A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes of Health neurobiologist. Celebrated mathematicians. And over half a dozen AI experts. The list of research talent leaving the US to work in China is glittering – and growing.

  • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Lol I have never installed the TikTok app even. I can show you a screenshot from the App Store if you don’t believe me.

    They are sending jets and navy ships to sovereign nations all over south east Asia.

    Definitely an issue regionally (and globally because TSMC), but a non-issue to anyone living in China (unless they have family at one of those countries)

    Even building man made island to build bases to do so

    I agreed, it’s bullshit bad faith diplomacy.

    There is a social points system that is designed to punish the poor and middle class.

    Same as the credit score system in the US then. It’s provincial, anyway, not a centralized system. A lot of people in China are saying it doesn’t affect their lives too much. Many haven’t heard of it.

    There is a literal concentration camp for theUyghurs because of their religion.

    So this is the worst of them all. But then nearly every single article about it is written by, or cites, Adrian Zenz, a notoriously anti-China reporter. The multi-million person concentration camps might be a myth. There’s definitely some human rights abuses going on there though, even the UN has reported on that. But again, this doesn’t affect most people.

    We’re talking about over a billion people in one country. 99.9% of them aren’t going to be affected by any of this. Can you say the same regarding the systemic racism, the ICE raids, etc, in the US? And those are accelerating, China seems to be keeping their authoritarianism stable.