Friday, April 03, 2020

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China and Huawei propose reinvention of the internet New architecture would enable cutting-edge technologies but western countries fear more control for state-run internet services ....... China has suggested a radical change to the way the internet works to the UN, in a proposal that claims to enable cutting-edge technologies such as holograms and self-driving cars but which critics say will also bake authoritarianism into the architecture underpinning the web.  ....... The proposal has caused concerns among western countries including the UK, Sweden and the US, who believe the system would splinter the global internet and give state-run internet service providers granular control over citizens’ internet use. It has gained the support of Russia, and potentially Saudi Arabia ........ Huawei describes the existing internet infrastructure that underpins global networks — known as TCP/IP — as “unstable” and “vastly insufficient” to meet the requirements of the digital world by 2030, including self-driving cars, the ubiquitous internet of things and “holo-sense teleportation”. ....... “The research and innovation of New IP is open to scientists and engineers worldwide to participate in and contribute to” ...... New IP will enable “fine-grained controls in the foundations of the network” and that the Chinese approach “will lead to more centralised, top-down control of the internet and potentially even its users, with implications on security and human rights”. ...... TCP/IP is to the wired world what DNA is to the biological one ...... a more efficient address system is needed for emerging technologies. ...... New IP would provide this, allowing devices within the same network to communicate directly with each other without having to send information across the internet. ...... New IP would have something described as a “shut up command”, where a central point in the network could effectively cut off communication to or from a particular address, according to a source who was present. He described this feature as a “fundamental departure” from the current network model which acts as an “agnostic postman that simply moves boxes around”............. The quote 'one which is very free and open and . . . government hands-off “ is an invalid statement. We are being monitored by all the devices and by all the intelligence services of the great Empire. We have the largest prison camp in the world. We don't have voting rights for those incarcerated. They have no voice - none at all while, during the court hearings and none during incarceration and none after releasing to the society back to suffer. A large number of eligible voters are 'unregistered' and ineligible to vote . We have 800 or so military bases ruling over the world - the people's lives, their communications, their movements are controlled - in short we regulate the world. We have the exclusive super power tools - the Military and the Monetary powers to conduct Wars. So even now the people are not free; the essential economic freedom is constricted. ....... Internet is a top down structure. Now controlled by the US. In the new proposal a kind of local autonomy is envisaged for local coverage. ........ Don't give sainthood to the Western Democracies, herein ruling elites are far removed from the people. I say in China meritocracy dominates over Democracy, but humanity is not lost. For the common folks in both Nations lives are of the same nature. ......... Yes internet has to evolve but definitely not by the Chinese who have practiced genocide with its people ( famine) and are perfecting the art of citizen control. ...... Oh please, all of this concern for privacy of citizens' internet use was revealed to be a thorough sham by Assange, Snowden et. al. They exposed what the NSA and GCHQ were up to while western governments hid behind this sham of privacy rights and other feel good what not.... At least with the Chinese, its unambiguous that one is being surveilled. I much prefer that to western subterfuge. ........

How to get stimulus money direct deposits will begin by April 17 and checks will start being mailed in three weeks. ....... The IRS announced it will create an online portal for people to update or input their direct deposit details. ....... freelancers, sole proprietors and gig workers are all eligible for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. ....... The disaster loans, which are for those in a state that has declared a state of emergency, have a 3.75% interest rate for businesses and 2.75% rate for nonprofits and will have to be paid back. If you apply for these loans, you are eligible to apply for a $10,000 grant that you would receive three days after applying. ...... Business owners and sole proprietors can begin applying for the PPP loans on April 3, and freelancers and individual contractors can apply on April 10 ...... PPP loans can be forgiven if the funds are used for payroll expenses, mortgage payments, or rent and utility costs within eight weeks of receiving the loan. ...... Part-time workers or those who are self-employed, including gig workers, contractors and freelancers, are now eligible to apply for unemployment benefits. ....... The amount each person receives will depend upon which state they live in, but those who apply and receive benefits should expect $600 on top of what their state provides until July 31. ...... Workers can receive payments for up to 39 weeks.



Coronavirus: Chinese academics’ open letter urges Beijing, Washington to come together to beat Covid-19 The open letter was the idea of Wang Wen, executive dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University in Beijing, who said its aim was not only to show the willingness of China’s intellectual elite to promote solidarity and reduce tensions, but to make clear that the priority right now was saving lives. .......

described the Covid-19 pandemic as a “global issue that overrides geopolitics concerns”.



China’s coronavirus ‘victory’ and Britain’s threat of a ‘reckoning’ show two countries out of touch with the post-Covid-19 future the Communist Party has declared “victory” over the virus, and bearing news that the war is not actually won could be a sure path to demotion. ........ a “senior [UK] government source” claiming that after the coronavirus crisis was over, China would face a “reckoning” and might become a “pariah state”. ....... wanted to go “back to the diplomatic drawing board” with Beijing when the crisis was over. ...... Britain is angry with China in a way that would have seemed bizarre just two months ago, when Johnson risked the wrath of Donald Trump by allowing Huawei to bid to provide elements of Britain’s 5G network. ......

both China’s virus “victory” and Britain’s threat of a reckoning suggest something more ominous: a lack of reality about the geopolitical future once the disease really has retreated.

....... The virus has devastated the world economy for the immediate future, and this creates a major issue for Brexit Britain, still due to leave the structures of the EU single market on December 31 with no idea what trading arrangements it will have with the rest of Europe or the rest of the world. ...... The model of “hard Brexit” pursued by the Johnson administration is based on the idea that the UK would be entirely separate from any of the world’s largest trading blocs, but simultaneously part of a network of free-trade agreements policed by the World Trade Organisation. ..... Rage against China is perhaps an understandable reaction in the circumstances. But it is a reaction that is unsupported by strategy. ........ the EU, the international entity with the most interest in raising such issues on the international stage, but with which the British government is still in a form of Cold War, even during the virus crisis. ...... any “reckoning” makes the likelihood of opening China’s markets, one of the prizes hinted at by Brexiteers for the past four years, much harder to achieve. ..... In a strange way, Britain and China find themselves in a geopolitically similar position. Both are countries which are globally admired for aspects of what they do. But they are both a long way from the sweet spot that would give them a globally plausible voice when the virus crisis is over.

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