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Can you elaborate?

• ggg9990 9y ago
  China has been developing its manufacturing expertise at the highest levels (they built the Bay Bridge) and their control of industrial resources (they have bought a big percentage of Africa). China is to the rest of the world as Apple is to the rest of the electronics industry.
  • seanmcdirmid 9y ago
    Neither of those claims are completely true: they definitely built some of the bay bridge, but definitely not all of it. They have invested in Africa, but don’t own a big percentage of Africa (if owning a continent was even sensical). China does not have overwhelming positions outside of manufacturing, which is fairly fungible.
    • GauntletWizard 9y ago
      They're rhetorically true, and we're having a rhetorical argument. China didn't build all of the bay bridge, no. They won several large parts of the contracts and subcontracted many more. The exact percentage is meaningless, the important point for argument is that they had a large hand in it and both demonstrated and grew their engineering prowess by being involved.