4,913,455 plays | Martin Jacques | TEDSalon London 2010
• October 2010
Chuyên mục: China
Trung Quốc đạt thặng dư thương mại 1.000 tỷ USD như thế nào
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Bất chấp sức ép từ thuế nhập khẩu của Mỹ, Trung Quốc vẫn thặng dư 1.000 tỷ USD chỉ trong 11 tháng – kỷ lục chưa quốc gia nào đạt được.
Một năm trước, ông Donald Trump tái đắc cử Tổng thống Mỹ. Lo ngại cuộc chiến thương mại mới diễn ra, các hãng sản xuất Trung Quốc gấp rút đẩy mạnh xuất khẩu. Trong chiến dịch tranh cử, ông Trump tuyên bố sẽ áp thêm thuế nhập khẩu lên hàng hóa Trung Quốc, nhằm thu hẹp thâm hụt thương mại ngày càng lớn của Mỹ.
Một năm sau, Tổng thống Mỹ thực hiện đúng cam kết. Nhưng Trung Quốc cũng đã chuyển hướng chiến lược, và thậm chí còn xuất khẩu nhiều hơn.
Tiếp tục đọc “Trung Quốc đạt thặng dư thương mại 1.000 tỷ USD như thế nào”Nuclear energy: Where China is getting with small modular and fusion reactors
- Pacforum.org November 13, 2025
On Oct. 13 of this year, the PRC state media outlet CPNN, reported that China is pulling ahead in advanced nuclear power technology development with the launch of the large-scale production “Hualong One” (also known as HPR1000). As it develops, China not only aims to tackle the transmission bottleneck in the south, but also to export to countries like Pakistan as the PRC’s “business card” to the world.
China’s dual goals of localization and export orientation have long defined its nuclear strategy. Led by state-owned giants such as the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), Beijing has invested heavily in domestic innovation while aggressively expanding into overseas markets. Beijing has sought to expand its reactor sales to markets such as Argentina and the United Kingdom, while also securing control over upstream uranium resources. CNNC’s 2019 acquisition of Namibia’s Rössing Uranium Mine, one of the world’s largest open-pit uranium operations, underscored China’s growing dominance across the nuclear value.
Beijing’s policy support for state-owned enterprises has enabled it to build a vertically integrated nuclear industry, driving rapid advances in small modular reactors (SMRs), fourth-generation technologies, and nuclear fusion research (the Artificial Sun). Furthermore, intensifying US–China competition is reshaping global nuclear exports and deepening the geopolitical risks of dependence on Chinese nuclear systems.
Tiếp tục đọc “Nuclear energy: Where China is getting with small modular and fusion reactors”
How is China’s demand for durian changing Southeast Asia?
Al Jazeera English – 15-11-2025
It’s been called the world’s stinkiest fruit. But it’s deeply beloved by many.
Durian is a pungent, prickly fruit from Southeast Asia that has fascinated foreigners for centuries, and China is no exception.
China buys most of the world’s durian exports, a surge spurred over the past decade by social media and growing trade ties with durian-producing countries.
Both locals and Chinese are seeking to expand the booming durian industry across Southeast Asia.
But the prospect of high profits has also ignited tensions, resulting in land disputes and environmental concerns.
101 East investigates China’s durian obsession.
China wants to lead the world on AI regulation — will the plan work?
Having placed artificial intelligence at the centre of its own economic strategy, China is driving efforts to create an international system to govern the technology’s use.
Despite risks ranging from exacerbating inequality to causing existential catastrophe, the world has yet to agree on regulations to govern artificial intelligence. Although a patchwork of national and regional regulations exists, for many countries binding rules are still being fleshed out.
Tiếp tục đọc “China wants to lead the world on AI regulation — will the plan work?”
