel Andrews set to be the first Australian leader to visit the country since the onset of the pandemic. As part of a four-day trip this week, the Premier will meet with senior officials from the Ministry of Education and Beijing Government to discuss our long-held trade and cultural ties, and the return of Chinese students to Victoria – continuing their studies at our world-class higher education institutions. In addition to Beijing, the Premier will travel to Jiangsu and Sichuan, meeting with key senior officials from Victoria’s sister states – deepening our strong relationships with these provinces, and exploring ways to further strengthen partnerships. ...

  Artificial Interlegence Image by  Gerd Altmann  from  Pixabay China’s star has been steadily rising for decades. Besides slashing extreme poverty rates from 88 percent to under 2 percent in just 30 years, the country has become a global powerhouse in manufacturing and technology. Its pace of growth may slow due to an aging population, but China is nonetheless one of the world’s biggest players in multiple cutting-edge tech fields. One of these fields, and perhaps the most significant, is artificial intelligence. The Chinese government announced a plan in 2017 to become the world leader in AI by 2030, and has since poured billions of dollars into AI projects and research across academia, government, and private industry. The government’s venture capital fund is investing over $30 billion in AI; the northeastern city of Tianjin budgeted $16 billion for advancing AI; and a $2 billion AI research park is being built in Beijing. On top of these huge investments, ...

  by Sebastian Rotella ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox . On the bucolic campus of Purdue University in Indiana, deep in America’s heartland and 7,000 miles from his home in China, Zhihao Kong thought he could finally express himself. In a rush of adrenaline last year, the graduate student posted an open letter on a dissident website praising the heroism of the students killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. The blowback, he said, was fast and frightening. His parents called from China, crying. Officers of the Ministry of State Security, the feared civilian spy agency, had warned them about his activism in the United States. “They told us to make you stop or we are all in trouble,” his parents said. Then other Chinese students at Purdue began hounding him, calling him a CIA agent and threatening to report him to the embassy and the MSS. Kong, who goes by ...