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A confident nation, like a confident individual, has nothing to prove to anyone else. Just imagine a scenario where Chinese GDP doubles over 5 years, while gre
by ddxxdd 7y ago
A confident nation, like a confident individual, has nothing to prove to anyone else.
Just imagine a scenario where Chinese GDP doubles over 5 years, while greenhouse gas emissions drop to zero over that same period. Imagine China's glee and their cackling laughter as Westerners scratch their heads wondering why.
For the record, I am an American who reads about plasma physics in my free time, under the distant hope that I can help America win this race.
- Godel_unicode 7y agoThat's really only the case if you don't ever want anything from other people/nations. If you're going to be negotiating anything ever again, it might be useful to have chips like this to play.
- garmaine 7y agoOn the other hand, the world is hitting China with a lot of moralistic judgement and economic tariffs. This would give them the ability to say: “We gave you clean fusion. STFU.” Not to mention the geopolitical advantage they would get deploying fusion plants to Africa, etc.
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