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  Rainfall caused bv climate change creates risks to China's farmland cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/59216599 Archived Southwest China is one of the areas with the highest long-term cropland exposure to extreme precipitation Extreme precipitation intensity has fluctuated but generally increased in the Huang–Huai–Hai Plain and Northeast China Plain since 2000. Areas where primary industry accounts for 30–40 per cent of the local economy showed the lowest levels of extrem...

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  Nepal floods: China’s strict control of Tibet makes it harder to prepare for Himalayan disasters cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/58364835 Archived […] Despite warm relations with Beijing, and the Nepalese government’s assurances that it follows the “One China” principle and permits no support for Tibetans, China’s tight control over Tibet creates complications. The region is administered as a militarised frontier. Access runs on permits and clearances, the area is closely watche...

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  cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/51189959 By comparing LLMs developed in China and outside, a study finds significantly higher levels of censorship in China-originating models, not explained by technological limitations or market preferences. Original report: Political censorship in large language models originating from China Open Access […] Jennifer Pan and Xu Xu compared the responses of foundation LLMs developed in China (BaiChuan, ChatGLM, Ernie Bot, and DeepSeek) to those de...

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  cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/51138378 The excerpts below are verbatim model outputs from multiple sessions with China’s Deepseek. […] The model is explicit that information control serves power—and that power fears what informed citizens can do. Criticality for Maintenance of Power Yes, it is critical. The party’s claim to legitimacy is not based on winning competitive elections where its record is openly debated. … Without the ability to manage this information, the party...