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> China couldn't even figure out how to make ball point pens until 2017. China changes very quickly! In 2020 they have 5G technology that blows competitors' pa

> China couldn't even figure out how to make ball point pens until 2017. China changes very quickly! In 2020 they have 5G technology that blows competitors' pants off. They are sending missions to mars, have more electric cars than any other country, and just yesterday they released a home-grown competitor to GPS.

flywheel 6y ago
LOL... GPS.. the US has been doing GPS for 42 YEARS. China is WAAAAAY behind. Call me back when they can produce jet engines that even come close to matching anything the US produces. 5G tech? LOL. Whatever makes you think you are happy, I guess.
- mickael-kerjean 6y ago
  This strikes me the same as Ballmer's reaction to the iPhone launch laughing at the perspective of such a device to gain any market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
  - flywheel 6y ago
    You replied with nonsense. The fact is China is good at one thing: ripping off other countries inventions. Name one high tech thing in the last 1,000 years invented in China - no, not iteration, but INVENTED. Since gunpowder, China has stagnated.
    - linlucas 6y ago
      Huawei has more 5G patents than any other company. By far.
      - DuskStar 6y ago
        And considering how much it's alleged they stole from Nortel, that's not irreconcilable.
      - flywheel 6y ago
        I'll admit that one thing China is great at - downvote brigading posts about China, as evidenced right here. Still not high-tech though.
        dang 6y ago
        You have been breaking the site guidelines quite badly, and repeatedly. That's not cool. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
    - pinkfoot 6y ago
      Synthetic bovine insulin, 1965.
      - flywheel 6y ago
        That isn't really "high tech", it's organic chemistry. We can split hairs about the meaning of "high tech" but that would be pointless.
- vwat 6y ago
  You’ve been here for ten years?

flywheel 6y ago

LOL... GPS.. the US has been doing GPS for 42 YEARS. China is WAAAAAY behind. Call me back when they can produce jet engines that even come close to matching anything the US produces. 5G tech? LOL. Whatever makes you think you are happy, I guess.

mickael-kerjean 6y ago
This strikes me the same as Ballmer's reaction to the iPhone launch laughing at the perspective of such a device to gain any market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
- flywheel 6y ago
  You replied with nonsense. The fact is China is good at one thing: ripping off other countries inventions. Name one high tech thing in the last 1,000 years invented in China - no, not iteration, but INVENTED. Since gunpowder, China has stagnated.
  - linlucas 6y ago
    Huawei has more 5G patents than any other company. By far.
    - DuskStar 6y ago
      And considering how much it's alleged they stole from Nortel, that's not irreconcilable.
    - flywheel 6y ago
      I'll admit that one thing China is great at - downvote brigading posts about China, as evidenced right here. Still not high-tech though.
      - dang 6y ago
        You have been breaking the site guidelines quite badly, and repeatedly. That's not cool. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
  - pinkfoot 6y ago
    Synthetic bovine insulin, 1965.
    - flywheel 6y ago
      That isn't really "high tech", it's organic chemistry. We can split hairs about the meaning of "high tech" but that would be pointless.
vwat 6y ago
You’ve been here for ten years?