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China installed 295,000 industrial robots last year, nearly nine times as many as the U.S. and more than the rest of the world combined, according to the International Federation of Robotics. China’s stock of operational robots surpassed two million in 2024, the most of any country. Of 131 factories and industrial sites recognized by the World Economic Forum globally for lifting productivity through cutting edge technologies such as AI, 45 are in mainland China, while three are in the U.S.
America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1 and Homegrown Robots Help Drive China’s Global Export Surge and What Would It Take to Bring Back US Manufacturing? Part 2: Making American Manufacturing More Productive
Game over for pure LLMs. Even Turing Award Winner Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus.One by one, all the big names have turned around. What should we do next?
Gary Marcus
MORE SANCTIONS NEEDED.
https://robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/more-us-shadow-fleet-sanctions-needed
Climate Reactionaries
Green activists defend policies that disproportionately harm the poor. / Read here
Mark P. Mills
Drill, America, Drill! The U.S. is, and should remain, the world’s Number One oil producer. / Read here
Energy Politics in the Horn of Africa: A Path Forward for American Foreign Policy
by Oliver McPherson-Smith via The Caravan Notebook The pursuit of energy security lies at the heart of recent tensions among the Horn of Africa’s countries and their neighbors. Amid these tensions, this essay proposes a break from the Biden administration’s policy of disengagement and stasis. Rather, renewed American diplomacy can strike a bargain between Egypt, Ethiopia, and Somaliland that would support regional democracy and stability and the free passage of American cargo in the Red Sea.
When Energy Markets And Geopolitics Collide
by Victoria Coates via The Caravan In the summer of 2020, the usually discrete spheres of energy markets and geopolitics collided when Chevron Corporation announced it was buying Noble Energy for five billion dollars—a deal that meant every bit as much to establishing a sustainable peace in the Middle East as the Abraham Accords signed some six weeks later on the lawn of the White House by Israel, Bahrain, the UAE and the United States.  The States Power Down Ambitious renewables mandates by local governments are eroding the electric grid’s reliability, with alarming consequences. Earlier this week, The Atlantic featured a long-form piece on how challenges with nuclear energy have shifted away from environmental activist opposition (“nuclear greens” are on the rise) and into the nuclear industry itself. For City Journal, James B. Miegs sets forth the challenges underlying nuclear power’s return to prominence. GOP Pushes Tougher China Dual-Use Sanctions By Bryant Harris, Defense News: “Republicans are using their brand-new House majority to push for tougher China sanctions enforcement on dual-use equipment even as the Biden administration greatly expands sweeping new export controls on U.S. technology that could be used by the Chinese military." Record Defense Budget Flunks the China Test By Jeffrey Jeb Nadaner, RealClearDefense: "While most lines of that $858 billion defense appropriation are necessary, it fails in its totality." Denial May Bring War – Punishment May Keep It at Bay
From CDR Salamander:"don't threaten the PRC with an easy war"
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JAMES B. MEIGS
Delayed Reaction Nuclear power mounts a comeback, but obstacles remain. |
WILLIAM HOLLAND
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