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The United States said at a summit with Pacific island leaders that it had agreed on a partnership for the future with them and held out the prospect of “big dollar” help to a region where it hopes to stem China’s expanding influence.

The Washington Post quoted US officials as saying the Biden administration would announce it would invest more than $860m in expanded programs to aid the islands at the two-day summit, on top of more than $1.5bn provided in the past decade.

The White House had no immediate comment on the funding figure, but a US official said the newspaper’s reporting that all the visiting leaders had endorsed an 11-point statement of vision committing to joint endeavours was accurate.

They included Solomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare, whose government had earlier indicated it would not sign the declaration, raising further concerns about his ties to China. Sogavare’s spokesman had no immediate comment.
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US strikes partnership deal with Pacific Island leaders at historic summit

US official says Pacific leaders endorsed joint statement one day after leaked documents showed discord among the group over proposals
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The lead-up to the meeting had been clouded by the leak of documents showing that Solomon Islands had rejected a draft US agreement with the region and that Micronesian leaders had raised serious concerns about the level of financial assistance on offer.

A leaked note seen by the Guardian, written by the embassy of Solomon Islands in New York, announced that the country, which signed a controversial security deal with China in April, would not be endorsing a regional diplomatic agreement being proposed by the US.
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As part of a new strategy, the US would appoint its first envoy to focus on the Pacific Islands and was adding three more diplomatic missions in the region, bringing the total from six to nine, officials said.

The US would also resume a USAID office in Fiji and expand contacts through the Coast Guard, defence department and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The US as well as Australia and New Zealand, which are participating in the summit as observers, had a wake-up call when Solomon Islands signed its secretive security pact with China.

After intensive US and Australian appeals, the broader region rejected an overarching pact with China. But western officials fear that Beijing will use Solomon Islands as a base to expand militarily into the Pacific or to pressure Taiwan, a self-governing democracy claimed by Beijing.

Sogavare, in a speech at the United Nations last week, vowed that his tiny country “will not be coerced into choosing sides”.
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Paraguay, one of Taiwan’s few remaining formal allies, has asked the island’s government for $1bn (£930m) in investment to ensure it can resist pressure to switch its diplomatic ties to China.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Paraguay’s president, Mario Abdo Benítez, said his government was working with Taiwan’s to ensure Paraguayans felt “the real benefits of the strategic alliance”.

“There is Taiwanese investment of more than $6bn in countries which don’t have diplomatic relations with Taiwan, we want from that $1bn to be put in Paraguay,” he said. “That will help us to build the argument about the importance of this strategic alliance with Taiwan.”
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Paraguay asks Taiwan to invest $1bn to remain allies

Paraguay’s president says money will ensure Asunción can resist pressure to switch its diplomatic ties to China
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China has installed a new production platform near the median line with Japan in the East China Sea. The platform is the first new permanent platform to be installed in the area since 2015, and its construction has drawn protest from Tokyo, which believes the two countries should share the area’s hydrocarbons under international law.

The new rig was constructed in June, first appearing in satellite imagery from Planet Labs on June 28. Imagery from July shows a mobile jack-up rig, the Kan Tan 7, linking up with the new platform:
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China has installed a new production platform near the median line with Japan in the East China Sea. The platform is the first new permanent platform to be installed in the area since 2015, and its construction has drawn protest from Tokyo, which believes the two countries should share the...
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The construction of a new permanent platform suggests that China is increasing its oil and gas production from fields that straddle the median line between China and Japan. Japan claims a full 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and continental shelf in the area, but its domestic law dictates that the median line be treated as a de facto boundary when there are unresolved, overlapping claims with another country. China, meanwhile, claims a 200-nautical mile EEZ in the East China Sea and an extended continental shelf that reaches even further toward Japan.
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The declining birthrate in Taiwan could cause “major challenges” to the island’s military recruitment capabilities, at a time when Taiwan is building its defences to ward off potential Chinese invasion, its government has been told.

Like much of east Asia, Taiwan is facing a demographic crisis, with fewer people having children each year as the population ages. The issue has social and economic effects on countries but in Taiwan there is also concern over its impact on military personnel levels.

In a report to Taiwan’s legislative yuan this week, the interior ministrysaid the number of new conscripts in 2022 would be the lowest level in a decade.

