Tag archives for China
Bolojan și oferta lui de nerefuzat
După ce am citit materialul avocatului Alexandru Mușătoiu „Asociații unui SRL răspund cu bunurile personale în fața ANAF”, m-am bășicat rău pe tovarășul Ilie Bolojan și m-am gândit să întreb…
Spusele și nespusele lui Rughiniș cu privire la AI
Cătălin Striblea mi-e extrem de antipatic. Răzvan Rughiniș nu mi-e nicicum, dar îi detest barba prinsă într-o codiță. Omul este extrem de knowledgeable, dar e cu pluta. Pe de altă…
The American Dream: being one crisis away from poverty
I recently discovered (so to speak) CGTN Radio, formerly known as China Radio International. Of course, I knew the CGTN mobile app, but I thought it's only TV and news…
Which one comes first, Greenland or Iran?
I bet on Greenland, even if “informed people” swear that the US will attack Iran within the next 12 hours (in the night or early morning of Jan. 15 local…
Quick reads—7 links exactly
To supplement my previous set of links on Linux and AI, here's a cursory selection from what I read this morning via my RSS subscriptions in Capy Reader. Plus a…
Operation ‘Emperor of the World’
The shit-orange infused Monroe Doctrine, dubbed “Donroe Doctrine,” was not invented in the last couple of days. The term that appeared on a January 2025 cover of The New York…
Plans for US Imperialism 2.0 predate Trump 2.0
I stumbled upon a video excerpt on X, and I wondered whether it's authentic or AI-generated. I googled “Laura J. Richardson lithium triangle” and Google's AI Overview spitted this: General…
The EU and Romania compete in dissing China
This is not the first adversarial or hostile gesture of the European Commission against China, even if the decision of the Council of the EU doesn't mention China by name,…
Mark Rutte just made a huge mistake
From the December 11, 2025, Keynote speech by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and moderated discussion with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Johann Wadephul in Berlin: And how is…
eMag Marketplace: loc de luat țeapă de la chinezii din Lyon!
Un prieten a luat țeapă cumpărând de pe eMag o contrafacere ordinară vândută de un terț, dar expediată de eMag din depozitele proprii. Omul s-a gândit să inițieze un retur…
Trump’s Gaza success eclipses his China chaos
After having pampered Genocidal Bibi and praised the IDF in the Knesset, Trump went to the 2025 Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh. But what I found concerning is his…
A society by robots, for robots: very quick thoughts
I happened to read this article in SCMP, As China’s population falls, 300,000-strong robot army keeps factories humming, and the ending annoyed me: “By 2030, the country is projected to…
Some new AI shit: bric-à-brac
Nothing spectacular, and I wanted to report about all this stuff about a week ago, but personal issues prevented me from doing that. So here it is (better later than…
Dan Wang & Zhang Weiwei on China
In this comment, I quoted from Dan Wang’s piece in The Atlantic, A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China’s Engineering State. There is more from this guy, and not only from…
How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in a nutshell Founded in 2001, when Putin didn't seem such an ogre, with two official languages—Chinese and Russian—the SCO included as members, alongside China…
Kimi and Z.AI: The more Chinese, the merrier!
The Gold Rush on AI is so unbelievable, that I missed the fact that Moonshot AI is backed by Alibaba through a $1 billion funding, literally playing on two fronts.…
Alibaba outsmarts DeepSeek in AI offerings
I might be wrong, but I believe that Alibaba’s Qwen offerings have become more interesting than DeepSeek's. At least, when coding is what matters the most to you. When I…
Xi on AI and EVs, as interpreted by Bloomberg and Claude
An economy cannot be obsessively and exclusively focused on AI (and data centers and shit) and EVs. China has so far copied all the errors of the West, but Xi…
Understand your future master: Xi, father and son
I happened to learn about Joseph Torigian's book, The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping (Stanford University Press, June 2025, 718 Pages). The…
The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?
I’m not sure that I should be doing this, but I collected some recent news on AI, on which I’d like to add some minimal comments. I’ll start with quick…