oh yeah for sure

China is absolutely living in the future by every measure you can think of. Robots are common place, there’s high speed rail everywhere, energy production is rapidly shifting to renewables and nuclear. Most vehicles are now electric. These are all the things we were promised that we’d see in the world of tomorrow, and that’s where China is at.

Being The Economist, they even managed to work in the whole ‘but at what cost angle’ 🤣

Foreign unis feel the pain

Abroad, shrinking enrolment is now hurting some universities that had become overly reliant on Chinese students. In the 2024-25 academic year Chinese made up more than two-fifths of international students at the Russell Group of 24 top British universities. Many of them expanded master’s programmes to attract students from China, charging them fees far above those of home students. Faculties grew and new facilities were built. There was an “illusion of financial stability”, says Filippo Boeri, at City St George’s, University of London. But now universities are closing courses and laying off staff or asking them to take voluntary redundancy.

Chinese students drying up will deprive the West of valuable talent. It may also do no good for China. As the country opened up to the world, haigui brought home skills and knowledge acquired overseas. The group were key in helping the country to modernise and the economy to catch up (eight of the 21 current members of the Communist Party’s ruling Politburo studied abroad). The international experience of the haigui has also helped Chinese firms seeking a foothold in foreign markets. When fewer turtles swim the seas, China will surely suffer too. ■

lmfao imagine being over the age of 12 and using authoritarian unironically, some real intellectual titans on this site 🤣

and here’s something for you to mald over

• https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/reverse-brain-drain-exploring-trends-among-chinese-scientists-us
• https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/is-the-us-witnessing-the-start-of-a-brain-drain-of-chemists-to-china/4023959.article
• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/science/nobel-winning-us-chemist-will-move-to-china-to-lead-ai-institute.htmlunlocked_article_code=1.wlA.-_eU.hvAo1uhEkhDR&smid=nytcore-ios-share
• https://e.vnexpress.net/news/tech/personalities/7-prominent-scientists-and-experts-who-left-us-uk-for-china-in-2026-5096244.html
• https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3359883/10-scientists-and-experts-who-have-left-us-and-uk-china-so-far-2026

I’m also looking forward to more American top scientists moving to China as their funding gets cut and they can’t find new students.

fun fact, you can literally use meme templates any way you like

sure kiddo https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russias-t14-turret-revolutionary-improvement

I did post it in programmer humor, figured that would be a bit of a give away :)

Wow, thank you so much for taking your valuable time from huffing gas to write all that.

I’m really impressed you can tell what kind of tank it is under the plating.

They still get used, just in a very different role than before drones were a thing. And the days of big tank formations rolling through are very much over. Nowadays they mostly do mine clearing, artillery support, and mobile command centres.

what modern tanks look like in order to survive drones

exactly

CIA and other US government affiliated agencies regularly edit political topics on wikipedia.

I think you really have to look at the history of the source. How their analysis stacks up against what actually happened in the past tends to be a fairly good predictor of whether it’s worth listening to.

It’s pretty obvious that wikipedia is not left wing in any sense, and CIA does have disproportionate presence on the site. The guy might be a nut, but wikipedia is very much an imperial project.

Incidentally, this is a really fun read on how the whole unbiased sources and neutral perspective narrative was invented as a way to make western media seem more legitimate https://november8ph.ca/psychological-warfare-in-the-strategy-of-imperialism-v-l-artemov/

which in no way invalidates the well documented fact that wikipedia is a political tool and is heavily edited by western intelligence agencies

That’s literally the definition Lenin gave, but I’m sure an intellectual titan such as yourself knows better https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3228-lenin-s-three-theoretical-arguments-about-the-dictatorship-of-the-proletariat