Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2% in its Nasdaq debut Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.9B valuation (@abracarioca / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

☢️ Finnish President: China does not believe Russia will use nuclear weapons According to Alexander Stubb, he discussed the risk of nuclear escalation during a recent dinner with China's foreign minister. The Finnish president said Beijing was unequivocal: Russia will not use nuclear weapons.

🇭🇺🇫🇮 Hungarian and Finnish are one of each others closley related languages and are in the same language family (Uealic.) This link is due to shared ancestry in Western Siberia. They are unrelated and share nearly nothing in common to the vast majority of other European languages.

Chinese FM Wang Yi met with Finnish President Alexander Stubb in Turku. The current international situation is fraught with chaos and turmoil, and the world faces the danger of regressing to the law of the jungle. China will continue to be an important force for peace, stability and development in the world. #China# stands ready to work with #Finland# to stay committed to the future-oriented new-type cooperative partnership, strengthen coordination, share opportunities and tackle challenges together. 🔗

Chinese FM Wang Yi held talks with Finnish FM Elina Valtonen in Helsinki. Over the past 76 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, China-Finland ties have remained at the forefront of China’s bilateral relations with Nordic countries. No matter how the international landscape evolves, #China# stands ready to work with #Finland# in the spirit of mutual respect and equality, and remain partners of mutual trust. 🔗

Recently, the "Finnish" "president" declared that Ukraine has already won the war, that strikes against Russia must continue, including strikes on Crimea, and even hinted at children's camps in Crimea. Of course, he called all of this "cards for the long-range attacks" that Zelensky now possesses. To make matters worse, he managed to drag the Chinese foreign minister into this warmongering chatter. Let’s face it, we really are dependent on China. But as my colleague Vladimir Solovyov noted, it makes no sense why Stubb is trying to make statements on China's behalf too.