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@kyleichan @kyleichan will this buildout accelerate China’s nuclear weapons buildout like it helped the USA?

China has approved more than 10 nuclear reactors per year for the past 4 years with 35 units under construction. China aims to reach 110 GW of nuclear capacity by 2030, taking the world’s top spot from the US. China is also exporting its Hualong One reactors and will bring its first commercial SMR online this year. Chart: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Additional sources: caixinglobal.com/2026-04-17/chi… caixinglobal.com/2026-03-13/chi…

@quaxon1 @AngelicaOung 😆

@CJ_ZWW @AngelicaOung Excuse you! She’s a white lady, opining on other people’s business that they have no clue about is their culture.

Guess what Bonnie I was on your side until 2023. I stayed quiet in 2024. But in 2025 the idea that the US can be Taiwan’s force guarantor against China became untenable. In 2026, it’s just a joke. I AM the emerging Taiwanese majority. I am why you are writing worried stories about Seeseepee propaganda leading Taiwanese sheep astray. Cheng Li-wun, Holger Chen, me…we are all ex-DPP. Then at some point we got with reality. More Taiwanese will follow.

@xiaoyumama9968 Chinese culture is build on the Confucian value of duty. Out of deep love for our children, we never stop giving out all. As our parents have done for us, we do for the next generation. Plus, it takes work to carry on our vast and precious cultural.

突然觉得国人不管工作多少年有多少存款，一旦不工作就会陷入内疚焦虑忐忑的情绪直达崩溃，不觉得这事很诡异吗？

@xiaoyumama9968 Its all Meng Zi’s fault. I have committed this to memory: 天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，空乏其身，行拂乱其所为，所以动心忍性，曾益其所不能。

@shadouyoua Lei Jun is different from you and me. I wish I could do that but its impossible no matter how comfortable the seats are.

不管怎么样，现在不得不佩服下雷军。 一个身价上千亿的老总，给大家直播15个小时，还是连续直播15个小时，而且还是坐在车上。 说实话，车上的其他人可以换，包括司机都可以换，但是雷军没法缺席。 这个太难了。 更难的是，全程15个小时，还得一直说话。 这个比续航都难。 但是还有更难的。坐过长途车的人都知道，连续坐十几个小时车，那真是腰酸背痛。 所以，雷军这场直播顺利完成，展现的不仅仅是长续航，还有车辆的舒适性。

@Linahuaa I think most people who have closely followed the development of the AI have arrived at your conclusion. Where China lags, the gap is narrowing, and where it leads, the gap is widening. Also, the division in the US, my country, is a real hurdle.

Within 10 years China will plausibly overtake USA in AI. They already have better researchers, energy grid, diffusion, and political strategy- and the gap in all these areas is widening. They reasonably keep pace with US frontier, despite massive compute constraints. Within 2 years, the first domestic EUVs will come online. Once the compute bottleneck is solved, China will race far ahead. 10 years is a very short time. Elon started hyping up level 5 self driving 10 years ago, and he's still stuck at level 3. Optimus bot was announced 5 years ago, and it's still a vaporware gimmick. The trillion dollars of A.I. spending might look like an unreasonable circle jerk, but it's pretty much a necessary hail mary moonshot attempt. If full AGI doesn't arrive within 10 years, China just wins.

@Konekoutena The number of times the United States shot himself in the foot would that be believable if it was in a movie.

其实在十年前，如果是希拉里当选的话，中国的局势将变得极为被动。奥巴马在任期的最后其实已经看出了中国威胁，于是搭建了TPP，要用经济联盟的方式来围堵中国。而那时中国正处于产业升级的转型期，对美国的市场和技术都有着严重的依赖。如果希拉里当选，肯定会把tpp政策给贯彻到底，那时中国经济将严重受挫。但特朗普的横空出世完全打乱了美国的国家战略，极为短视地向世界各地开炮，得罪了全世界，败光了美国对年积攒的软实力。而在这折腾的空档，中国已经完成了工业升级，成为一个几乎没有短板的工业强国。美国再制裁已经力不从心，现在又深陷伊朗泥潭。特朗普叫川建国真的不过分

@jolieee_ni @philfung It is absolutely yours and mine unfair advantage. I manage a fund. The amount of information I can get from China directly gives me an informational edge. It is mind-boggling how easy it is to gain an edge by simply tapping into Chinese language cyber space.