Taiwan’s military comprises a volunteer force combined with male conscripts who must serve at least four months of compulsory basic training. But in March, the number of volunteers recruited reached only 85.3% of its target.

Taiwan began phasing out its conscription model force in 2013, moving towards becoming entirely volunteer-based for its active-duty cohort in 2018.

Recruitment and retention has declined in recent years, at the same time that the military is trying to expand and modernise as it prepares for a potential Chinese invasion.
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Taiwan’s military recruitment pool shrinking due to low birthrate

Number of new conscripts at lowest level in a decade as country tries to build defences amid threat of Chinese invasion
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Taiwan has one of the world’s lowest birthrates, and it continues to decline. Last year, there was a record low of 153,820 registered births. In 2011, there were 196,627.

As well as a shrinking pool of fighting-age adults, military personnel levels have also been hit by low pay discouraging new recruits and a policy that ages people out of active duty at 45.
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Long-distance bus drivers in Beijing are now being told to wear electronic wristbands when on the job. These wristbands claim to be able to capture the wearer’s emotional state, monitoring it on behalf of the employer. The scheme was the idea of the Beijing Public Transport Holding Group. The state-run organization claims the technology is intended for the safety of the public, and a trial of the wristbands began in July this year.

The technology is relatively crude. It doesn’t scan brainwaves or interface directly with the individual on a conscious level. Instead, it monitors the driver’s vital signs much like a common smartwatch. The wristbands capture body temperature, heart rate, blood oxygen levels, and respiratory data. They also reportedly measure blood pressure, exercise levels, and the user’s sleep patterns.

All that data is then processed to generate an idea of the wearer’s emotional state. The wristbands can be monitored in real-time by the organization to keep track of its employees on a live basis.

Legal experts have questioned the value of the monitoring scheme. Issues concern the validity of the conclusions drawn by the wristbands, and the impact this could have on employees. Those that routinely get rated as “angry” or “upset” by the wristbands could be discriminated against or lose their jobs, whether or not their emotional state was accurately assessed or even impacting their work. With something as subjective and malleable as emotional states, it’s also difficult to see how a machine could reliably draw conclusions.

As for the data, it’s also unclear how it would actually be used in practice. If a crash occurs and an employee’s wristband reports they were “agitated” or “sad,” how does that feed into what happens next? Many of us may grow annoyed and frustrated in bad traffic, after all, and that means absolutely nothing if another driver happens to cause an accident with our vehicle. It’s hard to imagine the technology being used in anything but a punitive manner.
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Big Brother Or Dumb Brother? Bus Drivers In Beijing Are Forced To Wear “Emotional Monitors”

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Hotel chain Shangri-La Group has admitted to its systems being attacked, and personal data describing guests accessed by unknown parties, over a timeframe that includes the dates on which a high-level international defence conference was staged at one of its Singapore properties.

“Shangri-La Group recently discovered unauthorized activities on our IT network,” states a notice from the chain that goes on to reveal that “between May and July 2022, a sophisticated threat actor managed to bypass Shangri-La’s IT security monitoring systems undetected, and illegally accessed …. guest databases”.

Data was exfiltrated from the databases, which contained guests' contact information plus encrypted info on dates of birth, identity documents and passport numbers, plus credit card details. Three properties in Hong Kong were attacked, along with one each in Taiwan, Japan and Thailand.

The Shangri-La Singapore and Shangri-La Apartments Singapore were also hit.

Which is where things get interesting, because from June 10 to 12 this year the Singapore hotel hosted the “Shangri-La Dialogue”, an event that bills itself as Asia’s leading defense conference.

Attendees included the prime minister of Japan, US defense secretary Lloyd J Austin III, plus defense ministers and other senior figures from Indonesia, France, Malaysia, Qatar, China, the UK, Germany, and many other nations.

It’s unclear if any or all of the dignitaries at the event stayed at the hotel and therefore had their details registered in the database that was illegally accessed.
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No Shangri-La for you: Top hotel chain confirms data leak

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree
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China appears to have upgraded its Great Firewall, the instrument of pervasive real-time censorship it uses to ensure that ideas its government doesn’t like don’t reach China’s citizens.

Great Firewall Report (GFW), an organization that monitors and reports on China’s censorship efforts, has this week posted a pair of assessments indicating a crackdown on TLS encryption-based tools used to evade the Firewall.

