[P2P-F] Fwd: Weekend Roundup: From Beijing to Moscow, a Digital Curtain Descends

Mon May 9 07:57:49 CEST 2016

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From: The WorldPost <highlights at theworldpost.com>
Date: Sat, May 7, 2016 at 9:02 PM
Subject: Weekend Roundup: From Beijing to Moscow, a Digital Curtain Descends
To: michel at p2pfoundation.net

Weekend Roundup: From Beijing to Moscow, a Digital Curtain Descends

By: Nathan Gardels, Editor-in-chief
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Dear Michel,

In March 1946, Winston Churchill famously declared
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that
an "iron curtain" had descended across the European continent, casting a
decades-long chill between East and West known as the Cold War. A new chill
is in the air once again as China and Russia seek to draw a new "digital
curtain" across the world in a joint effort to thwart the Western web from
penetrating their cultural space.
If the arrival in Moscow last week
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China's Internet czar, Lu Wei, to advise his Russian counterpart on how to
erect a "firewall" against the West is any indication, a new "Cominternet"
for the 21st century seems to be in the works - analogous to the
so-called "Communist
International
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or "Comintern," which linked communist parties around the world from Moscow
to Beijing during the Stalin era.
Writing from Moscow, Andrei Soldatov
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the Russia-China cybersecurity forum that convened last week as marking a
shift in Vladimir Putin's censorship strategy from "intimidation" to
"technology" that fortifies net sovereignty against Western-dominated
Internet companies and content. "Splinternet" author Scott Malcomson
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explains
how Russia and China are cooperating to dismantle America's dominance of
the Internet.
As these infographics
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surprisingly
show, the U.S. is actually spending less on security aid to its Asian
allies than before President Obama announced his "pivot to Asia" in 2010.
See here how the Chinese military is using a slick, rap-style music video
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to
attract new recruits. Looking at the lives of the growing community of
immigrants in China, Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden
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explore
what it is like to be black in China.
History is also being revisited in Turkey where the secular foundations of
the republic established by Kemal Mustafa Ataturk in 1923 are once again
open to question. Some leading legislators of the ruling Islamist party of
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan want to enshrine Turkey as a religious
instead of secular state in the new constitution
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under
consideration. Writing from Istanbul, novelist Kaya Genc
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describes
how "secularism" means so many things to so many people in Turkey precisely
because it allowed a robust civil society to flourish. Fréderike Geerdink
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scores
what she says has all along been "non-secular secularism" in Turkey that
favors conservative Islamic values. WorldPost Middle East Correspondent Sophia
Jones
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reports
from Istanbul on how the resignation this week of Prime Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu figures in the battle over a new constitution that would most
likely invest ultimate authority in the presidential office under Erdogan.
Next door in Iran, Negar Mortazavi
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explains
how the moderate allies of President Hassan Rouhani have taken the upper
hand from hard-liners in the most recent parliamentary elections.
As World Reporter Nick Robins-Early
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writes,
global public opinion is reeling at the realization that an unabashed
demagogue like Donald Trump could become not only the nominee of one of
America's two main political parties, but also perhaps even win the
presidency. To mark its fifth anniversary in the midst of America's
craziest electoral season in memory, the Berggruen Institute this week
honored Gov. Jerry Brown for his intelligent governance of California. "By
imposing restraint on water use, greenhouse gas emissions and the budget,"
I said at the event in Los Angeles in my capacity as a co-founder of the
institute, "Governor Brown has done the hardest - but most essential -
thing in democratic political life: He has looked beyond the short-term
horizon of immediate constituency pressures and the next election cycle to
make tough decisions for the long-term good of the state." The governor was
presented with a model of the no-frills blue Plymouth that was the official
car of his first term and came to symbolize his trademark frugality.

Former Gov. Gray Davis and Gov. Jerry Brown attend the Berggruen Institute
5 Year Anniversary Celebration on May 3, 2016 in Los Angeles. (Vivien
Killilea/Getty Images for Berggruen Institute)
Contrasting populist American politics with competent meritocratic
governance in Singapore, Mark Chou
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argues
that, "The best political leaders and the most stable political systems
aren't necessarily produced through 'one person, one vote.'" Writing from
Manila, Richard Javad Heydarian
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says
the Philippines has reached a crossroads in next week's elections: a return
to the cycle of "strongman" rule over a feudal economy, or the true advance
and maturation of democratic institutions. It is the angry and impatient
electorate that will decide. Diego Iraheta
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editor-in-chief of *HuffPost Brazil*, details from Sao Paulo the latest
twist - the removal of a powerful legislator from office - in the
corruption and impeachment scandal that has engulfed the South American
nation.
Writing from Mexico City, poet and ecologist Homero Aridjis
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exposes
the newest threat to the monarch butterfly refuge in Central Mexico - a
planned mining operation looking for copper, zinc, lead, silver and gold.
Also on Mexico, the International Crisis Group's Mary Speck
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evaluates
President Enrique Peña Nieto's pledge to address the "incredulity and
distrust
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that has arisen over the investigation into the 43 missing students.
After a series of tragic attacks from all sides in the Syrian civil war, Joanne
Liu
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of
Médecins Sans Frontières appeals to the United Nations to protect hospitals
in the war zone. European parliamentarian and former Belgian Prime Minister Guy
Verhofstadt
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is
appalled at the inaction over Syria and the resulting refugee crisis.
"Never before has a continent with so much invested in the stability of its
surrounding regions, been so reluctant to project its power and defend its
interests," he writes.
In this photoblog, we look at the deepening crisis of the Rohingya Muslim
minority
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as
Myanmar advances toward democracy. We also profile a photographer who is
making it his mission to document faces around the world
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Finally, our Singularity
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series
this week envisions a time when satellites will be manufactured in space
instead of boosted from the Earth.

Introducing the WorldPost - Where the World Meets
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on
the "whole mind" way of thinking. *Patrick Soon-Shiong* is Contributing
Editor for Health and Medicine.

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