>If there was ever any doubt, this action makes clear that the Chinese government will use supply chains as a weapon to advance their interests over ours.
In particular this sentence demonstrates a näive credulousness.
The "North East" is the proper name of a NUTS 1 [0] region of the UK. It is distinguished from your interpretation of it as the "north east of the UK" by its use of capital letters, as is standard in English [1].
It seems to be used both with and without.
In the main table with the maps it's not directly after, there's a comma. The ", England" is specifying the country, same as where it says "Yorkshire and the Humber, England", "East Midlands, England", etc. There's no comma part for "East of England", because there it is part of the name. In the demographics table it is directly followed by "England".
In the bottom left of the compensation graph, there is a non-zero percentage of people earning less than 0 USD per year. I guess they used a smoothing function fit to the data points. The alternative is that some people are paying their employers some dollars for the privilege of working for them :p
Taiwan can be economically squeezed by western derisking and moving sensitive tech out of Taiwan or it can continue to be militarily squeezed by China if it continues to be the single point of failure in the western technology chain. The former appears to be the better choice than the latter.
London's population is almost double all of Ireland. Dublin is not an alternative at all. The annual production of new STEM graduates in the UK is half the population of Dublin alone.
Considering the advances in computational hardware over the past few decades plus the corresponding (and not unrelated) real increase in developer salaries, it is unreasonably cheap.
That sounds like efficient market allocation of resources. There is no inherent reason you deserve to live in luxury as most do in the West unless you've contributed to society.
> There is no inherent reason you deserve to live in luxury as most do in the West unless you've contributed to society.
I'd certainly love to apply this logic to our wannabe-aristocracy, whose sole contribution to society is gormlessly doling out access to the capital that they fell ass-backwards into without any merit on their part.
In particular this sentence demonstrates a näive credulousness.
Kissinger would be laughing.
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