Bryan

“In the twenty-first century, one state is in the process of dominating the export and consumption of rare metals. That state is China.”
― Guillaume Pitron, The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

“When Hitler became chancellor in 1933, he claimed that Germany was the successor to the Holy Roman Empire that had dominated Central Europe for a thousand years. These leaders believed that their new system would reclaim the past with the ideology of the future, welding pure men into a military and social machine that moved all as one, while pure women supported society as mothers. They set out to eliminate those who didn’t fit their model and to destroy the messy, inefficient democracy that stood in their way.”
― Heather Cox Richardson, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

“Will artificial intelligence develop in ways that benefit and protect humanity, or will machines develop intentions of their own and become a threat to humans?”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

“There are three prominent features of the Chinese state. The first is its power: it has the resources and administrative skill to mobilize rapid collective action in service of the nation’s goals. The second is its structure of political centralization paired with economic decentralization, which makes room for creative local business activity under central guidance. The third feature is its adaptability. It can adapt to the changing circumstances rapidly and flexibly, dialing back policy measures if they have gone too far and shifting between priorities when the situation warrants it.”
― Keyu Jin, The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism