Le Covid pourrait-il être un piège qui ferait vaciller le maître de la Chine, Xi Jinping ? Sa stratégie « zéro Covid » est appliquée d’une main de fer dans certaines régions du pays. Shangaï et Pékin ont enfermé leurs habitants pour un confinement drastique d’une durée indéterminée. Des bataillons
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Xi Jinping a opté pour une posture prudente en attendant l’issue de la guerre russe en Ukraine. En lançant une invasion d’envergure de l’Ukraine dans la nuit du 23 au 24 février dernier, le Kremlin s’est immédiatement retrouvé face à trois fronts : le théâtre de la guerre en Ukraine ; les condamnations internationales
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En matière d’urgence climatique sommes-nous définitivement en train de marcher sur la tête ? Les organisateurs de la prochaine Coupe du monde de football ont choisi le Qatar alors que l’on sait que les températures y seront insoutenables. Même pas peur : des stades complètement climatisés seront construits. Une gabegie énergétique. Les
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Le mystère reste entier sur le rôle de la Chine dans la propagation du coronavirus. Vient-il d’un animal ou s’est-il échappé d’un laboratoire ? Nul ne le sait définitivement aujourd’hui tant les frontières chinoises sont hermétiques à ce type d’investigation. Pourtant certains scientifiques commencent à parler et rappellent des faits qui
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Red Mirror : L’avenir s’écrit en Chine, de Simone Pieranni – C&F Editions, collection Société numérique, 10 février 2021 – Traduit de l’italien par Fausto Giudice, avec un cahier photo de Gilles Sabrié – 184 pages La Chine a longtemps été considérée comme « l’usine du monde » fabriquant pour
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Beijing has announced a "complete" ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals, a practice suspected to be at the root of the coronavirus outbreak that began in December in central China and now threatens the world with a pandemic. This announcement is good news for the advocates of
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The images are impressive: ghost towns deserted by their millions of inhabitants, masked men, convoys of people taken to containment centres, closed borders. The Chinese coronavirus has triggered a fever of anxiety, if not panic. A fever fought with the most effective means
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Doctors, WHO scientists and all public health organizations kept telling us this. We are on the brink of a devastating global pandemic. The question that no one can answer is that of the source of this expected and almost certain disease.
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According to research conducted in China on large population samples, air pollution causes a "huge" reduction in intelligence. The findings reveal that the damage caused to society by toxic air is much more profound than the well-known impacts on
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Leaving for an afternoon of shopping with no cash, no credit card, no checkbook, no smartphone... What's the point? It will be impossible for you to buy anything. But if you are Chinese, your smile will be enough to pay for all your shopping. Your face as a wallet? An innovation that
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The trade war has intensified since Washington raised tariffs on Chinese products in early May. It is now coupled with a technological war: the Trump administration has banned American companies from selling technology to Huawei, the world's second largest smartphone manufacturer, jeopardizing the supply of Chinese products.
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Since March 2018, when Donald Trump decided to increase customs duties on Chinese imports, the world has been watching in disbelief as two superpowers, China and the United States, have been in a feverish rush. Against the backdrop of global leadership; on stage and in the light, a game of arms
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The information was published in China in the Beijing National Science Review on March 27 and revealed to the world by the MIT Review today, April 10. Chinese geneticists are believed to have succeeded in introducing copies of a human gene suspected of playing a role in the development of the brain of monkeys.
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As an important international meeting is being held in Geneva to lay the foundations for peace in space, Star Trek-style boot noises are being heard. Washington accuses Russia and China of an arms race in space. An escalation whose risk
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You are ready to go on holiday, your luggage is packed, your rooms are booked; there is only one problem: the government has cancelled your tickets. This is happening in China and tens of millions of Chinese people are being punished because their "social credit score" has been "too high".
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The information had been around the world last November. A Chinese researcher, Jiankui He, alone in his laboratory, reportedly delivered the first two genetically modified babies. Using the CRISPR molecular scissors, he would have intervened on certain genes to prevent these babies from getting HIV.
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Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first steps on the Moon, our natural satellite is once again arousing interest and excitement. On January 2, China landed its Chang'e-4 module on the far side of the Moon. A historic first on this unexplored side
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Thanks to CRISPR, this Chinese researcher was able, almost alone, to produce genetically modified babies. The information went around the world in just a few hours: a Chinese researcher announced this week that he had been able to deliver two genetically modified babies. A world premiere that has propelled
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In China, Western pharmaceutical multinationals still have a bright future ahead of them. But beware of the local industry, which no longer wants to confine itself to subcontracting and generics, but is in turn banking on quality and innovation. With a local pharmaceutical market estimated at 106 billion euros
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