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shadowgovt 6y ago
Observation. 1. Basic research - China has a current moon mission in progress. The US does not. 2. Infrastructure is famously under-funded in the US (there's a lot of information on the topic). It would be hard to do worse than the US in the realm of countries that have the resources to spend and what percentage they choose to spend. China is doing quite a bit better "by default" as it were; they also make it a priority (if for no other reason than it's a well-understood way to keep people employed). https://www.china-briefing.com/news/how-foreign-technology-investors-benefit-from-chinas-new-infrastructure-plan https://www.china-briefing.com/news/how-foreign-technology-i...
- Fjolsvith 6y ago
  US has already been to the moon. Now its going to Mars. https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/ https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/ China won't be able to sustain its investment much longer. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/economy/china-debt-defaults-state-companies-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/economy/china-debt-defaults-s... Electricity shortages to homes, businesses and factories: https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3115119/china-suffers-worst-power-blackouts-decade-post-coronavirus https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3115119/c... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/world/asia/china-electricity-coal-shortage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/world/asia/china-electric... Food shortages in China: https://intpolicydigest.org/2020/12/08/china-is-struggling-with-increased-food-prices-and-shortages-due-to-the-covid-19-pandemic/ https://intpolicydigest.org/2020/12/08/china-is-struggling-w... And dwindling cash reserves to buy coal and food. https://epochtimes.today/chinas-foreign-exchange-reserves-are-running-out/ https://epochtimes.today/chinas-foreign-exchange-reserves-ar... Their Belt and Road initiative is crumbling: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/06/bri-china-belt-road-initiative-blunder/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/06/bri-china-belt-road-ini... Why would they have money for research? Besides, the CCP is facing an internal struggle for power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95hTzdBdwKM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95hTzdBdwKM
  - shadowgovt 6y ago
    Sounds like another country I know.

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Observation. 1. Basic research - China has a current moon mission in progress. The US does not. 2. Infrastructure is famously under-funded in the US (there's a lot of information on the topic). It would be hard to do worse than the US in the realm of countries that have the resources to spend and what percentage they choose to spend. China is doing quite a bit better "by default" as it were; they also make it a priority (if for no other reason than it's a well-understood way to keep people employed). https://www.china-briefing.com/news/how-foreign-technology-investors-benefit-from-chinas-new-infrastructure-plan https://www.china-briefing.com/news/how-foreign-technology-i...

Fjolsvith 6y ago
US has already been to the moon. Now its going to Mars. https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/ https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/ China won't be able to sustain its investment much longer. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/economy/china-debt-defaults-state-companies-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/economy/china-debt-defaults-s... Electricity shortages to homes, businesses and factories: https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3115119/china-suffers-worst-power-blackouts-decade-post-coronavirus https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3115119/c... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/world/asia/china-electricity-coal-shortage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/world/asia/china-electric... Food shortages in China: https://intpolicydigest.org/2020/12/08/china-is-struggling-with-increased-food-prices-and-shortages-due-to-the-covid-19-pandemic/ https://intpolicydigest.org/2020/12/08/china-is-struggling-w... And dwindling cash reserves to buy coal and food. https://epochtimes.today/chinas-foreign-exchange-reserves-are-running-out/ https://epochtimes.today/chinas-foreign-exchange-reserves-ar... Their Belt and Road initiative is crumbling: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/06/bri-china-belt-road-initiative-blunder/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/06/bri-china-belt-road-ini... Why would they have money for research? Besides, the CCP is facing an internal struggle for power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95hTzdBdwKM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95hTzdBdwKM
- shadowgovt 6y ago
  Sounds like another country I know.