Shifting deck chairs to the Titanic’s Taiwan side
China now has 369 satellites, three times as many as in 2018, according to General Stephen Whiting, head of the US Space Command.
David P Goldman in asian news
Telecom rally signals broader China tech shares surge
China’s telecom stocks, a proxy for the value of industrial automation, turned in the best performance in China’s CSI 300 Index of mainland large-cap stocks during February. The telecom subindex of the CSI 300 rose by nearly 20% as of Feb. 20 from its January 17 low.
Saving Amerca’s future from the Blob
Never believe what bipartisan foreign policy establishment hacks say about China and Russia. They don’t believe what they say, either. The Blob (as Obama aide Ben Rhodes called it) learned through generations of strategic blunders that if everyone closes ranks and sticks to the same story, its members will survive a strategic disaster of any magnitude with their careers intact.
So-called China deflation is good news for profits
To gauge price behavior, rather than the overall index number, economists look at so-called “core” consumer price inflation that excludes volatile food and energy prices – except when it comes to China.
Apocalypse too soon
Customer help desks are a top target of money-saving schemes involving generative AI, as I reported earlier in an attempted takedown of the chatbot. Now I’m convinced that automating customer service will bring the apocalypse somewhat nearer, not because machines will become sentient, but because the machines turn perfectly normal human beings into morons.
Taiwan risk assets to rally over election results
Mainland commentators expressed cautious satisfaction with Taiwan’s national election outcome – which returned the Democratic Progressive’s Party (DPP) to office but with a sharply reduced mandate and the loss of its majority in the national legislature.