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Adam Bartley 王知义

@AaBartley

Postdoc Fellow @RMIT | Fulbright Scholar | Fellow @ElliottSchoolGW | Emerging Tech, China, book with @EdinburghUP | My views

Melbourne, Victoria Katılım Ekim 2012
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Black Hole
Black Hole@konstructivizm·
Japan has built a $2,500 cardboard drone. It actually flies fast while avoiding radar! At first, the military thought it was a joke. A plane made of… cardboard? Yet, this drone can travel nearly 80 km at over 100 km/h. And the craziest thing is that its material becomes an advantage. Cardboard reflects radar waves less than some conventional materials. As a result, it's harder to detect in the sky. Japan can even transport hundreds of them in a single container and assemble them in minutes. While some countries are building drones costing millions, they're focusing on machines that are practically disposable. Perhaps this is the new technological warfare: Simple, ultra-fast weapons… produced like Amazon packages. Subscribe to discover incredible human advancements in five minutes a day.
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Autonomous weapons systems makes a sectional debut in latest Defence Integrated Investement Program. Lower cost, replicable platforms are driving future autonomous defence plans. My colleague Tom Saxton and I wrote about this last week for @ASPI_org tinyurl.com/3mw8mcxw
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Institute for the Study of War
Institute for the Study of War@TheStudyofWar·
NEW | Special Report: The war in Iran is currently in a phase in which the military trajectory is relatively positive: the United States is steadily destroying Iran’s ability to use its most essential tool in the war — drone and missile attacks — which in turn underpin the entire Iranian strategy. Iran has still done some damage to US forces, and it is still firing drones and missiles, though the overall attack rate is slowly decreasing. These attacks still pale in comparison to the major attacks Iran sought to conduct in an existential war and have caused neither operationally significant damage nor widespread casualties. The US-Israeli combined force will need time to achieve its military objectives and prevent Iran from inflicting further political and economic pain upon the United States and its allies in the region, but the campaign remains incomplete, and it is too soon to forecast its outcome. Declaring it an operational failure is unquestionably premature.
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Dewey Sim 沈炜淳
Dewey Sim 沈炜淳@deweysim·
Exclusive: China summoned Southeast Asian envoys to a rare meeting days after Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi's comments on Taiwan, pressing them to back Beijing and citing the region's past as victims of Japanese aggression. The call drew little support. scmp.com/news/china/dip…
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This presupposes that Xi can’t just remove Generals, I.e fire them like Trump. He must imprison them because of their power base, even those loosely considered friends. Still mainly conjecture on these points, but must at least be part way to the truth.
Joseph Torigian@JosephTorigian

Interesting point from @WSJ @ByChunHan: "Xi's latest purges started in the summer of 2023, when Russian forces were bogged down in Ukraine. Moscow's struggles there, after spending billions of dollars to upgrade its military, were a sign to Chinese leaders that ambitious overhauls don't necessarily yield a formidable fighting force." wsj.com/world/china/xi…

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Certainly a game changer!
Defence Index@Defence_Index

🚨🇯🇵 JAPAN UNVEILS A NIGHTMARE FOR WARSHIPS. 🇯🇵 Japan’s new anti ship cruise missile doesn’t just fly, it barrel rolls. Official footage shows the next gen “New SSM” (Island Defense Missile) spiraling in its final attack run to confuse and evade shipborne close in defense guns at the last second. What makes it dangerous: ▪️ Terminal phase spiral maneuvers to dodge CIWS ▪️ Stealth shaping + S-shaped intake ▪️ Dual mode seeker (IIR + RF) ▪️ Longer range than Type-12 (possibly 1,000+ km) ▪️ Launchable from land, ships, and aircraft Designed with one message in mind: 🚢 Modern warships are no longer safe. With Taiwan, the East China Sea, and the Western Pacific in focus, Japan is quietly building a missile that turns defenses into suggestions. Mass production targeted for 2027. Flight tests already underway. Spiral in. Strike hard. Leave no reaction time. 🔥

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Adam Bartley 王知义@AaBartley·
@AvidCommentator Could light a flame among one culture in this community. The fact that they can’t say this is absurd. Thanks for your takes.
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Adam Bartley 王知义@AaBartley·
@MarkoMatvikov Monash report below says 4 in 5 adults support ban. Not a small majority. Impossible to measure ‘community expectations’, and certainly wouldn’t trust mainstream media, including Sky. But agree, 90k for 3 flights is absurd. Port Arthur. monash.edu/news/articles/…
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Marko Matvikov
Marko Matvikov@MarkoMatvikov·
@AaBartley Appreciate it. Amongst parents, maybe. Entitlements issue is about them being out of step with community expectations regardless of the government of the day. I’m not aware of any worse terrorist attacks - which do you think is?
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Adam Bartley 王知义@AaBartley·
I like your economic stuff @MarkoMatvikov but exaggerating for effect is just trafficking in misinformation. Social media ban rolled out with even stronger support. No data to suggest entitlements any different from other govs. Not worst ever terrorist attack.
Marko Matvikov@MarkoMatvikov

Just 4 months later: Inflation is rising and the economic outlook is grim The social media ban is rolled out to strong opposition Politician entitlements have been exposed to community outrage We’ve just had our worst ever terrorist attack as tensions peak Albo was desperate for a legacy - this is it.

