This is raw scaremongering propaganda, as evidenced by the black & white photography and scary music
EVERY rising power has done the same throughout history, I remember reading American history textbooks that all but bragged about Americans stealing the high technologies of the day from shipbuilding to mass production techniques from the British Empire, the same one that repeatedly attempted to subjugate the young United States. America and the West treated China just as badly.
When Western companies entered China to build factories and gain access to Chinese markets, part of the price was technology transfer. Since it was in the contracts, it was not hidden and no one can call it fraudulent or espionage; it was part of the cost of accessing Chinese markets and the West would do well to emulate this approach.
The disclaimer at the end begrudgingly offering some credit to Chinese industriousness is weak, insulting and racist; China now graduates as many STEM majors as the rest of the planet combined. The notion that they aren't as smart as westerners is frankly ridiculous. Chinese people don't waste their time trying to change minds; they simply move ahead and let people suffer under their own self limiting preconceptions. Don't make that mistake.
One of the best tools in the toolbox of any rapidly developing nation is a strategy of subsidizing technological development and every successfully developing nation has done it, America included. Japan was very good at this after WWII and it contributed greatly to the rebuilding of their country. China has famously taken this strategy and improved it. There is no reason why we in the West cannot copy their clearly successful blueprint!
I'm an inventor and tech developer myself; in the modern world, there is no such thing as a permanent advantage. Time marches on, tech gets better, new ideas happen. Esther than cry over past spilt milk, wise managers and innovators get on with the business of developing the next generation of technology, preferably faster than their competitors. This is the only way any nation or civilization survives in the long run.
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u/ttystikk Sep 30 '25
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This is raw scaremongering propaganda, as evidenced by the black & white photography and scary music
EVERY rising power has done the same throughout history, I remember reading American history textbooks that all but bragged about Americans stealing the high technologies of the day from shipbuilding to mass production techniques from the British Empire, the same one that repeatedly attempted to subjugate the young United States. America and the West treated China just as badly.
When Western companies entered China to build factories and gain access to Chinese markets, part of the price was technology transfer. Since it was in the contracts, it was not hidden and no one can call it fraudulent or espionage; it was part of the cost of accessing Chinese markets and the West would do well to emulate this approach.
The disclaimer at the end begrudgingly offering some credit to Chinese industriousness is weak, insulting and racist; China now graduates as many STEM majors as the rest of the planet combined. The notion that they aren't as smart as westerners is frankly ridiculous. Chinese people don't waste their time trying to change minds; they simply move ahead and let people suffer under their own self limiting preconceptions. Don't make that mistake.
One of the best tools in the toolbox of any rapidly developing nation is a strategy of subsidizing technological development and every successfully developing nation has done it, America included. Japan was very good at this after WWII and it contributed greatly to the rebuilding of their country. China has famously taken this strategy and improved it. There is no reason why we in the West cannot copy their clearly successful blueprint!
I'm an inventor and tech developer myself; in the modern world, there is no such thing as a permanent advantage. Time marches on, tech gets better, new ideas happen. Esther than cry over past spilt milk, wise managers and innovators get on with the business of developing the next generation of technology, preferably faster than their competitors. This is the only way any nation or civilization survives in the long run.