Xi Urges eFForts to accelerate establisHmeNt oF NeW developmeNt patterN

BEIJING s TA f f r e P o r T

XI Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has stressed efforts to accelerate the establishment of a new pattern of development and enhance the security and initiative of development

Xi made the remarks while attending the second group study session of the Political Bureau of the 20th CPC Central Committee on Tuesday afternoon

He said accelerating the establishment of a new pattern of development is a strategic decision to realize the Second Centenary Goal and ensure both development and security, as well as a strategic plan to seize the initiative of future development

Only by accelerating the establishment of a new pattern of development can China consolidate the foundation for its economy and enhance the security and stability of its development, Xi said

And only by doing so can China enhance its strength to survive, compete, develop and sustain itself amid all sorts of storms and high winds to ensure that the process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will not be delayed or interrupted and that the goal of building China into a great modern socialist country will be realized, he said

Despite some progress in fostering a new pattern of development, there is still a long way to go before its full establishment, Xi said, calling for adopting a prob- lem-oriented approach and applying systems thinking to tackle major problems, deepen reform, and advance innovation

A good job must be done in coordinating domestic demand expansion and supply-side structural reform to strike a more desirable dynamic balance between supply and demand and achieve a virtuous cycle of economic development Xi said

Xi stressed fostering an integrated domestic demand system that focuses on expanding consumption desire backed by income, demand for investment with reasonable returns and demand for financing with principal and debt constraints

He said China will also work to estab-

Former UN ambassador Haley set to announce 2024 White House bid

WASHINGTON

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Nikki Haley is moving closer to making her presidential campaign official

On Wednesday, supporters of the former South Carolina governor will get an email invitation to a February 15 launch event in Charleston, at which she plans to announce her campaign, according to a person familiar with the plans but not authorised to speak publicly about them

News of Haley’s plans was first reported by The Post and Courier of Charleston Haley, 51, served as South Carolina’s governor for six years before serving as President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations

When she enters the race, Haley will be the first contender to join the contest against her former boss who is currently the sole Republican seeking his party’s 2024 nomination Trump was in South Carolina Saturday for the initial campaign swing of his 2024 campaign, standing alongside Governor Henry McMaster who served as Haley’s lieutenant governor and several Republican Party members of the state’s delegation, part of his leadership team in the early-voting state

During the Trump administration, Haley feuded at times with other White House officials while bolstering her own public persona Her 2018 departure fueled speculation that she would challenge Trump in 2020, or replace Vice President Mike Pence on the ticket, but Haley did neither

Instead, Haley returned to South Carolina, where she bought a home on Kiawah Island, joined the board of aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co lish and improve long-term mechanisms for expanding consumer spending, improve mechanisms that help expand investment and continue to deepen supply-side structural reform

Xi also called for greater effort to accelerate building the country’s self-reliance and strength in science and technology and boost its strategic strength to make the country a global pacesetter in key scientific and technological fields

Xi said the new development pattern should be based on the modern industrial system and that smooth economic operation requires orderly and effective interconnectivity among industries

He added that the country will continue to keep economic development focused on the real economy and take concrete steps to advance new industrialization

Efforts will also be made to support enterprises’ full participation in the global industrial division of labor and cooperation, promote deeper integration of domestic and foreign industries and build a modern industrial system that is independent, controllable, safe, reliable and highly competitive Xi said

He noted that to expand domestic circulation, China should advance the coordinated development of urban and rural areas and different regions

The country should give full play to rural areas as a market of consumption and production factors while promoting rural revitalization and developing a unified national market, he said

Impetus and vitality will be injected into the dual circulation of domestic and international markets through continued reform and opening-up, Xi said, adding that China will improve mechanisms regarding intellectual property rights protection market access and fair competition to nurture a favorable environment for all types of market entities

Aimed at a high-level opening-up especially on institutional fronts, the country will also contribute to the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative and actively participate in negotiations of global economic and trade rules to help establish an open, diverse and stable world economic order, Xi said

