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China Evergrande bonds suspended as prices plunge

Bonds issued by indebted developer China Evergrande Group (3333.HK) slumped on Monday after a ratings downgrade led to restrictions on their use as collateral, prompting China's stock exchanges to halt trade.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange said in a statement that it had temporarily suspended trading in China Evergrande Group's 6.98% July 2022 corporate bond following "abnormal fluctuations." The exchange had also suspended trading in the bond on Friday.
 
Source : Reuters #Sep06 

https://t.co/Nb1jU2ifAB

#China #Evergrande #Shanghai #Stock
The mainland China is rumoured to block foreign artists, Nicholas Tse stated he is doing the withdrawal of Canadian citizenship: I was originally a Chinese 

Source : Stand News #Sep06

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The mainland China is rumoured to block foreign artists, Nicholas Tse stated he is doing the withdrawal of Canadian citizenship: I was originally a Chinese 
 
Mainland China is purging the entertainment industry, and recently there has been a “restriction order” issued by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. In which, it stated part of the artists who own foreign citizenship will have difficulty of getting back to stage of mainland, banned list is including Nicholas Tse, who owns Canadian citizenship. He accepted interview from CCTV and stated, when he saw the comments of saying he is Canadian, he felt surprised and emphasized he has already applied for withdrawal the citizenship.  
 
Nicholas Tse accepted interview of China Movie Report Unit “Lan Yu Reception Room” from CCTV6, the host asked about his works have always hoped to spread Chinese elements, culture, and stories to the world, whether it is because he has a sense of belonging and pride of nation since he was a child. He replied that, when people grow up, there are more they will have this sense of responsibility.  
 
Source : Stand News #Sep06

https://bit.ly/3Cfmunj

#China #NicholasTse #ForeignCitizenship #Canada #CCTV #SenseOfBelonging #Responsibility
Chinese websites adding Invisible Watermarks for national security? A spine-chilling method to stop netizens from taking screenshots and force down the Great Translation Movement

Source: Winandmac #Sep06

https://www.winandmac.com/2022/09/ccp-new-way-to-restrict-freedom-of-speech/

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Chinese websites adding Invisible Watermarks for national security? A spine-chilling method to stop netizens from taking screenshots and force down the Great Translation Movement

On 06 Sept 2022, a Hong Kong netizen, Ben, posted about a few big websites in Shenzhen and Hebei, including Douban and Zhihu, have implemented the “Invisible Watermark” function. This means that when a netizen makes a screen capture of the websites, the image will automatically record their information such as account logins and geographic location as a watermark that is invisible to the user. The information hidden in the “Invisible Watermark” can only be read using the specialized software for frequency domain filtering. This indicates that if a Chinese netizen took screenshots secretly and send to others for the Great Translation Movement, it will be very easy for the Chinese government to find out who took the screenshots and take actions for criminal accusation.

Ben also mentioned that the technology was used to protect copyrights, but it was not common a decade ago. “Now the Mainland China is using the Invisible Watermarks all over the internet, it is for national security needs and also to suppress dissent, of course they won’t mind using traps.” Ben said that there are still some ways to check if an image has an invisible watermark on it to not, which a Chinese netizen, Liang, who claims to be a CTO has also demonstrated ways to check invisible watermarks on Twitter. Ben mentioned “Bilibili, Weibo, WeChat and TikTok are catching up (with Douban and Zhihu), and soon it will become an unspoken rule for operation. He is also worried that “It’s not difficult to deepen the technology”, and in long term, “The deterrent force of being caught due to the privacy leak through screenshot images will inevitably heat up.”

Some netizens discussed this “Invisible Watermark incident” on Twitter and social platforms. It is mentioned that sharing screenshots or even taking photos of the screenshots will be dangerous for mainland netizens in the future, and the government is not keeping this a secret to create a chilling effect.

Source: Winandmac #Sep06

#Chinese #Website #Watermark

https://www.winandmac.com/2022/09/ccp-new-way-to-restrict-freedom-of-speech/