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James Linzel

Tesla seals landmark deal to mass-produce EV batteries in the US - 0 views

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  • James Linzel on 04 Aug 14
     
    Elon Musk keeps looking more and more like Tony Stark
Jason Dillon

The United States of China - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Jason Dillon on 11 Mar 14
     
    "Federalism is the best way to accommodate regional demands for autonomy short of breaking up the country. It is the smartest long-term strategy for dealing with separatist movements in Tibet and Xinjiang. In theory, these and several other minority-dominated areas are "autonomous regions." In practice, Beijing calls all the shots and these regions enjoy nothing like the autonomy found in most federal systems. This facade is unlikely to preserve social stability in the long run. "
Jason Dillon

Into Africa: China's Wild Rush - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • given skepticism about China from Africa’s own increasingly vibrant civil society, which is demanding to know what China’s billions of dollars in infrastructure building, mineral extraction and land acquisition mean for the daily lives and political rights of ordinary Africans.
  • at the start of a four-country African trip, Prime Minister Li Keqiang acknowledged “growing pains” in the relationship, and the need to “assure our African friends in all seriousness that China will never pursue a colonialist path like some countries did, or allow colonialism, which belongs to the past, to reappear in Africa.”
  • China takes our primary goods and sells us manufactured ones. This was also the essence of colonialism.”
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  • In Ghana, an estimated 50,000 new migrants, most of whom are said to have hailed from a single county in southern China, showed up recently to conduct environmentally devastating gold mining. This set off a popular outcry that forced the Ghanaian government to respond, resulting in arrests of miners, many of whom are being expelled to China.
  • Kenya’s Constitution insists on “intergenerational equity,” but also requires that “public money be used in a prudent and responsible manner.” Mr. Ndii asked whether the deal with the Chinese was consistent with either provision.
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      Jason Dillon on 17 May 14
       
      Consider all the ways we can interpret this phrase "intergenerational equity": in China, in Africa, in the US (given the projections about the job market and standard of living for young adults compared to the baby boomers).
  • From Zaire to Equatorial Guinea to Rwanda, the West clearly has its own deep and insufficiently acknowledged history of doing much the same.
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