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Today, #Beethoven twice with Ólafsson once #Guo and #Puts from St. Louis https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/beethoven_twice_with_olafsson_once_guo_and_puts_from_st_louis/91451/ #wch. Please note: due to the time change in Europe, this broadcast will not be announced thrice as usual.

Today, #Beethoven twice with Ólafsson once #Guo and #Puts from St. Louis https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/beethoven_twice_with_olafsson_once_guo_and_puts_from_st_louis/91451/ #wch. Please note: due to the time change in Europe, this broadcast will not be announced thrice as usual.

Today, #Beethoven twice with Ólafsson once #Guo and #Puts from St. Louis https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/beethoven_twice_with_olafsson_once_guo_and_puts_from_st_louis/91451/ #wch. Please note: due to the time change in Europe, this broadcast will not be announced thrice as usual.

Today, #Beethoven twice with Ólafsson once #Guo and #Puts from St. Louis https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/beethoven_twice_with_olafsson_once_guo_and_puts_from_st_louis/91451/ #wch. Please note: due to the time change in Europe, this broadcast will not be announced thrice as usual.

Today, #Beethoven twice with Ólafsson once #Guo and #Puts from St. Louis https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/beethoven_twice_with_olafsson_once_guo_and_puts_from_st_louis/91451/ #wch. Please note: due to the time change in Europe, this broadcast will not be announced thrice as usual.

Right now, #Beethoven, a #Cziner and a #Guo world premieres and #Mozart from #Dallas https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/beethoven_a_cziner_and_a_guo_world_premieres_and_mozart_from_dallas/90347/ #wch

In 20 minutes, #Beethoven, a #Cziner and a #Guo world premieres and #Mozart from #Dallas https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/beethoven_a_cziner_and_a_guo_world_premieres_and_mozart_from_dallas/90347/ #wch

Today, #Beethoven, a #Cziner and a #Guo world premieres and #Mozart from #Dallas https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/beethoven_a_cziner_and_a_guo_world_premieres_and_mozart_from_dallas/90347/ #wch

A German court on Tuesday sentenced an aide to a far-right former European lawmaker to almost five years in prison for spying for China. Jian #Guo worked for Maximilian #Krah, who was a high-profile MEP from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party from 2019 to 2024.

https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-aide-german-mep-maximilian-krah-afd-eu-parliament-aide-convicted-spy-china-jian-guo/

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #AfD #Germany

Der Mitarbeiter von #Krah hat wohl „wiederholt Informationen über Verhandlungen und Entscheidungen im Europäischen Parlament weitergegeben und für den Nachrichtendienst chinesische Oppositionelle in Deutschland ausgespäht.“
Weiteres Ziel waren die Daten zu Flügen, Fracht und Passagieren des Flughafens #Leipzig

Die Generalbundesanwaltschaft hat nun Anklage erhoben.

Laut SPIEGEL soll Jian #Guo auch Geheimdossiers über Weidel und Chrupalla erstellt haben.

https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Generalbundesanwalt-klagt-Ex-Mitarbeiter-von-AfD-Politiker-Krah-an-article25735316.html
(€) https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/afd-ex-mitarbeiter-von-maximilian-krah-soll-als-china-agent-geheimdossiers-ueber-alice-weidel-und-tino-chrupalla-erstellt-haben-a-3dc1b871-3afc-4127-8b90-0f4dd5d1f0fe

#noafd #spionage

On Donald Trump’s first day in office, the Department of Defense announced a spate of hires, including 26-year-old
#Kingsley #Wilson, who will serve as the Pentagon’s deputy press secretary.
Wilson is the daughter of #Steve #Cortes, a longtime Trump advisor and right-wing commentator who promotes Latinos moving to the political right.
Wilson is also a Trump 2020 campaign alum, and until taking the job at the DoD, ran digital media and communications for the Center for Renewing America, a pro-Trump think tank founded by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought.
She’s also an overt internet troll with a long history of bigoted, xenophobic, and deliberately provocative shitposting. 

Wilson in many ways embodies the face of the new Trump administration:
she’s worked in the MAGA world for seemingly her entire, very short career;

besides her roles in the Trump campaign and at the Center for Renewing America,
she also served as the national committeewoman for the DC Young Republicans.

She also briefly worked at Gettr, the social media platform founded by former Trump aide #Jason #Miller and with deep links to fugitive Chinese mogul #Guo #Wengui.