The group’s latest post opens with the observation that starting on October 3, “more than 100 users reported that at least one of their TLS-based censorship circumvention servers had been blocked. The TLS-based circumvention protocols that are reportedly blocked include trojan, Xray, V2Ray TLS+Websocket, VLESS, and gRPC.”

Trojan is a tool that promises it can leap over the Great Firewall using TLS encryption. Xray, V2ray and VLESS are VPN-like internet tunneling and privacy tools. It’s unclear what the reference to gRPC describes – but it is probably a reference to using the gRPC Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework to authenticate client connections to VPN servers.

GFW’s analysis of this incident is that “blocking is done by blocking the specific port that the circumvention services listen on. When the user changes the blocked port to a non-blocked port and keep using the circumvention tools, the entire IP addresses may get blocked.”

Interestingly, domain names used with these tools are not added to the Great Firewall’s DNS or SNI blacklists, and blocking seems to be automatic and dynamic.

“Based on the information collected above, we suspect, without empirical measurement yet, that the blocking is possibly related to the TLS fingerprints of those circumvention tools,” the organisation asserts.

An alternative circumvention tool, naiveproxy, appears not to be impacted by these changes.
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China upgrades Great Firewall to defeat TLS tools

Just in time to ensure nobody can disagree that giving Xi five more years as president is the best idea ever
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Kiinalainen valtiomedia uhkaili Elon Muskia että "saa oppitunnin" Ukraina twiiteistään.

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Former Chinese state media editor threatens Elon Musk on Twitter, warns he will be ‘taught a lesson’

The Global Times tabloid commentator Hu Xijin said that Elon Musk believes too much in "freedom of speech" and warned he would be "taught a lesson."
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Nyt Elon Musk on laukonut FTllä että oikeastaan Taiwanista pitäisi tehdä Kiinan kansantasavallan "erityishallintoalue".

Musk sanoo, että konflikti Taiwanista on väistämätön

Financial Times: Musk aikoo tehdä Taiwanista Kiinan hallinnollisen alueen​


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WASHINGTON, 7. lokakuuta - RIA Novosti. Taiwanin ympärillä tulee väistämättä konflikteja, amerikkalainen liikemies Elon Musk sanoi Financial Times -lehden haastattelussa.

Musk uskoo, että konflikti Taiwanista on väistämätön.
Mahdollisen yhteentörmäyksen estämiseksi liikemies ehdotti saaren tekemistä Kiinan kansantasavallan erityishallintoalueeksi .

"Suositukseni <...> olisi laatia erityinen hallinnollinen vyöhyke Taiwanille. <...> Uskon, että ehkä he voisivat päästä sopimukseen liberaalimmin kuin Hongkongille", Musk lisäsi.


Samalla liikemies myönsi, että kaikki eivät luultavasti pidä hänen ideastaan.
Miljardööri oli jo aiemmin tällä viikolla aiheuttanut Ukrainan vallanpitäjien tyytymättömyyttä esittämällä näkemyksensä entisen neuvostotasavallan tilanteen ratkaisemisesta. Hänen mielestään Krimin pitäisi pysyä osana Venäjää ja toistuvia kansanäänestyksiä tulisi järjestää Donbassin , Khersonin ja Zaporozhyen alueilla YK :n valvonnassa . Lisäksi liikemies vaati takaamaan Krimin niemimaan vesihuollon ja Kiovan neutraalin aseman .
Tilanne Taiwanin ympärillä kärjistyi Yhdysvaltain edustajainhuoneen puhemiehen Nancy Pelosin vierailun jälkeen saarelle . Kiina, joka pitää aluetta yhtenä provinssistaan, tuomitsi Pelosin vierailun nähdessään tässä liikkeessä Yhdysvaltain tuen Taiwanin separatismille ja järjesti laajamittaisia sotaharjoituksia.

Kiinan keskushallinnon ja saaren väliset viralliset suhteet katkesivat vuonna 1949, kun Chiang Kai-shekin johtamat Kuomintangin joukot, jotka kukistettiin sisällissodassa Kiinan kommunistisen puolueen kanssa, muuttivat Taiwaniin. Liike- ja epäviralliset yhteydet maakunnan ja mantereen välillä palasivat 1980-luvun lopulla. 1990-luvun alusta lähtien osapuolet alkoivat olla yhteydessä kansalaisjärjestöihin - erityisesti Taiwanin salmen yli suhteiden kehittämiseen Beijing Associationiin.
 
