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China's economic slowdown means a major decline in imports from other countries, which leads to significant effects in these areas. The Guardian takes a look. The vertical axis represents lost export income as a percentage of GDP, the size of the outer red circle represents GDP, and the inner white circle represents exports to China. Dollar units are in billions of dollars. Billions.
Posted by in china, economy, Guardian, Infographics
The huge Gate of Heavenly Peace, the main entrance to the Forbidden City in Beijing, looms in the dusty early morning haze which partially obscures the sun. This view, taken from Tiananmen Square, shows the tiny figures of people walking along the main thoroughfare leading to the gate, 1978. Photograph by James P. Blair, National Geographic Creative
Well, the rumors that scientists in China have been messing around with fully predictable genetic engineering of human embryos, discussed here at On Science Blogs a month ago, turn out to be true. Fully predictable hell has broken out. More … Continue reading
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Posted by in Asilomar, china, CRISPR, CRISPR/Cas, Gene, gene editing, gene therapy, genetic engineering, genetic modification, genetics, GMO, human genetic engineering, moratorium
China blocks sites from its citizens. We know this. But, what do they block and to what extent? Sisi Wei for ProPublica tracked major news homepages with the help of transparency site GreatFire.org and archived the pages for the sampled days.
Each row represents a timeline for a homepage, and a color-coded tick is added for each day a homepage is checked. There are four categories: blocked, no censorship detected, inconclusive (meaning there's mixed results from different testing servers), and no data.
For the most part it looks like there isn't a ton of switches between no censorship and blocked. There's some between inconclusive and blocked, but that might just be a server thing. Hard to say. However, the Wall Street Journal looks like it was blocked around the anniversary of Tiananmen Square, with a mostly green to mostly red transition. And of course, for reference, Facebook and Twitter is a bunch of red.
One interesting bit, and I don't know if it's just a coincidence, but there are some green slivers that appear after December 17, the day the project went up.
Tags: China, firewall, ProPublica
Posted by in china, firewall, Infographics, ProPublica
To help navigate the content in this issue of the roundup, here’s an index of the topics covered with links to the items below:
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Posted by in APCs, china, cost of publishing, Eu, mexico, news, Open Access policy, us
Chinese cyclists ride their bicycles through a square in Chengdu, July 1981.Photograph by Jodi Cobb, National Geographic
Sparks fly from a welder’s torch in China.Photograph by Jodi Cobb, National Geographic
Two young Chinese girls chat with each other in a moon gate in a courtyard of a Chinese home, 1932.Photograph by W. Robert Moore, National Geographic
Posted by in 1930's, china, courtyard, Moore, natgeo, photography, traditional