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> The people who will get ahead in China in the future are the ones who are somehow able to live outside of China to experience new ideas. There are more peopl
by IncRnd 9y ago
> The people who will get ahead in China in the future are the ones who are somehow able to live outside of China to experience new ideas.
There are more people in China than in the United States, Europe, and Russia combined. China already manufactures your clothes, chips, computers, phones, and missile chips. I don't think it's correct, given the world's dependence on China, to say China is somehow behind the times (wrt computer innovation).
- davemp 9y agomanufacturing =/= innovation
- IncRnd 9y agoWho do you think writes all the software for those manufacturing facilities? Yahoo? Who has launched satellites into orbit to test quantum communications? Uber? Don't get caught up in association fallacies about who is able to innovate. A quarter of the world lives in China.
- bigbugbag 9y agoPlease elaborate on this, as history tells a different story.
- tim333 9y agoI had to Google the missile thing. Bit of a shocker: "Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits from China." (http://www.businessinsider.com/navy-chinese-microchips-weapons-could-have-been-shut-off-2011-6?IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/navy-chinese-microchips-weapo...)
- IncRnd 9y agoIt's really a touchy situation, no matter the angle you look at it.