China news roundup / Nachrichten 2026-04-20/21

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Why China Wants to Host the New BBNJ Secretariat

"China hopes that through its efforts, the BBNJ Secretariat will go beyond administrative and executive functions to promote cooperation, particularly by advancing the equitable sharing of benefits from marine genetic resources, capacity building, and technology transfer"

--- Equitable sharing of marine resources. And that's coming from China, which has the largest fishing fleets in the world, which empty all the oceans.

"others think it would impose a binding obligation on China to act with greater restraint and flexibility"

"the campaign constitutes the latest move of China to galvanize its international reputation as a responsible power"

--- Well, you can see what a responsible power like China actually does:

China moves to block entrance to disputed South China Sea shoal, images show

"China is employing ships and a barrier to tighten control of the entrance to the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea
[...] China has kept a deployment of coast guard and fishing trawlers at the shoal since seizing it in 2012 after a standoff with the Philippines.
Manila has said Chinese maritime militia operate some trawlers at the shoal and other disputed areas of the South China Sea, but Beijing has never acknowledged this.
A landmark 2016 ruling on various South China Sea issues by the Permanent Court of Arbitration backed Manila, but establishing sovereignty over Scarborough Shoal was outside its scope.
The court said Beijing's blockade there violated international law as it was a traditional fishing ground for several countries, including China, the Philippines and Vietnam."

--- And that country is supposed to get the Bureau for Ocean Governance?

China warns joint US, Philippines and Japan drills risk regional trust

""We would like to remind the relevant countries that persisting in tying themselves together on security will only lead to setting themselves on fire and backfiring,""

--- Translation: We would really like to fight all these countries one after another, not all at once.

Beijing tightens its grip on AI firms that try to shed their Chinese ties

"“from the government’s point of view, the Manus exodus was a slap in the face when the official narrative was telling tech companies that we have the market and the capital to help you make it big.”
“China,” he added, “needed to show that what Manus did was wrong.”"

--- But what it actually showed was this:

"This means that to access Western capital, Chinese AI entrepreneurs may have to establish companies outside China from the start"

--- Just don't start anything in China in the first place.

A Chinese android just ran a half-marathon faster than any human ever

"Lightning, a running robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor, finished the 21-kilometer run in Beijing in a stunning 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by more than six minutes."

--- In other news, a rocket without any legs was able to get much higher into the air than any human ever jumped.
Gosh, Western media are so gullible. Most of these robots were not robots at all, but remote control toys. The winner might have been autonomous, but I'm not sure about that either. But even then, they were programmed to run a certain distance and a certain way. Not as if they were AI controlled as some claim.

Europe: China’s censorship of cultural institutions must be challenged

"According to the Guardian, the V&A has removed content in exhibition catalogues on at least two occasions. Following pressure from its China-based catalogue publisher, C&C Offset Printing, the V&A removed an illustration from a catalogue for the Music is Black exhibition, which launched in mid-April. The publisher reportedly told the museum that the 1930s illustration of trade routes from the British Empire depicted map borders that conflict with directives from the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), one of China’s preeminent censors, and should be removed.
In 2021, the V&A also removed a map, along with a photograph of Vladimir Lenin, from a catalogue for an exhibition on Fabergé eggs following similar pressure.
As reported by the Guardian, the V&A, like other cultural institutions in the United Kingdom, including the Tate, the British Museum, and the British Library, have all used Chinese printing firms for catalogues and books because they tend to be much cheaper than European publishers. However, in doing so, they have had to contend with information control requests on topics sensitive to the CCP, especially around subjects including Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, or Tibet."

--- That's what happens when you make yourself dependent on cheap production in China. Morons.

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Student allegedly jailed in China for six years after taking part in pro-democracy protests in Australia

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Art on trial - a sculptor's arrest highlights new extremes for censorship in China

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--- China Uncensored: "I’ve Never Seen the CCP This Scared Before"

--- China Uncensored: "China Is Making Its Move"

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Roboter laufen den Menschen erstmals davon

"Die ferngesteuerte Version des Humanoids "Blitz" des Smartphone-Herstellers Honor kam - trotz eines Sturzes - nach 48:19 Minuten durchs Ziel. Er war damit etwa neun Minuten schneller als der Weltrekord eines Menschen, der bei 57:20 Minuten liegt.
Gewonnen hat allerdings ein anderer "Blitz" in der autonom laufenden Version - obwohl er zwei Minuten später ins Ziel kam. Das liegt an den Regeln des Wettlaufs, die bei der Leistung einen Unterschied zwischen ferngesteuerten und autonom laufenden Robotern machen. Bei den Ferngesteuerten wird eine Zeit aufgeschlagen."

--- Ferngestellte Spielzeuge sind aber nun mal keine Roboter. Und selbst die Maschinen, die halbwegs autonom unterwegs waren, waren vermutlich auf genau diese Strecke programmiert. Wirklich autonom war da relativ wenig.
Oft sah das ganze ungefähr so aus.

"China betont, bei der KI-Entwicklung einen "menschenzentrierten" Ansatz zu verfolgen."

Journalisten rausgeschmissen: Martullo-Blocher dealt mit Chinesen

"Die Presse war von der chinesischen Botschaft zu der Veranstaltung eingeladen worden. Peking macht keinen Hehl aus seinem Wunsch nach Annäherung und einer Steigerung der Schweizer Investitionen in China. Im Gegenzug sollen Schweizer Unternehmen Zugang zu einem der grössten Märkte der Welt erhalten und gleichzeitig ihre Produktionskosten senken können. In Bern angekommen, dann der Paukenschlag: Die Podiumsdiskussion war für die eingeladene Presse nun doch nicht zugänglich. Nach Rückfrage stellte sich heraus, dass es die Schweizer Unternehmen waren, die ihren Austausch mit ihren chinesischen Partnern nicht in den Medien publik machen wollten."

--- Soll halt keiner wissen, wie wir geldgeilen Arschlöcher mit kommunistischen Diktatoren kooperieren.

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--- Weltspiegel: Seltene Erden – giftiger Rohstoffabbau für die Hightechindustrie