Just Wednesday

 Work, home, a nap, email, and now this.

I read What do US curbs on selling microchips to China mean for the global economy? from The Guardian:

The US has taken unprecedented steps to limit the sale of advanced computer chips to China, escalating efforts to contain Beijing’s tech and military ambitions.

The moves are designed to cut off supplies of critical technology to China that may be used across sectors including advanced computing and weapons manufacture.

The crackdown marks the most significant action by Washington against Beijing on technology exports in decades, escalating a trade battle between the world’s two most powerful economies.

After the export controls, Apple reportedly put on hold plans to use memory chips from China’s Yangtze Memory Technologies in its products. The Nikkei newspaper said Apple had planned to use the chips in iPhones sold in China.

Er, why do the Democrats and President Biden make more noise about this?  Say on the same level as President Trump bellowed about his tariffs? Those toothless actions announced with the usual Trumpian bluster seem very pale in comparison:

The chip ban was described by the seasoned China analyst Bill Bishop as a “massive escalation” in the rumbling trade and geopolitical tensions between the US and China. “We are all still trying to understand the impacts of the new controls,” he said in his Sinocism newsletter, “and frankly I think many underestimate just how significant they are, both for technology supply chains and future developments but more broadly for the US-China relationship”.

The international research firm GlobalData said the US announcement “transcends the semiconductor industry” and was about nothing less than the leadership of the world economy. “This is about [artificial intelligence] dominance,” said Josep Bori, the firm’s thematic research director, “which underpins what many call the fifth industrial revolution, and, ultimately, about global economic leadership in the next few decades.”

I got two posts done out of my pretrial detention journal. 

Do I now call it a night? I need to get an email out to my typist and I wanted to shop "Problem Solving.: Where does the time go? I did spend a bit of time skimming the latest Scottish Review - Anthony Seaton's Join the anti-growth brigade! says a few things applicable to America; the same applies to Robin Downie's Living in our nanny state. You may not like what they say, I did not, but they have an overall good sense. 

Yes, I think it is time to call it a day.

Meanwhile, do the rock:

sch 10/19/22