MoA: China – Protest Instigators And Zero-Covid Policies

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Within the last two days the New York Times produced four anti-China opinion pieces:

Are the Chinese Protests a Moment or a Movement?

The Communist Party Is Losing China’s People

Banana Peels for Xi Jinping

Xi Broke the Social Contract That Helped China Prosper

All four predict doom for China and president Xi’s leadership. In typical color-revolution fashion the sudden onslaught of these pieces follows recent reports of minor protests in some Chinese cities related to zero-Covid measures.

China – Protest Instigators And Zero-Covid Policies

Apple is sticking taxpayers with part of the bill for rollout of tech giant’s digital ID card

Apple is sticking taxpayers with part of the bill for rollout of tech giant’s digital ID card

The agreement, obtained through public record requests from CNBC and other sources, mostly portrays Apple as having a high degree of control over the government agencies responsible for issuing identification cards.

Apple has “sole discretion” for key aspects of the program, including what types of devices will be compatible with the digital IDs, how states are required to report on the performance of the effort, and when the program is launched, according to the documents. Apple even gets to review and approve the marketing that states are required to do.