ON THE ONE HAND I’M SAD, ON THE OTHER HAND WE’VE TRANSFERRED AN AWFUL LOT OF TECH TO THE CHINESE ALREADY, AND THEY’RE NOT OUR FRIENDS: Bill Gates’s Experimental Nuclear Power Plant Halts Construction in China: Gates cites the Trump Administration’s aggressive stance for having to pull out. “The Department of Energy then announced it would deny any new licenses from U.S. companies wishing to work with the Chinese government, and current licenses would not be given extensions. The department cited the indictment of the Chinese state-owned nuclear corporation in 2017 alongside Taiwanese-American Allen Ho, who was eventually jailed for assisting the Chinese state on nuclear issues.”