Quick notes: Silk road, Meatable...

• Chinese debt trap: Pakistan cuts Chinese 'Silk Road' project by $2 bn due to debt concerns. 'Pakistan is a poor country that cannot afford huge burden of the loans'. 



• 'Intrusion Truth,' the mysterious group doxing Chinese hackers: China has hacked its way to other nation’s manufacturing secrets for years, ransacking military fighter jet schematics and information on solar power, among other industrial treasures. “Until recently, China has been winning—it has acted with impunity, stealing data using commercial hackers that it pays and tasks but later claims are criminals. The use of commercial hackers is a deliberate attempt to circumvent the statements that China has made committing to stop this illegal activity”.



• Meatable: A new lab-grown meat startup may have overcome a key barrier to making meat without slaughter



• Mazda rotary range extender: Combining a small rotary-engine range extender with electric power could help overcome some of the rotary's challenges by using electric power to handle high loads and by maintaining a steady rpm from the rotary.



• Micro Nuclear Reactors: Small and micro reactors could revitalize the nuclear sector



• The Four Friends: Learn Sanskrit with subtitles




• CK Nayudu: One of India's greatest cricketers and one of a handful to have played in six decades. In 1956-57, aged 62, he scored 52 in his last innings for Uttar Pradesh; earlier in the season he made 84 against Rajasthan, striking Vinoo Mankad for two sixes.



• Indians are now travelling for Instagram: Domestic Indian tourism climbed 39% between 2016 and 2017, and international travel spiked 60%. Around 25 million Indians take trips abroad every year. This may cross 50 million in two years



• Balancing the 5 Prana-Vayus: Exhalations and inhalations are connected to a vast inner system of energy, a latticework of activities all woven around the central hub of the breath.



• "Open, moderate Islam": Saudi Arabia Embraces Yoga In Move Towards 'Moderation'