When she wasn’t doing any of that, Wilson was busy reeling off an endless tweets excoriating immigrants and trans people,
advocating for what she called “zero immigration and mass deportations,”
and bemoaning the “death of the West,”
a term popularized by Pat Buchanan and often used by nativist, isolationist, and white nationalist groups to argue that immigration dilutes “Western” culture.

At least twice, Wilson also repeated long-debunked lies online about the lynching death of Leo Frank,
a Jewish man who was kidnapped from a Georgia prison and murdered in 1915,
claiming he was guilty of the murder for which most modern historians agree he was wrongly convicted.

She also claimed the Black Lives Matter movement had an “affinity for race-based violence,”
and derided George Floyd, the Black man murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis,
a “career criminal,” and scornfully called him “Saint George Floyd.”

“If you identify as transgender and/or are undergoing hormone therapy
—you should NOT be allowed to legally purchase a firearm,”
she posted, in one of her many tweets
claiming transgender people are abnormal or mentally ill.

“In a healthy country… transgender people aren’t visible,” she tweeted in 2024 (ellipses hers).

Wilson also explicitly lent her support to Great Replacement theory,
a racist and xenophobic conspiracy theory that holds that non-white immigrants are being lured to the United States to replace white Americans.

“The Great Replacement isn’t a right-wing conspiracy theory… it’s reality,”
she tweeted in 2024, over a screenshot of a Bloomberg article about the growth of the U.S. Hispanic population.

Wilson also called to “make Kosovo Serbia again,”
a particularly weird stance for an American now working in the Pentagon;

the United States has recognized Kosovo as an independent state since 2008 and maintains troops there as part of peacekeeping efforts.

Wilson also lent her support for the German far-right party AfD,
tweeting in 2024, “Globalist elites hate AfD because they put Germans before foreign migrants and radical Islam. Ausländer Raus!”

Wilson has tweeted the phrase
“Ausländer Raus” at least four times,
including the slogan,
“Deutschland den Deutschen. Ausländer raus.”

The phrase, which means, “Germany for Germans, foreigners out,”
is explicitly considered to be an extremist slogan in Germany with neo-Nazi roots;

in fact, a 1992 paper about its use among German skinheads is available on a Department of Justice website.

At least one German prosecutor has said that using the phrase is a criminal offense.

Nonetheless, the chant has been adopted by some young AfD supporters.

A video of the chant being sung at a trendy bar in the holiday island of Sylt sparked an enormous controversy last summer,
and again when it was sung a month later at a village festival in Germany.

(Non-Germans signaling their contempt for immigration, including accused human trafficker Tristan Tate, have also tweeted the phrase.)

Wilson’s career seems to have followed a dual track,
both making the rounds in DC politics and the Trump campaign and flirting with a career as an online provocateur
—though those roles that are increasingly blurred in the MAGAfied Republican party.

During her time at the Center for Renewing America, the Vought-founded think tank, she appeared as a talking head on conservative news sites like The Blaze,
and has appeared multiple times on the podcast of Tim Pool’s, the once “heterodox” streamer who’s become increasingly far-right.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/kingsley-cortes-wilson-defense-department/

Right now, music for percussion from Hong Kong: #Luo #Guo #Chow #Chan #Wang and more https://buff.ly/4gLtvk6 #wch

In 20 minutes, music for percussion from Hong Kong: #Luo #Guo #Chow #Chan #Wang and more https://buff.ly/4gLtvk6 #wch

Today, music for percussion from Hong Kong: #Luo #Guo #Chow #Chan #Wang and more https://buff.ly/4gLtvk6 #wch

ERDAL ARIKAN WAS born in 1958 and grew up in Western Turkey, the son of a doctor and a homemaker.

He loved science.

When he was a teenager, his father remarked that, in his profession, two plus two did not always equal four.

This fuzziness disturbed young Erdal; he decided against a career in medicine. He found comfort in engineering and the certainty of its mathematical outcomes.

“I like things that have some precision,” he says. “You do calculations and things turn out as you calculate it.”

Arıkan entered the electrical engineering program at Middle East Technical University. But in 1977, partway through his first year, the country was gripped by political violence, and students boycotted the university.

Arıkan wanted to study, and because of his excellent test scores he managed to transfer to #CalTech, one of the world's top science-oriented institutions, in Pasadena, California.

He found the US to be a strange and wonderful country. Within his first few days, he was in an orientation session addressed by legendary physicist #Richard #Feynman. It was like being blessed by a saint.

Arıkan devoured his courses, especially in #information #theory.

The field was still young, launched in 1948 by #Claude #Shannon, who wrote its seminal paper while he was at Bell Labs;
he would later become a revered MIT professor.

