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Hong Kong Customs holds high-level meeting with Mainland Customs and Macao Customs to combat smuggling activities (with photos) China's Social Credit System

Hong Kong Customs holds high-level meeting with Mainland Customs and Macao Customs to combat smuggling activities (with photos)

Hong Kong Customs holds high-level meeting with Mainland Customs and Macao Customs to combat smuggling activities (with photos) ******************************************************************************************      ​The High-level Meeting on Combating Smuggling Activities between Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao Customs was held by Hong Kong Customs, the Anti-Smuggling Bureau of the General Administration of Customs of the…
bubmag
February 17, 2023
‘Will the Boat Sink the Water?’ investigated rural China like no one had before China's Social Credit System

‘Will the Boat Sink the Water?’ investigated rural China like no one had before

“In China two years ago, the original edition, An Investigation of the Chinese Peasantry, sold 250,000 copies and even got a good review in the People’s Daily. But the censors, whose fear makes them unpredictable, banned it. The authors, a husband-and-wife, have been harassed but their views have spread; apparently…
bubmag
February 16, 2023
Revenue of Mini-Game “Sheep a Sheep” Developer Breaks $15.6B China's Social Credit System

Revenue of Mini-Game “Sheep a Sheep” Developer Breaks $15.6B

At the 2022 Game Industry Conference, Beijing Jianyou Technology Co., Ltd., the developer of the pass-through mini game “Sheep a Sheep”, which became a national online sensation on China’s social media last year, said that the company’s revenue had exceeded 100 million ($15.6 billion), and the team had expanded from…
bubmag
February 16, 2023
Biden seeks to turn voters against Republicans by casting them as spendthrifts – live China's Social Credit System

Biden seeks to turn voters against Republicans by casting them as spendthrifts – live

US govt may run out of money between July and September: CBOCongress’s budget analysts estimate the United States will exhaust its bank accounts and could default on its obligations for the first time in history sometime between July and September, unless lawmakers agree to increase the debt limit. In a…
bubmag
February 15, 2023
China’s Pig High-Rises Are Horrifying. So Are America’s Factory Farms. China's Social Credit System

China’s Pig High-Rises Are Horrifying. So Are America’s Factory Farms.

Every few months in recent years, Western news readers have been treated to a macabre tale: companies in China building massive multistory pig factory farms to feed the country’s appetite for pork. The agro-industrial phantasmagoria grows in scale with every iteration. Last week, The New York Times reported the construction…
bubmag
February 15, 2023
China Inflates Balloon Tensions by Doubling Down on U.S. Overflight Claim China's Social Credit System

China Inflates Balloon Tensions by Doubling Down on U.S. Overflight Claim

China is doubling down on the claim that American balloons have overflown its airspace without permission despite a series of flat-out denials by senior officials in the United States. Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, said at a press briefing on Tuesday that high-altitude balloons released from…
bubmag
February 14, 2023