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Ben Fox's avatar

One interesting stat is the decline in flights to China from Europe and the USA. It has really dropped off a cliff, and it makes getting there and back very expensive: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/25/china-sees-global-airlines-cut-flights-or-quit-totally-amid-weak-demand.html

A huge number of ex-pats in China have left. I've got family there and a huge portion of his expat friend group left as Xi has cracked down (plus their handling of Covid was bad).

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jsb's avatar
Dec 28Edited

+1 to #2 on research. There’s a ton of papers coming out of China but I brace myself whenever I open a review request. I know profs who won’t even accept an all Chinese author submission because the quality is so low so often. Bad incentives must be the explination - the papers are often split in 3 short papers that are unparsable individually, contain non-sequitur references to machine learning, cite everything ever published by the group, and too often are written in a way that makes you think they invented standard techniques. I’m sick and tired of reading a submission just to report “the results are indistinguishable from white noise”.

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