Eric Shepherd

Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n... What a cluster*uck of incompetence

For the record, our division commander BANNED things called “presence patrols” in Iraq.

“If you don’t have a specific task & purpose, your ‘presence’ doesn’t do anything.”

National Guard stating they are now doing presence patrols in DC.

A complete waste of soldier’s time & effort.

Ignorance drives the hate spewed by MAGA bigots like Stephen Miller. Education is key to defeating them.

These years of Trump's presidency will be seen as the moment China rocketed ahead of the U.S. in influence worldwide, in technological leadership, in credibility. Not just because they are making great progress in many areas--though they are--but because of how Trump has damaged the US.

Latest inflation data just arrived came in right at the consensus forecast. Headline inflation of 0.2% in the month, running at 2.7% over the year. Core rose 0.3% in July, and 3.1% over the year.

For two years inflation was declining toward the Fed's target. That seems to be over.

Why Peak China may finally have arrived | George Magnus The technological and strategic brilliance of its world-class companies are being swamped by macroeconomic troubles

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Opinion | Trump keeps acting in China’s best interests — at the expense of America’s The Chinese Communist Party and its nationalist supporters think Trump is doing a great job.

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China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs With Chinese youth unemployment high, individuals are paying to go into offices and pretend to work.

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Trump extends China tariff deadline by 90 days President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will prevent U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods from spiking for another 90 days.

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/t... TACO Trump

Trump says he's open to letting Nvidia sell a downgraded version of its most advanced chip to China U.S. President Donald Trump singaled that he'd be open to allowing Nvidia to sell a downgraded version of its Blackwell system to China.

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/t... TACO Trump going easy on China for bribes

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales revenues to the U.S. government, FT reports The arrangement comes as President Donald Trump's tariffs continue to reverberate through the global economy.

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/10/n... The rationale used for banning chip sales to China was that it was a national security risk but it now isn't a security risk to sell chips to China if you pay a 15% bribe?

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

We cannot let these fringe lunatics destroy hope of cures for thousands of diseases for millions of people. Everyone should be putting constant, extreme pressure on their representatives to end these dangerous, nonessential moves.

Is it a negotiation to end a war if it does not involve all of the participants in the war? Or, is it just a meeting of two criminals plotting to gang up on the party they excluded?

South Korea launches national AI model in tech race with U.S. and China South Korea is looking to create a near self-sufficient AI industry and position its technology as an alternative to China and the U.S.

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Opinion | Trump Is Letting TikTok (and China) Win

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Intel shares drop after Trump calls for CEO to resign immediately Intel shares were under pressure Thursday after President Donald Trump called for the chipmaker's CEO to resign immediately.

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Maersk CEO flags strong demand ‘pretty much everywhere’ except for the U.S. as outlook raised Danish shipping giant Maersk on Thursday posted stronger-than-expected second-quarter operating profit and raised its full-year guidance.

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/m... Wonder why there is strong demand everywhere except for the US?

U.S. lawmaker questions Intel CEO's ties to China in letter to company board chair: Reuters Republican Sen. Tom Cotton's letter includes questions about CEO Lip-Bu Tan's ties to Chinese firms and a recent criminal case involving his former company.

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U.S. charges two Chinese nationals for illegally shipping Nvidia AI chips to China Two Chinese nationals in California have been charged with the illegal shipment of tens of millions of dollars' worth of AI chips, including those from Nvidia.

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CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Beijing wants more babies — are businesses ready for Gen Z parents? China's young parents are digital-natives, globally minded and experience-driven. That mindset is shaping how — and where — they spend.

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These charts show how China is pulling ahead of the U.S. in the race to power the AI future The Trump administration's phase-out of green energy subsidies will hurt the U.S. electricity industry at a crucial time.

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Shanghai targets 5 new data centres as China boosts AI capacity China’s computing power reached 246 exaflops as of June 2024, placing it second only to the US, according to government data.

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Protests in China over viral school bullying case One protester in Sichuan province said “things got bloody” after police used batons and electric prods.

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China warns EV makers to stop price-cutting to protect the economy Overcapacity and oversupply are causing ‘involution’ and putting growth at risk, manufacturers told

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‘Everything is about to get really expensive’: Small-business owners say Trump tariffs could force them to raise prices Small-business owners say they are raising the price of their consumer goods by the end of the year to offset the cost of Trump tariffs.

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Who lost (the information war with) China? While the hot American debate over censorship and propaganda has centered almost entirely on Russia, the long-term competition for global goodwill is in fact with China.

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China's solar giants quietly shed a third of their workforces last year China's biggest solar firms shed nearly one-third of their workforces last year, company filings show, as one of the industries hand-picked by Beijing to drive economic growth grapples with falling prices and steep losses.

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No Passports, No Study Abroad: China Limits Public Employees’ Travel

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China rejects US demands to stop buying Russian, Iranian oil China has taken a firm stance against U.S. demands that it stop buying oil from Russia and Iran or face a possible 100% tariff

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