VW just closed a very small plant (165k cars in 24 years) in Germany, the one in Dresden. The largest ones are probably Wolfsburg and Emden, these are running. VW is in trouble, not in terminal decline.
I used ambien for sleep and provigil for mindfullness (the go/no go packets) during long deployments in the military and it took me years to get back to anything normal after leaving the Army. These are very powerful medications.
The ODNI Threat Assesment is the only official stance and is apolitical. China has been top of the list for nation-state threats for more than a decade.
The intelligence community are not US policy makers, and that threat assessment is not policy.
The US intelligence community is correct in its assessment, but US policy is not acting in any way consistent with both the US being the dominant world power and taking that ODNI assessment seriously.
Current US policy makers are instead trying to hide in their shell like a turtle, and greatly restrict US power so that it must not confront or deal with the threat from China.
I'm coming back to this a few days later because the official new Pentagon policy deprioritizes China:
> The National Defense Strategy — a dramatic shift from even the first Trump administration — no longer focuses primarily on countering China. Instead, it blames past administrations for ignoring American interests and jeopardizing the U.S. military’s access to the Panama Canal and Greenland.
Edit: big news day for China Hawks proving to be frauds, this is from the WSJ
Trump Administration Pushes Out Key Officials Focused on China Tech Threat
Departing staffers worked for a Commerce Department office charged with protecting the U.S. from Chinese technological advances
Potentially, but it would be good to have them make a specific claim with evidence because otherwise we’re just guessing. Things like that report have some very opinionated conclusions which we might not otherwise want to spend time discussing.
it's not comparable, not by a long shot; the level of insider dealing, corporate theft, and corruption, is nothing like what's in the US (that is until Trump 2.0)
Han chauvinism is comparable to Manifest Destiny across multiple dimensions. AFAICT, both groups believe(d), despite initial conditions, their authority is pre-ordained and they are/were taking the nation to it's rightful place in the world/history. Other folk they encounter(ed) are bit-players and don't have the same rights, privileges, qualities or shared destiny.
Per that very article, Sherman will be for support chips for power and peripherals, on legacy 45nm+ nodes.
Apple's investing heavily in the TSMC fab in Arizona, due to open in 2027, to have 3nm capabilities for its flagship chips, but it's unlikely that would ever cover a majority of that chipmaking.
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