"...tariffs only work to reshore production where there is a lot of careful planning, diligent data-collection, and review. Governments have to provide credit to key firms to get them capitalized, provide incentives, and smack nonperformers around. Basically, this is the stuff that Biden did for renewables with the energy sector, and – to a lesser extent – for silicon with the CHIPS Act."

#CoryDoctorow ( @pluralistic), 2025

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/28/strew-deal/

#IndustrialPolicy #ImportSubstitution #tariffs

A huge variety of input from all corners of the Chinese bureaucracy likely went into the Chinese AI plan. And it shows: the document is comprehensive to the point of being overstretched, covering AI’s coming role in everything from industrial R&D to “methods in philosophical research.” #industrialpolicy #AI
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/chinas-new-ai-plan?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=1i4ov9&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email