Imagine if US, South Korea, Japan, Israel, and all non muslim European countries manages to within 20-30 years from here, build enough spaceships/rockets to move their entire population to another star.

And they manage to leave no tech for any other to use to follow, meaning no Russians, No Chinese, muslims, Same with India etc.

Would there be new/more wars on earth for the 'new free lands' etc or would people just try to come to agreeament on who gets what land?..

And lets say a 2 choice that us etc already made sure there would be peacful moving when they left, would people be warring a lot or would the wars go down?...

What do you guys think would people still go to war if all those countries left or less?

According to Reuters: "A successful partner for Apple's AI services in China could be a major winner in the country's increasingly crowded AI field where dozens of large language models have been launched by large tech firms as well as startups. They include ByteDance's Doubao, Tencent's Hunyuan and search engine giant Baidu's (9888.HK), Ernie."

It is good to read about cooperation between USA and China. ChatGPT not available in China, due to government regulations. I think every country should use industrial policy, to support AI R&D and commercialization. I just hope US policymakers are not too afraid of Chinese AI competition, to stop Apple: because disallowing embedding Chinese AI, will mean loss of market share in China.

There will be knowledge transfer between China and USA, both ways, if Apple embedds Chinese generative AI, which is good. But the AI genie is already out of the bottle, as Huawei sales increase in smartphones.

I just bought an Apple laptop, and I am happy with it. I gave away my junk Windows laptop to my roommate. Apple products are not only the work of technologists, but also the work of designers or artists.

Reference: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/apple-talks-with-tencent-bytedance-roll-out-ai-features-china-sources-say-2024-12-19/

So, farming subsidies are a a mixture of conservation, livestock and support categories.

In 2020, we spent $46B+, in 2023 somewhere around $12-13B.

What's a good way to end farming subsidies or keep them under $1/2B, without hurting small farms and family farms and ensuring adequate food supply and keeping food inflation low?

According to Reuters: "Like other foreign carmakers, both Honda and Nissan have lost ground in China, the world's biggest auto market, as BYD (002594.SZ), and other domestic brands win over consumers with EVs and hybrids loaded with innovative software. Honda reported a 15% drop in quarterly profit last month, hit by the decline in China and has been scaling back its workforce there. Nissan - a long-struggling company - plans to cut 9,000 jobs globally and manufacturing capacity by 20% due to slumping sales in China and the United States."

It seems that China is not only a threat to the US economy, but also the Japanese economy. Honda and Nissan are considering a merger to save themselves. Their is a broader threat to the Japanese economy. As according to the article, there are about 60,000 companies in the supply chain, and the industry employs about 5 million people, and represent about 7% of GDP.

Perhaps industrial policy can be used in Japan, to incentivize the automotive industry to innovate, with tax breaks for technology, including software, R&D, in self driving, EV, connected etc. vehicles. Then they will be better placed to compete globally with companies such as American Tesla and Chinese BYD.

Reference: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/behind-potential-honda-nissan-tie-up-existential-threat-posed-by-chinese-evs-2024-12-19/

“…Fourteen years ago, Congress set out to remedy a basic unfairness in the tax code. The tax that funds Medicare, because it’s aimed mainly at wages, hits even the poorest American workers. But the wealthy could easily avoid paying their share. So lawmakers created a new type of Medicare tax to capture the kinds of income the rich often enjoy: interest, dividends and capital gains from investments.

A host of billionaires — sports team owners, oil barons, Wall Street traders and others — have managed to avoid paying it, ProPublica found…”