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Canada pushed toward China trade by Trump tariffs, ex-ambassador says

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former U.S. Ambassador to Canada David L. Cohen is blaming…
#Canada #china #donaldtrump #foreignpolicy #MarkCarney #politics #protectionism #Trade #XiJinping
https://www.europesays.com/canada/202227/

Mainland #Chinese #enterprises are increasingly adopting comprehensive #global #business #strategies, targeting both advanced #economies and #emerging #markets, according to new research from the #HongKong #Trade Development Council (HKTDC). The #survey highlights #HK’s pivotal role in helping these #China #firms navigate challenges such as shifting trade #policies, #protectionism, and #SupplyChain reconfigurations. https://cnbusinessforum.com/hong-kong-remains-top-services-hub-for-chinese-firms-expanding-overseas/

Mainland #Chinese #enterprises are increasingly adopting comprehensive #global #business #strategies, targeting both advanced #economies and #emerging #markets, according to new research from the #HongKong #Trade Development Council (HKTDC). The #survey highlights #HK’s pivotal role in helping these #China #firms navigate challenges such as shifting trade #policies, #protectionism, and #SupplyChain reconfigurations. https://cnbusinessforum.com/hong-kong-remains-top-services-hub-for-chinese-firms-expanding-overseas/

Mainland #Chinese #enterprises are increasingly adopting comprehensive #global #business #strategies, targeting both advanced #economies and #emerging #markets, according to new research from the #HongKong #Trade Development Council (HKTDC). The #survey highlights #HK’s pivotal role in helping these #China #firms navigate challenges such as shifting trade #policies, #protectionism, and #SupplyChain reconfigurations. https://cnbusinessforum.com/hong-kong-remains-top-services-hub-for-chinese-firms-expanding-overseas/

The Moose has Left the Woods!

OR when your business model is crumbling before your eyes - go BEG the government to "protect" your product!

AI Executives are shitting their pants given the release of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3. I seem to recall a similar situation re DeepSeek-1 in Jan. 2025.

All the freaking out about "winning and losing" and whining about "distillation" re China are the WRONG things to focus on.

It is a fallacy to think US Frontier Labs would be successful in locking down AI models and charging high prices for access in perpetuity. It is inevitable that open weight models would catch up, and put SERIOUS pressure on pricing.

Welcome to software - It just happens that China is leading the charge on this one.

The magic is NOT about the model. The magic is creating the guardrails and infrastructure (ecosystem) around the model, and supporting practical use cases the model excels at, and making them so good to use that no user wants to switch to something "almost as good", even if it’s a touch cheaper.

Net-net, governments cannot stop software at the border. Import/Export controls will NOT be effective at stopping Chinese firms from distilling US models, even if the USA is successful at starving China of inference, which also will NOT happen. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-execs-quaking-boots-chinese-models #AI #LLMs #Kimi-K3 #Kimi #FrontierModels #USA #China #ImportControls #ExportControls #Software #Distillation #Open-Weight-Models #AIPloicy #Protectionism #AIRegulation #DeepSeek #Software #OpenSource #Moonshot

**The Argentine Stockholm Syndrome**

Argentina suffers from a collective Stockholm Syndrome. The government and a few "industrialists" have held the market hostage for decades, forcing us to pay double for outdated tech. Yet, many people defend their captors, terrified that "jobs will be lost" if we stop subsidizing billionaire oligarchs. We are literally paying for the ropes they use to tie our hands.

#StockholmSyndrome #Argentina #EconomicCrisis #Protectionism #MentalChains

How many more Americans would live below the poverty line if the US government were to ban all imports of consumer goods?
#protectionism #importsubstitution #mercantilism #autarky #tradebarriers #tradewars #poverty #povertyline #americans #affordabilitycrisis #inflation #tradepolicy #usa #donaldtrump #tariffs #consumergoods #economics #imports

Bundeskanzler Merz: "Werden keine Komponenten aus #China 🇨🇳 im #6G-Netz zulassen" | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Bundeskanzler-Merz-Werden-keine-Komponenten-aus-China-im-6G-Netz-zulassen-11079939.html #DigitalSovereignty #5G #Huawei #Protektionismus #protectionism #unplugChina

@sim
It all depends on what they are producing. If you like and believe it is important you will strive to do it well, regardless.

Working conditions are important, including #workLifeBalance. Similarly #environmentalProtections are important.

Its why for literally years we were calling out to keep our #productiveIndustries and #valueAdded here in #Australia, even before we became DSFGS, and why a bit of #protectionism is healthy.