- yanhangyhyThe argument that never fails to appear: China’s failures are blamed on communism, while China’s successes are attributed to capitalism.
- > That's how everyone who industrialized/advanced approaches everything. China isn't the only country with the "can do" or "if you can do it, we can do it" attitude. The US is a prime example of the "can do" attitude. Do you think when britain industrialized, the US decided only britain is capable of industrializing and gave up? Of course not. Heck, china isn't even the first asian country with the "can do" attitude. The japanese, during the 1800s, decided that if europeans can industrialize, so can they. So on and so forth.
A reminder: the difference is that Japan has already failed in areas such as mobile internet, robotics, Fifth-generation computers, and space technology....LLM and so on. Japan is still clinging to the substantial profits of its internal combustion vehicle industry, and in battery technology it has fallen far behind.
States may disappear, nations may vanish, and once-advanced countries can become backward. Most of them will never return to their former national glory. “If others can do it, we can do it” only becomes a true national characteristic if it is persistently pursued, strictly implemented, and internalized into the national mindset. Japan clearly does not fall into this category.
In fact, only China and the United States possess this mindset. Germany and Japan have small national territories, making it easy for them to fall into early industrial leadership and then rest on high-profit laurels without further ambition. Essentially, it is not a national character. Look at Japan’s reliance on fax machines and Yahoo, or the chaos in Germany’s train system—it shows that this is an advantage created by a particular population with a special disposition, useful only for a limited time. The pace of deindustrialization in these two countries is also very fast: Japan now heavily depends on tourism, and Germany has become something of a joke.
If you browse YouTube or other video platforms, you can see that the people of China and the United States have, and continue to have, the national confidence and “hands-on” culture of the world’s largest industrial powers. In the U.S., there are many farm owners and ordinary laborers who are skilled at making and producing things—they are the foundation of the country. Capitalism merely led the U.S. down a different path.
- This is a country with its own written language, writing system, calendar, the internet, and so on; a country with the world’s largest single ethnic population; a country whose cultural traditions were established two thousand years ago; a country with an independent ideology. Are you saying that Western societies would rather believe this is a country of large-scale surveillance, that its people live under a social credit system with no individuality or freedom, than believe that its people possess a distinct and stronger sense of collective consciousness?
- time to pick up my e-book reader again..
- > Can you clarify what are you talking about? The US has been developing 6th-gen fighter since the mid mid-2010s - not that I'd consider it as an important new original invention.
So you think that, as an advanced military project that should have been kept under the strictest secrecy, the Chinese somehow obtained it and, based on that, developed their own sixth-generation fighter—and even managed a successful test flight while the U.S. is still at the PowerPoint stage? I don’t know which scenario would be worse for the United States.
- “transparent computing” -> this shit: https://www.science.org/content/article/critics-pounce-china...
- around 13 millons graduates each year and > 50% of them are STEM
- To be honest, maybe only Americans themselves really understand it. Our understanding of them is that they have poured vast amounts of money into areas outside of technology.
- You’re not wrong to think that way. But now there’s less and less left for China to “copy,” and it’s hard to argue that many things aren’t being invented by China itself.
Perhaps the real question is this: why is it that places that used to be technologically advanced no longer produce new, original inventions? Is it fear of China copying them? Did the U.S. decide not to develop a sixth-generation fighter jet because it was afraid China would copy it? Did it stop working on battery technology because it feared China would copy that too?
- Domestically, we often put it this way: since it wasn’t made by God, we can definitely make it ourselves. It’s only a matter of time — if not this year, then next year; if we can’t do it next year, we’ll just keep going. This is how we approach everything.
There is a small caveat, though. China was not actually that far behind in the semiconductor field in the past. The problem was that corruption and fraudulent projects were quite serious, which undermined the Chinese government’s confidence in these efforts. A few years ago, there was even a so-called “transparent computing” scam project that was awarded a national-level prize.