Taiwanese politicians have dismissed comments from Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, that allowing China to have some control over the island would resolve the cross-strait dispute, urging him to respect the wishes of Taiwan’s citizens.

Musk’s suggestion to “figure out a special administrative zone for Taiwan that is reasonably palatable,” given in an interview with the Financial Times on Saturday, was welcomed by China’s ambassador to the US.

The ambassador, Qin Gang, said “peaceful reunification and ‘one country two systems’ are our basic principles for resolving the Taiwan question … and the best approach to realising national reunification
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Taiwan politicians dismiss Elon Musk’s ‘ill-informed and belittling’ China comments

Musk, the world’s richest person, suggested giving China some control over the island to resolve the cross-strait dispute
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A delegation of more than 30 Solomon Islands police officers has travelled to China to undergo training for the first time, in a sign of deepening ties between the two countries, which signed a controversial security deal earlier this year.

The group of 34 officers, including a deputy and an assistant commissioner, will be in China for a month, during which time they will receive training, visit police stations and departments and learn from the expertise of Chinese police, according to a statement issued by Solomon Islands government.

The officers would also gain a “better understanding of Chinese police, diversified Chinese cultures and friendly Chinese people”, said Counsellor Yao Ming, the deputy head of mission at the Chinese embassy in Honiara, according to the statement.
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First Solomon Islands police head to China for training amid deepening security ties

Thirty-four officers travel to China as part of effort to improve cooperation between the two forces
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The U.S. Army is stepping up its relationship-building efforts in the Pacific region in a bid to counter China’s geopolitical influence.

The U.S. Army has taken part in major exercises in the region like Operation Pathways — and wants to increase its participation, according to Gen. Charles Flynn, the Army’s commander in the Pacific.

“We don’t have a NATO here,” like in Europe, Flynn told Defense News in a recent interview. “We’re not going to have a NATO out here.”

“That means the challenge is much, much more difficult for us because we’ve got to bring together this network of allies and partners and we do that largely through our exercising in the region like Pathways,” he added.

The training is meant to both improve interoperability and bolster joint readiness, Flynn said.

This year, the Army increased its forward presence during Super Garuda Shield — part of Operation Pathways — which brought together 14 nations on Sumatra, Java and Borneo, the main islands in Indonesia.

“It’s really important that that’s a visible sign of the network of allies and partners coming together,” Flynn said.
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‘We don’t have a NATO here’: How the US Army plans to counter China

The U.S. Army is stepping up its relationship-building efforts in the Pacific region in a bid to counter China’s geopolitical influence.
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Tämä on hyvä asia, me aloimme harjoittelemaan ensin ruotsin ja sitten norjan kanssa, mistä myöhemmin kehittyi isompi kokonaisuus ja Nato-liittolaisuus. Tämä on oikea suuntaus.
 
The Chinese city of Shenzhen has proposed a plan to lure semiconductor makers, offering subsidies to the tune of 20 percent of a qualifying applicant's annual investment, up to a maximum of $1.4 million a year.

Once the companies have arrived, the proposal would see the Chinese city assisting in things like obtaining finance and making use of government service and boards.

But the Chinese coastal metropolis, which sits between Hong Kong and the rest of the mainland, doesn't only want to bring home the making of the product itself, it's looking to bring in talent as well. A cool $700,000 was promised to companies looking to bring in "eligible talents" alongside other measures to bring overseas expertise back to China.
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Chinese city of Shenzhen offers free money for chip industry

Throwing cash at industry to keep chip well from running dry as US sanctions continue to bite
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Pahoin pelkään että tästä ketjusta saattaa vielä tulla pidempi kuin Ukraina-ketjusta ennen vuosikymmenen loppua. Lohikäärmeen logistiikka ja tuotatokyky on toista luokkaa Karhuun verrattuna.

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Koronakuri on menestys ja Kiina yhdistää Taiwanin, uhosi Kiinan johtaja merkkipuheessaan

Taiwanin haltuun ottaminen on yhä aikeena. Vihjettä tiukkojen koronarajoitusten purkamisesta ei tullut, kun presidentti Xi Jinping luotasi kommunistisen puolueen puoluekokoukselle tulevia päämääriä.
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