Yesterday: finished rereading Red Plenty, a book about how at the height of the cold war, the Soviet Union was an autocracy whose technocrats were trying to invent a new future, and how that went just great for them.
Today: "Eric Schmidt [said] that China was unlike the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, because it was "an autocratic competitor that is run by technocrats that is very capable of inventing a new future"." https://www.reuters.com/world/aukus-needs-pool-tech-resources-us-edge-erodes-australian-intelligence-chief-2023-04-04/
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Apropos of Red Plenty, it is a delightful book and completely recommended. This passage has lived rent-free in my head for the past decade:
