Oxford PV set up a 100MW plant back in 2021… But that was with efficiency barely better than traditional mono (23-26.81% for mono vs. 28.6% for perovskite).

The value proposition was never there before, but it might be now…

uhh guys isn’t this like really bad

Israel is the single state most responsible for antisemitism since its foundation.

The Comac/Bombardier C919 is so cool man. It’s really the successor to Bombardier’s commercial airline initiatives that got nuked by Boeing and the DOJ.

Seriously. Fuck Boeing and fuck the DOJ.

I mean… These terms exceed what Douyin does in China. It’s actually an insane level of concessions.

Every day the US pushes us closer to nuclear war.

In case anyone was wondering why China is rapidly building up their nuclear weapons stockpile, this is why. The US cannot stop their Cold War-era antics. They must always be superior. They must always be able to get the first say and the final say.

China’s nuclear doctrine is very clear: don’t launch nukes at them and they won’t respond with nukes, but if you do then nothing is held back. No first use, just like India.

NATO’s policy of allowing for first use stems from fears of being conventionally outgunned by the Soviets and now the Chinese. If anything, this should tell you where China’s military capabilities lie.

This is even more extreme than Douyin’s arrangement with the Chinese government lmao

It’s so funny

It’s an overt publication from the Chinese government. What reason do they have to lie? That would harm the credibility of the Chinese government, which is something that’s pretty strong in the Global South.

China obviously has something to gain, but it’s also obvious that they have more to gain from being honest in an overt publication like this than they do from being dishonest.

What! No way! Nobody could have seen this coming!

2023Q4 - 5.2% GDP growth

2024Q1 - 5.3% GDP growth (+0.7% over estimates)

Caixin Manufacturing PMI - 51.1

Citi GDP growth estimate 2024 - 5% (up from 4.6%)

This is as China’s real estate sector is actively deflating and dragging down GDP growth (real estate as % of GDP estimated to drop from a high of 24% in 2018 to 19% in 2023) on the order of about 1 percentage point annually.

I’m really not sure what you’re talking about? Labour is rotating into clean tech deployments, GDP growth numbers actively account for the deflation of the real estate bubble, manufacturing is still expanding, and estimates for GDP growth from Western analysts continue to shoot up. Meanwhile, bankrupt developers are having their projects be repurposed into public housing.

In fact, investments are rotating rapidly from real estate into industrial capacity, which tends to have higher short-term ROI and a more significant short-term contribution to GDP.

The biggest concern IMO is the rapid expansion of debt at the national level, which reflects the collapse of LGFVs as a viable method of supporting provincial coffers due to the decline in real estate - China’s government is becoming more centralized, and that has the potential to intervene with the (astonishingly successful) hands-off policy that’s been adopted in the past.

Direct sources are important, even if just to innoculate against propaganda.

Turns out cope cages are the new big thing in armour

Hamas capabilities alive and well.

Somehow.

Striking a facility that’s entirely focused on detecting hostile nuclear launches is… Probably not the smartest thing Ukraine has ever done. Nuclear facilities typically are protected by MAD, and this is going to push Russia to the edge on nuclear weapons use.

This is terrifying and I have no idea why the US hasn’t intervened to clear the waters.

The Security Council resolution drafted by Russia rivaled one backed by the U.S. and Japan that failed last month. The rival drafts focused on different types of weapons, with the U.S. and Japan specifying weapons of mass destruction. The Russian draft discussed all types of weapons.

Why is the US so keen to allow conventional weapons in space?

This feels self-inflicted to me. People forget that, during the Cold War, the Sino-Soviet split was very much a thing. People also forget that post-war Russia wanted nothing more than to integrate into the broader Western (European) economy, that the US’ recognition of Taiwan as the government of China only ended in the 1970s, that the US was single-handedly responsible for propping up the KMT junta for decades, that China’s interests have never left their immediate neighborhood, or that in fact Taiwan-China relations were normalizing under Ma.

It would not be remiss for me to mention that the big Western powers are currently complaining about Georgia’s foreign agent law that would require organizations which receives significant foreign funding to register themselves… And that foreign ministers of European countries are marching in Tbilisi in protest of the law.

Foreign influence, whether that be direct (through funding) or indirect (through ideology, propaganda) is the foundation of many large social movements. That needs to be acknowledged, and it’s perfectly fine. The notion that nations are meant to be entirely independent is one not based in reality: nobody is pretending Canada could align with Russia without getting nuked to high orbit. The world is built on realpolitik, not on lines drawn on a map.

The US has done a great job of fucking Canada, now they’re turning their attention to fucking Mexico, too.

It’s giving Sino-Soviet split.

Is it? Chiang Kai-shek cemented his place in Chinese history for fighting alongside Sun Yat-sen against the military junta instituted after the fall of Qing. Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong then led China through the Japanese invasion.

His place in Chinese history is undoubtable. You shouldn’t need to be perfect to be remembered.

The coup only got support because the previous leaders were corrupt grifters.

Now, sure, the junta might not be much better, but there was tons of popular support for the coup.