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BlackWindMnt

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Top suggestion by the netizens: Stop censoring and regulating our entertainment and video games, and let us play foreign video games and with no time restriction. lol

Jokes aside, this is a pretty neat gesture from them, but I don't see this being any different from people being able to file suggestions or complaints through their designated government websites. But still, not a lot of their own citizens know about it, so maybe this a way to give it more exposure and become more active in the process.
Western entertainment developers are already tiptoeing hoping to not fuck up and experience the wrath of the Chinese people(like with the Xinjiang cotton and H&M).

Just boost certain Chinese social media influencers to boost or slow down a western entertainment product, this works perfectly in the west.
 

Coalescence

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Western entertainment developers are already tiptoeing hoping to not fuck up and experience the wrath of the Chinese people(like with the Xinjiang cotton and H&M).

Just boost certain Chinese social media influencers to boost or slow down a western entertainment product, this works perfectly in the west.
Make platform algorithms favor domestic products and content creators, only let some foreign products reach the front page and the first page in the search result if they paid a good sum in advertisement.

They created biases in their algorithm against Chinese content, and shadowbanned pro-Chinese voices, so I don't see why the same courtesy shouldn't be expanded to them.
 

Strangelove

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Yau Shing-tung comes home!

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  • Yau Shing-Tung, the first Chinese winner of the prestigious Fields Medal, will be chair professor in mathematics at Tsinghua University
  • 73-year-old aims to ‘take over the torch’ passed down by late teacher and modern geometry pioneer Chern Shiing-shen

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in Beijing
Published: 9:00pm, 21 Apr, 2022
Updated: 9:00pm, 21 Apr, 2022

Yau Shing-tung aims to help China cultivate young, top mathematicians at home. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Yau Shing-tung aims to help China cultivate young, top mathematicians at home. Photo: Jonathan Wong

World-renowned Chinese mathematician
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has announced his retirement from his position at Harvard University to teach full-time at Tsinghua University in Beijing, aiming to help China become a maths powerhouse within a decade.

“This is a major decision in his life,” said a colleague of Yau’s from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

Although Yau, 73, had spent a lot of time teaching for free in China in recent years, the new move means “he’s ready to leave five decades of life in the US behind, and devote all his time and energy to promoting the development of maths in China,” said the colleague, who did not wish to be named.

Yau, who was with Harvard University since 1987 and retired as the William Caspar Graustein professor of mathematics, joins Tsinghua as a chair professor in mathematics.

At his installation ceremony, attended by senior government officials and representatives of the scientific community, Yau said he wanted to “take over the torch” passed down by his
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Chern Shiing-shen, to help China cultivate young, top mathematicians at home and become a maths powerhouse in about 10 years’ time.

Born in China’s southern Guangdong province in 1949, Yau was raised in neighbouring Hong Kong and studied maths at the Chinese University in the 1960s before earning his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Chern.

Chern Shiing-shen in 2003. Photo: Antony Dickson


Chern Shiing-shen in 2003. Photo: Antony Dickson

Yau was just 33 when he became the first
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, awarded to the world’s best mathematicians under the age of 40. He was honoured for his work in differential geometry and his research, including the famous Calabi-Yau manifold, continues to profoundly influence the study of mathematics and theoretical physics.

“Mathematics is the only truth that stands the test of time. It will bridge different scientific disciplines and lead our way forward,” Yau said at the installation ceremony on Wednesday.

Since Yau’s first return visit to mainland China in 1979, he has trained students and helped establish research centres across the country, including the Morningside Center of Mathematics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Yau Mathematical Sciences Centre at Tsinghua University, which was named after him.

Thanks to his efforts, the global ranking of Tsinghua’s maths department had leapt from below 100 to around 20th place within a decade, Yau’s Chinese Academy colleague said.

Since 1998, Yau and Hong Kong entrepreneur Ronnie Chan Chi-chung have jointly sponsored the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians. The event, one of the largest and most influential for the country’s maths community, is hosted every three years on a rotating basis by universities and institutions in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Yau has also organised college student maths contests in an effort to fundamentally change how young people understand and learn the subject, as much of related education in the country has tended to be exam-oriented.

He is currently helping to set up the Tsinghua co-sponsored Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, at the Huairou science city in the northern suburbs of the capital.
 

daifo

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The result of China and East Asia stupid obsession with "we must hire western dudes with sketchy backgrounds over any other people that can speak english with a good background but not native to the west cause muh kids eDuCaTion" ... a bunch of sketchy dudes looking for romance and sex.

They should also prob teach there kids sex education and "pick up culture" of the west

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PiSigma

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The result of China and East Asia stupid obsession with "we must hire western dudes with sketchy backgrounds over any other people that can speak english with a good background but not native to the west cause muh kids eDuCaTion" ... a bunch of sketchy dudes looking for romance and sex.

They should also prob teach there kids sex education and "pick up culture" of the west

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That's a black dude.
 

manqiangrexue

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The result of China and East Asia stupid obsession with "we must hire western dudes with sketchy backgrounds over any other people that can speak english with a good background but not native to the west cause muh kids eDuCaTion" ... a bunch of sketchy dudes looking for romance and sex.

