The collapse of property giant Evergrande will be a “wrenching adjustment for the Chinese economy,” writes Richard McGregor in Foreign Policy. But it’s not necessarily at odds with President Xi Jinping’s plans to rewrite the national narrative in his favour. With loyalty now preferred over success, rich villains like Evergrande boss Xu Jiayin have become a necessity.
Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.