Shannon's achievement was to understand how the hitherto fuzzy concept of information could be quantified, creating a discipline that expanded the view of communication and data storage.

By publishing a general mathematical theory of information
—almost as if Einstein had invented physics and come up with relativity in one swoop
—Shannon set a foundation for the internet, mobile communications, and everything else in the digital age.

The subject fascinated Arıkan, who chose #MIT for graduate studies.

There was one reason: “#Bob #Gallager was there,” he says.

Robert Gallager had written the textbook on information theory. He had also been mentored by Shannon's successor.

In the metrics of the field, that put him two steps from God.

“So I said, if I am going to do information theory,” Arıkan says, “MIT is the place to go.”

By the time Arıkan arrived at MIT, in 1981, Gallager had shifted his focus and was concentrating on how data networks operated.

Arıkan was trembling when he went to Gallager's office for the first time. The professor gave him a paper about packet radio networks.

“I was pushing him to move from strict information theory to looking at network problems,” Gallager says.

“It was becoming very obvious to everyone that sending data from one place to another was not the whole story
—you really had to have a system.”

#Guo #Ping #Huawei #Ren #Zhengfei #gold #medal #honored #guest #Erdal #Arıkan #5G #technology #daughter

ERDAL ARIKAN WAS born in 1958 and grew up in Western Turkey, the son of a doctor and a homemaker.

He loved science.

When he was a teenager, his father remarked that, in his profession, two plus two did not always equal four.

This fuzziness disturbed young Erdal; he decided against a career in medicine. He found comfort in engineering and the certainty of its mathematical outcomes.

“I like things that have some precision,” he says. “You do calculations and things turn out as you calculate it.”

Arıkan entered the electrical engineering program at Middle East Technical University. But in 1977, partway through his first year, the country was gripped by political violence, and students boycotted the university.

Arıkan wanted to study, and because of his excellent test scores he managed to transfer to #CalTech, one of the world's top science-oriented institutions, in Pasadena, California.

He found the US to be a strange and wonderful country. Within his first few days, he was in an orientation session addressed by legendary physicist #Richard #Feynman. It was like being blessed by a saint.

Arıkan devoured his courses, especially in #information #theory.

The field was still young, launched in 1948 by #Claude #Shannon, who wrote its seminal paper while he was at Bell Labs;
he would later become a revered MIT professor.

Shannon's achievement was to understand how the hitherto fuzzy concept of information could be quantified, creating a discipline that expanded the view of communication and data storage.

By publishing a general mathematical theory of information
—almost as if Einstein had invented physics and come up with relativity in one swoop
—Shannon set a foundation for the internet, mobile communications, and everything else in the digital age.

The subject fascinated Arıkan, who chose #MIT for graduate studies.

There was one reason: “#Bob #Gallager was there,” he says.

Robert Gallager had written the textbook on information theory. He had also been mentored by Shannon's successor.

In the metrics of the field, that put him two steps from God.

“So I said, if I am going to do information theory,” Arıkan says, “MIT is the place to go.”

By the time Arıkan arrived at MIT, in 1981, Gallager had shifted his focus and was concentrating on how data networks operated.

Arıkan was trembling when he went to Gallager's office for the first time. The professor gave him a paper about packet radio networks.

“I was pushing him to move from strict information theory to looking at network problems,” Gallager says.

“It was becoming very obvious to everyone that sending data from one place to another was not the whole story
—you really had to have a system.”

#Guo #Ping #Huawei #Ren #Zhengfei #gold #medal #honored #guest #Erdal #Arıkan #5G #technology #daughter

ERDAL ARIKAN WAS born in 1958 and grew up in Western Turkey, the son of a doctor and a homemaker.

He loved science.

When he was a teenager, his father remarked that, in his profession, two plus two did not always equal four.

This fuzziness disturbed young Erdal; he decided against a career in medicine. He found comfort in engineering and the certainty of its mathematical outcomes.

“I like things that have some precision,” he says. “You do calculations and things turn out as you calculate it.”

Arıkan entered the electrical engineering program at Middle East Technical University. But in 1977, partway through his first year, the country was gripped by political violence, and students boycotted the university.

Arıkan wanted to study, and because of his excellent test scores he managed to transfer to #CalTech, one of the world's top science-oriented institutions, in Pasadena, California.

He found the US to be a strange and wonderful country. Within his first few days, he was in an orientation session addressed by legendary physicist #Richard #Feynman. It was like being blessed by a saint.

Arıkan devoured his courses, especially in #information #theory.

