If you want to understand why Xi Jinping has nothing else to do than sit back, relax and watch with joy while Trump and Musk are shattering one of the foundations of US-American prosperity and innovation read this thread 🧵 🧪
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Karen Hao
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
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