Phi Beta Iota: Protests across 300 cities. Amazon is not ready for prime time in poor countries.
Mongoose: India Declares Amazon & Jeff Bezos to be Economic Terrorists
03 India, Commercial IntelligenceStephen E. Arnold: China #1 in Artificial Intelligence? Is #Borg Taking Over China? Will China Embrace OSEE?
#OSE Open Source Everything, 02 China, 03 India, Commercial Intelligence, IO Impotency
What Country Is Number One in AI?
DarkCyber believes that one need only look at the demographics of computer scientist, engineering, and mathematics students in MA and PhD programs to get a sense of where technology innovation is heading.
The graphic below (Forbes), provides a clue:
American Herald Tribune: From Arctic to Arabian Sea and West by Southwest A Concept for Uniting China, India, Iran, & Russia with Open Source Innovation
01 Brazil, 02 China, 03 India, 04 Indonesia, 05 Iran, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards, IO Deeds of Peace, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
From Arctic to Arabian Sea and West by Southwest
A Concept for Uniting China, India, Iran, & Russia with Open Source Innovation
Robert David Steele
Paper Tiger: China is Bluffing on Tariffs, Time to Invite Others to Bid UPDATE 1 Graphics Added
02 China, 03 Economy, 03 India, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Commercial Intelligence, Ethics, Government
Alert Reader based in China and heavily invested in Chinese manufacturing brokerage reports that Trump tariffs are exactly what has been needed to bring the Chinese to the table so as to correct the imbalance that may have been fair 30 years ago but is grossly unfair to US companies and workers now.
He reports that over 100 factories have closed overnight as US companies have started cancelling orders that would not arrive in time to miss the new 10% tariffs that start 24 September, and that the Chinese government is under massive pressure to work with Trump to avoid triggering the 25% tariff rate that would be implemented on 1 January 2019 if talks do not progress.
Kevjn Lim: China Buys Into Israel
02 China, 03 India, 05 Iran, 08 Wild Cards, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Peace Intelligence
With BRI now at play, three implications and opportunities arise that transcend bilateral economic cooperation: infrastructural and trade interconnectivity, a closely-related “information Silk Road”, and Israel’s potential as mediator between the world’s two leading powers.
The nexus of infrastructure, transport and communications transmission routes paves the way for an unprecedented degree of interconnectivity embracing a community already exceeding 60 nations. China’s infrastructural footprint in Israel began with the Carmel Tunnels near Haifa in 2007, six years before BRI’s formal announcement. Yet, it is the projected “Med-Red” railway linking Eilat with Ashdod, reportedly to be constructed by China, that could transform Israel into a land bridge along the Maritime Silk Road.
Berto Jongman: China’s Road from Seoul to Istanbul
02 China, 03 Economy, 03 India, 05 Iran, 08 Wild Cards, Commerce, Ethics, Government
OBOR on the Ground: Evaluating China’s “One Belt, One Road” Initiative at the Project Level
A massive infrastructure push is underway across Asia. The region’s infrastructure market could grow by 8 percent annually over the next decade, rising to nearly 60 percent of the global total. All told, the region’s infrastructure needs are estimated to exceed $1 trillion annually. China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) initiative is at the center of this push. Estimates vary, but all point toward an ambitious endeavor. Geographically, OBOR could span 65 countries responsible for roughly 70 percent of the world’s population. Economically, it could include Chinese investments approaching $4 trillion.
Ty Simpson: India All In On Smart Cities
03 India, Advanced Cyber/IO
India’s Smart City vision is part of a larger agenda of creating Industrial Corridors between India’s big metropolitan cities in India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision “Digital India,” has set an ambitious plan to build 100 smart cities across the country. Modi in his speech quoted, “Cities in the past were built on riverbanks. They are now built along highways. But in the future, they will be built based on availability of optical fiber networks and next-generation infrastructure.”
