Dang
We really are in a different world than we were in before COVID. China is breaking down a lot of good will with the outside world and wondering why people are reacting the way they are reacting to them becoming a more insular, crazified country that thinks using AI and quantum computing tools against its citizens is somehow going to lead to better Communism. Russia for its part is just so broken and wistful for its glory days that its going to take a generation for it to "recover" to some form that isn't a complete pariah. --- Unless Trump wins in 2024. If he wins and appoints Ambassador Mike Flynn or Matt Gaetz then, the spigot of US tech to Russia will be unleashed.