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China goes to US and throw down the climate gauntlet. "Rejoin Paris agreement. No more new fossil investment. 0 tariffs on all Chinese green tech, notably batteries, solar and EVs. Subsidize your own production, I don't care. Otherwise, indefinite ban on rare earths."

@AngelicaOung To be fair in US history, non-diplomacy is really the norm, at least after they clear out the mess of independence and become a somewhat powerful state. The more you read about US the more you find it more fucked up.

🎯 Remember how superior US military was in the 90s. Even then, Bill Clinton went to Shanghai and said the Three No's like a good boy. People have forgotten all about diplomacy and balance of power. This is why so much of the world has gone to shit.

@HistorianZhang @CurtExplores Well if you get a local sim you need to register with your own name, and they can trace everything back to you just in case. That's what it's really for. The idea is that convenience and security goes hand in hand from the government POV.

@CurtExplores I mean, yes, you can, but it's also super annoying Plus, turns out all they need is a phone number to send a text message confirming you paid. I mean, just... Message me through the miniapp? Isn't that what it's for??? I can even see the status of my order

Trying to book Palace Museum Beijing tickets. Can't use the web portal, so go to WeChat miniapp. Now stuck because I don't have a mainland mobile number. I love this

@kejimao What's the reason behind such defensiveness? Is it just a nationalistic thing, or there are deeper cultural currents or long-term China-India animosity?

Many years ago, I gave two presentations on how China builds its industrial and technological ecosystem—one for an Indian audience and one for a Vietnamese audience. Although the content was largely the same and went into many details that were rarely mentioned in other settings, the feedback from the Vietnamese and Indian participants was strikingly different. When I discussed the gaps between Vietnam and China, my Vietnamese friends listened very attentively to my analysis of Vietnam’s weaknesses. They even proactively acknowledged Vietnam’s deficiencies and asked me to analyze more specific issues in greater detail. However, when I compared China and India, many Indian friends became quite argumentative. They tried to compete with or challenge the Chinese perspective on almost every point, to the point where I could barely develop my analysis. As a result, they might have won the debate, but missed a valuable opportunity to have a meaningful exchange. So, I came to know which country would be the real winner for "China+1" many years beforehand.

@HPbasketball Also if everybody on Wolves is healthy, and they still steal game 1, this could be enough to beat the Spurs. People forgot how insanely tough it is to get past OKC (and now Spurs).

I really hate how when a team loses we relitigate everything. The Wolves gave up a bunch of picks for Rudy and he had a bad Game 6 against a better team. They traded KAT because of the CBA for Randle and he had a bad series. They made two WCFs and got to the second round, for a team that has been a historical joke since KG in 2004, TWENTY years ago. They built a good team, they couldn't get it to put it together. It doesn't mean it wasn't worth it.

@AngelicaOung Much of our politics, at least the liberal kind, focus way too much on this pointless scoring. Politics isn't fandom.

@AngelicaOung It's stupid to focus on narratives anyway. The real issue is not what is said, but the balance of power, which in turn truly dictate what US will do. Trump can say something uplifting or depressing, but it doesn't really matter. Nothing has really changed out of this meeting.

It’s so sad when Trump has been making things so crudely clear in his own special way that Taiwanese independence proponents are still playing their language games. No, “phrasing” is not going to save Taiwan.

@RambutanRed @gonglei89 @SomeSomething22 Is it verbal disagreement here? I think it comes down to this - whether one think what China does right now is fundamentally different from the USSR. I think the answer is yes.

@gonglei89 @SomeSomething22 Like I said it's indicative planning, but it's still central planning.

Chibber discusses and points out problems which planning faced in the "AES" states of the 20th century, all of them fair -and relatively accurate- to make in a general context, but I find his concrete examples and exposition of knowledge lacking-

@AngelicaOung I don't think all of these people are delulu - at first. Many of them are more humanist than anything. Then social media comes. Most lack emotional discipline and a concrete worldview, with proper sociology and political economy, to defend themselves against the manipulation.

There’s nothing sadder than the Chinese dissidents who glommed onto Trump in 2018 as their Great White Hope for toppling the Chinese government and have been too delulu or sclerotic to update their priors ever since. A bunch of them including Cai Xia convinced themselves into thinking Trump is going to bring Jimmy Lai home. This is a screenshot from before the trip obviously. Cai Xia was recommended to me as the real deal by a friend who lived for many years in Shanghai. I used to listen to her podcast « Bu Ming bai » and thought it was pretty thoughtful. Alas, she got the Yellow MAGA brainworms. « Trump is already in Beijing, and the Trump-Xi meeting is capturing the world's attention. With the United States as the 'big brother' leading the defense of freedom and democracy, I believe Trump will make defending human rights one of the fundamental topics of the Trump-Xi talks. There are rumors that President Trump will bring Mr. Jimmy Lai back to Washington with him; I hope this expectation comes true! »

@gonglei89 @przidnt1 Absolutely. But frankly at this point I don't know what we should really add. Wemby is surreal and sometimes I don't really know how to complement such a player. We'll probably know after this OKC series. The common sense is a bigger, lengthier 4 but I am not entirely sure.

