A | Under construction since 2011, the GERD project is one of the largest public infrastructure projects in Ethiopia, and will be the biggest hydroelectric power plant on the African continent once finished next year.,The third phase of the filling of a massive reservoir, capable of holding up to 74 billion cubic meters of water, was completed this week, with two of the dam’s planned 16 turbines now operational. When construction is finished, the dam will be capable of generating some 6,000 megawatts of power – more than double the average output of a WER-1000 nuclear reactor.,AfricaWATCH Water Pour Over Spillway on Ethiopia’s GERD Hydroelectric Dam After Finishing Third FillingYesterday, 22:33 GMT,In a ceremony inaugurating the project on Friday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed stressed that the dam was Ethiopia’s “gift,” and that it was “Ethiopia’s responsibility to use it” together with the other two Nile Basin countries - Egypt and Sudan.,“PM @AbiyAhmedAli reiterated that Ethiopia is working to ensure the benefits of the lower basin countries, saying that our Abbay River [Ethiopia’s term for the Blue Nile, one of the two major tributaries of the Nile] takes what it deserves while passing on what others deserve,” the prime minister’s office tweeted following the ceremony.,PM @AbiyAhmedAli reiterated that Ethiopia is working to ensure the benefits of the lower basin countries, saying that our Abbay River takes what it deserves while passing on what others deserve. He also congratulated all Africans on this milestone. (2/2) pic.twitter.com/Be9WtrHczO— Office of the Prime Minister - Ethiopia (@PMEthiopia) August 12, 2022,Just Deserts,The question of which country “deserves” what has been the subject of considerable consternation and debate between the three nations, as has the dam’s potential environmental impact, with Cairo and Khartoum fearing the filling of the 145 meter tall, 1.8 km long dam could threaten the region with droughts and floods. Last month, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry warned that Cairo would defend its interests using “all means available” at its disposal, and called on the United Nations Security Council to negotiate a legally binding agreement between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on regulating the dam’s operation. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi earlier called the GERD dispute a “red line” security issue.,Ethiopian Ambassador to Russia Alemayehu Tegenu dismissed these concerns, telling Sputnik last month that Egypt and Sudan were trying to “internationalize and politicize the dam to solve their internal affairs” and assuring that the dam “has no significant harm” for the downstream nations.,WorldEgypt, Sudan Politicising Renaissance Dam Construction, Ethiopian Diplomat Says27 July 2021, 08:23 GMT,Nile River: Giver of Life,Stretching some 6,695 km and covering over 3.3 million square km, the Nile is the longest river in the world, and has played a significant role in regional civilizational development going back to the Ancient Egyptians owing to the rich soil perfect for agriculture created by its annual flooding, and its use as a tool for regional river navigation. Ethiopia’s Blue Nile tributary accounts for a whopping 85 percent of the Nile’s total waters.,Egypt, which receives almost no rainfall, relies on the Nile for more than 90 percent of its freshwater, with eastern Sudan similarly dependent on the river for its economic wellbeing and water and food security.,Legacy of Colonial Meddling,Part of the difficulty of regulating the dispute over the Nile is the lack of a regional agreement regulating the waters’ flow. Addis Ababa is not a party to the 1959 bilateral treaty between Egypt and Sudan dividing the Nile’s waters.,A separate 1929 Nile Waters Treaty between Britain and its then-puppet state of Egypt, plus the territories of what are now Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Sudan