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A deep dive into the careers of 1647 Chinese 🇨🇳 and 75 Japanese 🇯🇵 academicians (1994–2019) reveals two distinct models of scientific excellence: one rooted in continuity & tradition, the other in rapid development & institutional diversity:

:doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2025.101

In #Japan, becoming an academician doesn't require studying abroad - yet it often leads to #Nobel Prizes. In #China, the path is faster, younger, n fuelled by state-driven talent policies.

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@kinetix

#Politics #History

👉Compulsory #psychologic testing for public officials👈

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You are onto something here, Kinetix. This methodology had been used pretty successfully in ancient #China for hundreds of years:

The fact that the Eastern #Zhou dynasty.in the 6th/5th century BC was enabled by #Confucius to distinguish "good" from "bad" people and even..

@Crispius

"The fact that the Eastern #Zhou dynasty of the 6th/5th century BC was enabled by #Confucius to distinguish "good"

Taiwan's 'red beaches' are the landing sites that #China would likely use if it were to invade #Taiwan.

Li Ming Zhong, a geography teacher in Taipei, is studying these sandy areas of Taiwan's terrain to prepare for a possible conflict.

"In early March, four Chinese engineers flew to Malaysia from Beijing, each carrying a suitcase packed with 15 hard drives. The drives contained 80 terabytes of spreadsheets, images and video clips for training an artificial-intelligence model.

At a Malaysian data center, the engineers’ employer had rented about 300 servers containing advanced Nvidia chips. The engineers fed the data into the servers, planning to build the AI model and bring it back home.

Since 2022, the U.S. has tightened the noose around the sale of high-end AI chips and other technology to China over national-security concerns. Yet Chinese companies have made advances using workarounds.

In some cases, Chinese AI developers have been able to substitute domestic chips for the American ones. Another workaround is to smuggle AI hardware into China through third countries. But people in the industry say that has become more difficult in recent months, in part because of U.S. pressure.

That is pushing Chinese companies to try a further option: bringing their data outside China so they can use American AI chips in places such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East."

wsj.com/tech/china-ai-chip-cur

#AI#China#Nvidia