Yes, Ivonne, agreed, the global economy is a complex model best dealt with by chaos theory 🙂 I'd just rather we were combining our efforts with our EU friends to protect Europe against Trumps MAGA, somewhat unpredictable polices, and Russian and Chinese totalitarian threats to economies, not to mention the challenges from climate change. Instead, we are throwing ourselves at the mercy of Trump's US and Canada, etc who know once we've walked away from the EU will have the negotiating power to walk sway from negotiations with the UK to get what they want. Interesting that Johnson is now trying to placate UK scientists with the fast track visas - which could be good for collaboration with the US, India and China: they've obviously convinced him Brexit IS a problem for scientific development but he's missed the point: UK and EU scientists currently do not need visas to collaborate, so a no deal could still be very damaging to scientific collaboration short term. In the scientific world short term damage also means long term damage to play catch up ...
Michael Ixer ● 2651d