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Our iOS app got banned from the Chinese appstore because it is able to influence public opinion or is "Capable of Social Mobilization".
See our blog post for details: https://monal-im.org/post/00010-ios-banned/
iOS app banned from chinese appstore
Some may have predicted it, but now it happened: the chinese government banned Monal from the chinese appstore. Below is the complete email we got from Apple regarding this ban.Thilo Molitor (Monal)
This one arrived yesterday 😊 Looking forward to reading it!
#AmReading #books #bookstodon #China #literature
Beijing supports 'full' UN membership for Palestinian state, says Chinese FM Wang Yi
> Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday says that Beijing supports the “full” membership of the Palestinian state in the United Nations.
> “We support #Palestine becoming a formal member of the United Nations,” foreign minister Wang Yi told journalists at a press conference. https://www.firstpost.com/world/china-un-palestinian-state-wang-yi-two-sessions13746083-13746083.html #UN #China #Israel
Beijing supports 'full' UN membership for Palestinian state, says Chinese FM Wang Yi
The Chinese foreign minister added that the ’long-cherished wish’ of the Palestinian people to create an independent country can no longer be ignored and that ’the historical injustice suffered by the Palestinian people cannot continue for generation…Ayndrila Banerjee (Firstpost)
How a Malaysian Chinese would behave in the US Congress TikTok interrogation 😆
Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of #China’s economic growth in 2023
#cleanenergy
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-was-top-driver-of-chinas-economic-growth-in-2023/
Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023 - Carbon Brief
Solar power, along with manufacturing capacity for solar panels, EVs and batteries, were the main focus of China’s clean-energy investments in 2023Lauri Myllyvirta (Carbon Brief)
Basque musician Ibantuta took his oud and made a trip along the Silk Road. This is a clip from China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic_ZjSrJa_o&t=71s
#WorldMusic #China #NowListening #MastoMusic
When Oud meets Guzheng | Kunming, China
Kunming, China. The meeting of the Oud and its cousin, the Guzheng, in a park, reflecting Chinese culture and way of life.Title: Flowers full bloom 山丹丹花开红艳艳A...YouTube
One of the phrases that’s been popular in China this year according to this article: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1014370
For more context, people in China have been assembling plain white bread sandwiches to try to understand how we live in this part of the world, and they are posting through it (the idea of eating anything cold or raw, especially a vegetable, is seen as especially disgusting in the Chinese world, with some exceptions)
#Food #China #Language #Chinese #Mandarin
‘Lunch of suffering’: plain ‘white people food’ goes viral in China
Social media platforms inundated with users amused and bemused by raw vegetables and cold sandwichesRafqa Touma (The Guardian)
I come back to this Tang Dynasty-inspired dance all the time. Love the music, especially when it is sung Chinese opera style, and definitely the beautiful dance, which is about Princess Anle, an arrogant and willful princess who helped overthrow her father and ended up beheaded by rebels.
I know right? Griiim.
https://youtu.be/YQnlHKLuVnY?si=A4rucpU4pEK1sHI7
Classical Chinese dance 'Once Upon a Time in Luoyang' by Tang Shiyi | 舞蹈：唐诗逸《洛阳旧事》| CNODDT
When snow falls on Luoyang (a city in central China’s Henan province considered as one of the cradles of Chinese civilization), the peerless beauty wakes up ...YouTube
As the scale of the environmental and economic damage from #Dnipro dam destruction is not yet fully comprehended, I just wanted to make one note on social perception of risk.
For the last year everyone has been concerned about about the hypothetical threat of #nuclear power plant attacks in Zaporizhzhia NPP. It never happened thanks to mobilization of international community to execute pressure on Russian occupational forces that included numerous visits of IAEA, diplomats from the West and China etc and even installing a permanent IAEA monitoring mission in ZNPP.
At the same time, over one night #Russia has materialized actual threat of scale that may go well beyond any worst case scenario in ZNPP after it was shut down. Warnings about impact of a hydro dam failure were already voiced in 2022 after Russia has planted explosives on the dam in Novaya Khakovka and hinted it will be used as a weapon if necessary. But there were no Chinese diplomats coming to Moscow, no IEA monitoring mission on the dam and media forgot about it the next day.
Why? Because water seems to be a “natural” threat that everyone is familiar with. In case of #Fukushima it was the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that killed over 20’000 people but world’s attention is still focused on the nuclear plant disaster today where zero people were killed. Some environmental organisations intentionally distorted the tragedy by attributing all these deaths to the plant failure!
Is water any safer? Well, it’s not - if you’re killed by water, you’re dead in the same way as if you were hypothetically killed by gamma radiation. 1975 Banqiao dam disaster[^1] in #China killed 26,000 to 240,000 people, and rendered 12’000 km2 unusable for decades due to sediments and pollution. Since then, there’s a few dam failures[^2] globally almost each year - e.g. 2021 Rishiganga dam killed over 60 people. Last dam failures in USA were in 2020. Fujinuma dam failure in Japan in 2011 as result of the same Tōhoku earthquake killed 8 people, which is 8 more than Fukushima NPP disaster!
Yet hydro power is widely considered “clean and safe”, which is pretty much the same cognitive bias as legal qualification of gloves or boots used at a nuclear power plant as “nuclear waste”, while coal ash or natural gas mining tailings are not, even though they have much higher actual content of radioactive elements 🤷♂️ In terms of human deaths per amount of electricity, hydro power is 43x more deadly than nuclear,[^3] which is why it’s important to look at the actual data and science rather than yield to the socially accepted biases, where coal is “dirty but safe” and hydro power is “clean and safe”. You can’t talk over physics, which is why in countries that do this[^4] you can actually see more people being harmed,[^5] and the fact they’re harmed by “natural” coal or water doesn’t make a slightest difference to them.
[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure [^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure#List_of_major_dam_failures [^3]: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy [^4]: https://write.as/arcadian/ideological-origins-of-energiewende [^5]: https://grist.org/energy/the-cost-of-germany-going-off-nuclear-power-thousands-of-lives/
The cost of Germany turning off nuclear power: Thousands of lives
Shutting down nuclear plants makes way for a silent killer: Air pollution.Nathanael Johnson (Grist)
As the #Wuhan #summer #heat approaches (it's only 33°C today, so we're not there yet) there's a couple of perfect comfort foods for coping with it. Today's lunch is #凉皮 (#liángpí, lit. "cold skin"), it's originally from #Shǎnxī (often spelled #Shaanxi to distinguish it from #Shānxī without having to use tone diacritics) but has since spread around pretty much the entire northern half of #China to all the provinces neighbouring it, including where I live in #Hubei. You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liangpi
Served chilled, it is one of the best ways to combat summer heat, able somehow to cool better than the Wuhan-local #凉面 (#liángmiàn, lit. "cold noodles") despite those being chilled as well.
What you see here is the liangpi before it gets mixed up. Only barely visible in the shot (through the little loop of noodle at the very bottom) is the preserved egg that was added because I love #CenturyEggs.
