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US found yet another "national security problem": lack of STEM grads.
“The advances in technology that are going to drive where the world goes in the next 50 years are going to come from other countries, because they have the intellectual capital and we don’t"
“The advances in technology that are going to drive where the world goes in the next 50 years are going to come from other countries, because they have the intellectual capital and we don’t"
It's a very, extremely complex subject but at least for those migrant workers you mentioned some (obviously not all) are more like extended traveling working projects than anything else.
Come from a poor rural farm village, go work in a factory, factory has on-site housing so you live there, work 1 year or 6 months or 2 years or whatever, visit back home during Spring Festival and other important events or holidays, etc.
It's similar to like oil riggers or to some industrial jobs in America where they just chase shutdown after shutdown.
So housing would be a difficult personal choice because you don't actually need the house in the city of that factory you work in since you already have one that's better for your lifestyle anyways (no commute right there at work) and plus your family lives in the village still. Unless you plan on moving them into the city, but yet that's a hard decision to make because in the village that money goes far and you can save a ton for retirement. In the city you will save...who knows how little? Maybe none even. But certainly you will save almost nothing compared to simply having your family back in the village and sending money to them.
A lot of this isn't a problem that's nature is rooted in technical stuff. It's more cultural or choice based than anything else.
Wang Yi met Hank Paulson.
Chinese officials meet former US Treasury secretary; 'engagement may serve as effective way to break impasse in China-US ties'
Here is a funny photo that was floating around weibo a lot, shows the similarities between US officials visiting China during 2008 and now. It starts with French president visiting China, then US secretary of state, then secretary of treasury, then secretary of commerce.
The original secretary of treasury Hank Paulson showed up today, Wall Street is looking for a bailout from China again.
I am posting this here because this thread is practically the general post corner of this forum.
I was looking at reports RAND wrote about PLA in 2015. It is quite incredible how much the PLA has changed and how wrong they were about the speed of modernization.
For example in 2015 this was the combat aircraft fleet. Maybe a few J-10C as AESA. Nothing else that is competitive to what the US fielded. And you can see these people thought the J-16 was just a Su-30 equivalent rather than a AESA wielding cutting-edge fighter. 900 4th gens in total... Now there are probably 850+ AESA-equipped fighters in the inventory on their own, ~230 being VLO.
And this is about the destroyer fleet. First of all missile ranges are wrong. The modern fleet consisted of 5 052C and a single 052D. Today there are 6 052C, 25 052D and 8 055. More in the way... Complete paradigm change in the seas.
I was looking at reports RAND wrote about PLA in 2015. It is quite incredible how much the PLA has changed and how wrong they were about the speed of modernization.
For example in 2015 this was the combat aircraft fleet. Maybe a few J-10C as AESA. Nothing else that is competitive to what the US fielded. And you can see these people thought the J-16 was just a Su-30 equivalent rather than a AESA wielding cutting-edge fighter. 900 4th gens in total... Now there are probably 850+ AESA-equipped fighters in the inventory on their own, ~230 being VLO.
And this is about the destroyer fleet. First of all missile ranges are wrong. The modern fleet consisted of 5 052C and a single 052D. Today there are 6 052C, 25 052D and 8 055. More in the way... Complete paradigm change in the seas.
plawolf
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American leaders: if you don’t drive a car, do you even matter?
