Western policy is based on racist stereotypes that people outside the west can't innovate. They lose their minds when it's disproven.
77Lol, them Westoids wouldn’t’ve went anywhere without the mathematical breakthroughs of Arab scholars. They’d still be stuck in the medieval times lmao, the Arabs literally saved their works from the Roman and Greek times, and through trade helped the euros catch up. Westoids who parrot this statement clearly don’t understand history.
51Apparently, some readers here do not realize how much intellectual property China has stolen from the US over the years. Much of what they create is based on Western development, and then refined. Somewhat like reverse engineering. Why do so many Chinese come to live in the US? Because they see it as LaLa Land.
top comment from the wapo article covering this. although some commenters did astutely point out that perhaps this should not have been a surprise and maybe people who aren’t white have intelligence after all.
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Apparently, some readers here do not realize how much intellectual property China has stolen from the US over the years. Much of what they create is based on Western development, and then refined. Somewhat like reverse engineering. Why do so many Chinese come to live in the US? Because they see it as LaLa Land.
top comment from the wapo article covering this. although some commenters did astutely point out that perhaps this should not have been a surprise and maybe people who aren’t white have intelligence after all.
40holy shit they are insane 😂
25Based
9As if all technological advancements for all of human history didn't work this way. The
of American exceptionalism are truly a vigorous species.America delenda est.
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Damn, an advanced industrial economy, with millions of highly educated workers, and direct state ownership of besieged industries figured out how to build these components themselves?
Who would have guessed?
54I'm as shocked by this as you are.
37Its like the theory that aliens helped the egypcians build the pyramids 😂 how can these savages do this! It must be the aliens!!
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But if these industries were operated like the superior capitalist economies, the entire industry would have needed billions to trillions in bailouts to keep functioning profitably. What the hell is going on in China?!? This makes no sense in my head!
average capitalist economist / industry expert
50Overnight
He had a dream about it. Dream on, liberal.
41new site tagline
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China's collapse has been proclaimed imminent for like 40 years at least at this point
40more like 200 years
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Lol, lmao even
28I wonder if there's someone who believes this and is now aghast that the Chinese chip industry has recreated itself so quickly
16You can easily test that, just post it on Lemmy. I'm sure the "China bad" crowd will oblige. Or rather, they will still believe it's true, they are very good at ignoring reality.
15They literally know nothing of the world outside of reddit posts. They could be pumping out phones and PC parts with chips better than ours but as long as the reddit slip keeps saying otherwise that's all that matters.
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Their mental gymnastics are really interesting. They always say the reason Chinese kids are smart is because of how strict and oppressive their parents and schooling is. So they are obviously accepting that these kids are smart.... Well.... smart kids make smart adults... So why think the adults in China can't figure out making these chips? It's like they think the kids go and grow up and then loose all their intelligence?
12That wasn't even a year ago, lol.
10I desperately wish I could remember exactly what news story this was in response to, because I know this was an obvious wild overreaction even at the time.
6might be this, sorry for the wikipedia link
the tweet might be specifically referring to the ban of American citizens working in china's semiconductor industry
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and another gem from digitimes just months before Mate 60 launch :)
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