The field was still young, launched in 1948 by #Claude #Shannon, who wrote its seminal paper while he was at Bell Labs;
he would later become a revered MIT professor.

Shannon's achievement was to understand how the hitherto fuzzy concept of information could be quantified, creating a discipline that expanded the view of communication and data storage.

By publishing a general mathematical theory of information
—almost as if Einstein had invented physics and come up with relativity in one swoop
—Shannon set a foundation for the internet, mobile communications, and everything else in the digital age.

The subject fascinated Arıkan, who chose #MIT for graduate studies.

There was one reason: “#Bob #Gallager was there,” he says.

Robert Gallager had written the textbook on information theory. He had also been mentored by Shannon's successor.

In the metrics of the field, that put him two steps from God.

“So I said, if I am going to do information theory,” Arıkan says, “MIT is the place to go.”

By the time Arıkan arrived at MIT, in 1981, Gallager had shifted his focus and was concentrating on how data networks operated.

Arıkan was trembling when he went to Gallager's office for the first time. The professor gave him a paper about packet radio networks.

“I was pushing him to move from strict information theory to looking at network problems,” Gallager says.

“It was becoming very obvious to everyone that sending data from one place to another was not the whole story
—you really had to have a system.”

#Guo #Ping #Huawei #Ren #Zhengfei #gold #medal #honored #guest #Erdal #Arıkan #5G #technology #daughter

ERDAL ARIKAN WAS born in 1958 and grew up in Western Turkey, the son of a doctor and a homemaker.

He loved science.

When he was a teenager, his father remarked that, in his profession, two plus two did not always equal four.

This fuzziness disturbed young Erdal; he decided against a career in medicine. He found comfort in engineering and the certainty of its mathematical outcomes.

“I like things that have some precision,” he says. “You do calculations and things turn out as you calculate it.”

Arıkan entered the electrical engineering program at Middle East Technical University. But in 1977, partway through his first year, the country was gripped by political violence, and students boycotted the university.

Arıkan wanted to study, and because of his excellent test scores he managed to transfer to #CalTech, one of the world's top science-oriented institutions, in Pasadena, California.

He found the US to be a strange and wonderful country. Within his first few days, he was in an orientation session addressed by legendary physicist #Richard #Feynman. It was like being blessed by a saint.

Arıkan devoured his courses, especially in #information #theory.

The field was still young, launched in 1948 by #Claude #Shannon, who wrote its seminal paper while he was at Bell Labs;
he would later become a revered MIT professor.

Shannon's achievement was to understand how the hitherto fuzzy concept of information could be quantified, creating a discipline that expanded the view of communication and data storage.

By publishing a general mathematical theory of information
—almost as if Einstein had invented physics and come up with relativity in one swoop
—Shannon set a foundation for the internet, mobile communications, and everything else in the digital age.

The subject fascinated Arıkan, who chose #MIT for graduate studies.

There was one reason: “#Bob #Gallager was there,” he says.

Robert Gallager had written the textbook on information theory. He had also been mentored by Shannon's successor.

In the metrics of the field, that put him two steps from God.

“So I said, if I am going to do information theory,” Arıkan says, “MIT is the place to go.”

By the time Arıkan arrived at MIT, in 1981, Gallager had shifted his focus and was concentrating on how data networks operated.

Arıkan was trembling when he went to Gallager's office for the first time. The professor gave him a paper about packet radio networks.

“I was pushing him to move from strict information theory to looking at network problems,” Gallager says.

“It was becoming very obvious to everyone that sending data from one place to another was not the whole story
—you really had to have a system.”

#Guo #Ping #Huawei #Ren #Zhengfei #gold #medal #honored #guest #Erdal #Arıkan #5G #technology #daughter

ERDAL ARIKAN WAS born in 1958 and grew up in Western Turkey, the son of a doctor and a homemaker.

He loved science.

When he was a teenager, his father remarked that, in his profession, two plus two did not always equal four.

This fuzziness disturbed young Erdal; he decided against a career in medicine. He found comfort in engineering and the certainty of its mathematical outcomes.

“I like things that have some precision,” he says. “You do calculations and things turn out as you calculate it.”

Arıkan entered the electrical engineering program at Middle East Technical University. But in 1977, partway through his first year, the country was gripped by political violence, and students boycotted the university.

Arıkan wanted to study, and because of his excellent test scores he managed to transfer to #CalTech, one of the world's top science-oriented institutions, in Pasadena, California.

He found the US to be a strange and wonderful country. Within his first few days, he was in an orientation session addressed by legendary physicist #Richard #Feynman. It was like being blessed by a saint.

