The Confucius Institute warmly invites you to this year’s first ZhiXing Forum, entitled ‘Digital Twins Technology and Its Representative Applications for Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean’, by Dr. Xun Luo (Director of Tianjin Belt and Road International Joint Lab, Co-director de China-Colombia Connected Experience Universal Labs ), on Friday, February 21, 2025, from 2:30pm – 4:00pm.
In the past five years, Chinese scientists and technologists have worked in collaboration with colleagues from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in the field of digital twins in conjunction with biodiversity conservation, yielding significant progress. In this talk, we will introduce several representative digital twin applications for coral reef and mangrove forests in Colombia, marine fauna in the South China Sea, as well as whales and monarch butterflies in Mexico.
The forum will be held via Zoom ( Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/94440486489 Meeting Number : 944 4048 6489 ). We look forward to seeing you online!
Ranked: How Much People Trust Institutions, by Country (visualcapitalist.com)
Among the world’s 10 largest economies, five rank among the least trusting nations on the Trust Index: Japan (the lowest at 37), Germany (41), the UK (43), the U.S. (47), and France (48).
Argentina saw the largest increase in trust from 2024 at +9, following the election of Javier Milei, who campaigned on radical economic reforms amid the country’s ongoing financial crisis.
Only 4 of the 13 countries that had a national election or leadership change in the past year saw an increase in trust (Indonesia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Argentina)
The Edelman Trust Barometer also found that 61% of respondents had a moderate or high sense of grievance, which is defined by a belief that government and business make their lives harder and serve narrow interests, and wealthy people benefit unfairly from the system.
My observation about China during Spring Festival, from 3 aspects (substack.com)
I just came back from the 8-day Spring Festival vacation. I can not wait to tell you what I saw and felt. I chose 3 things that impressed me most.
The first is the number of people traveling around. Chinese people are used to using this vacation to reunite with families and friends or enjoy the pleasure of travel. So “Chun Yun” (春运，Spring Festival transportation) is scary. …
The second is the total box office of new films released during the Spring Festival season exceeded 10 billion yuan, breaking historical records. All six films released during the Spring Festival season are domestically produced….
The third is the hottest topic during the festival, which is DeepSeek.
This weekly newsletter is put together by DeLisle Worrell, President of the ABCF. Visit us at Association for Barbados China Friendship | (abcf-bb.com).
Thanks to everyone who sent contributions for this week’s Update. Please send items of interest to me via the contact page at ABCF-BB.com or to info@DeLisleWorrell.com.
The ABCF mission is to build a deeper understanding between the Chinese people and Barbadians and Caribbean people from all walks of life. The association’s focus is on personal experiences, people-to-people contact, cultural exchanges and exchanges of ideas, and the facilitation of travel, business and study. From the outset we aim to learn from and build on the experiences of the Caribbean and China, and to develop mutual understandings and support that will be to the benefit of both sides.