Myanmar Marks Coup Anniversar Y With Eyes On Junta Election Plan

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Myanmar democracy activists called for businesses to close nationwide on Wednesday to mark the second anniversary of the coup that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi’s government, with the junta hinting it may extend a state of emergency and delay new elections

The military justified its power grab on February 1, 2020, with unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud in the elections Suu Kyi’s party won in a landslide Western powers launched a fresh broadside of sanctions against the generals on the anniversary, but previous rounds have shown little sign of throwing the junta off course

Protesters in commercial hub Yangon draped banners on several bridges calling for people to join the “revolution” on Wednesday, images published by local media showed Activists have called for people across the country to close businesses and stay off the streets from 10:00 am (0330 GMT) to 4:00 pm

I made fewer snacks today and all are sold out now,” a vendor in Yangon told AFP, requesting anonymity for fear of reprisals

People rushed to buy since early morning

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Creators of a ChatGPT bot causing a stir for its ability to mimic human writing on Tuesday released a tool designed to detect when written works are authored by artificial intelligence

The announcement came amid intense debate at schools and universities in the United States and around the world over concerns that the software can be used to assist students with assignments and help them cheat during exams

US-based OpenAI said in a blog post Tuesday that its detection tool has been trained “to distinguish between text written by a human and text written by AIs from a variety of providers

The bot from OpenAI, which recently received a massive cash injection from Microsoft responds to simple prompts with reams of text inspired by data gathered on the internet OpenAI cautioned that its tool can make mistakes, particularly with texts containing fewer than 1,000 characters

“While it is impossible to reliably detect all AI-written text we believe good classifiers can inform mitigations for false claims that AIgenerated text was written by a human,” OpenAI said in the post

For example, running auto- mated misinformation campaigns, using AI tools for academic dishonesty, and positioning an AI chatbot as a human ” A top French university last week forbade students from using ChatGPT to complete assignments, in the first such ban at a college in the country

The decision came shortly after word that ChatGPT had passed exams at a US law school after writing essays on topics ranging from constitutional law to taxation ChatGPT still makes factual mistakes, but education facilities have rushed to ban the AI tool

We recognize that identifying AI-written text has been an important point of discussion among edu- cators, and equally important is recognizing the limits and impacts of AI-generated text classifiers in the classroom,” OpenAI said in the post

“We are engaging with educators in the US to learn what they are seeing in their classrooms and to discuss ChatGPT’s capabilities and limitations ”

Officials in New York and other jurisdictions have forbidden its use in schools

A group of Australian universities have said they would change exam formats to banish AI tools and regard them as cheating

OpenAI said it recommends using the classifier only with English text as it performs worse in other languages

There will be a silent strike We don’t want to miss it ” A pro-military rally of “patriots, military lovers, monks and the public” was set to march through the streets of downtown Yangon The US embassy in the city has warned of “increased anti-regime activity and violence” in the days around the anniversary

A junta-imposed state of emergency was due to expire at the end of January, after which the constitution states that authorities must set in motion plans to hold fresh elections

The military was widely expected to announce on Wednesday that it would prepare for the polls But on Tuesday, the junta-stacked National Defence and Security Council met to discuss the state of the nation and concluded it “has not returned to normalcy yet”

Junta opponents, including the anti-coup “People’s Defence Forces” (PDF) and a shadow government dominated by lawmakers from Suu Kyi s National League for Democracy (NLD) had tried to seize “state power by means of unrest and violence”, the council said The necessary announcement will be released on Wednesday, it added, without giving details ‘Barbaric’ campaign

The United States, Canada and Britain announced a new round of sanctions on the anniversary, targeting members of the junta and junta-backed entities Myanmar ’s former colonial ruler Britain targeted among others companies supplying aviation fuel to the military and enabling its “barbaric air raiding campaign in an attempt to maintain power

Australia also announced its first sanctions, aimed at 16 members of the junta “responsible for egregious human rights abuses” and two sprawling, military-controlled conglomerates