XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics
Governor Swill wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:49:40 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:
| Sec. Bessent says it's 'up to China to de-escalate' trade
| war, not worried about empty shelves
| China insists no tariff talks underway with Trump and Xi or
| top aides, despite U.S. claims
| ... >><https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/trump-xi-tariffs-china-bessent.html>
Yet China recently rolled back their retaliatory tariff on chips
designed or manufactured in the US.
That's China is not anywhere near autonomy on chip manufacture.
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/business/china-us-tariffs-semiconductors-exemptions-hnk-intl/>
For months, Beijing has been projecting an air of strength and confidence
in its ability to withstand an escalating trade war with the US. But these
exemptions suggest it needs to roll back some levies on crucial items that
it cannot make at home or source elsewhere. Besides semiconductors, China
has decided to grant exemptions on some aircraft parts, including engines
and landing gear, according to an aviation executive.
Semiconductors are an indispensable part of just about every electronic
device. They are difficult to make because of the high cost of development
and the level of knowledge required, meaning much of the production is
concentrated among a handful of suppliers.
Although China has made strides in developing its own semiconductor
industry, it is still highly dependent on imports of chips and chipmaking
equipment from the United States, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and the
Netherlands. Last year, China imported $11.7 billion worth of
semiconductors from the US, according to customs data.
Duncan Clark, chairman of technology investment advisory firm BDA, said the
exemptions suggest China does not have “autonomy in chips.”
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Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt someone. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day.
Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup -- they all die. So do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole world -- had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.
-- Robert Fulghum, "All I ever really needed to know I learned
in kindergarten"
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