At Least Five Interesting Things for Your Weekend

Metadata

  • Author: Noah Smith
  • Full Title: At Least Five Interesting Things for Your Weekend
  • Category:articles
  • Summary: The article discusses the challenges in China’s tech sector, highlighting a shift in focus towards advanced manufacturing under Xi Jinping’s leadership. It also critiques Joe Studwell’s claims about the benefits of land reform in Taiwan, suggesting that while land reform may not improve agricultural yields, it still supports industrialization. Overall, the piece emphasizes the complexity of economic growth strategies in different countries.
  • URL: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/at-least-five-interesting-things-577

Highlights

  • If the government of China controls our information diet, we decided, that is freedom, while if the government of America dares to push back, that is oppression. I think we’re now just starting to realize how badly this idea has cost us. (View Highlight)
  • foreign governments’ attempts to manipulate Americans’ opinions are far more extensive than most people realize, and that our government’s process for finding and countering them is very slow and cumbersome. (View Highlight)