193 karma · joined June 29, 2020
Exactly this was my first thought. Sad that these days my first thought, if some new "system" to prevent/catch something/one is introduced, is "How could this system be abused to blame somebody?".
Ever since the Shanghai maglev was built, every two to four years Chinese maglev projects hit the media big.
Changsha maglev is all that they could get to work so far.
The articles are e.g. about China becoming a leader in this/that economy sector. Focus topics seem to be (as far as I remember, been there in 2019 last):
- Progress and positive effects of the Belt and Road initiative - Massive infrastructure projects in mainland China - railway - Fighting pollution - stories about new regulations, violations and their prosecution - Fighting corruption - stories about prosecution of corruption - Aspiring economy sectors in China - domestic airplane development - Joint ventures with technology leaders - like research centers - Cooperation with other countries - Messages of the CCP and the president himself - perfected message control
According to [2] the Austria eID is already valid EU-wide.
[1] https://www.buergerkarte.at/en/
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_electronic_signatu...
The post-covid effect may complicate things furthermore.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-12/u-s-lumbe...
//edit: typo