CEOs including Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook attend a state banquet for President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing https://t.co/u5Qo9svCuD

What Ray Dalio advocates in this video is basically what China's top political leaders have done ever since the end of the 1970s. That approach is to view other nation-states as natural experiments in different systems of political economy, in order to use them as the basis for more effective policy design. These natural experiments enable canny observers to understand just how such systems of political economy work in practice, as well as whether or not they're actually viable. It's an approach

🇨🇳🇺🇸 "Constructive, strategic, stable." Xi's vision for U.S.-China relations sounds better than it is.- Beijing's position: the U.S. is not a partner, not an ally, but definitely not an enemy either- The goal is to avoid conflict or full economic decoupling while maintaining a stable base for ties- One expert calls it "cheap rhetoric" until both sides agree on mutual concessions and concrete mechanisms to manage the relationship- The phrase signals China wants guardrails on the rivalry, not

China has revealed a spherical police robot designed to autonomously pursue and immobilize criminals by shooting nets and rolling at speeds of up to 35 km/h.

We let China into the WTO and gave them permanent normal trade relations.They came in as an emerging market — meaning they could protect their own economy with tariffs while selling into ours essentially unfettered.The theory in 1999 was that China would get wealthy, rise peacefully, and gradually become more like the West.We were too arrogant to question it. The Chinese understood us far better than we understood them.So they took our technology, copied our intellectual property, and pegged the