tawaradai – Page 2 – भारतीय रोज़ नई ख़बरें

‘Go online’ strategy

Having spent around a year to develop an online digital project that exhibits legacies in the “Sutra Cave” of China’s Mogao Caves, it has recently launched its international version, allowing users mainly in Europe to virtually experience the rise and fall spanning more than a millennium of the cave that is also known as the Dunhuang Library Cave.

A screen shot of a 3D image depicts a “wine ledger” relic discovered in Dunhuang, Gansu Province. Photo: Courtesy of Tencent

Due to its cultural importance and extreme fragile nature, the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Northwest China’s Gansu Province, already underwent digital restorations early back to the 1990s. Led by the Dunhuang Academy, the site’s “go-online” strategy, however, is always updating along with rapidly progressing China’s digital technology.

‘Dunhuang Library Cave’

The “Sutra Cave” is one of the Mogao Caves that is more commonly known as “Grotto No.17.” The Dunhuang culture boasts 45,000 square meters of mural arts and more than 2,000 painted sculptures, yet Grotto No.17 that is also dubbed as the “Dunhuang Library Cave” still seems to be an “unfamiliar gem” to most people, Zhao Xiaoxing, director of the Literature Research Institute of the Dunhuang Academy said.

“It has witnessed Dunhuang’s history during the 4th to 11th centuries. If other grottoes have depicted Dunhuang’s culture through images, then the ‘Sutra Cave’ tells Dunhuang’s story with words and texts,” Zhao remarked.

Since April 2024, overseas users are now able to get access to the “unfamiliar gem” by clicking on the website of “Digital Dunhuang.”

Including the introductions to relics, all information on the website have been translated into English and French.

Prior to it going international, in March 2022, the Dunhuang Academy partnered with Chinese technology giant Tencent to develop the online digital cave program through a “cloud gaming” technology.

Compared to traditional digital projects that mainly allow people to browse relics online, the gaming approach allows viewers to be at the virtual Mogao sutra cave. It is like the script play themed on “Dunhuang,” and viewers have six roles to choose from, and they can also interact with eight non-player characters in the game.

The project was carried out under the instruction of China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA). It was entirely technology-oriented to have adopted other methods like high-definition digital scanning and AI technologies starting from its first step of collecting organic site’s data.

Recalling scenes of Mogao Caves’ digital journey from the 1990s to the present, Su Boming, director of the Dunhuang Academy said that it has progressed from “collecting and restoring digital data” to “seeking creative data applications.”

According to Yu Tianxiu, deputy director of the academy’s cultural relics digitalization institute, the academy has completed the digital photographing of around 278 caves and 3D reconstruction of 145 painted sculptures until 2022.

Such a change is commended by cultural heritage management expert Dou Siming as the “2.0 version of relic digitalization” in China.

“The fact that such projects can be achieved in China is inseparable to the country’s digital innovative industry and non-cultural Chinese company’s growing sense of cultural responsibility,” Dou emphasized.

In April 2023, the program debuted to domestic Chinese users. Around 1.4 million users were seen tapped into the project’s online mini program, within which more than 400,000 of users have experienced the digital Dunhuang Library Cave online.

“Through such digital creative projects, we discovered that the popularization of Dunhuang culture increased massively, far more than what we had imagined,” Su emphasized. He also revealed that the academy is willing to cooperate with digital companies to continue other projects like the “cloud tour at Dunhuang.”

Cultural creative industry expert Yao Yu told the Global Times that such a new academy-corporation collaboration mode can shed light on sectors of “public cultural education, and help the industrial upgrading of technological companies.” He emphasized that more and more Chinese technological companies are starting to realize the “importance of cultures.”

“We help in not only bringing the country’s non-renewable cultural resources to life, but also by promoting Chinese culture globally,” said Guo Kaitian, senior vice president of Tencent.

“We are taking an exploratory step in exchanging the Chinese civilizations with the world, and also dedicate to promoting mutual learning between different cultures,” Guo remarked.

Zhao Xiaoxing (left) shows and introduces the replicas of documents unearthed from the Dunhuang Library Cave to a journalist at the Dunhuang Art Gallery in Lanzhou, Northwest China’s Gansu Province. Photo: VCG

Nationwide efforts

Adopted by not only the Mogao Caves, the Yungang Grottoes in North China’s Shanxi Province has also experimented on the “digitalization + relics” programs marked by a milestone that in 2012, a digital research department was officially established as part of the heritage site.

