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There's an ongoing PR push to paint anything from China as unsecure, cheap or untrustworthy. Now I see regular pieces on Bloomberg or popular sites like theVerg
by mtw 7y ago
There's an ongoing PR push to paint anything from China as unsecure, cheap or untrustworthy. Now I see regular pieces on Bloomberg or popular sites like theVerge, and all those pieces have no substantial facts in them. I know reporters are hungry for stories, and they would eat up a semi-prepared file with all the "facts" easily laid out for them.
This is not new. There was something very similar in the late 80s and 90s, with everyone saying that Japan was going to take over, that they copy everything by sending teams in North America to take pictures of everything.
- azinman2 7y agoJapan did make giant leaps... but perhaps their own success (rising wages) and failures (Sony is a shadow of its former self) got in the way. We can’t use it as a model for how it’ll work out for China, with a totally different government structure that so far has been very effective and competent.
- dylan604 7y agoTo me, the old Sony electronics was way ahead of anything US. Sony Beta/Betacam, cameras, etc. Also JVC's VHS. After RCA or Ampex, the US had really been left behind in the video/TV forefront.
- iknowordidthat 7y ago> a totally different government structure that so far has been very effective and competent. Authoritarian regimes can look appealing (from the outside, anyway) until circumstances change. Then they falls apart spectacularly because the commercial and governmental institutions are either absent, very weak, or are unable to adapt to the change. For example, the Soviet Union.