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American tech workers need to start paying attention to Chinese national policy, the National People's Congress is happening right now and it's how China sets l
by dluan 2y ago
American tech workers need to start paying attention to Chinese national policy, the National People's Congress is happening right now and it's how China sets long term goals and targets.
"Made in China 2025" was a massive national strategic plan that was 10 years in the making, and was designed in 2015. It laid out all of the key sectors for "value added manufacturing", and by most accounts, they've been delivering and meeting their targets despite all the number fudging you want to point out. None of this is particularly secret or pernicious like western media tries to portray. Just follow the news. The next 5-year plan is being set now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025
- thenobsta 2y agoAre there particularly good news sources to follow? I'm not sure what to follow to get either the source material or good commentary.
- dluan 2y agoRight now, I try to consume content directly from the dragon's mouth with official news and reports, but it requires a bit of experience knowing how to read between the lines and having a strong bullshit parser. Similarly, most English language analysis from mainstream media is comically bad - CNN and American news outlets sent reporters to Beijing this week and bombarded attendees and delegates walking into the congressional hall with questions about Trump and tariffs, in English. Who does that?? Admittedly, I do like the stuff that comes out of Stanford's Digichina group, https://digichina.stanford.edu/work/?page=1&sort_order=desc&sort_by=iso_date https://digichina.stanford.edu/work/?page=1&sort_order=desc&..., they seem dedicated to doing an actual analysis and not just spewing brainless propaganda (HBR, looking at you). But yeah, it's hard out here to find any real meaningful information, so I've been debating starting up a substack myself, but with an additional academic research focus.
- jorvi 2y agoTP Huang has a pretty good substack[0]. Its a nice insider look. And its not fake stuff, its just looked at through the most red-yellow colored glasses there are. [0] https://tphuang.substack.com/ https://tphuang.substack.com/
- dluan 2y agoThere’s a ton of people I follow on twitter too, @beijingdai, @wmhuo168, @rnaudbertrand. All have great rants.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoHave a feed I can add to mine?
- Hikikomori 2y agoAt this point all China needs to do is the gaben strategy, doing nothing while America keeps shooting itself in the foot. Trump seems to have unlimited bullet supply.
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- Hikikomori 2y agoThe US has certainly wasted much of their wealth since the end of ww2 trying to keep their imperialism 2.0 going.
- pfdietz 2y agoIsn't this what Trump is trying to rectify now?
- xethos 2y agoTrump is discussing annexation of my country. Maybe you're thinking of Imperialism 1.0?
- pfdietz 2y agoI was thinking of talk of pulling out of NATO.
- Hikikomori 2y agoWhat I talked about was not NATO actions though.
- linkregister 2y ago> This occurred to me. April 2001, US Navy plane crashes into Chinese J8 jet, kills pilot, lands on Hainan Island without authorization An interesting interpretation of events. Let's continue. "Then the air crew donates their airframe & technology to the Chinese Communist Party. And when they return they come up with a lie that they had been buzzed several times by the J8 pilot until the crash. Also they faked distress calls recording it. All to prove that the United States is a paper tiger intent on disrupting the Chinese people's rightful claim to all East Asian territory."
- Animats 2y agoYes. China's five year plans are translated into English and are quite readable. Here's the 14th Five Year Plan, 2021-2025.[1] Wikipedia has a summary.[2] This is China's business plan. The top level is expanded into more detailed plans at lower levels. For example, here's the plan for Fujian province.[3] Further down, here's the transition plan for IPv6.[4] You can go back and read previous five-year plans. The success rate for the individual goals is reasonably high. [1] https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/t0237_5th_Plenum_Proposal_EN-1.pdf https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/t0237_5th_Ple... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_five-year_plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_five-year_plan [3] https://ccci.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/Policy%20Brief.%2014th%205%20Year%20Plans.pdf https://ccci.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/Policy%20Brief... [4] https://www.cac.gov.cn/2021-07/23/c_1628629122784001.htm https://www.cac.gov.cn/2021-07/23/c_1628629122784001.htm
- downrightmike 2y agoOh, cool, someone is going to use ipv6
- dluan 2y agoChinese people have an irrational amount of love for international standards.
- calcifer 2y agoWhat makes it irrational?
- grumpy-de-sre 2y agoSure beats sitting around discussing, complaining, and half assedly developing a replacement standard and getting nowhere. Perfect being the enemy of good and all that. https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- dluan 2y ago