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[4Tran]

When the US is demanding Vietnam "to reduce its dependency on Chinese high-tech", is Vietnam being offered the American high-tech in return? Does the US even have the kind of high-tech needed by Vietnam? Perhaps the US is only trying to 白嫖 Vietnam.

That's the best part, the US doesn't even have anything to offer. For most of the tooling and industrial inputs that Vietnam needs to build its manufacturing sector, China is either the only source or it'd be too expensive from anyone else.

Vietnam does not have the power generation and heavy industry to replace China yet. With a low power, high labor force economy, you have to do just final assembly of goods, or do something like garments. The US is asking for something Vietnam cannot deliver.

It feels like the US is looking for someone to be the next China and they're onto Vietnam because India has proven to be a bust. The problem with Vietnam is that the reason why its industrial production has grown so much is because of its supply chain leading from China.

 

[bebops]

Vietnam population size is not that big. It doesn't have that many talented STEM educated graduates.

you need many STEM graduates like china and india to compete and work in the 3.5-4th revolution industry. Vietnam is not it.

India has the potential but it needs a few decades to get it going.

 

[tamsen_ikard]

Vietnam population size is not that big. It doesn't have that many talented STEM educated graduates.

you need many STEM graduates like china and india to compete and work in the 3.5-4th revolution industry. Vietnam is not it.

India has the potential but it needs a few decades to get it going.

India's so called graduates are not even remotely competent. The ones that get into western universities are like the top 1%. The rest of universities are junk

 

[bebops]

India's so called graduates are not even remotely competent. The ones that get into western universities are like the top 1%. The rest of universities are junk

right now it looks like crap. in a few decades of making, they will look decent depending on what path they take.

first, their STEM graduates need to return home for development. make their own brand and products like China.

 

[gelgoog]

Vietnam is about the same population as Japan. So reasonably large.

 

[fishrubber99]

Vietnam is about the same population as Japan. So reasonably large.

Guangdong alone has 25 million more people than Vietnam, not large enough to completely replace China in any reasonable sense.

 

[neutralobserver]

Pakistan is extending full diplomatic support to Iran (We've also helped in other ways - hopefully more assistance will be extended).

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1934697728682107058

Acknowledged by Iran's President in the parliament:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1934653593572831414

I hope Post-War Iran will remember it because Iran's FM didn't condemn May 7 strikes and was just calling for restraint. He was signing strategic deals with India next day.

 

[Overbom]

Pakistan is extending full diplomatic support to Iran (We've also helped in other ways - hopefully more assistance will be extended).

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1934697728682107058

Acknowledged by Iran's President in the parliament:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1934653593572831414

I hope Post-War Iran will remember it because Iran's FM didn't condemn May 7 strikes and was just calling for restraint. He was signing strategic deals with India next day.

IMO a stupid move.

Pakistan is not in position to paint a target on its back. It's economy is in tatters and its being surviving because China is basically subsidizing it militarily and economically.

Any small western sanction push and Pakistan could quickly go down economically. They should lay low for another decade. This is not yet the time to play these games

 

[xyz4321]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1934541551067148567

 

[huemens]

China's first invasive brain-computer interface clinical trial launched, achieving positive results

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"Now I can control the computer with my thoughts. It feels like I can move at will," said the tetraplegic patient involved in China's first-in-human clinical trial of an invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) device.

According to a statement from the center, after just two to three weeks of post-operative training, the patient was able to control electronic devices with his mind, skillfully operating racing games, chess and other programs.

Compared with the neural electrodes used in the invasive BCI system developed by Neuralink, the only company currently in clinical trials founded by Elon Musk, the Shanghai-based CEBSIT holds a leading position in neural interface technology.

Developed and produced by the center's research team led by Zhao Zhengtuo, the neural electrodes of the Chinese team are the smallest in size and most flexible one in the world, with a cross-sectional area only 1/5 to 1/7 that of Neuralink's electrodes and flexibility over 100 times greater. Such strength allows brain cells to barely "perceive" the presence of a foreign object, significantly reducing damage to brain tissue, per the center. These ultra-flexible neural electrodes boast high-density, wide-ranging, high-throughput and long-term stable in-vivo neural signal acquisition capabilities.

The implant, with a diameter of 26 millimeters and thickness less than 6 millimeters, is the world's smallest brain-controlled implant, roughly the size of a coin.

Next, the research team plans to attempt to let the patient involved in the trial use a robotic arm, enabling him to perform physical actions such as grasping and holding a cup in daily life. In the future, the project will also explore controlling complex physical peripherals, such as robotic dogs, embodied intelligent robots, and other intelligent agent devices, to further expand the patient's physical capabilities, according to the center.