Arıkan devoured his courses, especially in #information #theory.

The field was still young, launched in 1948 by #Claude #Shannon, who wrote its seminal paper while he was at Bell Labs;
he would later become a revered MIT professor.

Shannon's achievement was to understand how the hitherto fuzzy concept of information could be quantified, creating a discipline that expanded the view of communication and data storage.

By publishing a general mathematical theory of information
—almost as if Einstein had invented physics and come up with relativity in one swoop
—Shannon set a foundation for the internet, mobile communications, and everything else in the digital age.

The subject fascinated Arıkan, who chose #MIT for graduate studies.

There was one reason: “#Bob #Gallager was there,” he says.

Robert Gallager had written the textbook on information theory. He had also been mentored by Shannon's successor.

In the metrics of the field, that put him two steps from God.

“So I said, if I am going to do information theory,” Arıkan says, “MIT is the place to go.”

By the time Arıkan arrived at MIT, in 1981, Gallager had shifted his focus and was concentrating on how data networks operated.

Arıkan was trembling when he went to Gallager's office for the first time. The professor gave him a paper about packet radio networks.

“I was pushing him to move from strict information theory to looking at network problems,” Gallager says.

“It was becoming very obvious to everyone that sending data from one place to another was not the whole story
—you really had to have a system.”

#Guo #Ping #Huawei #Ren #Zhengfei #gold #medal #honored #guest #Erdal #Arıkan #5G #technology #daughter

Two footmen dressed in white approach the vehicle as it arrives. One opens the rear door. #Guo #Ping, one of #Huawei's rotating chairmen, steps forward and extends a hand as the guest emerges.
After walking a red carpet, the two men enter the magnificent marble-floored building, ascend a stairway, and pass through French doors to a palatial ballroom.
Several hundred people arise from their chairs and clap wildly.

The guest is welcomed by Huawei's founder, #Ren #Zhengfei, whose sky-blue blazer and white khakis signify that he has attained the power to wear whatever the hell he wants.

After some serious speechifying by a procession of dark-suited executives, Ren
—who is China's Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca, and Warren Buffett rolled into one
—comes to the podium.
Three young women dressed in white uniforms enter the room, swinging their arms military style as they march to the stage, then about-face in unison as one holds out a framed #gold #medal the size of a salad plate.
Embedded with a red Baccarat crystal, it depicts the Goddess of Victory and was manufactured by the Monnaie de Paris. Ren is almost glowing as he presents the medal to the visitor.
This #honored #guest is not a world leader, a billionaire magnate, nor a war hero. He is a relatively unknown Turkish academic named #Erdal #Arıkan.
Throughout the ceremony he has been sitting stiffly, frozen in his ill-fitting suit, as if he were an ordinary theatergoer suddenly thrust into the leading role on a Broadway stage.

Arıkan isn't exactly ordinary.
Ten years earlier, he'd made a major discovery in the field of information theory.
Huawei then plucked his theoretical breakthrough from academic obscurity and, with large investments and top engineering talent, fashioned it into something of value in the realm of commerce.
The company then muscled and negotiated to get that innovation into something so big it could not be denied:
the basic #5G #technology now being rolled out all over the world.

Huawei's rise over the past 30 years has been heralded in China as a triumph of smarts, sweat, and grit. Perhaps no company is more beloved at home
—and more vilified by the United States.
That's at least in part because Huawei's ascent also bears the fingerprints of China's nationalistic industrial policy and an alleged penchant for intellectual property theft;
the US Department of Justice has charged the company with a sweeping conspiracy of misappropriation, infringement, obstruction, and lies.

As of press time, Ren Zhengfei's #daughter was under house arrest in Vancouver, fighting extradition to the US for allegedly violating a ban against trading with Iran.
The US government has banned Huawei's 5G products and has been lobbying other countries to do the same. Huawei denies the charges; Ren calls them political.

Huawei is settling the score in its own way. One of the world's great technology powers, it nonetheless suffers from an inferiority complex.
Despite spending billions on research and science, it can't get the respect and recognition of its Western peers. Much like China itself.
So when Ren handed the solid-gold medal
—crafted by the French mint!
—to Erdal Arıkan, he was sticking his thumb in their eye.

https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/

Two footmen dressed in white approach the vehicle as it arrives. One opens the rear door. #Guo #Ping, one of #Huawei's rotating chairmen, steps forward and extends a hand as the guest emerges.
After walking a red carpet, the two men enter the magnificent marble-floored building, ascend a stairway, and pass through French doors to a palatial ballroom.
Several hundred people arise from their chairs and clap wildly.