@przidnt1 Their cold spells on O basically let teams back in. I think the Spurs FO is basically using this run as a learning tool to figure out what they need to retool to get to the “final form”.

SAS selling the big 1Q lead needs to be studied...loll. They can probably kill off teams early if they didn't do this.

@przidnt1 A part of it is Wemby comes in blazing and teams somehow aren't ready for that every fucking time. And when he subs out opposing teams get settled, have a boost and claw back. But we need to do better. A lot is our off-shooting and off-ball stuff. Some mentality issue too imo.

@przidnt1 House money for me now. I would feel perfectly fine losing to OKC in our first year in the playoffs. And I suspect this matchup would come up again quite frequently in the next few years. Should be a great series regardless.

SAS basically only lost one game so far (other 2 Wembanyama got taken out or took himself out) and OKC has lost none so far. This is the cream of the crop of the conf, if not the league.

@kyleichan This is like the tech tree for a super nerdy game.

It's interesting to scan through MIIT's list of 67 pilot projects for high-tech industrialization to get a sense of what tech China thinks is important: High-End Functional and Intelligent Materials 1. Ultra-high energy-density dielectric materials and devices — Tsinghua University 2. Data-driven design and manufacturing of copper alloys for integrated-circuit lead frames — University of Science and Technology Beijing 3. High-sensitivity entropy-regulated amorphous-alloy stress-impedance strain gauge for seismic resistance and disaster prevention in buildings — Nanjing University of Science and Technology 4. Noble-metal reduction technology for selective hydrogenation — Zhejiang University 5. Complete preparation technology for liquid-cooling thermal-management materials — Juhua Group 6. Single-phase immersion liquid-cooling solution for data centers — Juhua Group 7. 450 km/h high-speed train traction motor integrating new electromagnetic materials — National High-Speed Train Qingdao Technology Innovation Center 8. Aviation fuel coalescence-separation device — South China University of Technology 9. Inorganic two-dimensional material membranes for efficient hydrogen separation — South China University of Technology Advanced Structural and Composite Materials 10. Preparation technology for sound-absorbing honeycomb and composite materials — China Aviation Manufacturing Technology Research Institute 11. Wear-resistant, fatigue-resistant, corrosion-resistant rails and frogs for the Sichuan–Tibet Railway — China Academy of Railway Sciences Corporation 12. Long-term performance-retention technologies for structural concrete in complex environments on the Sichuan–Tibet Railway — China Academy of Railway Sciences Corporation 13. High-performance shotcrete technology for complex environments on the Sichuan–Tibet Railway — China Academy of Railway Sciences Corporation 14. Crack-resistance improvement technologies for structural concrete in complex environments on the Sichuan–Tibet Railway — China Academy of Railway Sciences Corporation 15. Powder-making technology and applications for recycling coarse high-temperature alloy powder — AECC Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials 16. Large-tonnage carbon-fiber composite cables — University of Science and Technology Beijing 17. Multi-layer gradient cold-spray repair and nano-hard reinforcement composite plating for continuous-casting molds — Ansteel Group Beijing Research Institute 18. Key technologies and application development for ultra-high-stiffness magnesium-matrix composites — Harbin Institute of Technology New Displays and Strategic Electronic Materials 19. Sub-6GHz GaN radio-frequency devices — CETC 13th Research Institute 20. High-frequency, high-power laser modulator technology — Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Rare-Earth New Materials 21. Preparation technology for high-temperature-resistant cobalt-based permanent magnet materials — China Jiliang University 22. Heavy-rare-earth-free high-coercivity sintered NdFeB technology — Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences High-Performance Manufacturing Technologies and Major Equipment 23. 6-inch semi-insulating SiC crystal-growth furnace and 6/8-inch compatible SiC epitaxial furnace — NAURA 24. New MOCVD equipment for Micro-LED — Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. China 25. Precision forming technology for large aerospace thin-walled aluminum-alloy integrated cylindrical sections — Shanghai Aerospace Precision Machinery Institute 26. High-temperature-resistant, corrosion-resistant transmission-system bearings — Luoyang Bearing Group 27. High-performance seals for aviation hydraulic systems — Guangzhou Mechanical Engineering Research Institute 28. Key manufacturing technology for ultra-large seamless titanium cathode rollers — Xi’an Taijin New Energy Technology Intelligent Sensors 29. Advanced sensors, core components, and manufacturing processes for spacecraft control systems — Beijing Institute of Control Engineering 30. Flexible intracranial implantable multimodal sensing and modulation system for multiparameter brain monitoring — Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences 31. Self-powered sensor technologies for human health monitoring — Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems 32. High-sensitivity MEMS magnetic sensing components and sensors — State Grid Smart Grid Research Institute 33. Miniature high-performance accelerometers — Beijing Aerospace Xinghua Technology 34. Rocket sensors — Long March Rocket Technology 35. New broadband ng-resolution triaxial accelerometer — Tianjin SIASUN Robot & Automation 36. Automotive-grade high-precision integrated navigation sensors — Hebei Meitai Electronic Technology 37. Series of sensors for deep-sea environmental observation and resource exploration — Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences 38. Multi-parameter differential-pressure flowmeter — Shenyang Zhongke Bowei Technology 39. Quantitative sensing-interface model and analytical instrument technology based on resonant cantilever beams — Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 40. High-performance X-ray sensors — iRay Technology 41. Electromagnetic sensors — Xinlian Superconductor Shanghai 42. Thin-film getter structure with a micro-heater and its manufacturing method — Shanghai New Micro Technology R&D Center 43. High-performance acoustic sensing elements and sensors — Wuxi Weigan Semiconductor 44. New high-performance MEMS gas sensors — Suzhou Huiwen Nanotechnology 45. MEMS sensor mass-manufacturing platform — XINLIAN Integrated Circuit Manufacturing 46. Development and application of diamond quantum magnetic sensors — University of Science and Technology of China 47. In-situ continuous temperature sensors and measurement systems for molten steel — Maanshan Iron & Steel 48. High-performance laser gas-sensing components — Shandong Science & Technology Innovation Group 49. Key technologies and applications for biosensor sensitive elements — Shandong Kanghua Biomedical Technology 50. Wireless passive temperature sensors based on polymer-derived ceramic metamaterials — Zhengzhou University 51. High-precision printing technology and equipment for ultrafine fiber surfaces — Huazhong University of Science and Technology 52. Complete sensor set for high-speed rail vehicle health-monitoring systems — CRRC Zhuzhou Institute 53. Industrializable mass-producible automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR for autonomous driving — RoboSense 54. Sensing-computing integrated room-temperature infrared imaging detection technology — Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 55. Nanometer-precision displacement-measurement grating sensors — Xi’an Jiaotong University 56. Distributed thin-film sensors for highway infrastructure — AVIC Electromechanical Measurement Instrument Xi’an Industrial Software 57. Core components of an industrial internet operating system for discrete industries — Beijing Institute of Technology 58. Data-driven closed-loop performance analysis, regulation, and optimization technology and software for manufacturing processes — University of Science and Technology Beijing 59. Intelligent analysis and decision-making system for full-process industrial data in discrete manufacturing — Beihang University 60. Distributed time-series data management system Apache IoTDB — Tsinghua University 61. MEC-based edge control and real-time simulation theories and methods — Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences 62. Cloud-based service-oriented MES and intelligent management-control platform system — Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software 63. Domestic isogeometric-analysis software ADIGA — Dalian University of Technology 64. Distributed factory industrial interconnection platform — Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing 65. Industrial interconnection platform for personalized customization industries — Guangzhou MINO Equipment 66. End-edge-cloud interconnection integration technology and system for OT/IT convergence — Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 67. Industrial interconnection platform for large-scale manufacturing industries — Gree Electric Appliances of Zhuhai

