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Chinese AI is absolutely insane.

The irony is that for years Marxian economists advocated the use of tariffs for global South countries to protect domestic industries. Now a strategic move by Trump as a broad industrial policy to restructure the US economy but also mainly targeting the primary adversary China.

I get it now. This is about creating a Chernobyl moment for China's economy.

Deep seek interesting prompt.. From Reddit

I have been against a TikTok ban for a long time, because it goes against freedom of speech. That said, the current situation where TikTok is allowed to operate in America, but 𝕏 is not allowed to operate in China is unbalanced. Something needs to change.

it took 48 hours for the Chinese people on xiaohongchu to get tired of the American TikTokers overrunning their app

Lmao at thousands of people downloading Rednote (the version of tiktok that is actually owned by China) to spite the U.S. government, finding themselves having lovely interactions with the millions of Chinese citizens on the app & inadvertently undoing decades of U.S. propaganda.

在柬埔寨，日本経済新聞记者看到了「一带一路」留下的500多栋烂尾楼 这里本是中国游客喜爱的海岸城，从十年前开始纳入一带一路。随着中国经济与地产接连爆雷，中国老板不见踪影，中国游客亦不光临，只给这个穷国留下了遍地鬼楼，以及梦想破碎的声音——

China banned Tiktok bc it's the international version the govt doesn't have control over the US wants to ban Tiktok bc it's an international app the govt doesn't have control over?