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BEIJING—Microsoft is asking hundreds of employees in its China-based cloud-computing and artificial-intelligence operations to consider transferring outside the country, as tensions between Washington and Beijing mount around the critical technology.

...700 to 800 people, who are involved in machine learning and other work related to cloud computing, one of the people said.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-asks-hundreds-of-china-based-ai-staff-to-relocate-amid-u-s-china-tensions-b626ff8c
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CHENNAI – Singapore companies will invest $5 billion in several areas, including infrastructure, technology, sustainability and data centres, in Tamil Nadu, expanding the Republic’s presence in the southern Indian state.

MTI noted that Tamil Nadu is “often the first port of call for Singapore companies looking at South India, given the cultural and historical familiarity between both states”.

The state, with a population of 72 million, is the second-largest contributor to India’s gross domestic product, behind Maharashtra, whose capital is Mumbai. Tamil Nadu’s ambition is to be a US$1 trillion (S$1.33 trillion) economy by 2030, and it has been aggressive in wooing foreign investors. Its chief minister, Mr M.K. Stalin, travelled to Singapore in May 2023 to attract investments from the South-east Asian nation.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/singapore-companies-to-invest-5-billion-in-india-s-tamil-nadu-state


A lot of it is prob laundered Indian grey money, but importantly they are not going to China any more.
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Доля России в китайском экспорте как была, так и осталась на уровне 2%. Такая же доля, например, у Таиланда, экономика которого в четыре раза меньше российской.

https://re-russia.net/review/257/
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My former student from China is planning his visit to the US. On LI he asks me for a meeting and I agree. First, he replies "Thanks" (probably just pressed the default answer button). Then, he adds another message, "Thank you Sir." So funny.


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Тем временем, китайцы реально удивлены глупостью Путина. Он почему-то думал, что Китай настолько хочет "дружить против Америки", что будет не против рецессии и инфляции в ЕС - основном торговом партнере Китая. Путинские стратеги оказались не в состоянии посчитать, что скидки на русскую нефть не компенсируют Китаю потери доходов на европейском рынке. Fucking idiots.
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“We highly value the balanced position of our Chinese friends when it comes to the Ukraine crisis,” Putin told Xi, according to a Kremlin transcript. “We understand your questions and concerns about this. During today’s meeting, we will of course explain our position, though we have also spoken about this before.”

https://www.ft.com/content/d1a1e185-0668-4f5f-b5a5-bd37a615e4eb


The key word that is prominently missing in this thank you note is "support." That is, China does not support Russia's war in Ukraine. Instead, they have questions and concerns.
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Here's a great example of long-term thinking:

The Chinese have a legend that a demon once offered to teach an alchemist how to turn base metal into gold. "But will it remain gold?" the alchemist asked.
"Will it not return to its original elements?" "Certainly," replied the demon, "but that need not trouble you, for no such change will take place until ten thousand ages have
passed." The alchemist refused the gift. "I should rather live in poverty," he said, "than bring a loss upon my fellow men, even after ten thousand ages have passed."

--- The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan. Published in 1914.
https://archive.org/stream/worldsstoryhisto01tapp/worldsstoryhisto01tapp_djvu.txt
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Картинка с выставки китайского делового искусства:
Все российские самолеты Boeing не могут летать в воздушном пространстве Китая до последующего уведомления, говорится в письме для клиентов логистической компании Global Link, которое распространено по российским Telegram-каналам. В нем отмечается, что данное уведомление получено компанией от Администрации гражданской авиации КНР.
...
речь идет о закрытии Китаем неба «для российских эксплуатантов всех самолетов, в том числе Boeing и Airbus, с двойной регистрацией».

https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/articles/2022/05/27/924013-kitai-ogranicheniya-rossii


Отличный пример, как Китай делает озабоченное лицо по поводу ужасных западных санкций и отбирает бизнес у российских компаний.
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China strikes back:
The result indicated that, for the 12 US states, the possible dates of the first infection, with a probability of 50 per cent, fall mostly between August and October 2019, while the earliest is April 26, 2019 on Rhode Island, and the latest is Nov 30, 2019 in Delaware.

All of the dates indicated by the data are earlier than Jan 20, 2020, the officially announced date of the first confirmed case in the United States, showing that the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States started to spread around September 2019 with a high confidence probability.

The result also showed that the date of the first Covid-19 case in Wuhan, with a probability of 50 percent, is Dec 20, 2019, and the date for Zhejiang is Dec 23, 2019. It infers that the Covid-19 in China is most likely to have started in late December 2019.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/covid-19-might-have-started-to-spread-in-sept-2019-in-the-us-chinese-study

TIL

Oct. 18th, 2020 02:04 pm
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The number of COVID-19 infections in mainland China is three orders of magnitude lower than in the US.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13841553
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1. LING, Duke of Wei, asked Confucius about the line of battle.
Confucius answered: “Of temple where I have learned: arms I have not studied.’
On the morrow he went his way.
...
39. The Master said: “Mingle not in projects with men whose ways are not thine.”
...
41. When the music-master Mien was presented, the Master, on coming to the steps, said: “Here are the steps.” On reaching the mat, the Master said: “Here is the mat.” When all were seated, the Master told him: “Such an one is here, and such an one is here.”
After the music-master had left, Tzu-chang said: “Is this the way to speak to a music-master?”
The Master said: “Surely it is the way to help a music-master.”

https://www.bartleby.com/44/1/15.html

The entire book 15 is quite good.
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HONG KONG—China’s Commerce Ministry said it would expand a pilot program for its digital currency to include a number of large cities, advancing a pioneering initiative by a major central bank to launch an electronic payment system.

The digital currency pilot program will cover much of China’s most prosperous regions, the Commerce Ministry said Friday: the capital Beijing and nearby Tianjin and Hebei province in the north; the Yangtze River Delta to the south; and, along China’s wealthy southern coast, Guangdong province and the neighboring cities of Hong Kong and Macau.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-to-expand-testing-of-a-digital-currency-11597385324


Attempts to arrest or even contain China's technology advances in financial services will prove to be futile. They are moving rapidly in a wide-open field with a clear mission to own the next generation transactions system.
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The Bank of Japan will begin substantive testing of digital currency it might one day issue as fears rise in the government and ruling Liberal Democratic Party that China could debut one first, posing a national security threat.

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13587771


China is driving introduction of digital currencies in Asia. This is the biggest threat to the US dollar as thr world's reserve currency.
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BEIJING—China’s central bank has introduced a homegrown digital currency across four cities as part of a pilot program, marking a milestone on the path toward the first electronic payment system by a major central bank.

Internal tests of the digital currency are being conducted in four large cities around China—Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu and Xiong’an, a satellite city of Beijing—to improve the currency’s functionality, the digital currency research institute under the People’s Bank of China confirmed Monday, in response to a request for comment.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-rolls-out-pilot-test-of-digital-currency-11587385339


Remarkably, the Chinese government did a full 180-degree turn on digital currencies. A complete transition to digital coins would be a major 21st century socioeconomic development accelerated by the pandemic.

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