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Sending planes close to Taiwan, threatening invasion everyday, like what Russia did before invading Ukraine? Was Russia merely challenging American superiority?

Quantity ≠ Quality. > Chen-Ning Yang was technically not wrong with his 1998 prediction, since Tu Youyou got 1/3 of the 2015 Nobel in medicine, but it didn't really make sense for …

> I don't think even the Cultural Revolution or anything else Mao did had much of an effect on Nobel prize-worthy research, simply because there wasn't much to disrupt to begin wit…

> 9 if you count people... 13 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_Nobel_laureate... , including peace prize laureates Liu Xiaobo (2010) and the 14th Dalai La…

CCP has been posturing selectively in the name of its National Security. As Macro Rubio put it this month: “They like to play these games. They put out these translations where it …

What goes around comes around: Elon Musk’s DOGE is using AI to target cuts [1], and may target the IRS [2]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/elon-musk-d... [2] …

> destroy communication infrastructure Chinese ships are just “testing the waters” this week by cutting the Internet cables near Taiwan. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=426159…

Possibly related articles on the recent issues with banks in China: * China's banking turmoil: 40 banks vanish, Jiangxi leads collapse: https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/china-…

> The Journal , my supervisor said, did not want its reporters seen calling for greater freedoms—because, unlike in Western nations, it is not an established principle in Hong Kong…

Summarizing one of the main points of the article: > If you watch an anime or a TV series "about" fighting, … getting better at techniques you already know is often more effective …

Native Cantonese speaker here, glad that you are interested in learning Cantonese. I am working with other volunteers to improve Cantonese teaching, and wonder what difficulties yo…

On the other side, China blocks WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, Telegram on the Chinese App Store. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085214 "Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from Ch…

Reminds me of the Requests for Startups from Y Combinator this week: ... 3. New defense technology 4. Bring manufacturing back to America ... https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs https:…

China has a No First Use policy on nuclear weapons. Russia threatens to use nuclear, even without being hit with nuclear.

> Also, as the war in Ukraine proves, you don't need cutting edge chips to inflict worlds of pain on another country, but 100+ year old tech of mortar cannons and shells are more t…