Does helping Ukraine not count as international aid?

IDK 51st State of Canada maybe?

China had privileges for many years because it’s a developing country. I think they technically still are, because of poverty in many provinces. But China needs to acknowledge they have come so far now, that we can’t grant them those privileges anymore.

USA could have made that case together with trade partners. But instead USA chose to screw over everybody.

I agree we can’t suddenly replace USA with China, that wouldn’t make any sense.
But if we can repair some of the damage Trump is doing with better agreements with China, I think everybody is ready to do that as things are now.

There is no info on the CATL system in the article, beyond the claim that it charges 520 km in 5 minutes.
With the BYD news, we were told about developments in batteries, and that the charge was 1 freaking Mega Watt at 1000 Volt!!
Using 2 charging sockets. Also BYD demonstrated their system actually works.

We will have to see if more info arrives on the CATL system. But unless they can demonstrate it, they haven’t surpassed BYD yet.

Thanks.

China spent $50 billion on researching chip production last year, about half the global investment!! Because of policies instated by Trump in his first term!
Canada has cancelled their F35 program, and is looking for non US supplier of their fighter jets.
EU has decided to become independent of USA on military equipment, making their own equipment instead of buying from USA.
Tesla sales have dropped almost 50% in Europe, and Tesla is very unlikely to ever come back to their leading position in Europe again.

George Bush wasn’t nearly as bad as Trump, but USA misled the world under him regarding Iraq, and started a baseless war that many allies were drawn into. Obama was VERY popular in Europe, but despite that relations weren’t completely restored in 2 terms with Obama. Bush broke trust with comments like if you aren’t with us you’re against us.

Trump was much worse already the first term, despite not starting any wars. Talk of abandoning NATO, not respecting article 5, pandering to Russia, withdrawing from the Paris agreement. And in general undermining democracy and cooperation with allies. USA lost leadership under Trump, and it didn’t recover with biden.

So don’t think for a second that the harm from Trump’s first term was repaired by Biden. Although we did return more to business as usual with Biden.

Now Trump has within only 3 months managed to piss off everybody. China is opposing USA directly, which they never did before, and EU has declared a goal of independence from USA, which was talked about the first time Trump was president, but now was decided very quickly because Trump cut off aid to Ukraine. Europe simply can’t rely on USA anymore, and the decision to work towards independence is final. The ol PAX Americana can never be restored, and the soft power USA had because USA was supported by many allies can never be restored either.

As another lemmy poster wrote, imagine you are in a loving relationship with a partner you trust. But suddenly one morning when you get up, your partner punches you hard in the face without reason. That relationship can never go back to what it was.

USA can absolutely make friends and trade with everybody like before. But the trust and soft power USA had built after WW2 for 50 years was already shaken under George W. Bush, mostly restored by Obama, but then shaken badly with Trump first term, and now destroyed by Trump 2nd term.

Mind you this is not just Trump, Trump won the popular vote, and is representing USA by democratic election. So it’s the American people and the Republican party that has shown that USA isn’t to be trusted as we used to trust it.

To rebuild that trust, a fundamental change is needed in USA. A shift in ideology in the population and probably also a much improved democracy, that doesn’t surrender so much power based on the election of 1 person.

Trump has made history already, but unfortunately it is not the good kind.

My wife had a Huawei phone for 10 years, because she doesn’t like the new phones. It took amazing pictures despite it was only a mid range phone. But not so good in low light compared to new phones.
Huawei made insanely high end good looking designs even with their mid range phones, nothing on the market today looks as good as that one did.

But it ended up being too slow, and the software was too old, so there were things that simply stopped working.

I hope he gets ousted before he can do irreparable harm…

Too late for that.

There is a problem though, if they move to China they can’t produce at TSMC. That is why I stated outside US jurisdiction. Apart from that I agree.

Infinite just means it will never be pulled for causing accidents.

