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Since China offered a truce in the trade war last October following its threat to deprive the United States of rare-earth magnets,
the Trump administration has been happy to stop escalating.
After all, imports from China have been falling, down by 40% in the year to June, compared with the same period in 2024.
Best to declare victory and call it a day.
But the US hasn’t won this battle
– and there’s strong evidence to show it’s afraid to really try.
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Is the US actually too chicken to take on China for trade?
A weak yuan guarantees Beijing massive trade surplus even as the White House tries tamp down on Chinese imports

For the 22nd birthday of our free #MMOG #Pardus, we implemented a new NPC, the Cyborg Corebreaker, and new advanced skills. ...we are back after some years of development pause. 😅

The correct left critique of YIMBYism is not "building massive amounts of housing won't lower rents," but rather "for-profit investors won't build massive amounts of housing because they'll stop investing once rents stop rising." https://missionlocal.org/2026/08/s…

Who killed housing affordability in San Francisco? 
Despite what the most vitriolic keyboard warriors on the internet would have you believe, this is a complicated question

Rams coach Sean McVay sees late travel to Australia for opener as best course of action https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-sean-mcvay-late-travel-australia-season-opener-49ers

AI tools are twisting online messages on sensitive political topics about everything from abortion to climate change in ways that could snowball to reshape long-term public opinion, experts have said.
As tech companies push AI tools as convenient ways to redraft and summarise the massive influx of daily messages,
many inject their own political biases
– some leaning distinctly rightwing, others more liberal,
according to a study from Oxford and Potsdam universities.…

AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion

Saw #WizardOfTheKremlin , probably the last screening at my local. Now I'd like to read the book.
For a film about Putin (told from his advisor's point of view), you learn almost nothing about his motivations / mentality. But I did learn that events I had separated in my mind occurred at nearly the same time (Putin turning to politics/Russian apartment bombings 1 month later) (Sochi Olympics/'little green men' invasion of Ukraine).
There are a number of interesting one liners/points of view from all of the protagonists and some nostalgic (for me) nightclub scenes.
The costume, hair and makeup departments were excellent, btw, with exactly the right bad haircuts. Alexander Zaldostanov and Igor Sechin looked especially convincing, Putin was also surprisingly true-to-life.
P.S. feel free to recommend me *good* films/books on related topics