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  • BREAKING: The US Officials realize they're dumb as fuck.

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  • The US had vastly more competent senior officials during Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam, and were still running around like headless chickens. They now have a cabinet of dunces fighting against an enemy more prepared than any of the previous ones. It appears that they are currently following the hallowed strategy known as not having a plan.

  • How Taalas "prints" LLM onto a chip?

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  • Llama 3.1 8B Seems like a pretty weird choice to me, given that it's already pretty outdated at this point. I know the Qwen team will be launching a new 9B model soon, so maybe they'll switch to that soonish.

  • How China Is Rebuilding the Material Base for a Post-Carbon World

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  • China grasped early on that if you are going to build a new world, you have to build it with the tools of the old. Decades were spent building a staggering industrial base that is now being replaced piece by piece.

    Pakistanis began to install solar panels on the rooftops of their homes and businesses, prompting a boom in distributed power generation in rural areas. The flood of affordable, high-quality panels allows Global South nations to build a clean electricity grid from the ground up.

    This is something that I have noticed being neglected in mainstream reporting. Outlets touted that Pakistan’s solar boom is an example of the free market doing its thing, focusing on the failure of the national grid and the need for individuals to take matters in their own hands. While not entirely inaccurate, they rarely mention that this is only possible because of Chinese industrial planning, and their state-directed efforts to build a greener industrial civilisation.

  • Cuba makes progress in the assembly of domestic photovoltaic modules

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  • Excellent. I’m guessing they still need to import the cells and/or wafers before assembling the panels, but it’s a step in the right direction for building up domestic industry and reducing exposure to oil.

  • WSJ is pissed that a Chinese company built a factory in the USA

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  • Some administration officials are, in fact, discussing ways to limit Chinese investment in the U.S. on national-security grounds, according to people familiar with the matter.

    This is absolutely comical. They hate China so much they want to stop getting money from them.

  • Chinese EV giant BYD bets on Boonray’s autonomous mining truck

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  • Automating and decarbonising mining should definitely a high priority. It is nearly impossible to eliminate health and safety risks for miners, so any progress in keeping people away from the mines is pretty nice.

  • Flag proposals for the PRC

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  • Hmm, I actually really like Kang Jian's design except for the colour palette. Fits very well for the industrial powerhouse that the PRC is today. I think swaping out green for dark blue and white for yellow might look better.

  • Foreigners flock to Chinese hospitals for 'medical tourism'

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  • Despite concerns about resource allocation, experts note that international medical services are often run separately as "special needs" departments, accounting for less than 10 percent of hospital services and charging higher fees, thus operating as a revenue generator rather than a drain on public resources.

    Well, if the article’s right, it seems like a good thing overall.

  • The Amount of New Solar Power Production Capacity China Is Manufacturing Is Legitimately Mind-Blowing

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  • It’s a stunning visual, but it doesn’t even begin to capture the staggering amount of solar power being produced by the People’s Republic.

    The People’s Republic

    Honestly, sounds like a cool name for a fully unified global communist nation. No need to put 'of X', just call it The People's Republic.

  • I Test Drove a Chinese EV. Now I Don’t Want to Buy American Cars Anymore.

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  • Is there a term for an inverse Treatler? Because this fits too well.

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    German firms' China investments driven to four-year high by US trade wars

    www.reuters.com /world/china/german-firms-investments-china-boomed-2025-us-trade-war-worries-2026-01-27/
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    German firms' China investments driven to four-year high by US trade wars

    www.reuters.com /world/china/german-firms-investments-china-boomed-2025-us-trade-war-worries-2026-01-27/
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    German firms' China investments driven to four-year high by US trade wars

    www.reuters.com /world/china/german-firms-investments-china-boomed-2025-us-trade-war-worries-2026-01-27/

  • American CEO worried about competition and Chinese innovation

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  • It’s mildly amusing how these people speak about Chinese EVs as some kind of unstoppable force running on alien technology, when most are just good cars that are inexpensive and reliable.

  • IQuest Coder - State-of-the-Art Open-Source Code LLM

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  • The more I look into this space, the more I think the main limiting factor is the context window. Test-time compute is key to squeezing extra performing out of smaller models, but context rot is still a problem, especially with techniques like GQA or MQA sacrificing quality for memory usage. Of course, you can just use MHA instead, but the high memory usage defeats the point of a small local model, and it still suffers from context rot to a lesser degree. I'm not sure if this problem can be fixed while staying with transformers.

