Cooperation Between China and Eastern Mediterranean Countries in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative: Opportunities and Challenges

This article explores the current status of China's promotion of the "Belt and Road Initiative" in the Eastern Mediterranean region and selects some major countries to focus on the strengths and opportunities, as well as the external challenges and threats of China's efforts to promote the initiative in this region through Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis. At present, China faces challenges and risks in the process of steadily advancing its cooperation with countries in the Eastern Mediterranean region. The "Great Game", regional turmoil, the COVID-19 epidemic and many other uncertain factors have impacted the stability of the regional situation and social and economic development. How China faces and resolves these crises is crucial to promoting the "Belt and Road" construction in the future

The Effect of the Turkish Revolution on the CPC: An Analysis on Cai Hesen's Türkiye Writings

Türkiye and China are two oppressed nations that shared the same fate at the beginning of the 20th century. Both nations wanted to eliminate imperialism’s exploitation and stand up by achieving their democratic revolutions. The victory of Türkiye against imperialism in the War of Independence and the development of friendly relations with the Soviet Union were followed with interest by the leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The successful Turkish Revolution aroused the idea that it could set an example for China among the early CPC leaders. For this reason, communists in China followed the Turkish Revolution closely and tried to apply it to the Chinese Revolution practice. Cai Hesen, the leader and theoretician of the CPC in the founding period, was especially interested in the Turkish Revolution. Cai Hesen published his views on the Turkish Revolution in his articles in the CPC's publication, The Guide Weekly (向导Xiangdao), and influenced the CPC's leadership. In this study, the articles of Cai Hesen, a key theorist in the early stages of the CPC who evaluated the Turkish revolution and its impact on the CPC cadres, are discusse

Transcriptome Analysis of Adipose Tissue Indicates That the cAMP Signaling Pathway Affects the Feed Efficiency of Pigs

Feed efficiency (FE) is one of the main factors that determine the production costs in the pig industry. In this study, RNA Sequencing (RNA-seq) was applied to identify genes and long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) that are differentially expressed (DE) in the adipose tissues of Yorkshire pigs with extremely high and low FE. In total, 147 annotated genes and 18 lincRNAs were identified as DE between high- and low-FE pigs. Seventeen DE lincRNAs were significantly correlated with 112 DE annotated genes at the transcriptional level. Gene ontology (GO) analysis revealed that DE genes were significantly associated with cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) metabolic process and Ca2+ binding. cAMP, a second messenger has an important role in lipolysis, and its expression is influenced by Ca2+ levels. In high-FE pigs, nine DE genes with Ca2+ binding function, were down-regulated, whereas S100G, which encodes calbindin D9K that serve as a Ca2+ bumper, was up-regulated. Furthermore, ATP2B2, ATP1A4, and VIPR2, which participate in the cAMP signaling pathway, were down-regulated in the upstream of lipolysis pathways. In high-FE pigs, the key genes involved in the lipid biosynthetic process (ELOVL7 and B4GALT6), fatty acid oxidation (ABCD2 and NR4A3), and lipid homeostasis (C1QTNF3 and ABCB4) were down-regulated. These results suggested that cAMP was involved in the regulation on FE of pigs by affecting lipid metabolism in adipose tissues