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[Way @chefchef00]

@Appraiser008 这些都是公开的内容，稍微懂一点技术的都知道。只有老百姓不知道，以为自己的微信是保密的，微信里聊什么，别人（政府和腾讯）看不到。

[Way @chefchef00]

@Appraiser008 微信是名副其实的裸聊。腾讯后台都可以看到。所以很容易按政府要求储存任何需要的聊天记录，完全不需要费劲儿把所有人的聊天记录不分轻重不计成本全部储存。WhatsApp是端到端加密，只有聊天双方可以看到内容，后台只能看到加密后的乱码信息。

[Way @chefchef00]

@Jacob43817149 其实只要台湾还承认中华民国，台湾是中华民国的一部分，大陆没有理由打台湾。如果把中华民国这顶帽子扔了，那就很可能打起来

[Desmond Shum @DesmondShum]

Why Chinese and Western Analysts See China Differently

On a regular basis, I probably review ten Chinese-language podcasts or pieces of writing on China for every two from Hong Kong and one in English.

Over time, I have noticed a consistent difference among them. Hong Kong analysis often sits somewhere between the two, but broadly speaking there are two largely separate worlds of China watching: the Chinese-language world and the English-language world.

https://t.co/CZ9SRc0gNF

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

About six million years ago, the Straits of Gibraltar closed. But, because the Mediterranean evaporated quicker than rivers could fill it, it started to disappear. You could have walked from Italy to Africa.

But then the straits reopened. Dramatically.

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[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

I wanted to explain to you directly my announcement on creating a National Care Service and the triple lock.

Fundamental change is needed to protect the NHS and give older people the support they need.

At Labour conference, I announced a plan to create a National Care Service in the next parliament. To fund it, I am proposing an adjustment to the triple lock on the state pension. This will form the basis of a new settlement for older people in our country. I want to explain why this is necessary and what it would mean for pensioners.

Everyone knows that our social care system is broken. And yet, for decades, politicians have failed to fix it. Shamefully, millions of older people have unmet care needs. Far too many see everything they have worked for – their home, pension and savings – wiped out by care bills. The personal cost can be devastating, but we should not make the mistake of thinking the price is paid only by older people and their families.

I am convinced that if we carry on as we are, our broken social care system will eventually break our NHS too. Every day, older people who should be receiving support at home or in care settings are unnecessarily admitted to A&E. Meanwhile, hospital beds are occupied by people who are fit to leave but have nowhere to go because the care they need is not in place. Go to any hospital and you will see the effect. Corridor care is no longer simply the result of winter pressures. It is a commonplace indignity suffered by thousands of patients every day.

It is time for fundamental change. The best chance we have of saving our NHS is to build a high-quality care service. The National Care Service I am proposing will be based on NHS principles: everyone contributes and everyone is covered. It will give people peace of mind about their care needs and protect what they have built up over their lifetime. It will provide free personal care – support with the most basic human needs: eating, dressing and bathing. And it will be integrated with the rest of the system, preventative in nature, and deliver care at home wherever possible, exactly where older people want and should be.

A National Care Service, I believe, would become as significant as the creation of the NHS itself. But we need to be honest about the changes that are needed to pay for it. And I do not believe it makes sense to preserve the current triple lock while so many pensioners face the risk of catastrophic care costs. We can give pensioners greater financial security.

I am proposing to adjust the triple lock. This is not an easy decision, but I believe it is the right one. We pledged in our manifesto that we would keep the triple lock throughout this parliament, and I will keep that promise. This means the state pension is set to rise by more than £2,000 a year, reaching around 30 per cent of average earnings by the end of the decade – its highest ever level.

From April 2030, under our adjusted triple lock, we will guarantee that the state pension rises every year by either inflation or 2.5 per cent, whichever is higher. It will also increase by more than this when necessary to ensure that it holds its value relative to average earnings.

This means that if inflation spikes, pensioners will be protected. If wages rise, pensioners will share in that rising prosperity, with the state pension tracking earnings over time. Nobody’s pension will ever go down. And the state pension will be put on a sustainable footing for decades to come.

I want to be upfront about what I am proposing because this adjustment will bring change. The state pension will not increase as quickly as it otherwise would if we kept the triple lock in its current form. However, the adjustment will enable us to fix social care for everyone by building a National Care Service that provides older people with free personal care at the point of need. I believe this is a better deal for pensioners.

