China Catch-All

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www.politico.eu

TikTok hit with €530M fine after illegally sending users’ data to China

Video-sharing app had for years claimed it did not store European personal data on servers in China.
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TikTok hit with €530M fine after illegally sending users’ data to China​

Video-sharing app had for years claimed it did not store European personal data on servers in China.
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But drump is against a US ban on TikTok, correct?

If he's supposedly protecting us from China, his mysterious ways are very hard to follow.
 
U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said.
Power inverters, which are predominantly produced in China, are used throughout the world to connect solar panels and wind turbines to electricity grids. They are also found in batteries, heat pumps and electric vehicle chargers.


While inverters are built to allow remote access for updates and maintenance, the utility companies that use them typically install firewalls to prevent direct communication back to China.

However, rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by U.S experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues, the two people said.

Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.

Reuters was unable to determine how many solar power inverters and batteries they have looked at.
 
This is a depressing article. Along with Thomas Friedman's China vs. USA essays, it paints a bleak picture of the USA for the rest of this century.

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www.nytimes.com

Opinion | In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.

Trump’s fixation on tariffs while he undermines America’s competitive strengths is hastening the onset of the “Chinese Century.”
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But at least we got Guns, Jesus and Fetuses. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
 
Bobfripp said:
This is a depressing article. Along with Thomas Friedman's China vs. USA essays, it paints a bleak picture of the USA for the rest of this century.

🎁 ->
www.nytimes.com

Opinion | In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.

Trump’s fixation on tariffs while he undermines America’s competitive strengths is hastening the onset of the “Chinese Century.”
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

But at least we got Guns, Jesus and Fetuses. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
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Well, it doesn't have to be a permanent loss. We do have to reverse course soon, which means we need to win in 26. Preferably both chambers.

This is what I've been saying for a while. The problem of "globalization" isn't about globalization at all. It's merely exposing America's woefully deficient industrial policy. That's how China has pulled ahead. And let's be honest: it's not just Trump. Conservatives in general have fallen in love with the idea of moving backwards. That's what originalism is all about. I mean, seriously: China is investing in high-tech manufacturing while the Supreme Court of the United States is trying to read tea leaves from 1789 to determine whether the government can actually fund research free from political machinations.

When and if we fade into oblivion, Trump will have been the accelerant. The fuel is coming from everywhere, including our court system.

Note that the EU is in even worse shape when it comes to industrial policy. I will admit I'm no expert on the contours of EU jurisdiction, but my understanding is that the European Commission doesn't have the authority to set industrial policy. That is left to the member nations. Problem: state-by-state industrial policy doesn't mix well with monetary union. In essence, Europe is governed by a federalist system not completely unlike ours, except their version of the federal government (the Commission) is super weak, more like Articles of Confederation (this is more analogy than comparison). And hence Europe has fallen behind China as well.
 
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