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It's interesting China has analogues for tech that emerged in the West and block services like Facebook and Google. Are there any other major industries that ha

It's interesting China has analogues for tech that emerged in the West and block services like Facebook and Google. Are there any other major industries that have evolved like at? What was the outcome?

adrianN 10y ago
Railway technology was developed independently in many countries. The result is that now that we want to connect the different rail networks we have trouble with incompatible systems. Trains that cross borders need to be equipped with a superset of all the safety equipment used in the different countries. Even the track gauges differ sometimes.
- vram22 10y ago
  >Even the track gauges differ sometimes. Do you mean minor but incompatible gauge differences? In India there are two main gauges (last I checked, which was a while ago), broad and meter gauge, but there is a lot of difference in the sizes of the two (bigger long-distance trains run on broad gauge and local smaller ones, like for remote or hilly areas, run on meter gauge). Wondering if you mean minor differences between gauges in adjacent countries, like 5.4 feet vs. 5.7 feet, (made-up numbers) which is only 3 inches, but would still make them incompatible.
  - detaro 10y ago
    Most common "full gauge" in central Europe is 1435 mm, some eastern-european countries (including Russia) use 1520 mm -> 85mm ~ 3.3 inches difference. Spain has 1668 mm as well -> 232 mm ~ 9 inch difference. Except the obvious "just move all cargo to a different train" solutions to the issue include swappable bogies and wheels that can be moved on the axle in a special device. EDIT: wikipedia has a color-coded map! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_gauge_world.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_gauge_world.png
  - sbierwagen 10y ago
    It's Complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_gauge_world.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_gauge_world.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge
stcredzero 10y ago
Publishing? Music? Movies? Ham and sausage? Not sure if any of those are major industries. However, they are all arguably industries of cultural significance, which can face trade barriers, both inherent and dejure. Facebook and Google also have gargantuan cultural impacts, both intended and unintended.
- echevil 10y ago
  Not just trade barrier, infiltrating other culture, by itself, is hard to achieve. SV companies has many analogues in many other countries as well. Japan has Mixi, Rakuten, Line, Russia has Yandex. They also have things that do not exist in SV
qwrusz 10y ago
Are you asking if there are industries in China analogous to industries that originally emerged in the West?...And comprised mainly of domestic Chinese firms with only a few to zero relevant western firms able to be part of the industry over there? Then yes, all of them, every industry.
- johnwheeler 10y ago
  No. Industries where trade is blocked and instead copied.

adrianN 10y ago

Railway technology was developed independently in many countries. The result is that now that we want to connect the different rail networks we have trouble with incompatible systems. Trains that cross borders need to be equipped with a superset of all the safety equipment used in the different countries. Even the track gauges differ sometimes.

vram22 10y ago
>Even the track gauges differ sometimes. Do you mean minor but incompatible gauge differences? In India there are two main gauges (last I checked, which was a while ago), broad and meter gauge, but there is a lot of difference in the sizes of the two (bigger long-distance trains run on broad gauge and local smaller ones, like for remote or hilly areas, run on meter gauge). Wondering if you mean minor differences between gauges in adjacent countries, like 5.4 feet vs. 5.7 feet, (made-up numbers) which is only 3 inches, but would still make them incompatible.
- detaro 10y ago
  Most common "full gauge" in central Europe is 1435 mm, some eastern-european countries (including Russia) use 1520 mm -> 85mm ~ 3.3 inches difference. Spain has 1668 mm as well -> 232 mm ~ 9 inch difference. Except the obvious "just move all cargo to a different train" solutions to the issue include swappable bogies and wheels that can be moved on the axle in a special device. EDIT: wikipedia has a color-coded map! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_gauge_world.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_gauge_world.png
- sbierwagen 10y ago
  It's Complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_gauge_world.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_gauge_world.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge

stcredzero 10y ago

Publishing? Music? Movies? Ham and sausage? Not sure if any of those are major industries. However, they are all arguably industries of cultural significance, which can face trade barriers, both inherent and dejure. Facebook and Google also have gargantuan cultural impacts, both intended and unintended.

echevil 10y ago
Not just trade barrier, infiltrating other culture, by itself, is hard to achieve. SV companies has many analogues in many other countries as well. Japan has Mixi, Rakuten, Line, Russia has Yandex. They also have things that do not exist in SV

qwrusz 10y ago

Are you asking if there are industries in China analogous to industries that originally emerged in the West?...And comprised mainly of domestic Chinese firms with only a few to zero relevant western firms able to be part of the industry over there? Then yes, all of them, every industry.

johnwheeler 10y ago
No. Industries where trade is blocked and instead copied.