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Premium Edition Teaser: Xi Blinded Me with Science, Every Ottoman for Himself, Poison Ivy

2025/5/29
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我观察到特朗普政府正面临对其科研经费政策的严厉批评。美国对基础科学研究的联邦资助已降至十年来的最低点,并且2026年的预算计划将进一步大幅削减科研经费,多个机构如美国国立卫生研究院、环境保护署和国家科学基金会等,都将面临预算削减。这引发了人们对美国长期经济前景的担忧,尤其是在中国大力投资科技并取得显著进展的背景下。冷战时期,美国在科技领域的领先地位为其经济带来了巨大优势,但现在,美国似乎正在重蹈“斯普特尼克时刻”的覆辙,未能充分认识到科技投入的重要性。尽管有人认为美国的科研经费可能存在腐败和浪费现象,但削减科研经费可能会对美国的未来产生不利影响。 我认为,尽管维持美国的科研战略很重要,但我们必须承认,华盛顿长期以来依赖的“投入资金就能获得知识”的模式已经失效。中国在科技领域的崛起,正是在美国政府投入大量资金的情况下发生的,这表明美国的资金使用效率不高。美国的科研经费被用于拉拢关系,并没有产生真正有益的成果。因此,我们需要重新评估和改革美国的科研资助体系,以确保资金能够有效地支持创新和发展。

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China is planning a new version of its Made In China 2025 industrial strategy. Just as America is punching holes in its own science funding budget, we'll be reporting from the output gap. 

Meanwhile, the new US ambassador to Ankara has declared that he's against carving up Syria in a modern Sykes-Picot, the treaty that drew up the Middle East modern borders. Is this an important anti-colonial action or just a license for Erdogan to gobble up his own Ottoman empire?

Finally, Harvard continues to come under shelling by the US government. Not content with disbarring international students, Trump said on Monday that he is considering taking $3 billion of previously awarded grant money and giving it to trade schools. Is this a case of frightening them to with an inch of their lives or is Trump genuinely guillotining the credentialed aristocracy that runs the United States? 

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