China has a “stunning lead” in 37 out of 44 critical and emerging technologies The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) said.

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  2. It is worrying certainly.
    But I am not persuaded by the choice of certain technologies such as space or military research or artificial intelligence which are not vital to save humanity from imminent disaster.
    It is never a good thing when technologies are in the hands of dictatures or of rich men whose goals are to become richer or to escape on another planet meanwhile the rest of humans are starving or flooded.

    Technology is nothing without ethics.

  3. China is expected to reach 40-50% EVs [already this year](https://cnevpost.com/2023/03/30/byd-aims-to-sell-at-least-3-million-vehicles-this-year/). Good EVs cost €15k. That’s how much ahead China is. They’ve made batteries cheap.

    Meanwhile OPEC [announced](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/02/business/opec-production-cuts/index.html) that they will cut oil production so that those who still buy oil compensate for the shortfall. The US is energy independent, so it will be mostly Europe paying for this.

    That’s the price of being a technological laggard. We’re spending 400 billions per year on energy from dictators. That’s money China and the US can spend on research instead. And this is just one of 37 areas where Europe is behind…

  4. It’s by country, not by region.

    On a global scale, not a lot of the European countries can compete with China and the US, that is why the EU was formed.

  6. It’s based on impactful research papers etc Certainly, more centralized education-research systems associated with huge countries have the edge. Even historically, from the 20th century onwards, other than the Oxbridge or Zurich, how could decentralized systems compare in stats?

    But the same centralized systems will also naturally have the edge in certain areas that require concentration of resources (nuclear, space, the military in general…)

    And China does have an advantage in several aspects regarding the electric car. They started the race and they have the relevant resources.

  7. >The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) said.

    I don’t trust a single word ASPI says. All I’m wondering is why they’re chosing the defeatist propaganda angle.

  8. I mean, we’re busy arguing about how some of us should maybe stop being basically dictatorships, other should maybe stop allying with actual dictatorships and both should probably avoid random discrimination based on people’s sexuality.

    (also immigration, because why working together when the northern countries can just ignore it and cherry-pick the well educated non-EU immigrants and the southern ones can just be angry and yell against “bad EU” without ever suggesting anything that makes sense as a solution?)

  10. The EU is utterly uncompetitive and slows all innovation. It’s the worst thing that has happened to this continent in a century.

  13. I’m not an expert, but doesn’t a Dutch company basically control the world supply of (high-end) chip making machines? I’d say that’s primacy in a key technology

  14. What’s with all the braindead comments saying “hurr durr regulations regulations”. Excuse me, I am very well and happy that I have European and not American or Chinese regulations where I live.

    Could we be more effective? Sure, but it doesn’t mean we have to let go of important protections of the end user/consumer to achieve that.

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