Over years of developments, the site has made achievements like successfully collecting data of the grottoes’ façades, and also completed a sensational digital project in 2023, to which the site’s statue of Amitabha from the Cave No.3 has been 1:1 3D printed and made into a replica to be displayed at Qingdao, East China’s Shandong Province.

“Around 10,000 photos of the original cave were taken in order to create a digital model,” Wang Shanshan, an insider with the project told the Global Times.

“Cultural relics are like doors closed, and the technology is the key to opening these doors,” Hang Kan, director of the Yungang Research Institute told media.

Philippines likely to increase illegal resupply activities to grounded warship in Ren’ai Jiao in 2024: report

This photo taken on November 10, 2023 shows Philippine coast guard personnel and journalists sailing onboard a rigid inflatable boat (left) as they head back after filming the BRP Sierra Madre grounded at Renai Jiao in South China Sea. Photo: AFP

The number of illegal resupply activities to the illegally grounded warship in the South China Sea by the Philippines will continue to increase in 2024, an expert from Chinese think tank Grandview Institution warned based on a report the institution released on Tuesday.

According to the report, in 2022, the Philippine Navy conducted 11 illegal resupply activities to the Ren’ai Jiao (Ren’ai Reef), while in 2023, the number increased to 14 with more disguised approaches.

On May 9, 1999, the military vessel BRP
Sierra Madre illegally intruded into China’s Ren’ai Jiao, or what the Philippine side calls as the Second Thomas Shoal, running aground due to purported “technical difficulties.”

According to the latest report of the Grandview Institution, the vessel
Sierra Madre has been grounded in the Ren’ai Jiao for a long time with over ten Filipino soldiers stationed and this has constituted actual encroachment of the Ren’ai Jiao. The Philippine military’s Western Command is responsible for commanding the grounded troops and the Philippine Navy sends ships to resupply the grounded troop.

As for whether the number of supply missions to the Ren’ai Jiao by the Philippines will continue to increase in 2024, Liu Xiaobo, director of the ocean research center of the Grandview Institution, told the Global Times. He noted before 2023, the Philippine Navy supplied the grounded military vessel once a month, but after that, the number of illegal resupply activities increased.

The current trend shows that the illegal supply actions in 2024 will continue to increase, according to Liu. “In order to reduce sensitivity, the Philippines has rented civilian ships – instead of sending military vessels – to supply the stranded ship under the escort of coast guard ships, but the Philippines has been reportedly taking advantage of the opportunity of resupplying troops to transport illegal construction materials to the grounded ship and China firmly opposed such attempt.”

In addition, the Philippines currently invites international media to board transport ships and openly hype up China’s so-called “interception actions” against them in order to gain sympathy and support from the international community. However, images accompanying the report show that compared to before, the main deck of the vessel
Sierra Madre as been partially reinforced and renovated in 2023, indicating that the Philippines had secretly transported building materials long ago.

The report also points out that the Philippines has enhanced construction on the islands it occupied in the South China Sea. Apart from Ren’ai Jiao, the Philippines has illegally occupied eight islands and reefs in China’s Nansha Islands, namely, Mahuan Dao, Feixin Dao, Zhongye Dao, Nanyao Dao, Beizi Dao, Xiyue Dao, Shuanghuang Shazhou, and Siling Jiao. In June 1978, it unilaterally went beyond its territorial scope to set up the so-called “Kalayaan Island Group,” which violates China’s territorial sovereignty.

Before 2022, the Philippines conducted less construction on the occupied islands and reefs. But in March 2022, the Philippines built a new helicopter landing pad on the Mahuan Dao; and in May of that year, the Philippine Coast Guard established command observation stations on the Mahuan Dao and others. These command observation stations monitor surrounding vessels and report information to the Philippine Coast Guard headquarters, according to the report.

In January 2024, Manila’s military chief Romeo Brawner told media that the Philippines would develop islands in all the nine islands and reefs in the South China Sea that it considers part of its territory to make them more habitable for troops.

