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Taiwan and its huge silicon foundry look set to become the centre of the geopolitical conflict between the US and China
Our digital civilisation, if you can call it that, runs on just two numbers – 0 and 1. The devices we call computers run on vast strings of ones and zeros. How? By having electrical currents that are either flowing or not. The tiny electronic switches that decide whether they’re on (1) or off (0) are .
Once upon a time, these were tangible objects: I remember buying one with my pocket money in the 1950s for a radio receiver I was building. But rapidly they were reduced in size, to the point where electrical circuits using them could be etched on thin wafers of silicon. Which I guess is how they came to be called silicon “chips”.

Wang Yi spoke at the Munich Security Conference as suspense mounted over whether he might meet on the sidelines with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken.

Regarding the Chinese surveillance balloon, the Vice President tells Mitchell, “We shot it down because it needed to be shot down, because we were confident that it was used by China to spy on the ...

China’s most senior diplomat Wang Yi described the shooting down of a balloon by the US as 'absurd' and 'bordering on hysteria', as well as an abuse of the use of force. Speaking at the Munich security conference, Wang said: 'It does not show the US is strong; on the contrary, it shows it is weak'

Wang Yi also says China is preparing to outline position on Russian war against Ukraine
China’s most senior diplomat has described the shooting down of a balloon by the US as “absurd and hysterical”, as well as an abuse of the use of force.
Speaking on stage at the Munich security conference on Saturday, Wang Yi said: “It does not show the US is strong; on the contrary it shows it is weak”. The foreign affairs director said he believed was part of an attempt to divert attention from the domestic problems of the Biden administration.

Incidents like the Chinese spying balloon could too easily spiral out of control in the future, ending in disaster
Much uncertainty still surrounds China’s balloon spying program and the other mysterious objects that have now been identified over North American airspace. One thing seems certain, however: incidents like these could too easily spiral out of control in the future, ending in disaster. Unless something is done, dangerous waters lie ahead. Unfortunately, both sides are reluctant to do what’s needed.
Let’s make no bones about it. It would be better if China didn’t spy on the United States. Any US leader would be hard pressed not to shoot down a Chinese object that the American public has seen flying over US sovereign airspace – as President Biden decided to do on 4 February. But the reality is that events like this will be more and more likely in the next decade as the United States and China bump up against each other globally. The risk of clashes in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea have preoccupied military experts for years, but the balloon incident shows they could happen almost anywhere.

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Ding Jiaxi also tells lawyer he is worried about health after being held for more than three years
The detained human rights activist has expressed concern for who have disappeared since participating in the “blank paper” protests against the zero-Covid policy in China last year.
At least 16 of them are still in police detention, according to names gathered by activists, while Ding himself has been detained for more than three years.

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South Africa is set to start joint naval drills with Russia and China, despite criticism from American, European and even some South African officials that it looks like an endorsement of Russia’s Ukraine war.

Wang Yi, China's top diplomat, called the U.S. reaction to the balloon incident "absurd and hysterical" in his remarks at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. Why it matters: The incident, ...

‘Electronics and optics’ among wreckage of suspected surveillance craft shot down off South Carolina after recovery efforts end
The US has finished work to recover sunken remnants of the Chinese balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina and the debris reinforces that it was for spying, officials have said.
The White House national security spokesman, John Kirby, said the wreckage included “electronics and optics” but declined to say what the US had learned from it so far.