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yeah but here's the other crucial chart here, which shows how that decrease is mostly accounted for by Vietnam imports. These goods are coming overwhelmingly from Chinese-owned or managed factories. I like to call this the "decoupling delusion"

A generation-defining own goal This is how to lose a tech war

Great perspective from Louise Matsakis + Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 of WIRED on the shifting global soft power dynamics as we endure this trade war Happy to contribute my perspective, along with Gerard DiPippo and others

I'm not joking.

US negativity toward China softening a bit just in time for our massive trade war, which doesn't seem to be popular. 1/

Broadly speaking, the USA's China strategy as informed by guys who did a stint in the country 15-20 years ago has been so ineffective and incoherent that it's quite likely you could get sharper China policy and advisory from people who have never been here at all.

I'm doing a Reddit AMA with Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 this afternoon to answer all your questions about Temu. Hit us up!

This is correct, Temu also confirmed to Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 that it is now blocking US customers from seeing items shipped from China wired.com/story/temu-loc…

SCOOP: A startup founder and early DOGE recruiter posted in a Palantir alumni Slack recruiting for a new DOGE-related project. The project's goal, he said, is to automate work that's currently performed by 70,000 federal workers. w/ Tori Elliott: wired.com/story/doge-rec…

so, is claude a snitch? i talked with Sam Bowman about his deleted tweet that blew up on twitter and all the deets about this particular safety test (not a feature!) + spoke with CSO jared kaplan about whether this is aligned or misaligned behavior

I am so ashamed to see my country make perhaps one of the biggest geopolitical own goals of all time out of ignorance and bigotry

American soft power is not just what we do abroad but also how we treat foreigners at home. Great quote from Zichen Wang in a CNN article on the new US effort to “aggressively revoke” Chinese student visas.