The Philippines Coast Guard recently claimed that China was attempting to build an “artificial island” in the Ren’ai Jiao. In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a press conference on Monday “the Philippines has repeatedly spread rumors, deliberately vilified China and tried to mislead the international community. None of those attempts will succeed.”

Wang also urged the Philippines to stop making irresponsible remarks, face up to the facts and return to the right track of properly handling maritime disputes through negotiation and consultation.

Liu believes the Philippines will continue to advance its confrontational South China Sea policy in 2024. He points out that main factors contributing to the escalation of the disputes between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea include the pro-stance of the Marcos government, the increased assistance from the US and its allies to the Philippines, as well as the joint defense commitment of the US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty that backs and encourages the Philippines’ provocative actions of encroachment.

In addition, the Philippines has strengthened its maritime military capabilities in recent years, providing it with confidence, Liu said. But ASEAN countries will continue to be important forces in maintaining peace and stability in the South China Sea with China as resolving disputes through peaceful means and maintaining regional peace and stability remains a consensus between ASEAN countries and China despite the differences in their concerns and positions on the South China Sea issue, Liu noted.

First-ever Olympic Qualifier Series to open in Shanghai; top athletes set to vie for places at Paris 2024

Shanghai, China Photo: VCG

A total of 464 top global athletes, including seven Tokyo 2020 Olympic champions, have gathered in Shanghai to vie for quota places at the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

The “Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS) – Shanghai” will kick off on Thursday at the city’s iconic Huangpu riverside. The athletes, evenly divided between men and women, are going to compete in BMX freestyle, breaking, skateboarding, and sport climbing from Thursday to Sunday.

This is the first-ever OQS event being held to serve as a final qualification stage for these four sports for the Games. “[People] will see an incredible level of competition in these four sports,” said Pierre Fratter-Bardy, Olympic Games strategy and development associate director, at an OQS press conference on Wednesday.

“We have the very best athletes in the world,” Fratter-Bardy added, noting that spectators can also try these sports.

In the past, quota places for the Olympics were decided through forms including tournaments, said Liu Dongfeng, a professor in sport management at Shanghai University of Sport.

“And now the OQS, as a multi-sport event of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is expected to attract wider attention, and to stimulate the interest in these four sports among more people, particularly young people,” Liu told the Global Times.

Representing a significant milestone in athletes’ journeys to Paris, the OQS employs a points system to determine which athletes will secure the quota places. Athletes in the four sports get the OQS points by competing in Shanghai this week, and in Budapest in June.

As a key project under Olympic Agenda 2020+5, the OQS in Shanghai aims to offer the Olympic candidates a high-standard competing area, and also to bring the public an immersive Olympic experience that merges sport, art, music and culture.

A public sports festival, named Urban Festival, will also be held at Huangpu riverside during the OQS, consisting of a variety of experiences and shows built around the four OQS sports, and their culture and scenes. The Urban Festival will let spectators of all ages have an inspiring experience while watching high-level competition, said the OQS organizers.

“Reaching out to and engaging with the young audiences around the world has been a very clear part of the innovation related to the Olympic program,” said IOC Sports Director Kit McConnell at an online media roundtable on Tuesday prior to the OQS. “What we’ve done is add to the more traditional sports by bringing in some of these really youth-focused sports and disciplines that we’ll see in Shanghai and Budapest,” said McConnell.

BMX freestyle, breaking, skateboarding, and sport climbing share common highlights that make them popular among young people, Liu said. “They are dynamic, fashionable street sports with some extreme sports elements.”

Liu praised the creative combination of the OQS and the public sports festival, which he thinks is a meaningful effort in promoting Olympic sports and events. “To Shanghai citizens, it is not a merely a competition, but also sort of an interactive carnival that allows everyone to participate and enjoy the charm of sport,” he told the Global Times.

One person shot dead in New Caledonia unrest: official

A fire in the street after a supermarket was looted and shops vandalized in the N’Gea district of Noumea, May 14, 2024. /CFP

One person was shot dead and two others were wounded on Tuesday night as violent protests and looting rocked New Caledonia, according to the high commissioner of the French Pacific territory.

“Of the three wounded admitted to emergency, one is dead, the victim of a gunshot,” High Commissioner of the Republic Louis Le Franc told reporters, adding that the deceased was not from the police or the gendarmes.

