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@thejapantimes they need batteries, but maybe we don't need ai so much, and it seems Usa next target will be Europe, not China

"By comparison, at least, the way the Chinese government speaks about AI is more modest. Yes, China’s economic leadership views AI as a priority and has boldly claimed it seeks to lead the world by 2030. Yet the rhetoric lacks the eschatological tone common in Silicon Valley. Chinese economic planners appear more interested in AI as a tool for industrial processes than as a means of creating a superintelligence that will reach the singularity. The State Council’s 2025 “AI+” initiative is focused entirely on efficiency-enhancing applications rather than intelligence explosions.There is another important difference. China is banking far more heavily on simpler, lower-cost open-source AI models. In the US, most of the leading “frontier” AI models are secret and proprietary, in part as a business model and in part due to the apocryphal fears that the wrong actors could trigger human extinction. The smaller, lower-cost Chinese models may be seeking, in that sense, to be the more nimble 1970s Toyota rivals to the giant American cars produced by General Motors.More importantly, China is hedging its bets by investing heavily in a wide range of other technologies that might reasonably be described as “the future”. In 2024, the country invested an estimated $940bn in clean-energy capex, broadly defined as renewables, electricity grids and energy storage (batteries), dwarfing its AI investments. In these sectors, AI is meant to be a complement — the glue rather than the structure.While China’s overall economy remains weaker than it was in the 2010s, elements of this broader strategy seem to be bearing fruit."https://www.ft.com/content/12581344-6e37-45a0-a9d5-e3d6a9f8d9ba#USA #China #AI #AIHype #AIBubble

US government has published its National Security Strategy 2025. There's some valid criticism of Europe there, and there's some silly projections and "now you kiss" naivety towards #Russia that was so much visible in recent Trump advisors statements. Most importantly, Russia is not even mentioned there as a party that US expects anything from. There's lots of things that US expects and plans in relations with #China, Asia, South America, Europe etc. But there's literally zero mentions of US policy towards Russia, as if Trump considered Russia to be some kind of natural phenomenon that you simply accept as it is. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

A Chinese firm bought an insurer for CIA agents - part of Beijing's trillion dollar spending spreeIn an astonishing intelligence coup, the CIA was caught off-guard when Fosun Group—a Chinese firm with deep ties to Beijing—quietly bought Wright USA, the insurer providing liability coverage to its agents.For years, a Chinese-owned company had legal access to the personal details of America’s top spies. The 2015 deal only came to light in 2016, sparking a CFIUS inquiry and forcing a sale back to U.S. owners. It was a wake-up call: China’s $2.1 trillion global spending spree isn’t just about business—it’s about strategic leverage. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g311jn1m9o #China #CIA #FBI #MAGA

China's shift to electric trucks may reshape global fuel demand> China is replacing its diesel trucks with electric models faster than expected, potentially reshaping global fuel demand and the future of heavy transport.> In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran on diesel. By the first half of 2025, battery-powered trucks accounted for 22% of new heavy truck sales, up from 9.2% in the same period in 2024, according to Commercial Vehicle World, a Beijing-based trucking data provider. The British research firm BMI forecasts electric trucks will reach nearly 46% of new sales this year and 60% next year.> Heavy trucks carry the lifeblood of modern economies. They also contribute significantly to global emissions of carbon-dioxide: In 2019, road freight generated a third of all transport-related carbon emissions.> Trucking has been considered hard to decarbonize since electric trucks with heavy batteries can carry less cargo than those using energy-dense diesel. Proponents of liquefied natural gas have viewed it as a less polluting option while technology for electric heavy vehicles matures.> Liquefied natural gas, or LNG, is natural gas cooled to a liquid fuel for easy storage and transport. https://apnews.com/article/china-truck-lng-ev-diesel-transport-70f3d612de4b45b6f954a7f557f7f741 #China #EV #electricvehicles #LNG #fossilfuels #naturalgas #pollution

#NewSpecies!A newly discovered fungus from #china for #FungiFriday:Pholiota songjiangensisTreatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/74B1D5D0-56D1-5F9B-8B88-F522A443BBDFPublication: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.124.166503#MycoKeys #PholiotaSongjiangensis#FAIRdata#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology

#China's #EV #Electricvehicles is Imploding - #Slashdothttps://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/12/0150258/chinas-ev-market-is-imploding

From beaches to ski slopes, photos show how cameras keep watch all over China> The Chinese government has blanketed the country with the world’s largest network of surveillance cameras.> Some cameras swivel, ensuring sweeping views of public squares. Others scan license plates of passing cars, allowing police to track vehicles in real-time. At night, cameras light up across China’s cities, shining lights down alleys and corners. https://www.arabnews.com/node/2620806/world #China

Die #Energiewende würde bei uns wenig bringen, solange #China nicht mitmache, sagen einige.Nun hat China in den ersten sechs Monaten dieses Jahres mehr als doppelt so viel #Photovoltaik aufgebaut wie Deutschland in 25 Jahren.Was dient nun als Ausrede für das Bremsen der #Energiewende und unzureichenden #Klimaschutz?https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/china-schafft-in-sechs-monaten-doppelt-so-viel-solarkraft-wie-deutschland-in-25-jahren-a-c654c3ac-9f19-4b6c-bc5b-2905096f685b#ref=rss

Temo che ci toccherà imparare un nuovo acronimo dopo #PIGS e #BRIC. Asse del disordine | Che cos’è il #CRINK, l’internazionale autoritaria che minaccia le democrazie - Linkiesta.it https://www.linkiesta.it/2025/10/crink-russia-cina-iran-corea-del-nord/ @attualita #Russia #China #Iran #NorthKorea

Sometimes, we get donations for our museum which are not old enough for being museum quality. So they are sold to finance the museum.When I saw this vintage jug in our museum shop, I knew I needed it for my meadow bouquets. It could be kitsch in the wrong place but with wild flowers ...#bloomscolling #bouquet #flowers #vase #china #porcelain #vintage #museum #culturalHeritage

La Cina inasprisce le regole sulle esportazioni di veicoli elettriciPresa di mira una pratica per cui le auto etichettate come "nuove" sono in realtà veicoli a chilometro zero già immatricolati lì per "gonfiare" le vendite.Da gennaio 2026, le aziende dovranno ottenere l'approvazione di Pechino prima di esportare veicoli elettrici, per aumentare la trasparenza e limitare le distorsioni del mercato interno.#cina #china #bev #mercato @energia https://gat.to/txfxd