Lịch sử Trung Quốc 5000 năm trong 10 tiếng (siêu chi tiết) | Tóm tắt lịch sử
Trung Quốc là 1 trong 4 nền văn minh cổ nhất thế giới, bắt nguồn từ lưu vực của hai con sông: Hoàng Hà và Trường Giang. Trải qua hơn 5.000 năm, văn minh Trung Hoa đã phát triển trở thành một trong số nền văn minh rực rỡ nhất thế giới trong thời cổ đại và trung đại, đặc trưng bởi hệ thống triết học thâm sâu (trong đó có Nho giáo, Đạo giáo và thuyết Âm dương ngũ hành), các thành tựu khoa học kỹ thuật (phát minh ra giấy, la bàn, thuốc súng, địa chấn kế, kỹ thuật in ấn…), hoạt động giao thương xuyên châu Á (Con đường tơ lụa) và những đô thị có quy mô dân số và trình độ kiến trúc hàng đầu thế giới vào thời trung cổ.
Video tóm tắt toàn bộ chiều dài lịch sử trung quốc, chi tiết & đầy đủ trong 10 tiếng, qua các thời kỳ: thời cổ đại, triều Hạ, triều Thương, triều Chu, thời kỳ xuân thu – chiến quốc, triều Tần, thời kỳ hán – sở tranh hùng, triều Hán, thời kỳ Tam Quốc, triều Tấn, thời kỳ Nam Bắc triều, triều Tùy, triều Đường, thời kỳ ngũ đại thập quốc, triều Tống, triều Nguyên, triều Minh, triều Thanh, Trung Hoa Dân Quốc, và CHND Trung Hoa.
Tổng lãnh sự Trung Quốc tại TP.HCM: ‘Tình hữu nghị hai nước ngày càng bền chặt’
Ngọc Mai– ngocmai@thanhnien.vn thanhien.vn
Tối 12.9, Tổng lãnh sự quán Trung Quốc tại TP.HCM tổ chức lễ kỷ niệm 76 năm Quốc khánh nước CHND Trung Hoa (1.10.1949 – 1.10.2025) với sự tham dự của nhiều quan khách.
Phát biểu tại buổi lễ, Tổng lãnh sự Trung Quốc tại TP.HCM Đường Lập nhấn mạnh những thành tựu phát triển của đất nước, vai trò lãnh đạo của Đảng Cộng sản Trung Quốc và quan hệ hợp tác toàn diện với Việt Nam.
Ông Đường Lập nhắc lại các cuộc trao đổi cấp cao giữa lãnh đạo Trung Quốc và Việt Nam trong thời gian gần đây diễn ra thường xuyên, phản ánh đầy đủ tính chiến lược và trình độ cao của quan hệ Trung – Việt. Hai bên dựa trên phương châm “16 chữ vàng” và tinh thần “4 tốt”, xác định mục tiêu tổng thể “6 cái hơn”, thúc đẩy không ngừng việc xây dựng cộng đồng chia sẻ tương lai Trung – Việt có ý nghĩa chiến lược.
Tiếp tục đọc “Tổng lãnh sự Trung Quốc tại TP.HCM: ‘Tình hữu nghị hai nước ngày càng bền chặt’”Cambodia’s mega canal has Vietnam worried: What does it mean for the Mekong?
CNAInsider – 31-10-2025
This April, China and Cambodia finalised a deal to build the Funan Techno Canal. It is a 180km waterway which will connect the Mekong River to the Gulf of Thailand. The USD 1.8 billion infrastructure project will be undertaken jointly by the Cambodian government and Chinese investors. The project has an ambitious completion date of 2028.
Cambodia argues that the canal will finally allow the country to control its own destiny. Currently, about a third of Cambodia’s global cargo are relying on Vietnamese ports for export, via the Mekong. The canal will allow the shipments to be exported through Cambodia’s own ports, reducing its reliance on its neighbour. The Kingdom sees the canal as a source of economic independence and growth, as well as a way to boost its transport links.
