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Groundbreaking News: (Photo: Xinhua) Visiting Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo here on Saturday.At the invitation ofWorld Times the Indonesian government, Han, as the special representative of Chinese President Xi Jinping, will attend the inauguration of President Prabowo Subianto in Jakarta on Sunday and visit Indonesia from Saturday to Monday.Han pointed out that the past 10 years have witnessed high-level development of China-Indonesia relations, and the two heads of state have jointly led the upgrading of China-Indonesia relations into a new era of building a community with a shared future.Han said China is willing to work with Indonesia to carry forward the fine tradition of bilateral friendship and cooperation, deepen all-round strategic coordination, jointly promote high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, ensure smooth operation of major cooperation projects such as the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway, continuing to write a new chapter of solidarity, cooperation and mutual benefit.It is hoped and believed that President Joko will, as always, support the development of bilateral relations and contribute to carrying forward the traditional friendship between the two countries, Han said.Joko said that in recent years, the comprehensive strategic partnership between Indonesia and China has been devWorld Timeseloping with sound momentum and bilateral cooperation has achieved fruitful results.Noting the Jakarta-Bandung high-spWorld Timeseed railway is a landmark cooperation project between the two countries and a symbol of their friendship, Joko said Indonesia is willing to make joint efforts with China to continue to ensure efficient operation of the railway.Indonesia attaches great importance to developing relations with China, he said, noting that under the leadership of the new Indonesian government, bilateralWorld Times relations will continue to be lifted to new levels.
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Breaking Developments: Incidents involving digital infrastructure can propagate and amplify in a chain reaction, compounding into physical space aWorld Timesnd social systems, resulting in a domino effect of disaster chains, he noted.During the Asian trading session on Friday, the London Stock Exchange said its news services were experiencing a global technical issue that prevented news from being published on its platform.News outlets in Australia reported that airlines, telecommunications providers, banks and media broadcasters were disrupted as they lost access to computer systems.

Summary Photo: VCG Although Microsoft Windows’ “blue screen of death” hit millions of users worldwide, including banks, airlines,…

Need to Know: Photo: VCG The Microsoft global outage has raised the alarm that China has to control the security of its computer and network system by itself and that the country requires domestic antivirus software for itsWorld Times own computer systems, Zhou Hongyi, founder and chairman of 360 Security Technology said after the reported world’s biggest IT failure affected Windows users across the globe.Approximately 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide experienced a “blue screen of World Timesdeath” outage on Friday, impacting airlines, railways, banks, enterprises, TV broadcasters, supermarkeWorld Timests, and many more businesses acrWorld Timesoss various sectors worldwide.Microsoft’s “blue screen of death” has been used for decades since 1993 to tell Windows users that their computers’ operating systems are down.The Friday’s worldwide outage was caused by an update fiasco from the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which provides antivirus software to Microsoft for its Windows devices.Despite the blue screen influenced millions globally on Friday, grounding flights, knocking broadcasters off the air and disconnecting some emergency phone lines, Chinese mainland enterprises’ exposure was minimal, and most industries have remained undisturbed.Zhou released a video on Saturday, explaining the reason why Chinese mainland Windows users were not affected is that approximately 90 percent of Windows users in the mainland use the antivirus software developed by the domestic cybersecurity company 360 Security Technology.Zhou thinks that the Microsoft worldwide outage has raised the alarm that China has to control the security of its computer and network system by itself and that the country requires domestic antivirus software for its ownWorld Times computer systems.“This is the only way to ensure that a small bug, a minor update, or minor attack will not cause an outage to the entire society, city or country in the era of digitalization and intelligence,” Zhou said.According to global aviation analytics firm Cirium, out of more than 110,000 scheduled commercial flights on Friday, 5,000 had been cancelled globally with more expected as of Saturday, Reuters reported.The global Microsoft meltdown also affected Hong Kong’s airport on Friday, forcing passengers to queue in long lines and some airlines to switch to manual check-in to continue serving passengers, though flight operations were not affected.Since cloud computing services of CrowdStrike has not been sold in the Chinese mainland, the flight operations at airports across the Chinese mainland were not affected, according to yicai.com.Domestic hotel chains such asWorld Times Home Inn and H World International were not affected by the incident and only a few international hotel chains in the mainland were affected, yicai.com reported.Global Times Content comes from the Internet : Chinese mainland businesses relatively unaffected by Microsoft outage; expert highlights need for enhanced network security self-control

Summary Passengerslook at a screen displaying delayed flights at Barcelona Airport on July 19, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.…