Funny I was pondering the same thing. What would Trump do if Nvidia moved to somewhere outside US jurisdiction?
It’s very serious for Nvidia to lose about 45% of their revenue. But they also need to keep their development teams running.
Can they do that if they move?

https://asymmetric-investing.beehiiv.com/p/nvidia-s-china-problem-big-tech-s-new-headwind

But this is really serious for Nvidia! As far as I can figure it’s about $33 billion profits in a year they stand to lose!!!

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NVDA/

Based on market cap and P/E.

What did Trump expect? That Huawei and SMIC would just throw the towel in the ring?

“Huawei is a ferocious competitor,” Mr. Allen said. “It brings a mixture of very high quality talent, psychotically driven work culture and the deep backing of the Chinese government.”

USA basically declared war on Chinese IT industries more than a decade ago, almost forcing Huawei out of the smartphone market when they had become the leader of it! Seeing how Apple became the richest company in the world on the back of the iPhone, Huawei obviously lost enormous amounts of profits being excluded from that market.

USA is still attempting to prevent China from being competitive, and obviously China is determined on every level not to let that continue, all the way from the top of government over major companies to the researchers and workers. It may not be exactly a war, but it definitely is a very serious competition.

Now China is hitting back for real, because they have the power to do it, for instance preventing USA from having certain rare earth minerals. And the loser will be USA, and that will soon be very clear.

American bully tactics have alienated everybody including allies, so USA is alone on this. And alone USA will lose.

Which is also why thermal limit has gone up

Yes absolutely, I don’t know how they do it, but I remember BIOS shutting off the computer if the CPU was 60° C. Now many chips can handle above 100° C.

Obviously China is tired of being bullied by USA. And from that aspect, it seems kind of unavoidable the same goes for countries that help USA bully China.

Personally I hope the situation between USA and China doesn’t spread to other countries. And it seems that both EU and China is trying to prevent that.

My guess is that since USA has alienated all allies too, USA will stand alone on this one.
Which is idiotic by Trump, because there are things that we would all like to improve regarding trade with China, and if USA had treated that situation rationally, USA could have worked with EU and other allies to influence China in more constructive ways.

Instead it is all falling apart now.

Where? Because compared to this, what Trump is doing is amateurish and half-assed.
Trump is going half way on half the things, on taxing the rich Trump is doing the opposite, and he is wavering on the other things because he doesn’t know what he is doing.
But maybe it’s enough, because apparently the MAGA crowd still supports him!

There comes a point where that life isn’t preferable anymore, but then it’s too late.

USA is trying to keep China from competing on AI, preventing them access to the same high end chips the west have.
But I don’t think it’s working, China simply has a way to massive well educated talent mass, and they are investing heavily too.
I think USA would be better off allowing Nvidia to compete equally, taking away 25+% of their market isn’t helping USA/Nvidia, it’s only helping the Chinese newcomers getting customers that would otherwise use Nvidia.

Essentially USA is helping their competitors get better financing.

One of the impressive things about chips ever since the 70’s, is how they’ve become ever denser and ever more powerful, so they are now more than 50 thousand million times more complex, going from little more than a thousands, to 50 billion transistors as per 5 years ago! Yet modern chips remain very reliable, and the biggest vulnerability is not inherent, but from targeted hostile attacks against them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count

It’s almost as if the industry knows very well what they are doing.

The headline is moronic, but of course the progress of chips will slow down, and heat is one of the factors.

If they are flying them back, they should pay the 145% tariff. After all it is China paying it, right?

The parents argue that public schools cannot force kids to participate in instruction that violates their faith.

This is sickening, it’s not a violation of faith to be taught something. What they really are complaining about is that it doesn’t comply with their Christian religious indoctrination, so they are afraid their indoctrination will fail.
These parents are literally insane, letting their delusions about a god that doesn’t exist, cloud their judgement in ways that are harmful to their children, themselves and society.

These delusions are so harmful it is comparable to a schizophrenic having a psychosis.

Claiming this book is harmful is akin to claiming it is harmful to teach an atheist about Buddhism.