But Vietnam is concerned that the canal will divert water flows from the Mekong. Indochina’s most important river is already under threat by upstream dams and climate change. A massive new canal could well starve Vietnamese farmlands of much needed water. Cambodia on the other hand, insists that the canal will have minimal impact. As construction of the canal gets underway, what will be the long-term impact of this monumental project? Tiếp tục đọc “Cambodia’s mega canal has Vietnam worried: What does it mean for the Mekong?”
Unhealed wounds: Anti-Japanese sentiment in post-war China
Al Jazeera English – 4-9-2025
September 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of China’s victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
In the decades since, deep resentment towards Japan has remained among much of the Chinese population, with Beijing maintaining that Tokyo has never fully apologised for its wartime aggression.
Social media has further amplified anti-Japanese rhetoric, propelling ultra-nationalist and patriotic narratives in the country.
In some cases, the results have proven deadly. 101 East investigates anti-Japanese sentiment in China and what has driven violent attacks on Japanese citizens.
Làn sóng biểu tình ở Indonesia: thực trạng, dự báo và vấn đề đặt ra đối với Việt Nam
Phạm Quang Hiền – 01/09/2025
Cuối tháng 8/2025, Indonesia chứng kiến làn sóng biểu tình dữ dội bùng nổ sau sự việc của một tài xế xe công nghệ trong vụ va chạm với xe bọc thép cảnh sát. Từ một sự cố mang tính bộc phát, phong trào nhanh chóng lan rộng khắp các đô thị lớn, tập hợp hàng chục nghìn sinh viên, tài xế và các tầng lớp lao động trẻ xuống đường. Các cuộc đụng độ với cảnh sát đã khiến nhiều người thiệt mạng và hàng trăm người bị bắt giữ, làm dấy lên lo ngại về một cuộc khủng hoảng chính trị sâu sắc. Sự kiện này diễn ra trong bối cảnh Indonesia vừa giữ vai trò trung tâm của ASEAN vừa phải cân bằng giữa cạnh tranh Mỹ–Trung ở khu vực Ấn Độ Dương – Thái Bình Dương. Bởi vậy, sự kiện khủng hoảng này không chỉ đặt ra vấn đề nội bộ của riêng Indonesia mà còn gợi mở nhiều tín hiệu đáng lưu ý với các quốc gia lân cận trong đó có Việt Nam.
Tiếp tục đọc “Làn sóng biểu tình ở Indonesia: thực trạng, dự báo và vấn đề đặt ra đối với Việt Nam”Vì sao băng nhóm tội phạm Crypto ở Đông Nam Á nở rộ – Why scam gangs in Southeast Asia are a growing global threat
Griffith.edu.au May 19, 2025 By Dr Hai Thanh Luong
From fake job offers to cryptocurrency fraud and online romance scams, Southeast Asia has become a global hub for transnational scam operations.
These aren’t isolated crimes, they are organised, cross-border and industrial-scale criminal enterprises that exploit vulnerable people and expose the limits of international law enforcement.
New research shows this surge in scams represents more than just a regional issue. It’s a transnational emergency, and it demands an urgent, coordinated response.
Why Southeast Asia?
Several factors have turned Southeast Asia into a hotbed for scam syndicates.
The collapse of rule of law in parts of Myanmar has created ungoverned spaces where criminal operations flourish.
Meanwhile, countries like Cambodia, Laos and the Philippines offer a fertile environment for transnational crime due to weak governance, corruption, and limited oversight.
These scam centres don’t just target foreign victims. They also lure and trap workers—many of them young people from poorer nations—under the false promise of legitimate employment. Once inside, many are subjected to forced labour, abuse and trafficking.
This has become a humanitarian crisis as scam compounds across Southeast Asia have held thousands of people against their will, forcing them to commit fraud under threat of violence.
The rise of digital technologies has only made these operations harder to trace and easier to scale. From encrypted messaging to unregulated cryptocurrency, scam networks have globalised rapidly, while enforcement efforts remain stuck behind borders.
Why national responses aren’t working
One of the key challenges in confronting this crisis is the fragmented nature of law enforcement.
Scams that begin in one country can target victims in another, while using platforms, payment systems, and communication tools hosted across multiple jurisdictions.
