Datawarriorwilbur

China lifted 800 million people out of poverty not through communism but by creating Special Economic Zones where capitalism was allowed to function. Shenzhen went from a fishing village to a megacity because the government said "in this specific area, you can build freely.” That should tell you something about what works and what doesn't. Even the world's largest communist country had to let capitalism in through the back door to feed its people.

Very interesting display of priority ranking for disciplines in China. Materials Science is absurdly high. Control of matter. > Information and Communication Engineering that's Wenfeng's degrees > followed by Marxist Theory that's probably for CCP cadres lol

A Cambridge University college will target private school kids for recruitment in order to improve the “quality” of students applying. Trinity College Cambridge will approach private schools like Eton, Winchester and St Paul’s Girls, after concerns that attempts to improve social mobility had resulted in “reverse discrimination”. The college’s “targeted recruitment strategy” will approach around 50 private schools, most of which charge over £25,000 a year. According to the Guardian, Trinity Hall's director of admissions Marcus Tomalin wrote a memo saying, "the best students from such schools arrive at Cambridge with expertise and interests that align well with the intellectual demands” of the subjects. “To ignore or marginalise this pool of applicants would risk overlooking potential offer holders who are not only exceptionally well qualified but who have been encouraged to engage critically and independently with their subjects in a way that Cambridge has historically prized. “It is important that the crucial task of securing greater fairness in admissions does not unintentionally result in reverse discrimination.” Trinity Hall staff and social mobility experts have reacted with alarm to the policy.

Taiwan’s Kuo Min Tang — which controls nearly half of the island’s parliament seats — now adopts the Putin view of the war in Ukraine. A notable data point for Western policy makers.

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