I do not expect people to support this plan without seeing the full detail. We will start laying the ground now for the National Care Service and introduce it as soon as possible in the next parliament. Louise Casey’s review will advise us on exactly how and we will build the maximum consensus around her recommendations. It will be fully funded – and not through borrowing.

I appeal to everyone to engage in this debate responsibly and urge politicians to continue the cross-party talks that began over the summer. We need less point scoring and more problem solving. The situation is too serious for us to play politics. Care workers struggling on low pay, families stretched to breaking point, older people fearful of losing everything they have worked for. We need to give them reason to hope again.

I have wanted to fix social care for a long time. As health secretary in 2009, I tried to find a cross-party solution. Since then, I have watched the challenges grow more acute and the consequences become more severe. It is a profound failure of politics that we have known about this problem for so long and yet failed to act. I would never forgive myself if I did not try now.

This is the settlement I am offering to pensioners: a state pension that rises every year, no care charges and a high-quality National Care Service to give peace of mind in later life. I do not pretend this will be easy. But in the end, politics is about finding a way. I gave my word that I would do everything in my power to build a care system worthy of the people who provide it and all those who depend on it. This is how we can achieve it.

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

BREAKING

Andy Burnham has finished his conference speech with a strong hint that he will abandon Labour red lines on further integration with the European Union

Burnham said it was clear that Brexit had not worked for Britain and pledged to set out options for a closer relationship with the EU later this year

This could include a plan to rejoin the EU’s single market and customs union - or even a full return to the bloc

“We will not give Britain the clear path we need into the rest of the century until we decide on a long-term relationship with what is still our largest market,” he said

“I cannot say to you that where we are is good enough. Brexit has done more harm than good

“So, I will take the opportunity around the summit to lay out to the country what I believe the different options are for Britain’s long-term relationship with our European partners.

“And I will see if we can find consensus around one which will give us clarity about the future on our continent.”

He said that Brexit has 'done more harm than good' and that where we are is 'not good enough;

[Way @chefchef00]

@FooBaa179655 @youchaowoo @Konekoutena Actually quite consistent. When Japan learns from China, it borrows Chinese words directly for both its meaning & pronunciation; when it learns from the West (UK), it also borrows them. For China’s case, since it was very early, no Japanese writing yet, so borrowed its form too.

[Eddie Gonzales | Moscow Photographer @EddieGonzales]

I don't care what your politics are, this landing is pure butter.

[RFI 华语 - 法国国际广播电台 @RFI_Cn]

《#茉莉花》或许是世界上最为人熟知的#中国曲子之一。从江南民歌到#普契尼《图兰朵》中的经典主题，再到奥运会，这首简单优美的旋律走过了一段跨世纪与国界的旅程。而在中国，它也曾因2011年的“茉莉花革命”而被赋予特殊的政治意味。一首民歌，如何成为象征中国文化的音乐符号？

[Way @chefchef00]

Britain should rejoin EU within 10 years, Tony Blair tells Andy Burnham | The Independent https://t.co/IMWffGaYap

[Way @chefchef00]

@BBCNews UK should not compete with countries like Greece, which allows that flat tax because it is not attractive enough itself. There are always people coming and going and there is no need to panic just because someone wants to pay much less tax. UK has never been a tax haven.

[Way @chefchef00]

UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size https://t.co/MkaPmufbsb

[Way @chefchef00]

@RayDalio It depends on how confident US is with its real global power. If you are not strong enough, forcing the others to choose can only reveal your weakness earlier and accelerate your own decline and this would not be a wise strategy at all.

[Way @chefchef00]

@Brad_Setser @eastasiaecon Is Korea’s currency severely undervalued given its even larger surplus compared to its size? There may also be some element of overcapacity in chip production I guess?

[Way @chefchef00]

@dw_chinese 中国并不需要挑战现有的世界秩序。恰恰相反，中国一直在致力于维护这个秩序。真正挑战并破坏这个美国建立起来的世界秩序的，恰恰是美国自身。

[Way @chefchef00]

@Brad_Setser Barely one year ago, people were talking about depreciation of Yuan against US Dollar.

[Way @chefchef00]

@DAlperovitch That’s great. You can stop talking about China and give China some peace then.

[Way @chefchef00]

@michaelxpettis Can you say this to all gold-exporting countries?