But many national police forces are not equipped to act beyond their borders. And transnational criminal syndicates have exploited the lack of international coordination to operate with relative impunity.
Even where political will exists, legal mismatches and diplomatic bottlenecks prevent timely investigations, arrests or prosecutions.
Countries tend to focus inward, launching isolated crackdowns that fail to dismantle the broader networks.
This mismatch between the global nature of the threat and the localised nature of responses is precisely what allows these scams to thrive.
What needs to happen
To seriously confront this growing criminal economy, regional governments must prioritise coordinated responses, cross-border investigations, and robust intelligence sharing.
This includes:
- Building shared databases and real-time intelligence channels to track trends, suspects and operations;
- Developing harmonised legal tools to enable prosecutions and asset recovery across jurisdictions;
- Working with tech and financial platforms to shut down scam infrastructure;
- Protecting and rehabilitating victims, particularly those trafficked into scam compounds.
ASEAN, Interpol, and UNODC all have a role to play. But meaningful cooperation remains patchy, slow and overly politicised. Tackling scams as a global crisis, not just a regional one, will require serious investment and political leadership.
A crisis we can’t ignore
Scams are often dismissed as digital annoyances or consumer issues.
The response to this crisis cannot be local, slow or siloed. The fight against transnational scams cannot be won in isolation.
Only by working together can states dismantle the criminal networks exploiting the region’s vulnerabilities.
But what we are seeing in Southeast Asia is a complex ecosystem of transnational organised crime, often underpinned by exploitation and violence.
Billions of dollars are being stolen. Thousands of people are being trafficked and abused. And public trust in digital systems is eroding as scams become more sophisticated.
“Một loại ung thư” – UN cảnh báo tập đoàn tội phạm mạng Châu Á mở rộng khắp thế giới – ‘A cancer’: UN warns Asia-based cybercrime syndicates expanding worldwide
Agency says gangs caused $37bn in losses in Asia as they gain new footholds in Africa, South America, and Middle East.
Why China is finally starting to acknowledge its overcapacity problem
Where Beijing once celebrated its manufacturing and export prowess, it now openly discusses the need to curb “involution”. This is a dramatic departure from its previous stance, says Enodo Economics’ Diana Choyleva.
LONDON: For years, Beijing dismissed Western concerns about Chinese overcapacity as protectionist rhetoric. When the United States and European Union complained about cheap Chinese exports flooding global markets, China’s response was predictable: These were simply competitive advantages in a free market economy.
That narrative has now fundamentally shifted. In a remarkable policy U-turn, China has not only started acknowledging the overcapacity problem but is treating it as a national priority that requires urgent intervention.
While there have been signs of this narrative change for a while, the clearest signal of this messaging transformation came through recently on China’s own policy channels.
In July, the Communist Party’s leading journal Qiushi warned that “disorderly competition has destroyed entire industry ecology”. This wasn’t diplomatic language about market dynamics – it was an admission that destructive competition had reached crisis proportions.
Tiếp tục đọc “Why China is finally starting to acknowledge its overcapacity problem”
Is Cambodia serious about ending organized cyberscams?
Cambodia’s central bank has reportedly revoked the banking license of a conglomerate accused of illicit online activities. But doubts abound about Phnom Penh’s commitment to taking action against cyberfraud networks.
The banking arm of a Cambodia-based conglomerate accused of running the world’s “largest ever illicit online marketplace” has had its banking license revoked by the Cambodia’s central bank, Radio Free Asia reported last week.
Huione Guarantee, the Telegram marketplace of Huione Group, has reportedly processed up to €22 billion ($24 billion) in illicit transactions since 2021, making it by far the world’s largest illegal online marketplace, cryptocurrency compliance firm Elliptic reported last year.
Huione Pay, the group’s banking arm, had its license withdrawn because of noncompliance with “existing regulations and recommendations that may have been made by the regulators,” a National Bank of Cambodia spokesperson told Radio Free Asia, a US Congress-funded media outlet.
