ThunderKant_1 t1_j6ovhot wrote
Reply to comment by Joooooooosh in Chinese Nuclear Lab Uses Intel, Nvidia Chips Despite Ban | Blacklisted Chinese entities obtain American hardware on the open market. by chrisdh79
The exact same shit was said about Japan not so long ago… (that they can’t innovate and just steal all the tech from the west, and everything made in Japan is low quality). And actually the same has been said about Germany as well a little longer ago. So I would be cautious with these kind of statements, they don’t have a good track record.
Also there are already examples of fields were China is more technologically advanced and more innovative then the west, for example renewable energy or some aspects of EV manufacturing (new battery tech for example)
Joooooooosh t1_j6pi9cq wrote
I mean who knows what the future holds…
But why isn’t Russia a technological powerhouse…
Germany, Japan, Korea… these are not authoritarian countries, with nightmarish political systems. They ain’t perfect, but they ain’t totalitarian hellscapes either.
Just because things are going well somewhere, doesn’t mean the trajectory holds.
Iran was a beacon of progress in the East, now look at it… Brazil was poised to become a powerhouse but things fell apart.
No doubt Chinese industry has come a long way, turbo boosted by Western companies wanting a piece of the action but as the country becomes more insular, more extreme… let’s see how things go.
China’s rise was not Xi’s doing. He’s just the rich kid inheriting his Daddy’s fortune.
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