This guy lives and works in China and writes about the business environment there (with occasional digressions). All his articles are lavishly supplied with links. I didn't encounter the article talking about professors leaving CalTech and MIT for Chinese universities, it may have been another writer and I don't have time to look now.

https://kdwalmsley.substack.co...

This has happened suddenly, but decisively, that Chinese universities now dominate the world rankings for the hard sciences.

The Nature Index is a comprehensive ranking of over 18,000 universities and colleges from around the world, and the scores are based on quality research output. These tables are sortable, as well, by scientific discipline. For example, in Physics, the United States didn’t show up in the top 10 ranking at all.

Sichuan University in Chengdu, across all scientific and engineering disciplines, is now ahead of Stanford, MIT, Oxford, and University of Tokyo.

Here are some other takeaways. 8 out of the top 10 research institutions are Chinese. Zhejiang University is in that bunch, and where Liang went. Of the top 50 universities, 26 are from China. US has 14. Have you ever been to Xiamen? Me either. But they have a university in Xiamen that’s ahead of Cal, Columbia, Cornell, and Chicago. I know about all of those. Half the top 100 are Chinese. . .

China now has most of the top technical universities in the world. Professors are leaving US universities for one in China, including the top rated US tech schools like MIT and Stanford.

Hell, most Americans think our is the best education system in the world. Of course those people also think we have the greatest healthcare system and the most honest government so it sounds like the educational system has done the job our masters wanted.

That's because you live somewhere that urban planning is actually done in a rational manner. Here if I want to go to my hearing aid appointment this afternoon I'll have to leave an hour and a half early if I want to take the bus, or I could drive there in 15 minutes. Come to think of it, I could walk there in an hour and a quarter, but along a very busy highway which has limited shoulder space in places.

The scrabble for short term profits will always lose to adequate long term planning.

It's Communist Party of China (CPC), not Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Yes, it was planned, and it was deliberate. It's a different society and a different economy than the west, but for some bizarre reason Westerners seem unable to comprehend that theirs isn't the only possible way to do things.

https://kdwalmsley.substack.co...

Top China execs forecast more deflation and falling profits ahead. And that's the plan.

In Western economies, deflation is a signal of collapsing economic activity, and even depressions.

But Chinese deflation is a result of powerful supply-side forces that have the opposite effect: China’s economy continues to grow at solid rates, while rent-seeking profits are extinguished at the company level by high competition.

Detroit is doing its level best to kill EV competition already.

Actually most of those house are now occupied. The "train stations to nowhere", supposedly an indicator of the imminent collapse of their economy, are now surrounded by industries and towns.

Yeah, no doubt. But for all the good they do me, right?

Musk is not the only one who faked robots by having people in a room remote controlling them without telling anyone.

This company fakes it in the open. They literally tell their customers that there's a guy next door remote controlling the robot slave all day and night.

Apparently they think it's not at all creepy to have some unseen stranger wander your home remotely, pretending to be a machine servant.

I guess there's a market for that, right next to the market for parents who don't mind taking their underage kids to Disneyland so they can be followed around by minimum wage strangers in Mickey Mouse suits...

Around 2003 National Geographic did a survey and found that around a third of graduating high school seniors couldn't find the Pacific Ocean on an unlabeled globe. This has been coming for a while.

I have a Samsung 7" tablet that I use mostly for reading, and have never had any complaint about it or the previous one (which I dropped on a cement floor and broke). I previously had a Nexus 7, which was great until it no longer would take a charge (by which time it was discontinued) and I got the first Samsung. I like the 7" form factor because it fits nicely in an interior jacket pocket so that I can take it and read while my wife shops, and have never had any issue with extra apps being installed as some posters here complain about.

It was always a Potemkin village.

I hate driving, and according to my wife I'm a shitty driver.

So you claim 90% of China's foreign earning goes to weapons?

[Citation Needed]