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Adam Bartley 王知义@AaBartley·
@BarrettYouTube Hmm, I’ll stop here. Esp since a quick search of Grok seems to be your source of truth. One of us here is a full time peer reviewed researcher and the other a social media personalty. In terms of substance, we’re just not talking the same language.
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Barrett
Barrett@BarrettYouTube·
from Grok: While some Chinese large language models (LLMs) on Hugging Face may incorporate elements inspired by or fine-tuned from Western architectures (e.g., Transformer-based designs pioneered in the West), many prominent Chinese LLMs are original, pre-trained from scratch, and represent significant independent innovation in foundational AI. 5 sources China does not have a "big problem with innovation" in this area; instead, it is rapidly advancing, with models like Alibaba's Qwen series, Zhipu AI's ChatGLM, 01.AI's Yi, and DeepSeek AI's offerings frequently topping Hugging Face's Open LLM Leaderboard and outperforming Western counterparts in benchmarks for efficiency, multilingual capabilities, and specific tasks. 9 sources This progress is driven by government funding, talent pipelines, and a focus on open-source releases, enabling China to dominate the top ranks on platforms like Hugging Face despite U.S. chip export controls. 4 sources Some derivatives do exist (e.g., community fine-tunes of models like Llama), but this is common across the global AI ecosystem and does not define China's contributions, which include architectural innovations for cost-effectiveness and scalability.
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Adam Bartley 王知义@AaBartley·
A good indication here of why YouTube is a terrible place to learn about emerging tech and geopolitics. On AI, China has not moved beyond US. Its very problem is its copycat tech. This comes from Chinas researchers. Suffice it to say, this guy speaks to few people who know
Barrett@BarrettYouTube

I’ve said it over and over again — never underestimate China. Yet for some reason, the collective West keeps doing just that. Every time China announces something new, the West reacts in the same predictable way: first they’re shocked, then they scoff, and finally they dismiss it as “propaganda” or “copycat tech.” But here’s the reality — China has moved far beyond being a follower. The days of simply replicating Western technology are long gone. Now it’s China setting the pace, breaking records, and leaving the so-called “leaders” scrambling to catch up. The West’s biggest mistake isn’t underestimating China once — it’s doing it again and again and again, ignoring the evidence that’s right in front of their faces.

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@BarrettYouTube Parents are one measure of innovation, and context is important. Most patents are China based, and not competitive internationally. Also BYD, as other evs, are carbon copies of Tesla.
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China Science
China Science@ChinaScience·
Chinese researchers have developed an electrohydraulic soft fish robot and successfully confirmed its ability to sense the environment, navigate complex trajectories, and withstand unsteady disturbances during field tests at water depths of up to 4,071 meters. With a wingspan of approximately 18 cm and weighing only 670 grams, the 32-cm-long soft robot integrates a liquid dielectric plasticizer that allows it to adapt to deep-sea water pressure. The study, published in the journal Science Robotics, offers a generalized and straightforward framework for developing soft materials tailored for deep-sea applications.
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Demetri
Demetri@AsiaLens·
SCOOP - Japan scraps 2+2 meeting with Rubio & Hegseth over defence spending dispute. US was pushing Japan to boost spending to 3% of GDP but Bridge Colby abruptly increased the ask to 3.5%, angering Tokyo #USJapanScoop (w ⁦@Urbandirt⁩) on.ft.com/3TyrZYJ
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Adam Bartley 王知义@AaBartley·
With everything going on in China at the moment, this edition provides a much needed update on how Chinese leaders think about IR, and how their policies interact with global partners. To this end, I write on China’s BRI illiberalism @DrJHPing @RMIT @FulbrightPrgrm @AIIAVIC
Jonathan Ping@DrJHPing

📢 Abstracts for my new edited book and chapters available. 'Chinese International Relations Theory of Statecraft and Party' explains how Chinese IR #theory is formed & practiced. Critiques the ideological underpinnings and assesses the #CCP's #statecraft. taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…

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