This says more about the reduction in orders from the US and EU than anything about a rise in RMB use. The Canton Fair last week was completely dead - just a bunch of Chinese people standing around looking at each other, wondering why there were no foreign buyers.

Rockchip is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company. How many of their products are in Russian/Chinese/Iranian military equipment? Even if they don't get banned directly, the fab they use might not be able to make them anymore, due to sanctions. It's time to stop developing devices using Chinese semiconductors.

Samsung has been at war, purposefully over-producing memory and flooding the market, to hurt Micron. That's what they get for being a dick.

There is nothing rare about rare earth minerals... We just need to build refineries. I hope China does ban their own exports, killing their own industry. It was not long ago that Nothing was made in China and everything was fine, even better in many ways. It's time to move on.

Hong Kong is just another city in Xitler's circus land now. The citizens have no freedom, privacy, or rights of any kind. The last days of the HK system will only be used by CCP thugs for money laundering and scamming foreign investors in the fake stock market. We closed our company there and moved to another country with less Chinese influence.

Pro-China subreddits and posts are allowed, no matter how extreme or how obvious the propaganda. If you mention anything CCP doesn't agree with, you get banned. Tik-Tok is nothing compared to the propaganda spreading power of Reddit.

So far, the main use of LLMs seems to be people smoking weed and asking ChatGPT to write fart poetry. The end of human civilization is near.

The article reads like a list of every vaporware hype tech in existence - the latest in quantum computing, AI and hybrid cloud to help expedite discoveries in biomedical research.

The WHO is just part of the CCP propaganda department. They would love to convince everyone the virus came from somewhere other than the level 4 virology lab, doing gain of function research on the same virus in the same city.

While I don't disagree with the banning of a CCP propaganda tool, it is not an excuse for increasing the power of the government. If they pass this bill, it almost certainly be abused for other political purposes.

The typical profile of someone with ADHD: addicted to soft drinks or energy drinks, diet high in refined sugar, processed oils and grains, low quality and low quantity of sleep, zero exercise, continuous and obsessive phone and/or PC screen in their face. Sound familiar? The typical ADHD sufferer will do anything BUT change their behavior and lifestyle - the more prescription meds the better.

There is no such thing as "business confidence" in China. Have a problem with a Chinese supplier or government agency? Good luck... Have you or your company spent many years and large sums of money developing a new technology? The only way to protect your IP is to keep it out of China and away from Chinese thieves infiltrating your company.

Almost nothing was made in China until the mid 90s and it was great. I enjoyed visiting suppliers in Japan, S.Korea, Taiwan, even a filthy sh*t-hole called the USA. It only took roughly 10yrs for almost all manufacturing to move to China (and me with it, sadly). F*ck the CCP - they have decided to become an enemy to the entire world. We moved all of our supply chain out of China already.

HMD is Foxconn, not the Nokia of old. I guess they probably started designing this phone before the world started waking up and banning Chinese semiconductors. How long until this gets blacklisted?

Stop being weenies and setup your own WireGuard server on a cheap cloud instance.