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Carriers are strategic assets, & the #US uses its fleet of 11 — many of which are in scheduled maintenance & not available to sail at any given time — for power projection & deterrence in its top-tier #security concerns, notably countering #China in the Indo-Pacific region & maintaining a deterrent presence in the #MiddleEast, said Mark Cancian, a senior #defense adviser at CSIS.
#Trump #law #Venezuela #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #authoritarianism #autocracy
Feels like we're scraping the bottom of the "make everyone panic about China" barrel if the best they can do is "what if they switch off the buses from 7,000 miles away" 🙄
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UK investigates whether buses made in China can be turned off from afar
Investigation comes after Norway found Yutong vehicles could be ‘stopped or rendered inoperable’ by Chinese companyGill Plimmer (Financial Times)
‘I Deliver Parcels in Beijing’, by Hu Anyan.
I like this book. Describes the various very low paid jobs the author did.
As The Guardian’s book review puts it, ‘The low-paid Chinese worker is at the mercy of an entirely unrestrained market.‘
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#books #reading #china #economics
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review – startling stories of China’s new precarity
The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translationJoe Moran (The Guardian)
*#Nvidia Chief [Jensen Huang]
Makes Blunt Prediction on Who Will Win #AIRace:*
👉... “#China is going to win the AI race.”👈
States in the U.S., he warned, are writing a patchwork of tech rules that could mean “50 new regulations.”
By contrast, he said, China is already creating subsidies that make AI computing cheap enough to run national alternatives to Nvidia’s chips.
“Power is free,” he said... "
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Nvidia Chief Makes Blunt Prediction on Who Will Win AI Race: Report
Huang offered a prediction to journalists from the Financial Times while attending the Future of AI Summit.David Gilmour (Mediaite)
#Economics #GeoPol #Alaska #Russia #China #ClimateChange
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* China makes history*
The Northeast Passage could revolutionize the global economy
Via Kevin Schulte / #NTV, Germany
"China is moving closer to #Europe in international trade thanks to a historic announcement. A freighter has sailed through the #NortheastPassage in the #Arctic in record time—without icebreakers and outside of midsummer. This could turn global trade upside down. But it is not without...
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China schreibt Geschichte: Die Nordostpassage könnte die Weltwirtschaft umwälzen
China rückt durch eine historische Meldung im internationalen Warenverkehr enger an Europa. Ein Frachter gleitet in Rekordzeit durch die Nordostpassage in der Arktis - ohne Eisbrecher und außerhalb des Hochsommers.n-tv NACHRICHTEN
Sicherheitslücke in Norwegen: Kann China deutsche Linienbusse fernsteuern?
In Norwegen ist festgestellt worden, dass ein Bus aus China aus der Ferne lahmgelegt werden kann. Wäre das auch bei uns möglich?#WDR #Busse #Norwegen #China #Gefahr #DeutschlandInternational
Sicherheitslücke in Norwegen: Kann China deutsche Linienbusse fernsteuern?
🤬 China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show / BBC
｢ The documents she obtained showed the university "had negotiated directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market," she told the BBC ｣
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#uk #research #academia #china #humanrights
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.Damian Grammaticas (BBC News)
This is what happens when you push universities into a business model that is built on the dependence on foreign students' fees; the university becomes sensitive to lobbying & actions by Govt's from states that 'provide' many of those students.
In this case China has put pressure on Sheffield Hallam U to halt the research of an academic looking at exploitation in Chinese supply chains.
You'll not be surprised how *that* played out...
#universities #politics #China
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.Damian Grammaticas (BBC News)
#Trump directs #Pentagon to ‘immediately’ start testing #US #NuclearWeapons
US president references #China & #Russia in Truth Social post shortly before meeting with President #Xi Jinping
In a Wednesday post to Truth Social, Trump said that, “because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.”
#kakistocracy
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Trump directs Pentagon to match Russia and China in nuclear weapons testing
US president makes threat in Truth Social post in wake of Russian nuclear-powered weapons tests, and shortly before meeting with Chinese leader Xi JinpingAbené Clayton (The Guardian)
VW-Konzernchef schlägt Alarm: „Porsche ist in einer massiven Krise“ | Politik - Deutschland
Berlin – Schluss mit der Doppelrolle: Es sind die letzten Monate von VW-Vorstandschef Oliver Blume als Porsche-Chef. Zum Jahreswechsel gibt er das Amt anDeutschland
#Wirtschaft #Transformation #KlimaWandel
Sehr interessanter Dialog über politische Versäumnisse der Vergangenheit, mögliche Strukturanpassungen und alte und neue Partner.
Kleiner Spoiler:
Meint #Deutschland es ernst mit dem #KlimaWandel, dann bleibt nach dem Wegfall der #USA ausserhalb der #EU *ausschließlich #China als möglicher Partner--so die Sicht der Ökonomen:
Solarpunk - Mimesis: Warum inzwischen auch jene von Elektroautos profitieren, die sie noch ablehnen » Natur des Glaubens » SciLogs - Wissenschaftsblogs
Vor doch schon einigen Jahren erntete der m.E. wunderbar in jedes bundesdeutsche Stadtbild passende, deutsch-türkische Komiker Kaya Yanar zuverlässig Lacher, wenn er darauf hinwies, er könne Schwulenfeinde (sog.Michael Blume (Natur des Glaubens)
Exclusive: #US considering curbs on #exports to #China made with #US #software, sources say
The #Trump admin is considering a plan to curb a dizzying array of software-powered exports to China, from laptops to jet engines, to retaliate against Beijing's latest round of #RareEarth export restrictions, according to a US official & 3 people briefed by US authorities.
#economy #inflation #jobs #recession
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