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Masha Blackburn, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and a bunch of other senators sent a letter to Biden "demanding he act quickly to prevent Huawei building the [PXW] semiconductor plant."
The plant in question is... in Shenzhen, China! 😆
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"As an example, one ongoing project when I arrived was to widen the product detail page (PDP) and move the Add To Cart button from the left side of the page to the right side. This seemed fairly innocuous, but it took six months and well over one million dollars to accomplish this task." IMF 2023 Outlook: China Will Be the Largest Driver of Economic Growth in the World, outpacing the US. https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/chinas-growth-path-will-be-felt-around-world-2022-10-14/ Volkswagen to take 60% stake in $2 bln tech JV with China's Horizon Robotics https://archive.ph/yKV9x#selection-423.0-423.76 Chip war policy hurting US firms more than China. New Commerce Department chip and equipment bans against China are hitting US semiconductor company shares hardest. Reverse Brain Drain. 1400 Chinese scientists returned to China in 2021 (22% jump) "The US has just 106 million barrels of diesel and heating oil in commercial stocks; the last time inventories were that low in mid-October was in 1951...Typically, inventories should be 30% higher this time of the year:" A potential lawsuit against GitHub Copilot for violating its legal duties to open-source authors and end users. https://githubcopilotinvestigation.com/ 
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Just 22% of Germans see Russia as a major threat to their security vs 66% of Americans. The geography suggests these results should be reversed. On China, the divide is even bigger. The U.S. just lost 26 years' worth of progress on life expectancy https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-s-just-lost-26-years-worth-of-progress-on-life-expectancy/ Everyone has a resume or a Nintendo rom of their code snippets. Why not both? This code puts a resume IN a Nintendo game - maybe for the first time ever. https://github.com/ronaldstoner/nes-nesume Our civilization is hitting a dead end with a staggering numbers of extinctions being observed. More than 3 hours speech not a single mention of America, meanwhile China lives rent free in the minds of the American political class 😆 Xi Jinping at the 20th National Congress of the CPC: "Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology upon which our Party and our country are founded and thrive [...] We must put the people first, maintain self-confidence and stand on our own feet, uphold fundamental principles and break new ground, adopt a problem-oriented approach, apply systems thinking, and maintain a global vision". https://english.news.cn/20221016/4c8d5323ab4d4dce9ce1fbc7ee47215e/c.html Chinese Integrated Circuit production by volume has seen explosive growth since 2019, growing by 37% last year, reaching all time highs On nuclear blackmail, declassified 1950s files show how British officials wanted to threaten China with nuclear attacks in order to hold onto Hong Kong. China "would the more likely to be deterred... if they believed... plans existed to bring immediate U.S. nuclear retaliation". |
@yogthos I mean, it not being in their country or legal remit didn’t stop them from halting the Nordstream pipeline…I would assume that’s what they’re going for?
@yogthos "If we can't build a semiconductor fab, nobody can!"
... wait, why aren't they urging him to... build their own??
@yogthos Good to know they're focused on the issues that really matter to their constituents.