Quick notes: Affordable Tesla | Patent race...

• Tesla’s affordable global EV being developed in China: The ultimate goal: to design, develop, and produce a vehicle that’s manufactured in China and sold to the rest of the world, possibly with 100% Chinese components.



• 'China-free' tech supply chain: U.S. to accelerate efforts to build supply chains for chips and other strategically significant products that are less reliant on China, in partnership with the likes of Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. . . . . . India? Don't ask.



• Who Is Leading the 5G Patent Race?: Huawei takes first place. . . . . India's English advantage not helping




• "We must continue to trade with China": A purely Bania perspective by Bajaj Auto MD Rajiv Bajaj. "We must always procure stuff from wherever it is most competitively available."



• Ghazi Hunts Vikrant; Vikrant Hunts Ghazi: Pakistan hoped that a lucky torpedo or two from Ghazi might sink Vikant, turning its losing hand in the Bay of Bengal into a winning one—or at least constrain Vikrant’s operations. On the second day of the war on December 4, the Vikrat was cruising off the Andaman islands when her lookouts reported spotting a periscope.
  On December 3 Ghazi failed to locate Vikrant and instead moved to deploy mines at the entrance of Visakhapatnam port, the site of the Indian naval HQ. Around midnight on Dec 3-4 mysterious circumstances caused the submarine to sink with the loss of all 92 aboard.



• Mohammedan slavery thrives: An estimated 69 percent of deaths among Indian, Nepali, and Bangladeshi migrant workers in Qatar over the past decade are categorized as “natural”. At least 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar prior to World Cup



• Women Routinely Raped in Tibetan Camps: Just like Muslim women in Xinjiang, lay Buddhist girls and nuns are also submitted to systematic rape in Tibet’s transformation through education camps



• Padma Shri Sridhar Vembu: Tech billionaire who returned from USA to rural India




• Most polluted cities: Smaller and upcoming cities fare worse in the seasonal peak data and are the pollution hotspots because of vehicles, industry, power plants and waste management.



• Is it safe to microwave food? Microwaved potatoes are high in acrylamide, boiled potatoes are not. Acrylamide interferes with cell’s DNA and acts as a carcinogen. Microwaves are more favorable to the growth of acrylamide than other methods of cooking.



• Big profits for Big Tech: Amazon rainforest plots sold via Facebook Marketplace ads