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Interview with Deepseek Founder: We’re Done Following. It’s Time to Lead
Interview with Deepseek Founder: We’re Done Following. It’s Time to Lead
An Yong: After your price cuts, ByteDance was the first to follow, suggesting they felt threatened. How do you view the new competitive landscape between startups and giants?
Liang Wenfeng: To be honest, we don’t really care about it. Lowering prices was just something we did along the way. Providing cloud services isn’t our main goal—achieving AGI is. So far, we haven’t seen any groundbreaking solutions. Giants have users, but their cash cows also shackle them, making them ripe for disruption.
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Full text of President Xi Jinping’s 2025 New Year address
On New Year’s eve, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered his 2025 New Year address through China Media Group and the Internet. The following is the full text of the address:
China banned sale of these minerals to the U.S. It matters to all of us
China banned sale of these minerals to the U.S. It matters to all of us
The ban will challenge many semiconductor manufacturers in the coming months. After two years of flat consumer demand, exacerbated by the global semiconductor shortage, many companies are predicted to struggle to stay afloat. Access to critical raw materials like gallium, germanium, and antimony is becoming increasingly important due to the heightened demand for electronics due to AI.
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[2016] A review of RAND Corporation’s ‘War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable’
This didn’t age well.
A review of RAND Corporation’s ‘War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable’
Read More »Who funded the anti-BRI “Made in Ethiopia” documentary?
WSWS: Made in Ethiopia—or anywhere else in the world – Xinyan Yu (National Fellow at New America*), Max Duncan (Reuters in China), Eastern Industry Park
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Read More »In addition to the 12 industrial parks built by the government and managed by the Industrial Parks Development Corporation and regional governments and the Diredawa Free Trade Zone, there are also industrial parks built and managed by private investors in various areas of Ethiopia. One of these private industrial parks is Eastern Industry Park. The industrial park is located in Dukem area, and 153 companies are engaged in production activities in the park. 95% of the companies are owned by Chinese investors, while the rest are owned by companies from India, England, and other countries. These producers are contributing significantly in terms of job creation, foreign exchange earnings, technology, and knowledge transfer.
Everything You Think You Know About Coal in China Is Wrong
China’s new coal-fired power plants are cleaner than ours—and stronger on climate change
New U.S. strategy towards ASEAN: caution, info-colonialism! (See commentary and notes)
The implementation of yet another U.S. initiative may allow it to interfere in the information policy of ASEAN and control the cyberspace of all of Southeast Asia.
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This reminds me of the tech camps that were held in Ukraine before the Euromaidan. Anyone who has been following me for a while knows where that led to. Except, replace China with Russia.
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