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Maikeru

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Will the UK even have money to fund or power to run its own university research programs? This is a perfect chance for China to poach UK talent and offer a better opportunity in Chinese universities instead.
The real opportunity is in the suffocating atmosphere of 'wokeness' afflicting the western and especially US academy. I am often surprised that PRC doesn't make more propaganda hay from the fact that it's hugely harder for US asians to get into top universities than it is for black kids with the same grades. This atmosphere is also affecting various areas of research, even physics, where labs are expected to hire 'people of colour' ahead of far better qualified white or asian candidates. As for genetics and especially GWAS research which might throw up racial or sex differences, good luck getting funding or approval for that these days. Remember, we're supposed to pretend biological sex doesn't exist.
 

FriedButter

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  • The consumer price index increased 0.1% in August. Excluding food and energy, the inflation gauge rose 0.6%, both higher than expected.

Get ready to be screwed over. It may not look all that significant at first glance but once you factor in the fact that commodity prices has been dropping for the last few weeks + the 1 million daily barrels from the SPR. This is looking pretty bad if a plunge in commodities prices is not slowing inflation. Expect more rate hikes from the feds.

edit: Forgot to mention about winter. The upcoming Russian energy cap and oil embargo which is looking like a disaster. If plunging commodities prices isn’t slowing inflation then what is a spike in energy prices going to do in a couple months.
 

FairAndUnbiased

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The real opportunity is in the suffocating atmosphere of 'wokeness' afflicting the western and especially US academy. I am often surprised that PRC doesn't make more propaganda hay from the fact that it's hugely harder for US asians to get into top universities than it is for black kids with the same grades. This atmosphere is also affecting various areas of research, even physics, where labs are expected to hire 'people of colour' ahead of far better qualified white or asian candidates. As for genetics and especially GWAS research which might throw up racial or sex differences, good luck getting funding or approval for that these days. Remember, we're supposed to pretend biological sex doesn't exist.
If you want to get away from wokeness I'm afraid China is the wrong place. We hire western professors to call us racists and provide them with research funding to find out exactly how racist.

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"Race” and “racism” in contemporary Africa-China relations research: approaches, controversies and reflections
The work described in this article was supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong. RGC Ref No.: 23601618. Earlier stages of this research were supported by a Faculty Research Grant (code:101869) from Lingnan University.
 

vincent

Grumpy Old Man
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The real opportunity is in the suffocating atmosphere of 'wokeness' afflicting the western and especially US academy. I am often surprised that PRC doesn't make more propaganda hay from the fact that it's hugely harder for US asians to get into top universities than it is for black kids with the same grades.
Because China doesn't want to piss off the Africans?
 

vincent

Grumpy Old Man
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Funnily enough the black kids actually getting the places are very often the children of recent African immigrants to the US rather than american descendants of slavery - i.e. the people affirmative action was supposed to assist.
One reason I heard is African Americans don't have history and culture, unlike the people from Africa. The dominant culture in the US is not their own.
Think of the kids in the novel Lord of the Flies, they have no one to guide them through life. The result is they regressed and became primal.
 
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