@gonglei89 @TheStalwart Let me say it. HK zhajiangmian are trash.

@TheStalwart No, or at least not any that’s good. Southern Chinese food is very different from Northern Chinese food.

Gonna be in Hong Kong next month. Will I be able to find zhajiangmian?

@TheStalwart There are many zhajiangmian but the real thing is more of a Beijing dish. HK style is just meh. The 2 noodles you should try in HK is Wonton Noodles and Beef Brisket Noodles. Pick famous ones. The quality could vary. DM me if you need food recommendations in HK.

@HPbasketball I remember back in the days, it's the same for Vassell.

@HPbasketball I don't know why people ask these defensive forwards to do so many other stuff right in their first year. Why not just focus them on one thing i.e. shoot corner 3s? I wonder if the player themselves refuse to do it because they don't wanna be a role-player.

@selinawangtv @ABC It's how you use AI. If kids are using AI to automate their homework, they would be fucked. That's not what's being done in China. This kind of stuff need to be heavily regulated for kids. Can US stomach this kind of regulation tho?

I asked a 12-year-old in Beijing if AI scares her. Her answer: "If I use AI, then I will be the scary person." While American parents debate whether kids should use AI at school, China has made it mandatory and is rushing to embed AI across society My report from China 👇 @ABC

@tobitac Since when liberalism is committed to open global commons

Oren Cass claims that China does not share Trump's deep commitment to liberalism

@TheGrouchHK You don't genocide Xinjiang shao kao. Xinjiang shao kao genocide you.

@gonglei89 @zapatas_mom When I want cheap food I mostly go for hand-pulled noodles with simple ingredients. But sometimes I could do fast food.

@gonglei89 @zapatas_mom I exclusively eat Chinese in China - I mostly eat Cantonese. If not I am just desperate to try different regional dishes that's unavailable in HK. What you said got me thinking, what's the best non-Chinese food in China? Or best non-Chinese chain restaurants at least for SH?

I accept that Burger King tastes better in China. I accept that Mcdonalds tastes better in China... BUT WHY THE FUCK does Taco Bell taste better in China too? this shit sucks here now, omg!