Hub for cyberscams
Tiếp tục đọc “Is Cambodia serious about ending organized cyberscams?”
“More than 0s and 1s”: Cambodia battles cybercrime
Photo: UNODC / Laura Gil
Through training held in Phnom Penh, UNODC is helping to build a more robust response to cybercrime in Cambodia.
All the screens in the room, including the one projected on the wall, have turned black, and a series of green letters have started to rain down. “Your wallet has been stolen,” one of the trainers says. All participants —some in uniform, others in suits— start scrolling down, looking for the fictitious cybercriminal.
The mix of Cambodian cybercops, law enforcement officials and judges in the room each have a laptop, and each have a task at hand: to seize the cryptocurrencies before it’s too late. If they collect and manage the digital evidence, they have succeeded, because that evidence can be later presented to the court. On their screens, what they are seeing is a simulation of a cyber-enabled fraud case involving cryptocurrencies in which criminals operate nowadays.
Tiếp tục đọc ““More than 0s and 1s”: Cambodia battles cybercrime”
Banana Boom, Soil Bust
mekongeye.com Produced in partnership with the Putlizer Center
Long-term intensive chemical use in Laos’ banana farms has degraded the country’s once-fertile soil, and it may take nearly half a century to restore it.
- Laos’ fertile soil and its proximity to China have created ideal conditions for banana cultivation to meet the surging demand from Chinese consumers.
- This fruit frenzy has attracted Chinese companies to seek farmland in Laos, a landlocked country that has embraced a “green agriculture” approach to combat poverty.
- With government approval, the sector has expanded, offering jobs, infrastructure development, and revenue from land once considered undervalued.
- However, an investigation by Mekong Eye and the Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) reveals that the fruit plantation boom has left a legacy of soil degradation and uncertain livelihoods for many local farmers.
OUDOMXAY & BOKEO, LAOS – Northern Laos is experiencing soil degradation after years of monocropping and widespread chemical use on banana farms operated by Chinese entrepreneurs.
Thiep doesn’t remember the name of the Chinese fruit company that leased his family’s land, only that it was one of the first to arrive in his northern Lao village in 2007.
After a decade of monocropping bananas, the company left and then returned the land to his family. But in the interim, the earth had changed in ways Thiep and his household couldn’t have anticipated.
“The soil is unusually hard and dry, not like it used to be. We had to replace the plow with a stronger one just to break the ground,” Thiep recalled.
His family members invested extra effort into its first rice crop after reclaiming the plotland. That year, they enjoyed a bumper harvest that was more than they had before the arrival of the Chinese company. But it was the last time they saw such abundance.
“The yield kept decreasing after that,” Thiep said, planting seedlings in the flooded paddy. “Before we leased it out, this plot produced 60 bags of rice. Now it’s down to 30, not enough for the family to eat.”
Nearly two decades ago, Chinese entrepreneurs, attracted by geographic proximity, blanketed northern Laos with banana plantations.
Exporting bananas to China quickly became an economic mainstay, replacing the long reliance on subsistence rice farming. The plantations not only created local jobs but also increased income for households leasing their land to companies.
But investment capital is bittersweet: it may have provided the region with a ladder out of the depths of poverty, but it has ushered in new perils.
Some local workers have reportedly fallen ill or died after pesticide spraying on farms.
A 2017 study, conducted with the Lao government’s involvement, found that agricultural chemicals – used intensively and without consistent management on banana plantations – had poisoned rivers and soil, and harmed the health of residents and plantation workers.
Among the chemicals identified were paraquat – a highly toxic herbicide banned in several countries, including Laos and China – and chlorothalonil, a hazardous substance banned in the EU in 2020 due to its potential to pollute groundwater and cause cancer.
Facing the issue, an official from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce verbally stated in early 2017 that the Prime Minister’s Office had ordered a ban on all commercial banana cultivation, according to the Laos News Agency. However, our reporter was unable to find any official orders on public platforms dating back to 2016.
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