South China Morning Post (February 11)
“China has long held ambitions of turning global aviation into an ‘ABC’ market: breaking the duopoly of Airbus and Boeing with the entry of world-class Chinese jets. That strategy is already well under way, with the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) having already received orders for hundreds of its regional and narrowbody planes.” Its ambitions to develop a world-class jumbo jet, however, “may hinge on cooperation from Western regulators and suppliers.”
Tags: ‘ABC’ market, Airbus, Ambitions, Aviation, Boeing, China, Comac, Global, Jets, Jumbo jet, Narrowbody, Planes, Regional, Regulators, Suppliers
Institutional Investor (February 10)
“The reality is that DeepSeek’s January 2025 release should not have caught anybody off guard. DeepSeek has been transparent about its research and ambitions in AI development, publishing its research in a series of more than 10 papers on arVix and GitHub prior to the January paper,” not to mention disclosure elsewhere. “Despite DeepSeek being an open secret to many, the release of its R1 models, did blindside U.S. tech Illuminati and market whizzes.” Much of this is due to the “dangerous assumption” that U.S. technological dominance is assured because of “an insurmountable lead in frontier AI technologies.”
Tags: AI development, Ambitions, arVix, Blindside, Dangerous assumption, DeepSeek, Dominance, GitHub, Insurmountable, Open secret, R1 models, Reality, Release, Research, Tech Illuminati, Transparent, U.S.
Reuters (September 8)
“Britain’s shaky ambitions to be the ‘Saudi Arabia of wind’ now stand at a blustery crossroads. Developers had been warning for months that the UK’s latest offshore wind auction, divulged on Friday, would receive no takers. Now that it’s happened, it may spur much-need action…. The very real prospect of zero wind schemes ought to be the kick up the backside UK politicians need to make the terms more appealing.”
Tags: Ambitions, Auction, Blustery, Crossroads, Developers, Offshore, Saudi Arabia, Shaky, UK, Warning, Wind, Zero wind schemes
Bloomberg (December 2)
“If Sam Bankman-Fried isn’t lying, crypto is in trouble.” If “systematic incompetence” was the reason behind FTX’s implosion, “it’s perhaps more damaging to the industry’s ambitions than if its problems were caused by premeditating Madoff-like criminals who could be brought to justice.”
Tags: Ambitions, Criminals, Crypto, Damaging, FTX, Implosion, Incompetence, Lying, Madoff, Premeditating, Reason, SBF, Trouble
South China Morning Post (May 18)
“A surge in the number of Chinese professionals looking for emigration opportunities in response to China’s strict zero-Covid measures could affect the country’s ambitions to become a science and technology superpower.” The “noticeable spike” in interest in leaving China began after “outbreaks of the Omicron variant emerged in Shanghai” around the end of May.
Tags: Ambitions, China, Emigration, Omicron, Opportunities, Outbreaks, Professionals, Science, Spike, Strict, Superpower, Surge, Technology, Variant, Zero COVID
Bloomberg (December 18)
“The U.S. launched yet another broadside at China’s technological ambitions this week by blacklisting more than 60 Chinese companies…. While the action will be painful, over the longer term it could be a shot in the arm.” The restrictions may very well “help make China great again.” Under this “massive pressure, Chinese tech giants finally have an incentive to use and improve local suppliers.”
Tags: Ambitions, Blacklisting, Broadside, China, Incentive, Painful, Pressure, Restrictions, Suppliers, Tech giants, U.S.
Washington Post (October 14)
Trump’s reckless Middle East “ambitions have been revealed as the misguided fantasies they always were. The disappearance and alleged murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul has exposed the real return on Trump’s gambits: a string of reckless acts by the Saudis and Israelis that have made the region more rather than less unstable.” Both Israel and Saudi Arabia “have exploited Trump’s indulgence to the hilt, taking actions they never would have dared under Obama or any other previous president.”
Tags: Ambitions, Consulate, Indulgence, Israelis, Istanbul, Journalist, Khashoggi, Middle East, Obama, Reckless, Saudi Arabia, Trump
The Economist (May 28)
“A nuclear nightmare” is in the making. “It is past time for the world to get serious about North Korea’s nuclear ambitions…. So clear and present is the danger that even rivals who clash elsewhere in Asia must urgently find new ways to work together.”
Tags: Ambitions, Nightmare, North Korea, Nuclear, Serious