Corruption and fraud can slow China’s progress, but they will not affect the final outcome. This is because it is not only a government policy, but also a Chinese way of thinking. Nothing can interrupt this process.
In fact, aside from high-end chips, China already dominates the mid- and low-end chip segments.
- I hope this war can bring about many positive outcomes. I really want to go see Angkor Wat, but Cambodia’s security situation is too serious.
- Indeed. I’ve noticed a large number of Pakistani taxi drivers and Southeast Asian service workers. But considering the income of food delivery riders(most of the time > avg salary in the city china. not sure in UAE, but the service like Uber is pretty expensive), buying a not-too-expensive electric scooter seems to be a fairly good investment.
- When I was traveling in UAE, I was shocked to see some people actually using bicycles for food delivery. In China, electric motorcycle support the extremely large food delivery market, and in most cities, the streets are lined with delivery riders’ e-motorcycle and bicycles. Later, I heard that China’s Meituan has also started food delivery services in Dubai. I expect this model to expand to global markets as electric motorcycle become more widespread.
- seems lots of chinese.
- Considering the sheer number of commercial flight routes and travel demand worldwide, that actually sounds pretty promising.
- Seeing this issue, I’m actually wondering what else might be replaced by batteries in the future… airplanes?
- > Meanwhile, Tesla's Chinese competitor BYD (BYDDY), which sells a mix of pure EVs and hybrids, reported sales jumping 207% to 17,470 units sold in Europe. Another major China rival, SAIC, saw sales climb 46% to just under 24,000 vehicles sold.
From January to October this year, BYD has already sold nearly 140,000 units in Europe, an astonishing increase. Even setting aside people’s personal feelings about Musk, the main reason is probably that Tesla no longer has much competitive advantage. The BYD he once openly mocked with “have you seen their cars?” and laughed about by end up completely defeating Tesla in the European market
Personally, the one I most want to buy in the future is the Yangwang series, even though it’s very expensive. Or the series that comes with the drone feature.
- The issue itself is actually not complicated. Most media simply do not want to acknowledge the positive part about China, so they over-emphasize the advantage of low labor costs. Putting aside those clichés, China has the most complete set of industrial sectors, the fastest-growing density of industrial robots, and a large number of skilled workers. Every part of the industrial supply chain and raw materials can be supplied domestically, allowing prices to be pushed very low. These factors may already contribute more than cheap labor. Keep in mind that most Southeast Asian countries have cheaper labor than China, yet they cannot manufacture cars cheaper than China.
Take BYD as an example. Its wages are much lower than Tesla’s, but BYD has nearly one million employees, most of whom are in China, and many of its factories are in non-major cities. The wage levels in those places are certainly higher than in Vietnam, and BYD’s wages are higher than the local average. Thanks to China’s advantage in cost of living, a BYD employee earning 5,000 RMB (>700USD) a month can actually live quite well in a non-first-tier city. Rent is below 1,000 RMB, and cooking at home usually costs only a few hundred RMB. They already belong to the local middle class and generally do not face much financial pressure.
- My biggest impression over the past couple of days is that I’ve been working too long and have forgotten just how huge Google’s technological advantages are. From college until now, I’ve always relied on Google Search, even though I hardly use their other products. When I started working, it was Google’s open-source MapReduce paper that shaped the big data industry. Then came containerization, then Google’s Kubernetes. Nowadays, the entire cloud computing industry seems to be based on Kubernetes, and our entire team develops on top of it. Even this wave of Google’s stock price increase has benefited our company, because we have partnerships with them.
- It feels like the article doesn’t really say anything. The popularity of Labubu is something worth analyzing, and many similar phenomena have existed in the past or will appear in the future. But Labubu also has its unique aspects; it’s just that the article’s author wasn’t capable of properly studying what makes Labubu distinctive.
I only have some vague ideas, not enough to write an article. But if you want to write an analysis, it’s best to come up with something new.