The guest is welcomed by Huawei's founder, #Ren #Zhengfei, whose sky-blue blazer and white khakis signify that he has attained the power to wear whatever the hell he wants.

After some serious speechifying by a procession of dark-suited executives, Ren
—who is China's Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca, and Warren Buffett rolled into one
—comes to the podium.
Three young women dressed in white uniforms enter the room, swinging their arms military style as they march to the stage, then about-face in unison as one holds out a framed #gold #medal the size of a salad plate.
Embedded with a red Baccarat crystal, it depicts the Goddess of Victory and was manufactured by the Monnaie de Paris. Ren is almost glowing as he presents the medal to the visitor.
This #honored #guest is not a world leader, a billionaire magnate, nor a war hero. He is a relatively unknown Turkish academic named #Erdal #Arıkan.
Throughout the ceremony he has been sitting stiffly, frozen in his ill-fitting suit, as if he were an ordinary theatergoer suddenly thrust into the leading role on a Broadway stage.

Arıkan isn't exactly ordinary.
Ten years earlier, he'd made a major discovery in the field of information theory.
Huawei then plucked his theoretical breakthrough from academic obscurity and, with large investments and top engineering talent, fashioned it into something of value in the realm of commerce.
The company then muscled and negotiated to get that innovation into something so big it could not be denied:
the basic #5G #technology now being rolled out all over the world.

Huawei's rise over the past 30 years has been heralded in China as a triumph of smarts, sweat, and grit. Perhaps no company is more beloved at home
—and more vilified by the United States.
That's at least in part because Huawei's ascent also bears the fingerprints of China's nationalistic industrial policy and an alleged penchant for intellectual property theft;
the US Department of Justice has charged the company with a sweeping conspiracy of misappropriation, infringement, obstruction, and lies.

As of press time, Ren Zhengfei's #daughter was under house arrest in Vancouver, fighting extradition to the US for allegedly violating a ban against trading with Iran.
The US government has banned Huawei's 5G products and has been lobbying other countries to do the same. Huawei denies the charges; Ren calls them political.

Huawei is settling the score in its own way. One of the world's great technology powers, it nonetheless suffers from an inferiority complex.
Despite spending billions on research and science, it can't get the respect and recognition of its Western peers. Much like China itself.
So when Ren handed the solid-gold medal
—crafted by the French mint!
—to Erdal Arıkan, he was sticking his thumb in their eye.

https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/

Two footmen dressed in white approach the vehicle as it arrives. One opens the rear door. #Guo #Ping, one of #Huawei's rotating chairmen, steps forward and extends a hand as the guest emerges.
After walking a red carpet, the two men enter the magnificent marble-floored building, ascend a stairway, and pass through French doors to a palatial ballroom.
Several hundred people arise from their chairs and clap wildly.

The guest is welcomed by Huawei's founder, #Ren #Zhengfei, whose sky-blue blazer and white khakis signify that he has attained the power to wear whatever the hell he wants.

After some serious speechifying by a procession of dark-suited executives, Ren
—who is China's Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca, and Warren Buffett rolled into one
—comes to the podium.
Three young women dressed in white uniforms enter the room, swinging their arms military style as they march to the stage, then about-face in unison as one holds out a framed #gold #medal the size of a salad plate.
Embedded with a red Baccarat crystal, it depicts the Goddess of Victory and was manufactured by the Monnaie de Paris. Ren is almost glowing as he presents the medal to the visitor.
This #honored #guest is not a world leader, a billionaire magnate, nor a war hero. He is a relatively unknown Turkish academic named #Erdal #Arıkan.
Throughout the ceremony he has been sitting stiffly, frozen in his ill-fitting suit, as if he were an ordinary theatergoer suddenly thrust into the leading role on a Broadway stage.

Arıkan isn't exactly ordinary.
Ten years earlier, he'd made a major discovery in the field of information theory.
Huawei then plucked his theoretical breakthrough from academic obscurity and, with large investments and top engineering talent, fashioned it into something of value in the realm of commerce.
The company then muscled and negotiated to get that innovation into something so big it could not be denied:
the basic #5G #technology now being rolled out all over the world.

Huawei's rise over the past 30 years has been heralded in China as a triumph of smarts, sweat, and grit. Perhaps no company is more beloved at home
—and more vilified by the United States.
That's at least in part because Huawei's ascent also bears the fingerprints of China's nationalistic industrial policy and an alleged penchant for intellectual property theft;
the US Department of Justice has charged the company with a sweeping conspiracy of misappropriation, infringement, obstruction, and lies.

