While Americans lament their crumbling infrastructure, China is rapidly expanding high-speed rail, subway systems, and airports across the country. Chinese tech products, from autonomous vehicles to drones to addiction-inducing algorithms, have won over global consumers and put companies such as BYD, DJI, and TikTok in pole position.
China’s prowess in engineering and manufacturing is now at the center of the U.S.–China rivalry in artificial intelligence. Despite Washington’s efforts to block China from advancing in AI, the country has continued to make progress in developing chips and training state-of-the-art large language models.
Dan Wang moved to Canada at age seven from Yunnan in southwestern China. A former tech analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, his stints in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai allowed him to closely observe China’s trajectory. In his new book, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future, Wang compares the country’s “engineering” state, which favors large-scale manufacturing, with America’s “lawyerly” society, which he believes hinders new construction and development.
Because the US sent all it’s tech to China and is now just a middleman skimming profits while making nothing of value and this has been going on for almost 2 whole generations ?
Reading Apple in China blew my mind. The amount of cash and training sent that way is unbelievable. Mix in Foxconn being smart about moving by staff around so everyone gets trained on everything at Apple’s expense, it’s no surprise
It makes sense since elite here, while they say they’re thankful for their workers and blabla the reality is that they think we’re an obstacle to their profit, we are arrogant and don’t do what we’re told, they want more obedient workers who were the one thankful to be given work not the other way around.
So they love getting rid of having to have workers and just abstract this in a deal as exploitative as possible, leveraged by the price gap of floating currencies. Now they have had massive profit hollowing out their cost centers in America and for the social consequences, they’re just going to build bunkers and wait it out.
They really think they’re the value creators and not just value vampires who are about to run out of victims and blood. They think they’ll be able to continue milking us while they keep us in check with Palantir.