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US tech giants funding China's race to supremacy in AI — the 'battlefield of the future'
"[T]ransactions involving U.S. investors totaled $40.2 billion invested into 251 Chinese AI companies," accounting for "37 percent of the $110 billion raised by all Chinese AI companies," according to new report from Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
A recently leaked memo from Gen. Mike Minihan, the head of the U.S. Air Mobility Command (AMC), suggested that, within the next two years, the U.S. would be at war with China over Taiwan.
"I hope I am wrong," wrote the four-star general, before adding that his gut feeling is that "we will fight in 2025." The leaked memo comes at a time when, according to a recent article in The Economist, tensions between the U.S. and China are at an all-time high — a conclusion amply reinforced by recent headlines about the test of wills between the two nations over a Chinese spy balloon the Pentagon believes was overflying sensitive U.S. military sites.
The wars of tomorrow will be won by the nations with the best technology, including, especially, the best artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. China is fast-becoming the global leader in AI, thus creating arguably the greatest cybersecurity threat facing the United States today, as a 2021 article in the Harvard Business Review noted.
The U.S. "must maintain vigilance and win the battle being fought in global cyberspace — it is the battlefield of the future," former FBI crisis manager and security risk expert Jim DiOrio told Just the News. In many ways, he added, "quantum computing and AI should be viewed as the new space race."
Despite what's at stake — for U.S. security and global freedom — in the competition with China for AI supremacy, major U.S. investors have played a significant role in funding this threat.
A new report released by researchers at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology shows many U.S. companies are investing inordinate sums of money in Chinese companies. Between 2015 and 2021, 167 U.S. investors participated in over 400 investment transactions involving Chinese AI companies, representing 17% of the global total of 2,299.
Investors have included Intel and Qualcomm, multinational semiconductor giants headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and San Diego, respectively. Qualcomm, with 13 investments, and Intel, with 11, were both outdone by GGV Capital. The global venture capital firm, also based in California, made a total of 43 investments in China's AI sector.
"Collectively, observed transactions involving U.S. investors totaled $40.2 billion invested into 251 Chinese AI companies," accounting for "37 percent of the $110 billion raised by all Chinese AI companies," according to...
Billionaire-Backed Green Group Working To Ban Gas Stoves Counts Chinese Official as Top Adviser
Senior legislator Wang Yi has urged China to maintain 'active, one-step-ahead position' over US on climate change
A deep-pocketed green energy group working to ban gas stoves in the United States counts as a top adviser a Chinese government official who has urged his nation to compete with America on climate change.
Climate Imperative, a green nonprofit with a nearly $1 billion budget thanks to funding from billionaires Laurene Powell Jobs and John Doerr, lists Chinese Academy of Sciences professor Wang Yi as a member of its advisory council. The group does not disclose, however, that Wang also serves in China's legislature, the National People's Congress. Wang even sits on the Congress's Standing Committee, according to a Chinese environmental research group to which he belongs. That committee consists of government insiders who wield state power to accomplish Communist Party goals when the full Congress is not in session.
With Wang as an adviser, Climate Imperative has awarded grants to the Building Decarbonization Coalition, another green nonprofit that works to "transition to clean buildings that don't run on gas." Climate Imperative executive director Bruce Nilles, meanwhile, in December outlined his goal to get "methane gas out of homes and buildings." "It turns out that fossil fuels and humans don't actually coexist very well," Nilles said.
It's unclear how much Wang has influenced Climate Imperative in the group's bid to do away with natural gas. Climate Imperative, which did not return a request for comment, says its advisers provide "independent, expert advice" to the group and do not "endorse or approve specific grants." Still, Climate Imperative is far from the only influential green group to partner with the Chinese. The Rocky Mountain Institute, a Colorado-based nonprofit that published a controversial December study attributing 13 percent of U.S. childhood asthma cases to gas-stove use, for years worked with China's National Development and Reform Commission to implement an "economy-wide transformation" away from oil and gas, the Washington Free Beacon reported in January.
In addition to his role as a Climate Imperative adviser, Wang advises the Chinese government on climate change through the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), a CCP-approved group that provides "policy recommendations to the Chinese government on environment and development." As a CCICED council member, Wang in a September 2020 policy report called climate change the "highlight of Sino-U.S. relations" and argued that if U.S. "efforts to combat climate change prevail," China will lose its "active, one-step-ahead position in global climate governance." As a result, Wang and his coauthors wrote, China should pursue "strategic competition" with the United States on climate change and "engage in dialogue and exchange with relevant U.S. entities."
Wang appears to be affiliated with the China Association for Promoting Democracy, a minor political party under the direction of the Communist Party that represents academics and holds seven seats on the National People's Congress Standing Committee. One expert of China's political system stressed that despite its name, the China Association for Promoting Democracy is not free from the CCP's grips.
"They are subservient to the CCP," the expert, who spoke on background to discuss the issue candidly, told the Free Beacon. "The idea is that they create these spin-off groups that are designed to appear to be independent in some kind of way from the CCP, when they're actually controlled and directed by...
“Unaccompanied Child” Allowed in by Biden Strangled American Girl
The MS-13 gang member strangled 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton to death months after being released into the United States.
This is just one of the many horrifying consequences of Biden’s open borders policy.
Police in Maryland said they’ve arrested a 17-year-old “undocumented non-citizen”, and suspected MS-13 gang member, for the murder of an autistic 20-year-old woman.The story actually gets worse.
According to Aberdeen police, the boy was arrested for allegedly strangling Kayla Hamilton to death back on July 27, 2022.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed he was also listed in that country as a member of Malva Salvatrucha, known as MS-13.
The Center for Immigration Studies can report that an illegal alien, MS-13 gang member-turned murder suspect recently arrested in Maryland was allowed into the country by the Biden administration as an Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC) early last year. The 17-year-old UAC allegedly strangled 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton to death in July 2022, only months after being released into the United States.
“Child”.
The murdered girl’s mother is angry.
“He was arrested at the border. They let his aunt come and pick him up and take him back to Fredericksburg Maryland. He shouldn’t be here,” said Tammy Nobles.
Biden and his pro-illegal faction have a lot of American blood on...
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #1286
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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1986
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
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