As of press time, Ren Zhengfei's #daughter was under house arrest in Vancouver, fighting extradition to the US for allegedly violating a ban against trading with Iran.
The US government has banned Huawei's 5G products and has been lobbying other countries to do the same. Huawei denies the charges; Ren calls them political.

Huawei is settling the score in its own way. One of the world's great technology powers, it nonetheless suffers from an inferiority complex.
Despite spending billions on research and science, it can't get the respect and recognition of its Western peers. Much like China itself.
So when Ren handed the solid-gold medal
—crafted by the French mint!
—to Erdal Arıkan, he was sticking his thumb in their eye.

https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/

Two footmen dressed in white approach the vehicle as it arrives. One opens the rear door. #Guo #Ping, one of #Huawei's rotating chairmen, steps forward and extends a hand as the guest emerges.
After walking a red carpet, the two men enter the magnificent marble-floored building, ascend a stairway, and pass through French doors to a palatial ballroom.
Several hundred people arise from their chairs and clap wildly.

The guest is welcomed by Huawei's founder, #Ren #Zhengfei, whose sky-blue blazer and white khakis signify that he has attained the power to wear whatever the hell he wants.

After some serious speechifying by a procession of dark-suited executives, Ren
—who is China's Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca, and Warren Buffett rolled into one
—comes to the podium.
Three young women dressed in white uniforms enter the room, swinging their arms military style as they march to the stage, then about-face in unison as one holds out a framed #gold #medal the size of a salad plate.
Embedded with a red Baccarat crystal, it depicts the Goddess of Victory and was manufactured by the Monnaie de Paris. Ren is almost glowing as he presents the medal to the visitor.
This #honored #guest is not a world leader, a billionaire magnate, nor a war hero. He is a relatively unknown Turkish academic named #Erdal #Arıkan.
Throughout the ceremony he has been sitting stiffly, frozen in his ill-fitting suit, as if he were an ordinary theatergoer suddenly thrust into the leading role on a Broadway stage.

Arıkan isn't exactly ordinary.
Ten years earlier, he'd made a major discovery in the field of information theory.
Huawei then plucked his theoretical breakthrough from academic obscurity and, with large investments and top engineering talent, fashioned it into something of value in the realm of commerce.
The company then muscled and negotiated to get that innovation into something so big it could not be denied:
the basic #5G #technology now being rolled out all over the world.

Huawei's rise over the past 30 years has been heralded in China as a triumph of smarts, sweat, and grit. Perhaps no company is more beloved at home
—and more vilified by the United States.
That's at least in part because Huawei's ascent also bears the fingerprints of China's nationalistic industrial policy and an alleged penchant for intellectual property theft;
the US Department of Justice has charged the company with a sweeping conspiracy of misappropriation, infringement, obstruction, and lies.

As of press time, Ren Zhengfei's #daughter was under house arrest in Vancouver, fighting extradition to the US for allegedly violating a ban against trading with Iran.
The US government has banned Huawei's 5G products and has been lobbying other countries to do the same. Huawei denies the charges; Ren calls them political.

Huawei is settling the score in its own way. One of the world's great technology powers, it nonetheless suffers from an inferiority complex.
Despite spending billions on research and science, it can't get the respect and recognition of its Western peers. Much like China itself.
So when Ren handed the solid-gold medal
—crafted by the French mint!
—to Erdal Arıkan, he was sticking his thumb in their eye.

https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/

Two footmen dressed in white approach the vehicle as it arrives. One opens the rear door. #Guo #Ping, one of #Huawei's rotating chairmen, steps forward and extends a hand as the guest emerges.
After walking a red carpet, the two men enter the magnificent marble-floored building, ascend a stairway, and pass through French doors to a palatial ballroom.
Several hundred people arise from their chairs and clap wildly.

The guest is welcomed by Huawei's founder, #Ren #Zhengfei, whose sky-blue blazer and white khakis signify that he has attained the power to wear whatever the hell he wants.

After some serious speechifying by a procession of dark-suited executives, Ren
—who is China's Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca, and Warren Buffett rolled into one
—comes to the podium.
Three young women dressed in white uniforms enter the room, swinging their arms military style as they march to the stage, then about-face in unison as one holds out a framed #gold #medal the size of a salad plate.
Embedded with a red Baccarat crystal, it depicts the Goddess of Victory and was manufactured by the Monnaie de Paris. Ren is almost glowing as he presents the medal to the visitor.
This #honored #guest is not a world leader, a billionaire magnate, nor a war hero. He is a relatively unknown Turkish academic named #Erdal #Arıkan.
Throughout the ceremony he has been sitting stiffly, frozen in his ill-fitting suit, as if he were an ordinary theatergoer suddenly thrust into the leading role on a Broadway stage.

