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Taiwan cracks down on holders of Chinese ID amid fears over propaganda and espionage

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  • Taking a page out of the US playbook

    • China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’

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  • Yup. Capitalism/fascism led to WW2 and the nuclear bombing of Japan by a capitalist state, requiring the USSR and China to develop an equally powerful countermeasure.

    • China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor

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  • A much bigger thorium molten salt reactor is already being built in China and is slated to achieve criticality by 2030

    I read that and thought "damn that's such a long time away" before realizing 2030 is in just 5 years now

    • ‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor

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  • “Rabbits sometimes make mistakes or grow lazy. That’s when the tortoise seizes its chance,” Xu told the meeting, referring to the US abandoning its molten salt reactor research in the 1970s after initial experiments.

    American scientists pioneered molten salt reactor technology – including building a small test reactor in the 1960s – but the project was shelved in favour of uranium-based systems.

    “The US left its research publicly available, waiting for the right successor,” Xu was quoted as saying. “We were that successor.”

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