PACKED TO THE RAFTERS

From 2018 to 2020, the number of U.S. companies attending the China International Import Expo (CIIE) increased from 180 to 198, with their total exhibition area one of the largest among all participating countries and regions. This year, some 200 U.S. com-panies attended the expo's fourth edition that took place in Shanghai from November 5 to 10, hitting a new high. Their active engagement in the CIIE mirrors U.S. businesses' continued passion for the Chinese market, the only major economy to achieve positive growth last year amid the worldwide impact of COVID-19, a Xinhua News Agency commentary read.     

Striving for Stability

Had it not been for the COVID-19 pandemic,Auckland, New Zealand's most populous city, would have been a busy place this month. Leaders, ministers and business communities from the 21 economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), including China, the U.S. and Russia, would have been gathering there to discuss the development and prosperity of the Asia-Pacific region. Instead, New Zealand, which currently holds the rotating presidency, has decided to hold all of this year's APEC meetings online, drawing together representatives from 11 time zones. APEC, established in 1989, is the highest-level intergovernmental economic cooperation platform in the region. This year also marks the 30th anniversary of China's joining the alliance. While addressing the 28th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting on November 12, Chinese President Xi Jinping said, "It has been three decades of deepening reform and opening up for China, and of broadening economic cooperation across the Asia-Pacific."     

农村重大群体性事件的控制路径:基于传播学进路的考察

套用西方危机管理理论研究我国农村重大群体性事件所得出的研究成果,遮蔽的东西并不比揭示的东西更多。农村重大群体性事件的控制,应当适当告别传统的控制思维和路径依赖。本文依循传播学进路,立基于我国乡村治理经验、乡村社会关系格局和乡土传播网络结构,从组织传播的去政治化、熟人社会的人际传播、乡村精英的说服、群体传播的高层应对、"媒介城邦"变局中的舆论引导等方面,提出了控制农村重大群体性事件的新思维和新路径。     

基于激励理论的人工智能发明人身份探究

随着人工智能自主创造技术的不断发展,人工智能对以"人类发明者中心主义"为基础的发明人制度发起挑战.激励理论是专利法存在的目的,从激励理论角度考察,期望激励理论、公平激励理论和成就激励理论奠定了发明人激励制度的内部基础.基于对激励理论的逐一分析,人工智能即使能够自主完成发明创造,也不是基于激励意识而产生的结果.有鉴于此,人工智能不能作为发明人与人类发明者并存于专利法之中.面对未来时代人工智能自主生成或辅助生成发明的可能性,我国应坚持现有的激励自然人作为发明人进行创造的立法目的,维护既有的自然人是发明人的制度体系.     

Injecting Hope

正With the first batch of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines rolling off production lines in Egypt on July 5,it became the first country on the African continent to do so in cooperation with China.The program was launched in December 2020.Local production commenced six months later and reached an output of 1 million doses within a relatively short period.     

The association between childhood sexual abuse and sexual coercion in men: a test of possible mediators

ABSTRACT

We examined the associations between childhood sexual abuse (CSA), childhood physical abuse (CPA), sexual domain variables, antisocial tendencies, and sexually coercive behaviour in a non-forensic sample of 173 heterosexual men. CSA was associated with paraphilic interests and experiences, a more extensive sexual life history, and early antisocial tendencies. CPA was associated with paraphilic interests and experiences, more self-reported delinquency, higher sensation seeking, and early antisocial tendencies. Sexual domain variables (e.g. number of sexual partners, sexual interest in sadomasochism) mediated the link between CSA and sexually coercive behaviour, but antisocial domain variables (e.g. delinquency, sensation seeking) did not. Of the two sexual domains examined, extensive sexual life history rather than paraphilias mediated the association between CSA and sexually coercive behaviour. These results suggest CSA and CPA are associated with both sexual and antisocial outcomes, and that, for some victims of CSA, having an extensive sexual life history may account for the association between CSA and sexually coercive behaviour later in life.     

Militarism,states and resistance in Africa: exploring colonial patterns in stabilisation missions

ABSTRACT

The article explores how stabilisation missions reproduce the patterns that constituted colonial states. Following African historiography, the article argues that stabilisation’s militarised approach to neutralising resistance, its racialisation of targets and its aim to constitute and reform state authority evoke how colonial states were forged by the inseparable relationship between authority, force, race, production and resistance. However, it will be shown that those patterns cannot be fully understood without an account of the broader structure of coloniality and imperialism. In so doing, the article aims to contribute to bring together different literatures on contemporary peace-building interventions and contemporary militarism by examining the relation between militarism, coloniality and imperialism. It focuses on the Democratic Republic of Congo to show how an intensified use of force against resistance, added to frames that see Congolese politics as deviant, has guided the goal of restoration of state authority, and with it, different economic reforms, all of which have reinforced the military and economic power of national and international elites, without reporting significant benefits to the population at large.     

A Fresh Lacquer On Tradition

<正>A lacquerware adapts the traditional art form to modern lives As soon as the first ray of sunshine pierces through the air in southeast China’s Fujian Province,a lacquerware workshop opens its doors for business.The workshop’s owner is Li Changmin.He is a senior lacquer artist and a second     

A Misguided Focus On China

正On the surface, Joe Biden emerged as successful in securing consensus in both the Group of Seven(G7)and NATO on labeling China as a "systemic challenge" during his first tour of Europe.However, hiding beneath such "achievements," the U.S. alienated itself from the majority of countries still fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.