  • China Rejects Offer to Join Trump's Gaza Board of Peace

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  • There’re still a lot of countries that haven’t responded to the invitation yet, so hopefully this discourages others from joining. Quite frustrating to see how many have already accepted though.

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    The Tag Team Fails in Iran – John Mearsheimer

    mearsheimer.substack.com /p/the-tag-team-fails-in-iran

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #12 Education

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  • Shouldn't this be titled Education rather than Supply and Demand? Anyway, this is very relevant with all the cuts to public education in certain countries these days.

  • Venezuela defends its right to ties with China, Russia, Cuba, and Iran

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  • I don’t know what Trump himself expected, but I do think the neocons in his cabinet legitimately bought into their own propaganda about Maduro’s unpopularity and infighting with the Chavistas, and were genuinely surprised at the smooth power transition.

    To be fair, it seems like the corporate side of Trump’s base doesn’t really care either way as long as they can get the deals they want, so it isn’t a huge blunder or anything of that sort, but it does mean all the anti-Maduro propaganda is wasted because he’s no longer in charge.

  • Evelina Stoikou, Energy Storage Associate at BloombergNEF, discusses the latest battery price data. China’s average prices lowest at around $84/kWh. North America = 44% higher. Europe = 56% higher.

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  • Can’t wait for sodium-ion batteries to mature. Those could drive prices down even further.

  • Maria Machado gifts the neoliberal peace prize to Trump

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  • Eh, more likely governor of Greenland maybe.

  • Ai WeiWei: ‘Most Western people I know are very ignorant about China.’ You live in the West now. Are you still under censorship? 'Of course.' 'China is at its best moment of the past 100 years.'

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  • Possibly, the High Qing era is considered the last golden age of the Chinese dynasties and was quite impressive, but that ended in 1799 after the death of the Qianlong Emperor over 200 years ago.

  • Can you successfully run a country without getting coup by the USA government? Answer these questions to find out

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  • My respect for the DPRK and the PRC's leadership just keeps increasing every time the US bombs or coups another country. Both countries beelined towards nuclear weapons the moment they were able to, then foresaw the consequences of an unfiltered internet dominated by wealthy western corporations and sought to rectify that. They then demonstrated the effectiveness of scientific socialism by developing faster than any other nation in comparable circumstances, showing how it is imperialism, not 'authoritarianism' or whatever, that cripples a nation's economic development and the livelihood of their people.

  • US will take Greenland the ‘hard way’ if it can’t do it the ‘easy way,’ Trump says

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  • I think this also reflects Trump's contempt for the EU. Compared to the annexation of Greenland, the operations you mentioned were far more limited in scope, and had little impact on the broader strategic landscape. To invade and occupy the world's biggest island (albeit sparsely inhabited) has significant, lasting consequences on a global scale that his prior military actions hadn't.

    Given that Trump seems genuinely averse to entangling his forces too deeply, it's pretty clear he believes the EU to be as incapable, if not even less so, as countries like Iran or Venezuela.

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    Turkey in 'advanced talks' to join Saudi Arabia and Pakistan defence pact: Report

    www.middleeasteye.net /news/turkey-advanced-talks-join-saudi-arabia-and-pakistan-defence-pact-report
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    Turkey in 'advanced talks' to join Saudi Arabia and Pakistan defence pact: Report

    www.middleeasteye.net /news/turkey-advanced-talks-join-saudi-arabia-and-pakistan-defence-pact-report
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    Turkey in 'advanced talks' to join Saudi Arabia and Pakistan defence pact: Report

    www.middleeasteye.net /news/turkey-advanced-talks-join-saudi-arabia-and-pakistan-defence-pact-report
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    The EV leapfrog – how emerging markets are driving a global EV boom

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    The EV leapfrog – how emerging markets are driving a global EV boom

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    U.S. Investors Are Going Big on China AI Despite Concerns in Congress

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    U.S. Investors Are Going Big on China AI Despite Concerns in Congress

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    China draws in Europe’s businesses despite alarm over competition

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    China draws in Europe’s businesses despite alarm over competition

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    2025 National Security Strategy Released

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    2025 National Security Strategy Released

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    Trump readies US troops for ground invasion in Mexico to go after cartels: report

    www.the-independent.com /news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-drug-cartels-mexico-plans-military-b2857527.html
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    China aims to raise average life expectancy to around 80 years in 5 years