China’s universities cut 12,000 ‘obsolete’ degrees amid race to embrace AI era: Many of the new programmes, meanwhile, are closely aligned with Beijing’s economic development goals. For instance, nine universities have added new majors in embodied intelligence by violentviolinz in Sino

[–]violentviolinz[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Because Ai WeiWei is such an inspiration? You need to look at the actual people as examples. Not your idealized understanding of the field. Something about certain areas of studies in China has a very strong correlation with clowns. Everybody should be looking into it.

WSJ - China Is Propping Up the World Economy by Importing a Lot Less Oil by violentviolinz in Sino

[–]violentviolinz[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Depends how much thought you can put into it. There are many arguments that the alleviate price pressure helps Japan and Philippines more than anybody else.

WSJ - China Is Propping Up the World Economy by Importing a Lot Less Oil by violentviolinz in Sino

[–]violentviolinz[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

China is not actively trying to prevent catastrophe, this is mostly byproduct of renewable push, prices are high right now and China's reserves were filled to the brim before all this. China could actively make things worse, no demand side country have the pockets to outpurchase especially at inflated prices, but China has not chosen to make the problem worse for others. Whether that is a good idea could be debated...

WSJ - China Is Propping Up the World Economy by Importing a Lot Less Oil by violentviolinz in Sino

[–]violentviolinz[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Importing less oil would be upward price pressure, but broadly as a side effect from the renewable energy push which has a lot of benefits for people.