Broch (=Trouble) with China

Twenty years ago The Economist had an article pondering if it would be clever to help China to feed itself (that was in doubt in those times) and to allow it to export and develop its economy. China was a very poor country then. The conclusion was that it would be immoral to let a quarter of humanity starve and condemn them to misery. There was also something about opening new markets. I went to China at those times and was received very nicely, and got the impression that China was freer and richer than imagined. I was convinced that it would be sinful (and unthinkable) to re-colonize and enslave these friendly, good-willing, intelligent people, as the cruel British imperialists did with the opium wars. (see caricature).

Now Prof. Mearsheimer writes in Foreign Affairs that this liberal policy was a fatal mistake, realism should have dictated a hard policy, and now America has got itself into difficult rivalry with China, a big broch. He predicts war.

These conflicts would be fought mainly in open waters between rival air and naval forces, and in those instances in which control of an island was at play, small-scale ground forces would likely take part. Even a fight over Taiwan, which might draw in Chinese amphibious forces, would not involve huge nuclear-equipped armies crashing into each other.

 

Jewish blood in Jerusalem

 

Another young Jew sacrificed his life for Israel. 

Early morning in Jerusalem

A HAMAS fanatic shot a pair of Jews on their way to the Wailing Wall. He used a "Carlo" submachine gun (pic), which is the Palestinian copy of the Karl Gustav model. The Arab inhabitants of the passage ran to the roofs and recorded all, including the calls of  "Help". The Muslim criminal was a teacher employed by the Ministry of Education of Israel. 

Riots in Rotterdam

 

Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb described the riots as an "orgy of violence". "The police have felt the need to draw a police weapon in the end to defend themselves." Winter is no time for street riots, yet Europe and the USA are burning. I hate disorder and violence.  

BTW, stopped following Twitter. I was fascinated by the internal life of problematic girls and decided to stop it. The rest of the content, football, and intrigues are of no interest to me. 

Post-Quantum Cryptography

 

Mayorkas is warning of the coming world where quantum computing will read encrypted messages - disrupting commerce and finances. His agency is running a search for encrypting methods that would be resistant to the coming quantum computing. Quantum solving works - will work, maybe - by what I call the "water method", filling up containers and flowing - without explicit calculations. How could this method be cheated?  Unfortunately, I am old and have no time even for thinking about this. Quantum solving could be slowed down by dividing the container into many small spaces and making it difficult and time-consuming the transit between them.  I was born 70 years late. That man looks like Ralph Laniado, zichrono le-bracha.  

Setting the Infrastructure for the State (Palestine)

Al-Istiqlal University inaugurates coexistence with nature training for graduate students

2021-06-28

This is a new University for security training - army, police, international relations, etc.  There is no doubt that the Palestinians are a serious people intent on building a State to replace Israel. 

It is good to have a competitor. It will make us sharper. I think. 
 

The Effective Way of Reasoning

 98 y.o. Kissinger published a new book on international politics (warfare) based on AI and not conventional intelligence.  Based, as they are, on correlations and elaborate statistics, rather than on a sense of causality, ai’s decisions may seem otherworldly; when the stakes are high, they must be diligently validated. It means that asking "Why?" is not a sign of intelligence, but on the contrary, of low intelligence. AI is uninterested in causality, it just calculates correlation. It is an inhuman way of thinking and reasoning. It is superior, as shown in chess and go matches, it always wins. The pic is from 1950.