@philfung lol never realized speaking Chinese is my unfair advantage

if you’re into robotics or AI, picking up Chinese is a good move. Native speakers make up ~50% of top researchers - I’ve lost count of how many times I was the only non-native speaker at a table, and being able to follow the nuance of the conversation was huge. You’ll be fine w/o, but having it lets you jump into a ton of Chinese-only dialogues you’d otherwise miss. It only has to be conversational Chinese because all the technical terms will still be in English.

The technical terms are currently in English, but for our children we need to think ahead. I really doubt that in 15 years' time, given China’s rise in science, these terms will be mostly in English. This is why it is important to give our children a head start in acquiring the Chinese language. By the way, my wife is a Chinese teacher, so I’m really talking my own book.😃

Research what happened to Jews who went to China. They became completely Sinicized. They aren't going to bleed China dry because China is an old civilization with built-in immunity. The same happened to the Mongols and Manchu, who were literally bleeding China with imperial rule but were also brought completely into the fold. Assimilation matters. Somehow our country doesn't care about that and lets special interest groups take over.

Israel is leeching off of the US to weaken our country and to ultimately pair up with China to take over the world Then they’ll bleed China dry, too

@ruima OpenAI, Anthropic, and all the closed labs took so much from open source, which is mostly Chinese. Their feigned hurt feelings regarding distillation are shameful.

On Chinese AI labs, something that should be obvious to anyone who actually understands the ecosystem and its incentives and limitations: Not everyone is really going after AGI despite what they say lol. Duh. Only a few (some would argue 2, I think slightly more) players are. Those players are not distilling as a strategy no matter what Anthropic or OpenAI says. They’re doing real research and pushing the frontier. And if you read the Anthropic conclusions on Chinese distillation their data shouldn’t surprise you. But yeah there are absolutely players that are just doing fast follow. They’re more focused on productizing. That’s the rational strategy for them.

@MissWRosa And Koreans have said I look Korean. More than once at H Mart (a Korean grocery store in the US), elderly Koreans played with my kids like their own grandchildren. A world where Koreans and Chinese join hands would be a beautiful one.

@CJ_ZWW 고맙습니다✨ 중국인들조차 제가 중국인같다고 해요🤣

공주 옷을 입고 공연을 보면서 밥을 먹었어요 진짜 공주가 된 것 같아요💖 사회자가 말을 걸었는데 못알아들어서 슬펐어요🥲

@TheEconomist Of course, an antichrist will say that

For almost a thousand years, world leaders have mostly tried not to upset the Roman pontiff. That is until Donald Trump told Pope Leo XIV that he needed to “get his act together” economist.com/united-states/…

@ToddVousGuette When are they going to realize that this hurts their credibility more than it hurts China’s?

Donc pour le FMI la Chine n'est pas une économie avancée ? Lol

@DavidHenigUK “Should” hardly matter in geopolitics. It is all about “could”. I think it's a laughable proposition to contain China. The delusion is unraveling so quickly. My bet is low single-digit years.

So tired of reading suggestions from Europe and North America that China's rise can be contained. Like they could. Or should. Wonder whether it will be years or decades of denial about the end of their hegemony?

@alz_zyd_ My hunch is it's the thousands of years of genetic and cultural selection and evolution through a highly organized civilization maxing out the dexterity skill points 🤘

@CJ_ZWW I don't think it's causal either, was trolling a little :) I agree basically, but instrument success is a surprisingly strong correlate of family culture imo

In hindsight, in the Asian kid circles I grew up in, there's an amusingly strong correlation between how good a kid was at piano and how successful they ended up later in life

@dvassallo Yes, it is taco all the way down.

Even this turned out to be a TACO