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@ISIDEWITH submitted…1 day1D
Chinese people know their country’s internet is different. There is no Google, YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. They use euphemisms online to communicate the things they are not supposed to mention. When their posts and accounts are censored, they accept it with resignation.They live in a parallel online universe. They know it and even joke about it.Now they are discovering that, beneath a facade bustling with short videos, livestreaming and e-commerce, their internet — and collective online memory — is disappearing in chunks.The number of Chinese language websites is now only slightly higher than those in Indonesian and Vietnamese, and smaller than those in Polish and Persian. It’s half the number of Italian language sites and just over a quarter of those in Japanese.One reason for the decline is that it is technically difficult and costly for websites to archive older content, and not just in China. But in China, the other reason is political.
@XerusEmiliafrom South Carolina submitted…1 day1D
Turkey would like to join the BRICS group of nations and intends to bring up the issue at an upcoming meeting of the economic bloc’s foreign-ministry heads in Russia, the country’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan announced on Tuesday.”We cannot ignore the fact that BRICS, as an important cooperation platform, offers some other countries a good alternative,” Fidan said, noting that while the group still has “a long way to go,” Ankara sees the “potential in BRICS.”BRICS is an acronym that represents an association of five major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The term was coined in 2001 by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill to describe these countries that he believed would play a significant role in the global economy by 2050. South Africa joined the group in 2010, expanding the acronym to BRICS from its original BRIC (without South Africa). The organization aims to deepen economic cooperation among member nations and increase their economic and political standing in the world. It's like a superhero team of countries, but instead of fighting supervillains, they're working together to boost their economies and challenge the traditional Western sphere of power.
The Biden administration has confirmed that the US president will not be attending an upcoming summit in Switzerland on the Ukraine conflict, and will send Vice President Kamala Harris and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan instead.Media reports suggest Joe Biden will be going to a pre-election fundraiser taking place at the same time as the conference in mid-June. Biden’s travel itinerary had him scheduled to visit Europe later this week, to attend the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings in France and “part of” the G7 summit, scheduled for June 13-15 in the south of Italy. This had given rise to speculation that he could “stop by” Switzerland or have Zelensky come to him.Last week, the Ukrainian leader tried to pressure the US president into lending legitimacy to the “peace summit,” arguing that his absence would “not be a particularly strong move,” and would let down other world leaders who “need President Biden.”Zelensky also claimed that anyone who missed the conference was a tool of Russian President Vladimir Putin.