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| | Xi Jinping's decision to openly label the United States the source of China's ills rolled through the newsletters, wire services, and commentators on China this week. Much has been written about this already; I have nothing to add. Here I call attention to something else that occurred at the National People's Congress, an incident whose significance is perhaps not properly appreciated. Here is Nikkei's description of the incident in question:
| | www.theatlantic.com
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| | Censorship in the country is more complicated than many Westerners imagine.
| | americanaffairsjournal.org
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| | The tensions introduced by the prominence of a still partially medieval institution in modern society can only be resolved in two possible ways: the creation of institutions of education and knowledge production on a more modern model; or a partial neo-feudalization of the modalities, if not the class structure, of modern society, a process already underway...
| | melkat.blog
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| Apple has made a lot of partnerships with big companies like Quantum Computer Services (AOL), Microsoft, HP, Intel, Cingular (AT&T), Epic Games, Valve, Capcom, and Ubisoft. They are all pretty one-sided in terms of who benefits. Focusing on these partnerships distracts from what has made Apple's platforms successful: the community of dedicated indie developers. But like their corporate partnerships, this relationship is not a healthy one.