provided Cairo the right to veto infrastructure projects up the Nile if they threatened to impact the country’s interests. However, that treaty similarly didn’t apply to Ethiopia, which managed to survive as the only independent nation in Africa after the European imperialist scramble for the continent in the 19th century, and which was never consulted on the agreement’s terms.,Russia’s Position,As a strategic partner of both Ethiopia and Egypt, Russia has sought to assure the dam dispute’s peaceful and mutually amenable resolution, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov indicating in 2021 that Moscow would be ready to provide technical assistance for any negotiations on the matter. Russia also supports the use of the African Union platform to resolve the crisis.,Also last year, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia called on the three countries to stick to the terms of the 2015 Declaration of Principles on the GERD, which urged consensus in reaching an agreement on guidelines for the dam’s filling and operation, and committing Ethiopia to avoid steps which could harm its downstream neighbors. “At the same time, we note legitimate concerns of Egypt and Sudan over the possible negative impact that unconstrained functioning of the dam may produce on the populations of those countries in drought prone years,” he said.,The 2015 agreement and efforts at the African Union and UN levels mean that a baseline for a breakthrough and compromise exists. However, amid regional and global concerns about food and water security, and the threats posed by increasingly prevalent climate disasters and extreme weather events, the GERD dispute comes during a period of heightened regional and global tensions.,In 2021, Africa and Middle East intelligence analysis group Pangea-Risk warned that an all-out water war between Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, or their proxies was becoming increasingly probable in the face of dwindling options for a mediated solution.。
B | 折叠屏这东西，在不少人眼里，早该凉了。
C | 价格高、屏幕脆、交互鸡肋，关键坏了还不好修。
D | 但你敢信，全球智能手机市场，只有它的份额不降反升，而且手机厂商们也在扎堆上新 —— 数据来源：IDC 全球季度手机追踪 苹果要发阔折叠，已经是公开的秘密了；虽然在国内没啥动静，但是实际上三星已经默默发完了三折叠 Galaxy Z TriFold，阔折叠也在路上；其他国产厂商就不用多说了，就连这几年在折叠屏上没啥大动作的小米，也要出大招。 三星阔折叠屏或命名为 Galaxy Z Fold8 Wide 怎么突然感觉折叠屏一下子好起来了？ 至于原因嘛。我得出的结论，可能跟大伙儿想得不一样 —— 现在的折叠屏厂商们认清现实，终于务实了、不装了。
E | 就说 2019 年左右，最早的那波折叠屏，机身厚重，折痕明显，至于品控和稳定性嘛。很抱歉，铰链和内屏也能时不时出点幺蛾子。 但硬件拉胯归拉胯，导致折叠屏口碑提前崩盘的原因，还是厂商们太急着给自己加戏，吹得太过了 —— “智能手机的未来”、“开启移动设备的下一个阶段”。 实际上用户一上手就露馅 —— 影像和续航经常要为铰链让路，作为主力机明显不够格。硬件有妥协就算了，软件适配也远远谈不上完善。让普通消费者过早死心了。
F | 最开始我们给大家分享折叠屏的上手体验，画风都得是这样。 那时候愿意花一两万买折叠屏的，除了愿意尝鲜的数码爱好者，就是不差钱的富哥儿、或者有社交和办公需求的商务人士了，多少有点 “走个面儿” 的意思。 后面发生的事，我称之为厂商们开始老老实实补课 —— 不聊什么颠覆和未来了，开始把折叠屏往 “正常手机” 去做。 也就是所谓的，它得先是台好用的手机，其次才是一台折叠屏手机。 这几年，折叠屏的机身一点点变薄，重量一点点下降，过去牺牲的影像、续航和可靠性也慢慢补回来了。 就这么说吧，如今的大折叠屏得做的比直板机轻薄，已经是行业共识了。而且折叠屏现在开始卷内外屏的屏幕调光、防水防尘，甚至有厂商开始给折叠屏安排增距镜了。 甚至最近有种说法，说今年才是真正的折叠屏元年，你就知道折叠屏的硬件已经成熟到什么程度了。 而要说明白这点，我得跟大家聊聊年初发布的两台 “老资历” 产品。 从我的角度看，这阵子讨论比较多的折叠屏 —— 华为 Pura X Max 和 vivo X Fold 6，主要强在软件优化。真要说硬件层面的进步，反而得看上半年的 OPPO 和荣耀。
G | 先说 OPPO，起手就是一个 “视觉无折痕”。我们手里这台 OPPO Find N6，到手也用了三四个月了，中间其实没有特别明显的折痕。在一些特定的角度下，能看出来一些痕迹，但肯定不影响日常观感。 而荣耀的路线，其实就是力大砖飞，就是堆料，把 “键盘值” 拉满 —— 比大多数直板旗舰在轻薄的基础上，荣耀 Magic V6 还给了比不少直板旗舰更大的电池，像什么满血版的第五代骁龙 8 至尊版、抗反射外屏、潜望长焦啥的，托尼这里就不报菜名了。 直板机的堆料不值一提，但是一台折叠屏在守住机身三维/重量不变的情况下，还能塞进去这么多东西，可就真的有说法了。 聊到这里，估计会有小伙伴出来笑话托尼 —— 这俩折叠屏的销量，在华为 Pura X Max 面前完全不够看。单拎这几台设备当例子，是不是缺点说服力？ 但销量上的差距，并不能抹掉它们各自的价值 —— 真正值得讨论的是，OPPO Find N6 证明了折叠屏的观感可以做到和直板机一样，荣耀 Magic V6 证明了折叠屏的堆料可以不输直板机。 现在，这两个优点分别存在于两台设备上，但假如明年有厂商做到了 “既要又要” 呢？既有足够扎实的使用体验，又有接近直板旗舰的硬件配置。 毕竟目前的国内市场，除了华为有能力 “破圈”，其他品牌的折叠屏，在普通消费者面前几乎没有多少存在感。我倒是真希望，能有哪个品牌趁着供应链越来越成熟，把前面这些优点，一口气攒到同一台机器上。
H | 不过，真想做到这一步，光把现有的优点拼在一起可能还不够。
I | 在一些较真的用户看来，折叠屏依旧有很多坑还没填上 —— UTG（超薄柔性玻璃）内屏不如传统玻璃耐用，影像跟直板旗舰比还是差点意思，尤其价格还高出一截。
J | 系统生态的不完善，也可能比前面几个问题更值得吐槽。
K | 但有意思的是，折叠屏的口碑反而在慢慢变好。 它没有实现当年吹过的那些牛，恰恰相反，它不再急着兜售未来的想象，而是开始解决眼前的问题，反而赢在了 “现在”。
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