formthirteen

You can invest in China, but you can't profit from China's success. https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-china-is-like-the-19th-century https://scholars-stage.org/everything-is-worse-in-china/

https://research.gavekal.com/article/prejudice-and-china/

Yes, this viewpoint is largely absent in Western media. I think this applies to Russia and Putin in general, as well as most things: In the 1990s, someone removed the 'fence.' It was rebuilt in less than a decade, and work is still ongoing. People on both sides of the fence are still mostly confused as to why a fence is needed but agree it’s useful. I read his letter. He has some valid points. However, he believes in some crazy conspiracy theories about Butcha that he backs up with information he found on the internet: It almost feels like he's looking for facts that back up his story (selection bias, confirmation bias). Maybe he's also an investor? He seems to be very consistent about which side of the fence he sits on regarding politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Schultze-Rhonhof My biases tell me he's an angry old man sitting on the fence.

The Architect of Germany's Third Industrial Revolution: an Interview with Jeremy Rifkin (Oct 15, 2014) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-architect-of-germanys_b_5979468 Hmmm, where have I heard all this before

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-promoter-evil-vera-jourova-european-commission/ https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-privacy-patrol-vengeance-block-ai-artificial-intelligence/ I wonder what kind of crisis the EU will have to go through to fix its issues. Most Europeans seem content with deindustrialization and clicking on cookie pop-ups to 'avoid the evils of Mr. Zuckerberg and Musk.' Surely shutting down a few more nuclear plants will save the planet and the EU from itself: Spain confirms nuclear power phase-out, extends renewable projects deadlines https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/spain-confirms-nuclear-power-phase-out-extends-renewable-projects-deadlines-2023-12-27/ Meanwhile in the US: Hungry for Energy, Amazon, Google and Microsoft Turn to Nuclear Power https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/business/energy-environment/amazon-google-microsoft-nuclear-energy.html

CELH starter position.

Russia is very predictable. Different faces, same history and culture. History has rhymed since the 12th and 13th centuries: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/iusburj/article/view/19799/25876

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11016042/

Guess the company:

The Chinese economy and stock market is working exactly as intended, as the stock market total returns and GDP figures since 1993 clearly show:

More of Thierry's achievements as an EU bureaucrat superman: His employees were a bit more productive: And you say bureaucrats are not comedians?

I hope his letter to Elon Musk and the response from Jim Jordan got him fired: https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-presses-european-union-attempts-censor-elon-musk-and-political True. However, I suspect there were no "common European interests" tasks for him to work on Unless this was sarcasm from Thierry. I guess we will never know.