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I.T. News – June 24, 2024

1 - China’s spate of violence prompts outburst of economic anxiety

Pedestrians cross a road in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai. China has long touted itself as the world’s safest nation, making rare outbursts of public violence stand out.

Pedestrians cross a road in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai. China has long touted itself as the world’s safest nation, making rare outbursts of public violence stand out. | BLOOMBERG

Jun 22, 2024

The reaction of Chinese social media users to a spate of recent violent attacks has exposed widespread discontent about the nation’s downturn, as economic pressures mount.

Shanghai police reported a stabbing Wednesday morning in one of the city’s metro stations, which — like other subway lines in major Chinese cities — has security checks at its entrances. The suspect was detained after injuring three people and the case is under investigation, police said in a statement.

In a country where violence is relatively rare, the incident became a top trending item on social media platform Weibo, garnering some 164 million reads with users speculating on the attacker’s motive. Some suggested the culprit was a stocks investor, a group battered during China’s $7 trillion market meltdown earlier this year.

"The pressure of this economic environment is cascading down to everyone, who may be pushed to the brink by a slight change in circumstances,” one user wrote. "Don’t provoke or bully others; you don’t know where their limits of outbursts are. Don’t let yourself become a victim of the economic climate.”

Another user posted: "When the economy is bad, social problems grow, people are becoming more aggressive.”

Police didn’t provide details of the culprit’s motive, and it was unclear if the attacks represented a surge in such incidents. But the public reaction underscored growing fears over China’s economic downturn, as a slump deepens in the property market where the bulk of household wealth is stored.

2 - China-France satellite launched to monitor most powerful explosions in space

The Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) has blasted off to record intense gamma-ray bursts

Ling Xin, in Ohio. 22 Jun 2024

An observatory built by Chinese and French researchers will hunt for the universe’s most powerful explosions after being launched into a low-Earth orbit in another landmark space mission between the two countries.

The Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor, or SVOM, blasted off on top of a Long March 2C rocket from western China’s Xichang Satellite Launch Centre at 3pm Chinese time on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported.

The 930kg (2,050-pound) probe, which took hundreds of scientists and engineers nearly two decades to develop, will orbit Earth at 625km (450 miles) above the ground to accurately measure the location and energy of distant, violent explosions known as gamma-ray bursts.

The project, led by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the French space agency CNES, began in 2006.

“The launch of SVOM closed a loop which started 18 years ago,” François Gonzalez, SVOM’s French project manager at CNES, said.

Over the years, members of the scientific and technical teams learned how to “adapt their own ways” to work together and push the mission forward, he said.

“We’ve been through ups and downs, but the strength of this cooperation is the team spirit between the Chinese and French people,” Gonzalez said.

Gamma-ray bursts are produced during extremely energetic events in the distant universe, such as the merging of two black holes or the collapse of a massive, dying star.

While such flashes of light give unique insights into major cosmic phenomena, they are notoriously hard to catch as they can appear anywhere in the sky and last for just a few seconds.

On top of that, gamma rays are readily absorbed by the Earth’s atmosphere, so the only way to record them is to place probes