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Ex-Samsung chip boss says heavy investment by China in the memory market could crush the 414% DDR5 price spike within a year. 🔗 wccf.tech/1kg52

Vice-President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas: “If Europe cannot defeat Russia, how can we defeat China?” You can spin it however you want, but the reality is that the European Union is an organization made up of id|ots.

This is an extraordinary document written by the research arm of China's spy agency (the powerful MSS, basically the CIA and the FBI all wrapped in one) that absolutely zero media has picked up on. As far as I can see, I'm the first person to write about it even though it was published (in Chinese) on May 13th on chinadiplomacy.org.cn, a website of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The document contains perhaps the most authoritative description of where China thinks its relationship with the U.S. stands, and where it’s headed. The title of the report is “The Great Global Transformation and the Path to U.S.–China Coexistence” and I provide a full translation of it in my article, the link of which is at the bottom of this post. To summarize briefly the most important - and, perhaps, surprising - aspect of the document: China's spy agency - the one institution whose entire job is to worry about the U.S. threat - has largely stopped worrying. That's really what transpires from the document. They use a strategic framework borrowed from Mao's "protracted war" theory and, according to this framework, America's offensive phase is finished and China weathered the storm intact. The question is no longer "how do we survive America?" but "how do we manage America?" - and they're proposing a six-step relationship recovery program. I'll let you read the full document as well as my analysis of it here: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…






In my new @washingtonpost piece, I argue that some immigration policies are already popular and politicians just need the courage to claim them. Nearly 80 percent of American voters support high-skilled immigration, across party lines. That is more popular than nuclear power, building apartments, or deregulation. And yet not a single major political figure in either party is willing to champion it. Republicans know the country needs foreign scientists and engineers. Most will say so privately. But they refuse to say it publicly, terrified of being outflanked on their right. The left has a different version of the same cowardice: the abundance crowd wants more housing, more energy, more growth, but has quietly decided immigration is too dangerous to include in their pitch. The piece proposes two concrete moves that do not require Congress: encourage and expand the O-1A extraordinary-ability visa, which has no cap and no lottery, and fix how the government sets wages for foreign workers. The Labor Department's public comment window on the proposed prevailing wage rule closes May 26. If you work in research, tech, or immigration, submit a comment at regulations.gov before it's too late. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…


"For a sprawling challenge like China, Washington should be guided by a secularized version of the Serenity Prayer—accepting what cannot be changed, having the courage to change what we can, and having the wisdom to know the difference," writes @jonczin: brook.gs/4ul56c9









This piece is very concerning regarding the damage incurred in #EpicFury against #Iran. asiatimes.com/2026/05/us-air… Losses in a conflict with #China would inevitably be higher, which, when combined with our #munitions stockpiles being used up & just now getting back in the game of mass production, would be a serious challenge. Excerpt, Heavy US aircraft losses in the Middle East are raising fresh doubts about whether US airpower can withstand sustained attrition in a future Pacific war against China. This month, the US Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a report stating that the US has reportedly lost or damaged 42 aircraft during Operation Epic Fury, the US-Israeli military campaign launched against Iran in February 2026. "If Operation Epic Fury is any indication, future wars against peer competitors may be decided less by who fields the most advanced aircraft than by who can keep enough of them alive, dispersed and operational under sustained missile and drone attack."