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The Chinese have learned a lot from the west, sure, some through espionage, but most directly through the west teaching them. Many German companies have coopera
by constantcrying 3y ago
The Chinese have learned a lot from the west, sure, some through espionage, but most directly through the west teaching them. Many German companies have cooperated with Chinese ones or manufactured, even for decades.
China can compete because they have serious engineering talent which had a long time to learn and both government and private industry, which recognized a major trend and managed to capitalize on it. To be frank the "stealing of R&D" is pure cope by people who do not want to acknowledge that the Chinese can actually make competent cars.
- theogravity 3y agoYou're right. I shouldn't have implied that, and as you said it does come from a fear of realizing that truth. Given enough time, people, resources and focus, one can definitely capitalize on this. They have all that and it should be acknowledged.
- padjo 3y agoChina is now capable of producing world class tech in any consumer industry. They even lead the world by a long way in some (eg camera drones)
- constantcrying 3y agoYes, but I experience again and again people completely in denial about this. Often they view China as the producer of low cost and low quality products flooding global markets, which certainly is true, but at the same time Chinese companies have actually learned how to produce high quality products, that can actually compete with western offerings.