They should also prob teach there kids sex education and "pick up culture" of the west

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As the old saying goes, flies don't buzz around unrotten eggs. A 21 year old woman at some point decided it was a good idea to get into a relationship with that. When you fail in parenting your children, you set them up to fail in life. As much of a tragedy as this sounds like, I have a feeling that nothing of worth was lost. She would only have continued to be an embarassment.
 

daifo

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As the old saying goes, flies don't buzz around unrotten eggs. A 21 year old woman at some point decided it was a good idea to get into a relationship with that. When you fail in parenting your children, you set them up to fail in life. As much of a tragedy as this sounds like, I have a feeling that nothing of worth was lost. She would only have continued to be an embarassment.

I don't agree. The Chinese seem to teach their kids that people especially teachers are "good" people and trust the government blah blah. In these cases, logic dictates that the government only lets in good people and teachers must be good people. A 21 year old with little real life experience or sex education is just easy prey for the predators the gov lets in. Murder is gonna be rare, but definite lots of people getting suckered. In the US, i think the stats is like 50% of girls would of been sexually assaulted in some fashion by the time they are in the 20s. That is people more aware of "the game"
 

texx1

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The result of China and East Asia stupid obsession with "we must hire western dudes with sketchy backgrounds over any other people that can speak english with a good background but not native to the west cause muh kids eDuCaTion" ... a bunch of sketchy dudes looking for romance and sex.

They should also prob teach there kids sex education and "pick up culture" of the west

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From his own self introduction posted on youtube, the guy sounds sketchy as hell even before he went to china.

 

manqiangrexue

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I don't agree. The Chinese seem to teach their kids that people especially teachers are "good" people and trust the government blah blah. In these cases, logic dictates that the government only lets in good people and teachers must be good people. A 21 year old with little real life experience or sex education is just easy prey for the predators the gov lets in. Murder is gonna be rare, but definite lots of people getting suckered. In the US, i think the stats is like 50% of girls would of been sexually assaulted in some fashion by the time they are in the 20s. That is people more aware of "the game"
You may be lenient on what might have happened but to me, it's obvious that a 21 year old Chinese woman who thought it would be a good idea to date a 50 year old shaggy foreign language teacher (AKA a guy who has no skills except speaking his own native language) has not been taught right. I have nothing against teachers and I have nothing againt my daughter dating or marrying a teacher (after all, professors are teachers and I plan to become one) but there are wayyyy too many red flags going on here to conclude that she dated a teacher, which is totally reasonable. All I can say is that if I have a daughter, a guy like that would have a better chance of reaching an intergalactic alien alliance than reaching her.
 
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An artistically designed blackboard written with "Ni hao," which means "Hello" in Chinese, welcomes every guest to Pierre Lavi's home in Jerusalem.

Next to it, on the cabinet, was the certificate and trophy that Lavi received in 2020 as one of the 15 prize winners of the 14th Special Book Award of China.

As an Israeli publisher, Lavi has been devoting himself to translating Chinese books into Hebrew since 2016. The subjects range from China's development and economic policies, to poems, novels and academic textbooks.

Lavi began reading books about China as a boy in the 1970s when cultural exchanges between China and Israel were still scarce. Through the books, he became increasingly fascinated by the oriental country steeped in history.

The lack of more China-relevant books in Hebrew turned out to be a catalyst for his professional exploration in adulthood. After writing several books in his early years, he set up the Lavi Publishing House in 2019 to extend and deepen his connections with China in book pages.

"Establishing ties with China in this way has fulfilled my childhood dream," he said.

Now in his late 50s, the modern China Lavi is witnessing is completely different from what he learned about in his younger days from books. In 2019, he visited Chengdu, capital city of Sichuan Province in Southwest China, where he tried the exotic hot pot and saw adorable pandas for the first time.

Besides the cultural symbols, Lavi said he was more amazed by the modern infrastructure, convenient public services, and rapid development of science and technology even in a landlocked Chinese city. It was then that the Israeli publisher realized the real imperative of strongly promoting the mutual understanding between the two peoples.

"My philosophy is that culture, especially books, is an important bridge between people. You may not be able to speak each other's language or understand each other's culture, but reading can bridge this gap," Lavi told the Xinhua News Agency.

Apart from translating Chinese books into Hebrew, Lavi has also co-authored two books with his daughter, Shira Wants a Rock from the Moon and Shira Wants to Win the Nobel Prize, both of which were published in Chinese by China's Commercial Press.

Given the distance between China and the Middle East, Lavi highlighted the particular importance of reducing misunderstandings between peoples from both sides.

"You can't know each other perfectly, nor can you be exactly the same, but you can get a lot of inspiration by reading between the lines."

Noting that what he had achieved was "far from enough," the Israeli said he looked forward to cooperating with more Chinese partners and mobilizing more talented Chinese-Hebrew translators to press ahead with cultural exchanges.

He has set his plans in motion by facilitating the building of a Chinese cultural library and developing a TV show, in which he will interview Israelis and ask them to introduce Israeli culture and tourism to Chinese audience.

"I have so many ideas, but I'm still looking for the real and right partners who can bring the two nations closer," he said, adding that from a historical perspective, the Chinese and Jews share many similarities, as they have both suffered much but are full of wisdom.

"In many aspects, Chinese wisdom is cherished by us. When I published the Chinese book for the first time, I deeply held this belief," he said.
 
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