Issue Briefs

Azerbaijani Ilham Aliyev and President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov meeting in late 2021 (Source: Vestikavkaza.ru)

Image: Men at work on a 5G base station. Over the past two years, China has accelerated the construction of a national 5G network, building over 600,000 base stations in 2020 (Source: CGTN), and announcing plans to finish another 400,000 by the end of 2021.

Image: A screen shot from one of the accounts disabled by Twitter. This account, for the fictitious media organization “Dream News,” editorializes that the protestors who broke into and vandalized Hong Kong’s Legislative Council building on July 1 were acting on behalf of unspecified “forces [that] hide behind the scenes.” (Source: Twitter)

The Hyperbola-2 descending back to Earth. (Source: iSpace WeChat)