Arıkan isn't exactly ordinary.
Ten years earlier, he'd made a major discovery in the field of information theory.
Huawei then plucked his theoretical breakthrough from academic obscurity and, with large investments and top engineering talent, fashioned it into something of value in the realm of commerce.
The company then muscled and negotiated to get that innovation into something so big it could not be denied:
the basic #5G #technology now being rolled out all over the world.

Huawei's rise over the past 30 years has been heralded in China as a triumph of smarts, sweat, and grit. Perhaps no company is more beloved at home
—and more vilified by the United States.
That's at least in part because Huawei's ascent also bears the fingerprints of China's nationalistic industrial policy and an alleged penchant for intellectual property theft;
the US Department of Justice has charged the company with a sweeping conspiracy of misappropriation, infringement, obstruction, and lies.

As of press time, Ren Zhengfei's #daughter was under house arrest in Vancouver, fighting extradition to the US for allegedly violating a ban against trading with Iran.
The US government has banned Huawei's 5G products and has been lobbying other countries to do the same. Huawei denies the charges; Ren calls them political.

Huawei is settling the score in its own way. One of the world's great technology powers, it nonetheless suffers from an inferiority complex.
Despite spending billions on research and science, it can't get the respect and recognition of its Western peers. Much like China itself.
So when Ren handed the solid-gold medal
—crafted by the French mint!
—to Erdal Arıkan, he was sticking his thumb in their eye.

https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/

Wang Wei: "Do dworzanina Guo"

Za ciężką bramą wysokie pawilony na chmurnym niebie lśnią,
tam gdzie bujne brzoskwinie i śliwy, a wierzbowe kotki latają.

https://wp.me/p3fv0T-fnu #WangWei #dworzanin #Guo #王維 #酬郭給事 #poezja #Tang #wiersze #Chiny #唐詩三百首 #300wierszyTang #kultura #klasyka

George Santos Mysteriously Got Big Bucks From a Bunch of Newbie Donors

The donor pointed to legislation Santos had sponsored, specifically a bill introduced to support #Guo #Wengui, the self-identifying #Chinese #Communist #Party dissident who was recently brought up on federal charges related to a $1 #billion #fraud #scheme.

#Santos has leant vocal support to Guo in recent months, and has sponsored a total of 11 bills targeting the #CCP over the course of his brief tenure in Congress, all of which were introduced after Guo’s arrest in March,

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-are-these-newbie-donors-maxing-out-to-george-santos

Via @emptywheel:

You really hate to see #SteveBannon investigated for YET MORE fraud.

Reminder: Prosecutors obtained recordings of calls to #Guo's phone.

Mother Jones: Feds are investigating Steve Bannon’s role in Guo Wengui’s fraud scheme. https://t.co/2Kht8Nubdi

DOJ charges Steven Bannon associate Guo Wengui with fraud

The controversial Chinese businessman #Guo #Wengui, an associate of former Trump White House advisor Steve #Bannon, was arrested in New York for orchestrating what federal prosecutors called a more than $1 billion #fraud conspiracy.

A Manhattan federal court grand jury indictment charges Guo with duping online followers with promises of “outsized” investment returns.

Prosecutors said they have seized more than $650 million in alleged fraud proceeds from 21 different bank accounts as part of the case.

The Securities and Exchange Commission separately filed a civil complaint against Guo, who is known by multiple different names, including Miles Guo and Miles Kwok.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/15/doj-charges-guo-wengui-steve-bannon-associate-in-1-billion-fraud.html

Some more pictures.

#Nurgle #Rotigus #AoS #40K #ChaosDaemons #GUO #GreatUncleanOne #NurgleDaemons #WarhammerCommunity #Warhammer

The big lad is finished.

Happy he is done as he was the last unpainted Nurgle Daemon I have. They total just over 4k in AoS.

Happy I went with the different scheme for him, pushing the greys/blues etc for a stormy like feel. Mixed in with typical Nurgle puss, infections etc.

#Nurgle #Rotigus #AoS #40K #ChaosDaemons #GUO #GreatUncleanOne #NurgleDaemons #WarhammerCommunity #Warhammer

Bad -- but expected -- news: #Guo Shuqing, the chairman of the #China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, now said: ‘We will not join such #sanctions, and we will keep normal economic, trade and financial exchanges with all the relevant parties.’ #russia #ukraine