4min 49sec clip - China's secret language that only women speak

10min 44sec clip - JAPANESE ATROCITIES IN CHINA WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA FILM

13min 39sec clip - DRAGON AND BEAR: WHO IS NUMBER ONE? 1969 CHINA VS. SOVIET UNION DOCUMENTARY CHAIRMAN MAO

China on track to hit its renewable energy target 5 years early

 

 China is on track to hit its renewable energy target 5 years early. This rapid progress could limit global emissions faster than forecast. China is already a global leader in renewable energy, and its planned additions will increase global wind and solar capacity by almost 50% and 85%, respectively. #china #renewableenergy #target #solar #windenergy #emissions

2min clip - China, Peking (Beijing) 1930s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/added sound

6min clip - The Boxer Rebellion | Wars you've never heard of

8min 37sec clip - Climbing #Sichuan's Insane Mountain #Ladder

20min clip - How #China Broke the World's #Recycling

 

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5min 26sec @VICE - How #Britain Got #China Hooked on #Opium I Empires of Dirt

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1min 14sec @LSEThinks clip - Does #China's new security law break its #promise to #Britain & Hong Kong?

8min 44sec @theeconomist clip - How #China is crushing the #Uighurs

5min 40sec @theeconomist clip - China: facial #recognition and state control

Text from youtube "China is the world leader in facial recognition technology. Discover how the country is using it to develop a vast hyper-surveillance system able to monitor and target its ethnic minorities, including the Muslim Uighur population. 

Improving lives, increasing connectivity across the world, that's the great promise offered by data-driven technology - but in China it also promises greater state control and abuse of power. This is the next groundbreaking development in data-driven technology, facial recognition. And in China you can already withdraw cash, check in at airports, and pay for goods using just your face. The country is the world's leader in the use of this emerging technology, and China's many artificial intelligence startups are determined to keep it that way in the future. 

Companies like Yitu. Yitu is creating the building blocks for a smart city of the future, where facial recognition is part of everyday life. This could even extend to detecting what people are thinking. But the Chinese government has plans to use this new biometric technology to cement its authoritarian rule. The country has ambitious plans to develop a vast national surveillance system based on facial recognition. It'll be used to monitor it's 1.4 billion citizens in unprecedented ways. With the capability of tracking everything from their emotions to their sexuality. The primary means will be a vast network of CCTV cameras. 170 million are already in place and an estimated 400 million new ones will be installed over the next three years. The authorities insist this program will allow them to improve security for citizens, and if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. 

But not everyone is convinced. Hong Zhenkuai is a former magazine editor who was ousted by the government. He feels like he's under constant surveillance. Already the authorities are using facial recognition to name and shame citizens, even for minor offenses like jaywalking. In Beijing they're using the technology to prevent people stealing rolls of loo paper from public toilets, and across China police officers are now trialing sunglasses and body cameras loaded with facial and gesture recognition technology - it's helping them to identify wanted suspects in real-time. What worries some people here is that as the technology develops, so too does the capacity for it to be abused. Some of those most at risk in this hyper surveillance future are the ethnic minorities in China. 

In Xinjiang province, the Chinese government is wary of the separatist threat posed by the Muslim Uighur population. According to local NGOs, an estimated 1 million Uighurs are being detained indefinitely in secretive internment camps, where some are being subject to abuse. It's been called the largest mass incarceration of a minority population in the world today. The authorities are using facial recognition cameras to scan people's faces before they enter markets. The system alerts authorities if targeted individuals stray 300 meters beyond their home. In the future the government plans to aggregate even more data and build a predictive policing program that imposes even tighter controls here. Without checks and balances, China will keep finding new ways to violate the human rights of its citizens. 

What's already happening in Xinjiang is a warning the rest of the world must heed.

2min 44sec @theeconomist clip - America v China: a new kind of cold war

text from youtube "America and China are fighting over far more than trade. If this growing rivalry is managed badly, everybody will lose.

The dispute between the United States and China is about much more than trade. For everything from blockbuster films to lunar exploration. From semiconductors to submarines.

In every domain, they’re now rivals. Superpower relations have soured. America thinks that China is stealing secrets, stealing its way to dominance. And then it looks at Chinese behaviour in the South China sea
and bullying countries like Canada and Sweden and it thinks that China’s beginning to challenge global norms.

But it looks very different from Beijing. From its point of view America is trying to block its entirely justified rise.

For everyone else it seems like the beginnings of a new kind of cold war. A cold war that everybody could lose. Of course America has fought a cold war before with the Soviet Union and it won. So why not just do the same thing again and cut China off? Isolate it economically.

Well it’s a bit more complicated than that. In the late 1980s the United States and the Soviet Union did about $2bn-worth of trade a year. Today China and the United States do $2bn-worth of trade a day. And then there are the allies who helped America in the first cold war with the Soviet Union. Well they do a lot of business with China. They want to be able to trade with it. It would cost them a lot to stop.

So to persuade them that they must choose security over their own prosperity would be very hard indeed.

The first thing is that the United States needs to build on its strengths. These are often institutions and alliances. The institutions that the United States built after the second world war. The second thing the United States needs to do is to shore up its defences. And that means defending itself militarily through cyber and space but also defending its technology. But the third thing is that the United States and China
need to learn how to live together in a low-trust world. China and America don’t have to agree about everything in order to agree that they should live by some global norms. So you need to find ways to build trust, over North Korea say, over rules for cyberwar or space war.

China is challenging America in every domain. Business and a profit motive are no longer enough to keep this relationship together. What the relationship desperately needs is the building of trust and the building of rules. Unfortunately just now both sides see rules as something to break.

12min #crashcourse - China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera: Crash Course Theater #25

Text from youtube "This week we're headed to China to learn about the ancient origins of theater there. We'll look at the early days of wizard theater (not a typo), the development of classical Chinese theater, and the evolution of Beijing Opera. "

#infographic - Is #USA or #China the World’s Economic #Superpower?

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53sec #wef clip - #China and #India will make up for America's climate change reversal

1min 9sec @wef clip - #India 's population will overtake #China 's in the next 6 years

1min 3sec @wef clip on 7 things you need to know about #China 's #economy

50sec @wef clip - #China 's #cities are growing much faster than you think

1min 5sec @wef clip - #China is conducting scientific #research on an enormous scale