Sunday, March 23, 2025

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Quick notes: Tariff pressure | Dr Chetan Nayak...

  • US push for grand trade agreement with India The US is pushing India to negotiate a "large" and "grand" bilateral trade agreement while seeking opening the agriculture sector for American businesses, saying "it just can not stay closed".


  • Hurting everyone else but sparing China: Donald Trump makes Chinese stocks (somewhat) great again.


  • ‘Closest target’: Why is Trump targeting allies while sparing China?


  • Dr Chetan Nayak: The man behind Microsoft’s decadeslong quest to build a quantum computer


  • Sweatshop advocates: Mr. Amitabh Kant, Advocating an 80-90 Hour Week is Abetting Multiple Offences


  • WIN-WIN!: Solar panels above waterways and farms... Gujarat innovation spreads world over!



  • Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom and now Intel: Major US tech firms now have Chinese-descent individuals as their CEOs, shows how valuable China’s talent is for the tech industry.

  • Astonishing, if true: China’s in-House EUV machines reportedly entering trial production in Q3 2025, utilizing an approach that offers a simpler, efficient design; SMIC & Huawei to benefit greatly

  • Han juggernaut: Why a Chinese Gadget Company Can Make an Electric Car and Apple Can’t

  • China Piles the Pressure on India in Its Own Backyard: China has also poured billions into 46 commercial ports across the region, 36 of which are capable of hosting naval assets


  • 'India Has Missed Every Bus': "India has missed every bus; not just one. We don't know which bus is coming next. I know for sure it will miss that too. To imagine that by 2047, we will be better than the US or China is just living in a dream world".


  • Shiv Kailash: Rishab Rikhiram Sharma



Monday, March 17, 2025

britain is the root of all evil

Britain is still a formidable player in the world of international relations. Alas, it adds to entropy and chaos and the loss of human lives and rights. Perfidious Albion it still is.

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-158-britain-plays-an-outsize-malign

Ranjini Srinivasan, Columbia student, leaves

 https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-160-ranjani-srinivasan-and-other?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

the woman who led an 'azaadi' chant.

37 year old PhD candidate. 

left for Canada, for which she -- fortuitously -- had a visa.

Sunday, March 09, 2025

the end of the European century

 my latest article. 

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-157-the-end-of-the-european-century



Tulsi Gabbard's Warning to Senate on Syria Proves Prophetic as Al Qaeda-Linked Regime Slaughters Minorities

We can see why certain voices were so deadset against Tulsi Gabbard -- because they wanted this to  happen


https://www.foxnews.com/world/tulsi-gabbards-warning-senate-syria-proves-prophetic-al-qaeda-linked-regime-slaughters-minorities


Tulsi Gabbard's Warning to Senate on Syria Proves Prophetic as Al Qaeda-Linked Regime Slaughters Minorities

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's warning of a terrorist takeover in Syria looks to be coming true amid reports that al Qaeda-linked terror forces aligned with Syria’s interim new president—a former al Qaeda terrorist—are being accused of massacring Alawites as well as members of the country's dwindling Christian community.