The Shanghai Cooperation Organization turned twenty-five this week. Somalia is not a member and was not in the room. But one line in President Xi Jinping’s speech was addressed to countries exactly like ours, and the commitments attached to it are specific enough to be worth reading closely.
By Abdullahi — A young Somali drowns in the Mediterranean, a smuggler telephones the family to explain, and the conversation is conducted like a commercial dispute. We have arrived at a point where a death arranged by criminals is discussed as though no crime occurred.
By Abdullahi — Somali is listed in the world’s major language models and effectively absent from them. China faced a version of this question a century ago and answered it before it had any technology to protect. That decision is the most useful thing Somalia can learn from Beijing, and it costs nothing.
By Abdullahi — Somalia has built the ministry, the strategy, the regulator and the national AI centre. What it has not built is the grid that would let any of them compute. Generation and transmission are what China builds better than anyone, and they belong at the top of the agenda.
By Abdullahi — Somalia is a full Partner State of the East African Community that has not implemented its protocols. The commentary calls this drift. The case for a staged opening deserves to be argued in public, and the precedent for it is one Beijing knows well.
By Abdullahi — China’s towers, bridges and solar fields are the most visible part of its achievement. They are not the most useful part. For a country rebuilding itself, the transferable lesson is the order in which China did things.
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By Abdullahi — A young Somali drowns in the Mediterranean, a smuggler telephones the family to explain, and the conversation is conducted like a commercial dispute. We have arrived at a point where a death arranged by criminals is discussed as though no crime occurred.
By Abdullahi — Somali is listed in the world’s major language models and effectively absent from them. China faced a version of this question a century ago and answered it before it had any technology to protect. That decision is the most useful thing Somalia can learn from Beijing, and it costs nothing.
By Abdullahi — Somalia has built the ministry, the strategy, the regulator and the national AI centre. What it has not built is the grid that would let any of them compute. Generation and transmission are what China builds better than anyone, and they belong at the top of the agenda.