Unrest erupted Monday in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia as protesters demonstrated against a constitutional reform being debated in the national assembly in Paris that aims to expand the electorate in the territory’s provincial elections.

Local authorities on Tuesday announced a curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. following overnight riots.

Under the Noumea Accord signed in 1998, the French overseas territory was granted the right to three referendums on its future political status.

All of the three referendums, held in 2018, 2020 and 2021, rejected independence.

The pro-independence Indigenous Kanaks rejected the result of the last referendum, held in December 2021, which they had boycotted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ABC News reported.

The latest voting reform, which triggered Monday’s violence, proposes the residency requirement to qualify for New Caledonian citizenship to be reduced to 10 years.

(With input from agencies)

Chinese scientists map macaque brain networks

Macaque brain networks. /Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Automation

A Chinese research team has successfully drawn a novel network map of a macaque brain that will help explain the macroscopic organizational patterns of the human brain.

The map, created by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Automation, divided the macaque brain into 304 distinct regions and quantitatively depicted the anatomical and functional connectivity patterns of each region.

Complex human behavior is driven by different functional networks in the brain. These networks are essentially collections of brain regions that communicate with one another through functional connections.

As macaques are highly similar to humans in terms of genetics, physiology and brain structure, the species is an ideal model for the study of the mechanisms of human cognitive function and can be used in the simulation of human brain diseases, said Jiang Tianzi, a researcher at the institute.

The panoramic brain map expressing the spatial organization of the macaque brain is an important research result as it can be translated for the study of the human brain, Jiang said.

It aids our understanding of brain function and will advance important research fields such as translational medicine, cross-species comparison and the digital modeling of the brain.

(Cover image via CFP)

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency

Asia’s extreme April heat worsened by climate change, scientists say

Women use scarves to shield themselves from the sun on a hot day in Hyderabad, India, May 2, 2024. /CFP

Extreme temperatures throughout Asia last month were made worse as a result of human-driven climate change, a team of international scientists said on Wednesday.

Billions of people across the continent were affected by record-breaking temperatures during April, with schools forced to shut down, crops damaged and hundreds of people killed by heat-related illnesses, climate experts from the World Weather Attribution group said in a report.

A man walking past air conditioning units on a building in Tokyo, Japan, April 30, 2024. /CFP

Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam experienced their hottest April days on record, while temperatures in India reached as high as 46 degrees Celsius, they said.

“From Gaza to Delhi to Manila, people suffered and died when April temperatures soared in Asia,” said Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute of Climate Change and the Environment, one of the report’s authors.

“Heat waves have always happened. But the additional heat, driven by emissions from oil, gas and coal, is resulting in death for many people.”

In the Philippines, one of the worst-hit countries, authorities issued health warnings, shut down schools and rationed electricity supplies as soaring temperatures threatened the country’s power grid.

A small-clawed otters seen feeding on frozen fish to help it cool down from the heat at Chiang Mai Zoo, April 29, 2024. /CFP

The 15-day heat wave, which started in the middle of the month, would have been “virtually impossible, even under El Nino conditions” without the impact of man-made global warming, the report said.

Parts of the Middle East saw record-breaking temperatures over April 24-26, with Tel Aviv hitting 40.7 degrees Celsius. Extreme temperatures in western Asia were made five times more likely by climate change, the report estimated.

“The heat that we saw is really compounding an already dire crisis at the moment in Gaza,” Carolina Pereira Marghidan of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center said at a briefing on Tuesday.

A construction worker at a road construction site in San Miguel, Bulacan province, the Philippines, May 2, 2024. /CFP

Temperatures around India’s Kolkata in late April reached 46 degrees Celsius, 10 degrees higher than the seasonal average, with climate change making extreme temperatures throughout South Asia around 45 times more likely, the report added.

Asian governments need to take action to adapt to soaring temperatures and minimize health risks, particularly in vulnerable sections of the population, said Marghidan.

“Considering that rate at which extreme heat is rising… we see a big need for heat action plans to be scaled up and current plans to be improved across Asia,” she said.

