https://www.newsbharati.com/Encyc/2023/1/21/security-scan-27.html
1. Emboldened China Protesters Test Xi’s Resolve
Chinese people find new power to speak up after demonstrations. Authorities are on alert for trouble over biggest holiday of year.
Unrest boiled over in early January, when residents of a central Chinese city flipped over a police car during a heated altercation with law enforcement over the right to set off fireworks, a traditional practice to banish bad luck and usher in a new year. While people usually complain about the curbs, the response this year was unusually violent.
2. China population: new births to fall
As China’s workforce continues to shrink, labour costs will keep rising and some manufacturing industries will look to offshore.By 2050, the median age in China will be 50, while it will be 42.3 years old in the United States and 37.5 in India .
Weary parents in China say the difficulties of juggling work and childcare in a costly and ultra-competitive society with little help from the state are at the root of the country’s dwindling birth rate.
China's fertility rates were already decreasing in the 1970s, and by 1980, the Chinese government formally instituted the controversial one child policy, legally restricting families from having more than one baby. This resulted in low fertility rates and a large ageing population. In 2015, China ended the one-child policy and began allowing married couples to have two children. It expanded the allowance again in 2021, permitting up to three kids.
China's shrinking population will mean the country will see its economic growth shrink.This could stymie economic growth and pile pressure on public coffers.
3. How China sneaks out America's technology secrets
It was an innocuous-looking photograph that turned out to be the downfall of Zheng Xiaoqing, a former employee with energy conglomerate General Electric Power.He hid confidential files stolen from his employers in the binary code of a digital photograph of a sunset, then mailed to himself. It was a technique called steganography, a means of hiding a data file within the code of another data file. He utilised it on multiple occasions to take sensitive files from GE.
4. China tightens media control with stakes in two Alibaba units
Government-backed stakes primarily affect the company’s video platform and web browser business.The two subsidiaries both fall under Alibaba’s entertainment and culture arm. Along with media, finance and energy are the two other industries that Beijing is inclined to control.
5. The U.S. has expanded training provided to the military of Taiwan
The National Guard, a American mlitary force, began training the Taiwanese military before spring 2022.
6. Canada’s New Guidelines for Alcohol Say ‘No Amount’ Is Healthy
The guidance builds on growing evidence, after decades of sometimes conflicting research, that even small amounts of alcohol can have serious health consequences.
7. Ukraine War Update
A Wagner(private Russian army) fighter defects to Norway, promising to expose Russian war crimes in Ukraine.The rare defection by a former member of the notorious Russian paramilitary force could aid investigations into Moscow’s atrocities.
Spies, soldiers and the public are using open-source intelligence.
Its abundance in Ukraine is transforming how the world gathers intelligence.
8. Chat GPT
Chat GPT, the artificial intelligence system that can produce sophisticated essays on complex subjects in seconds,
It will become the “calculator for writing,” according to a leading economist.
The chat bot “will get rid of a lot of routine, rote type of work and at the same time people using it may be able to do more creative work.”
Tremendous capabilities of many disruptive technologies must be utilised fully to close technology gap between India and the developed World.
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