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Bishop: CIA allegedly financed promotions for rising Chinese PLA officers
“And this was and there are, there's been certainly, I don't think it's been in the media, but I'd certainly heard that among the funders of some of these officers in years past was our America CIA, because it was a great way to push people in and, you know, ev…”
Bishop: Corrupt PLA officer promotions functioned like angel investments for future revenue
“It's kind of like an angel investment, at least in some cases where actually people would collectively buy a stake in a rising officer because I'm not joking. Right. Literally.”
Bishop: Purging dozens of generals impacts PLA combat readiness in the short term
“There's clearly the number of generals and senior officers who've been taken out over the last two plus years is quite shocking. It's in the dozens, and so it, it's hard to imagine in the short term it doesn't have some impact on the military's ability to figh…”
Bishop: Corruption in China functions as a tax without halting project execution
“The thing is, is the corruption is just sort of like, it's another tax. It still works. Right? Unlike maybe other countries, you still get it done. It still works pretty well, but some folks, you know, but then you make a little money on the side.”
Bishop: Trump will delay $20 billion Taiwan arms sale until Xi meeting
“Over the weekend, you know, we saw, I think on Friday, the Financial Times reported, yes, there's a twenty billion dollar package in the works and it's something the Chinese don't want to have happen, and they have threatened to postpone or cancel Trump's visi…”
Bishop: China's AI strategy prioritizes economic diffusion over frontier models
“They have like this AI plus plan they rolled out a couple months ago, where it's really to embed AI throughout the economy and throughout society. And so they're not really focused on As much as sort of getting to AGI and these massive models, they're really m…”
Bishop: State Department blocks Commerce-approved NVIDIA H200 sales to China
“What's interesting, right, I think it was the Financial Times reported last week that even though, ah, like, the Department of Commerce has signed off on the licenses to sell to China the H 200, that the Department of State, or the State Department, which has …”
Bishop: China manufactures capable inference chips but cannot produce training chips
“China has enough, like they can actually make, looks like decent inference chips. They just can't make the chips they need for training, right?”
Bishop: Military purges reduce China's Central Military Commission to two members
“The PLA has a top structure, it's called the Central Military, Military Commission, and it's got a chairman who's Xi Jinping, and then two vice chairmen and four members. So seven members. They're now two members, Xi and a vice chairman, because he's purged th…”
Bishop: Chinese AI firms IPO earlier with far less capital than OpenAI
“Yes, with much lower revenue, raising much less money, much lower valuations, and a lot of it is because they, you know, they actually need the capital. I mean, it's, I think they, but the amount of capital they need in the raising is a frat. It's like, you kn…”
Bishop: US Lacks Drone Supply Chain That China Possesses
“I mean, China has a supply chain for this stuff, and we still don't, and so whether or not these regulations will pull that supply chain creation here, it remains to be seen.”
Bishop: China places military leaders Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli under investigation
“All we got was a very terse statement from a very nervous looking Ministry of Defense spokesperson announcing that these two individuals, Zhang Yuxiao and Liu Zhenli, had been put under investigation.”
Bishop: Taiwan's Opposition Coalition Blocks Budget for US Arms Package
“The Taiwan legislature won't approve the budget to buy the last package of weapons because it's the opposition party controls, with a coalition party controls the legislature.”
Bishop: Securing microchips, not energy, is the main constraint for Chinese AI
“Data centers, energy, obviously, you have another guest who talked about it's not an issue for China, right? It's somewhere they could build as many data centers as they want, as long as they can get the chips. That's the bigger issue.”
Bishop: DeepSeek will launch its next model within eight or nine days
“And so now everyone's waiting for DeepSeek's next model, which is supposed to launch on or around Lunar New Year, which is next Wednesday the 17th. So we should have some sort of a DeepSeek model in the next eight or nine days.”
Bishop: Beijing's reaction to Takaichi strengthened Japanese defense hawks' mandate
“I mean, I think that the Chinese helped Takeichi because their reaction to her comments in, in early November, which again, she said, she reiterated the Japanese position on sort of a Taiwan contingency, so to speak. She said it in a setting where it hadn't be…”