Source(s): Reuters

What to expect from the upcoming China-Russia Expo

A poster of the eighth China-Russia Expo in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, May 8, 2024. /CFP

The eighth China-Russia Expo is set to take place from May 16 to 21 in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province.

The event is part of the celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Russia this year.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will also pay a state visit to China from May 16 to 17, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

This will be Putin’s first state visit after he was sworn in as Russian president for a new term.

The upcoming expo will feature a significant lineup of Russian enterprises organized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. Additionally, 16 Russian federal entities will present their businesses at the event, Chinese Commerce Ministry official Liu Xuesong said at a news conference.

The expo will also serve as a platform to highlight Russia’s socioeconomic development, investment opportunities, cooperative projects, quality products and distinctive cultural elements. It aims to foster extensive discussions and negotiations between the two countries in various sectors.

The expo is expected to attract over 5,000 professional buyers from more than 120 delegations representing 44 countries and regions.

Its exhibition area will span 388,000 square meters, showcasing more than 5,000 products in over 20 major categories from 10 sectors.

The host city of the China-Russia Expo alternates between the two countries. Since its inception in 2014, the expo has attracted more than 7,200 Chinese and Russian enterprises, over 1.05 million merchants, facilitating contracts totaling 446.8 billion yuan (about $61.8 billion) in value.

Continued trade growth

In recent years, the trade volume between China and Russia has been expanding. In 2023, bilateral trade between the two countries reached $240.1 billion, achieving an established trade target of $200 billion ahead of schedule.

The first quarter of 2024 saw that positive trend continues, with the bilateral trade reaching $56.68 billion, a year-on-year increase of 5.2 percent, according to data from the General Administration of Customs (GAC).

Trade between China and Russia continued to expand in 2024, featured by growth in traded products such as energy, automobiles as well as general machinery and equipment, said Lyu Daliang, director of the GAC’s Department of Statistics and Analysis.

In a written interview with Xinhua, Putin noted that the rapid development of Russia-China trade relations has been demonstrating strong immunity to external challenges and crises.

In the past five years, trade between the two countries has doubled, he noted, saying that China has been Russia’s largest trading partner for 13 consecutive years, and in 2023, Russia ranked the fourth among China’s trading partners. More than 90 percent of transactions between the companies from the two countries are settled in their national currencies, Putin added.

Concerted efforts to protect wildlife in China and Russia

A snow leopard is spotted at the Sanjiangyuan National Park in Qinghai. /CFP

China has established a network of nature reserves, national parks, and other protected areas to preserve its diverse ecosystems, with Sanjiangyuan National Park being one of the most representative.

Black-necked cranes are seen at the Sanjiangyuan National Park in Qinghai. /CFP

Established in 2021, Sanjiangyuan National Park covers 190,700 square kilometers (73,630 square miles) and is the largest national park in China. Located in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, it is home to the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers. Known as “China’s water tower,” it is an important source of fresh water for the country.

A bharal mother and her kid are seen at the Sanjiangyuan National Park in Qinghai. /CFP

With an average elevation of around 4,500 meters, this pristine park has abundant resources of wetlands and forests and provides an ideal habitat for wildlife. Some 310 species of wild vertebrates are found in the park, including the rare snow leopard, Tibetan antelope and black-necked crane.

A Siberian tiger is spotted at the Land of the Leopard National Park in Russia. /IC

Bordering China, the Land of the Leopard National Park in Russia was established in 2012 to protect the Amur leopard, then the world’s rarest big cat with an estimated population of 30 individuals. Five years later, the number of Amur leopards has increased to about 100.

A pheasant is seen at the Leopard National Park in Russia. /IC

The park is also home to dozens of other mammal species, including the Siberian tiger and the Eurasian lynx, as well as 184 recorded bird species.

A roe deer is seen at the Leopard National Park in Russia. /IC

The Land of the Leopard National Park also works closely with the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park to protect Siberian tigers and Amur leopards.

Is the Philippines’ Atin Ito really a civic group?

The China Coast Guard takes photos of a Philippine vessel illegally intruding into waters adjacent to China’s Huangyan Dao, February 15, 2024. /VCG

A Philippine non-governmental organization (NGO) called Atin Ito, or “This is ours,” is convening a group of fishermen in the waters around China’s Huangyan Dao in mid May to begin a fresh round of provocation in the South China Sea, Philippine media reported.

