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It is the old military industrial complex thing again, isn't it? Drumming up a scary vision of global war against China using flying AI-killer robots in outer
by throwaway4good 6y ago
It is the old military industrial complex thing again, isn't it?
Drumming up a scary vision of global war against China using flying AI-killer robots in outer space while your companies are siphoning billions of dollars out of defense budgets and you get your competition (Huawei, TikTok etc.) banned on national security grounds.
Innovation comes from a functioning global market place of "ideas". It is a 1+1=3 game, not a zero-sum one.
Drop the new cold war and get back to doing business.
- sprash 6y agoIf you deal with unequal trade "partners" like China that grossly disregard any intellectual property, don't care about labor security and environmental standards and as a result have a massive trade surplus not based on innovation but mostly based on cheap labor you have to draw a line at some point. The biggest "ball" that was dropped on innovation in the US was to allow companies to outsource their manufacturing to mainland china.
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- wombatmobile 6y agoChina has rapidly become a global leader in automation. From 2018 to 2020, a sales increase between 15 and 20 percent on average per year is possible for industrial robots. Annual sales volume has currently reached the highest level ever recorded for a single country: Within a year, sales in China surged by 27 percent to 87,000 units (2016). https://ifr.org/news/robots-china-breaks-historic-records-in-automation https://ifr.org/news/robots-china-breaks-historic-records-in...