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Thing is that in the big picture, it's not just that China is building a replacement for GitHub. China is building a replacement for everything that matters and
by vgchh 6y ago
Thing is that in the big picture, it's not just that China is building a replacement for GitHub. China is building a replacement for everything that matters and accelerates their transition to be the Super Power. And they have been doing so for last 30 years, just that now it's hitting a critical mass and world is waking up to it.
And I think, we, The West, have been getting it wrong. We are looking at China like a jealous neighbor, pushing back politically, through regulations and sanctions. Unfortunately that can only go so far. Thing is China is obsessed (and determined) about progressing and West is obsessed about protecting what it already has.
America needs to be obsessed about creating and innovating. Hard creation and innovation on a scale never seen before - like 1000x the man-on-the-moon scale.
- seniorivn 6y agothe last time the west only managed to "win" the moon race because it was competing against financially poor and poorly managed soviet state(all key brains behind soviet space program were released from gulag just to work on it and knew that if they will not please their masters they will go back to gulag and die. the greatest motivation of all time) china now is a lot more sane people that don't mess with politics/publicity enjoy comparable levels of freedoms to the west(In a lot of cases more economic freedom but in all cases no political freedoms) which makes them much more likely to succeed competing against corrupt west as it is now
- fy20 6y agoHas anyone heard from Jack Ma yet?
- sudosysgen 6y agoThere was a video of him at a funeral a week or so ago.
- asdfsfkwqe 6y agoAre you lunatic? Any sane people will never work for CCP.
- higerordermap 6y agoChina's main power is cheap labour. Without it no US company does manufacturing in China. They are hardly obsessed about progress rather than control.
- tnt128 6y agoIncorrect, and that’s a common misconception. There are countries with way cheaper labor. China now has the manufacturing knowhow and eco system no other countries can compete. That’s it’s power
- MattGaiser 6y agoClothing is made in Bangladesh, but computers are still made in China. Cheap is no longer China. It is skilled.