The HQ-22 and HQ-22A are both thought to be superior to what Iran has, especially against stealth aircraft and ECM. Neither are copied from Russian equipment.

They mostly seem to be military too.

Didn't your government bail out US manufacturing multiple times over the last decade?

Seems like the worst kind of intervention - emergency care. The Chinese government sets strategic goals to give investors confidence. Must more sensible.

Same thing in the UK. Our universities rely on foreign students to survive, and there is currently a big push by the far right to reduce their numbers. The government is trying to resist, but if it looks like they are going to lose the next election I'm sure they will sacrifice our academic sector.

You have to remember that in China and some other East Asian countries, property is something you live in or run a business from. It's not supposed to be an investment that makes money for you. In fact, its value decreases naturally over time as it ages.

The agility they have is incredible. I was working on a new product a few years ago, and we got some British companies to quote for prototypes. 10 boards, fully populated. The best one was £20k and 8 weeks. Got them done in China for £3k and on my desk in two weeks.

By the time the British companies would have delivered the first one at 7x the price, we had been through thee revisions and were ready to go into mass production. Guess where we had that done.

The irony is that climate change is a huge economic opportunity. Lots of new technology, lots of work replacing polluting systems, lots of profit to be made.

Doesn't even have to cost individuals anything, it can be funded through government borrowing since there is a very clear and guaranteed return on that investment.

But we missed the boat and now it's too late. Chinese companies invested, their government gave them certainty and confidence to do so.

Is that the same reason that Linux desktops did it?

Phones, at least Android ones, have had this for years. Apparently people actually want it.

They would probably prefer to cut you out of your share of the profit. Capital isn't a problem for a company like Uber anyway - they have an established business, there is a clear return on any investment in self driving cars they buy, so they won't have trouble borrowing the money.

The issue is that the part most likely to get scratched is prone to scratching. The camera bump is what the phone rests on when you put it down on a flat surface like a table.

On a related note I see they are still making it so that the phone won't sit flat on a desk. Google solved that long ago by making the camera bump a band over the width of the phone, for example.

That was the main problem that politicians had with TikTok. Not the Chinese ownership, the fact that TikTok politics, driven by the users, are mostly left wing.

It's not a product of the owership or even the algorithm, it's a product of capitalism failing the younger generations.

"Our youth love luxury. They have bad manners and despise authority. They show disrespect for their elders and love to chatter instead of exercise. Young people are now tyrants, not the servants of their household. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up food and terrorize their teachers."

- Socrates, 400 BC

This isn't the Philadelphia Experiement. It's just a motor. In the grand scheme of functioning electromagnets, it's small peas.

I'm not going to argue individual cases of malfeasance, because I'm not a moron.
But I am going to push against any suggestion that anecdotal cases of malfeasance represent a corrupt system.

The folks who measure pay disparities between black people and white people, men and women, cannot find any evidence of systemic underpayment of H1-Bs.
In order to make the data look like that, you have to start comparing apples to oranges. Those who are vociferously against the program are happy to do so.
Having worked with many H1-Bs, of various pay scales, I can say that I have not personally witnessed this slave labor- but I have witnessed the company directly taking advantage of "well, if he quits, he has to leave the country...".

Oooh, this should be interesting!

Indeed.

Ah, yes. For that exact reason, every child that graduates from college reduces our earning potential!
Wait- they don't?

Next you'll try to tell me that the economy grows.