The first two decades of the century witnessed a steady increase in technology integration (or less decoupling), but China’s dependence on the U.S. increased (decreased) during the first (second) decade. Decoupling in a technology field predicts China’s growing dependence on U.S. technology, which, in turn, predicts less decoupling further down the road. Decoupling is associated with more patent outputs in China, but lower firm productivity and valuation. China’s innovation-oriented industrial policies trade off the inherent conflict between indigenous innovation and firm competitiveness.

https://voxchina.org/show-3-261.html

1. Patents that are important for innovation in that they shift the knowledge frontier have become much less important on average, reflecting an overall decline in innovativeness and increase in crowdedness of patenting in China.
2. There is positive growth in the number of breakthrough patents in China (those with the greatest importance), but this growth has declined steadily over time.
3. Knowledge within China has become more important than knowledge outside China for driving the direction of innovation in China.
4. Knowledge produced by Chinese entities within China has become more important than knowledge produced by foreign entities within China.

https://voxchina.org/show-3-405.html

All major asset classes in China have significant higher volatilities than their counterparts in the US market, but they do not always yield larger returns. Small-company stocks, short-, medium-, and long-term treasury bonds outperform their US counterparts, while large stocks underperform and long-term enterprise bonds yield similar returns.

https://voxchina.org/show-3-282.html

Liberal commentators, like Krugman and others, tell us that MAGA wants to destroy science, that scientific facts disrupt their political prejudices, that what we are witnessing is nothing more than a celebration of ignorance. They call it a war on science. It may indeed be a war, but it is not science that is the target. The dramatic reorganization of the conventions of scientific research that we are currently witnessing instead fulfills a very different aim, namely, to continue to disenfranchise socially and economically marginalized populations and communities. So let us call this what it has always been: class war. To that end, science as such is not the object of antagonism; the people are. Science has simply become a preeminent tool for political and economic oppression. For this is all that science is: a craft to be deployed for whatever ends we assign it.

https://thebaffler.com/latest/scientific-methods-bassiri?utm_source%3Drss-feed%26utm_medium%3Drss%26utm_campaign%3Dfeed

"As the global gap between rich and poor countries continues to widen, one out of every three countries in the world is spending more repaying creditors than on health or education"

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/financing-for-development-seville-conference-how-to-fix-global-debt-architecture-by-carlos-cuerpo-and-joseph-e-stiglitz-2025-07

In chasing distant utopias, we often overlook the paradise within reach. We dream of changing the world, but forget that a community rebuilt on love, mutual care, and shared responsibility is itself a transformed world. If we create spaces where people feel seen, safe, and supported, we have already succeeded. These are not distant goals. They are near at hand—doable, tangible, and transformative. It is only when we stop searching for miracles elsewhere that we can begin to build them where we are.

https://rwer.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/how-capitalism-shapes-our-world-and-how-we-can-reshape-it/

Il governo Meloni ha trasferito 43 milioni di euro dal fondo destinato alle vittime di mafia, estorsione e usura all’organizzazione delle Olimpiadi invernali di Milano-Cortina 2026. La norma è contenuta nel decreto Sport appena pubblicato. I fondi serviranno a finanziare sicurezza, ordine pubblico e logistica dell’evento.

https://www.editorialedomani.it/politica/italia/antimafia-fasulla-milioni-fondo-vittime-clan-mafia-giochi-milano-cortina-cka7y80u