Chinese tech is rapidly catching up, and the number of Chinese authors on papers rises year after year. Anyone who thinks they are just copying the US is as daft as the people who used to dismiss Jap… (View Post)

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-officials-object-european-push-buy-weapons-locally-2025-04-02/ Stupidity must be infectious. What did they think would happen? (View Post)

I used to feel quite annoyed at the people around Trump not standing up to him between 2017 to 2021, why didn't people like Tillerson do more? Now having seen what an unfettered Trump is capable… (View Post)

If Donald Trump is still President then the answer is almost certainly yes. (View Post)

I'm no expert but the answers from the Treasury always seem to be do more of the same thing in the same places, not do new things in new places. They might even make sense for a while, until som… (View Post)