China Is Building the Future

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  1. Eric Schmidt and Selina Xu: “After a months-long trade war between China and the United States, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet [today] in Korea. Both countries seem to be angling for a truce; over the weekend, they announced a ‘framework’ for a possible agreement.

    “The negotiations offer an occasion to stop to consider how China went from technological backwater to superpower in less than half a lifetime, and an opportunity for the United States to learn from that success. U.S. companies can work to regain hardware-manufacturing expertise, absorb knowledge and talent from some of China’s best companies, and shift their approach toward AI, encouraging more practical applications and open-source innovation. The United States must accept that we can be better while not relinquishing our strengths.

    “If America focuses only on undermining its rival, it risks stagnating, and China might end up offering a more attractive vision of the future to the rest of the world than the United States can. What’s at stake is America’s ability to keep innovating and leading in the industries of the future.”

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  2. China already far ahead with a 10k electric car

    The West has to catch up, or it will get crushed 

  3. I think Westerners here are falling for the kool-aid for whole range of “futuristic” endeavours Asian governments often promote that end up not changing much. While China is certainly making great innovations, I don’t really see how what they are doing would radically change or improve lifestyles that already exist in Developed East Asian States.

    As for the West, it has less to do with lack of innovation than it has to do with certain social tradeoffs the populace has made. They don’t want to bring back sanatoriums and prefer harmful types to roam the streets, they don’t want to build high-rises that “ruin” the skyline or gentrification in general, then of course it’s by design that Western cities are looking more and more shabby.

    That being said, if you look at social mobility and job opportunities in USA vs China, the USA and the West in general is still alot more advanced. There is much more larger and liquid private capital pools that can be deployed, and the whole “leek harvesting” phenemenon dosen’t happen in the West, the everyman can succeed collectively with the market there.

  4. Drinking china kool aid I see. 50% of their electricity generation is from coal, while it’s only 15% in the us.

  6. I’m tired of these alarm-glaze articles. They’re only glazing China because they want to incite a corrective reaction from the US government. They are always political in nature. They never talk about Chinese advancements as a positive thing for humanity, but as a proof of rising threat and competition for the US. It’s all US US US. What will happen to China if the US does this, or doesn’t do that.

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