https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1EA411j7L6

There is danger in any sweeping assertion about the ideals of a country that narrowly chose to follow its first black president with the man who pushed a racist conspiracy about that president’s birthplace.


“这是一种战争行为”:解码美国对华芯片封锁行动 - 纽约时报中文网

‘An Act of War’: Inside America’s Silicon Blockade Against China

The Biden administration thinks it1 can preserve America’s technological primacy by cutting China off from advanced computer chips. Could the plan backfire?

The army was cut off from its base.
Lies always backfire.

Last October, the United States Bureau of Industry and Security issued a document that — underneath its 139 pages of dense bureaucratic jargon and minute technical detail — amounted to a declaration of economic war on China.2 The magnitude of the act was made all the more remarkable by the relative obscurity of its source.

One of 13 bureaus within3 the Department of Commerce4, the smallest federal department by funding, B.I.S. is tiny: Its budget for 2022 was just over $140 million, about one-eighth the cost of a single Patriot air-defense missile battery. The bureau employs approximately 350 agents and officers, who collectively monitor trillions of dollars’ worth of transactions taking place all around the world.

How Hayao Miyazaki’s Films Continue to Take Us to the Skies

“The Boy and the Heron” arrives with Miyazaki at 82 years old5 and is his film that deals most explicitly, and consistently, with the theme of mortality. But the barrier between life and death is no less permeable than those between childhood and adulthood, or dreams and reality, or a world of perdition and a hidden paradise.

“创作《苍鹭与少年》的宫崎骏已经是82岁高龄,这是他对人之必死的主题进行的一次最直白、最连贯的探究。然而生与死之间的隔阂一样可以穿透,并不比童年与成年、梦境与现实、人间地狱与隐形天堂的两隔更严密。”

Footnotes

  1. it 指代前面的内容 ↩

  2. 定语从句 ↩

  3. inside a society, organization, or group of people ↩

  4. 商务部 ↩

  5. 伴随状语 ↩