So now that China has had a truly major failure attached to its reputation, how does that affect the future of its superpower aspirations? (I think it’s still well short of the USSR at its peak, so it’s like a superpower-lite aspirant right now)
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I used to work in robotics. You vastly overestimate Chinese strength there. Almost all the fundamental work happened in the west and continues to. Including work by Chinese origin technologists in the west. They are learning faster now, but from a lower base, so there’s time.
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Hands down, fundamental research is The West's Win, and it seems to be culturally based. Ok, so let's imagine that China won't be able to pipe in "creative" culture, culture is too hard to change. So it becomes an IP ripping game, but just need pretty good engineers to rip.
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This all sounds like increasing class disparity, which is likely. So you think that there will be a STEAMA elite that forgets about the race/genes game?
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Yes, that’s never been that important frankly. It’s just a narrative lens that trumpists around the world play up. The Chinese are no different from Americans on that I bet. Maybe a third are jingoistic racists, a third are pragmatic, a third have a liberal/cosmopolitan outlook.
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