The self-proclaimed “group of civilian volunteers” is politically affiliated and a government-led effort by the Philippines and the U.S., according to experts and media reports.

“It’s not the first time that the organization conducted the so-called peaceful activities in the South China Sea,” Ding Duo, deputy director of the Institute of Maritime Law and Policy at the China Institute for South China Sea Studies, told CGTN.

Ding said Atin Ito has a certain political background. The actual leader of the organization, Rafaela David, is also the chairman of the Akbayan Party in the Philippines. Although this political party is relatively small in the Philippine political arena, it has been using various political issues in the Philippines to increase its presence and influence in recent years.

The militaries of the Philippines and the U.S. also do not hide their relations with the organization. The Philippine Star reported that Commodore Roy Vincent Trinidad, a Philippine navy spokesman, voiced support on May 2 for Atin Ito’s upcoming “civilian supply mission” to Huangyan Dao. “And so long as they abide by all the guidelines given by the government, we support all activities, civic society,” he said.

Citing an article titled “Lighting Up The Gray Zone” by U.S. Air Force Captain Benjamin Goirigolzarri published on the U.S. Naval Institute’s website, the Asian Century Journal report said that the U.S. established a new strategy in the South China Sea called Project Myoushu, which is a derivative of the U.S. Naval Institute’s Maritime Counterinsurgency (COIN) Project tailored specifically to counter China’s “dominance” in the South China Sea.

The project previously hyped the China Coast Guard’s law enforcement operations in the South China Sea, attempted to incite public opinion and push for governments of countries around the South China Sea to become hard on China, and damaged the peace China and other countries in the region have created. The Asian Century Journal report deduced that the Atin Ito Coalition is indeed a joint U.S.-Philippines effort.

Why Huangyan Dao is not a Philippine territory

The territory of the Philippines is defined by a series of international treaties, including the 1898 Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain, the 1900 Treaty between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain for Cession of Outlying Islands of the Philippines, and the 1930 Convention between His Majesty in Respect of the United Kingdom and the President of the United States regarding the Boundary between the State of North Borneo and the Philippine Archipelago.

Huangyan Dao, an island in the South China Sea, is beyond the limits of Philippine territory based on the above treaties.

It was also marked outside the Philippines’ territorial limits in the official Philippine maps published in 1981 and 1984. The map published in 2006 showed no changes.

Tariff hikes on Chinese products hurt U.S. economy and global fight against climate change: Opinions

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on American Investments and Jobs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington D.C., May 14, 2024. /CFP

The recent decision by the Biden administration to impose new tariffs on Chinese imports has sparked criticism from various quarters within the United States. Critics, including experts, officials, and media outlets, argued that these measures have the potential to inflict harm on U.S. consumers, potentially leading to substantial job losses, and undermining the global efforts to combat climate change.

The tariffs, affecting a range of industries including Chinese electric vehicles, solar panels, and steel products, were introduced under the banner of “protecting American workers and businesses,” despite the fact that President Biden had previously criticized similar tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, which he argued having inflicted economic pain on U.S. farmers, consumers, and manufacturers who had to face elevated import prices.

These tariffs are expected to drive up costs for U.S. distributors, retailers, and ultimately consumers, according to an analysis from CNN. Ryan Sweet, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, was cited as saying that the tariffs typically make more political than economic sense.

The view was echoed by Kenny Polcari, chief market strategist at SlateStone Wealth, who said that the move would bring greater pain to American consumers.

Criticism of President Biden’s move has also emerged from within the political sphere.

Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, said in a social media post that “This is horrible news for American consumers and a major setback for clean energy.” “Tariffs are a direct, regressive tax on Americans and this tax increase will hit every family,” he added.

Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics and the Stiefel Trade Policy Center at the Cato Institute, highlighted the contradiction between raising tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, solar panels, and batteries, and President Biden’s stated commitment to addressing climate change and reducing carbon emissions, in an interview with FOX Business.

Meanwhile, leading Chinese photovoltaic companies such as Longi Green Energy, JA Solar Technology, and JinkoSolar have indicated that the latest tariffs on solar cells are unlikely to significantly impact the domestic photovoltaic industry, as reported by financial news outlet Yicai.