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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/11/2021 01:55, bill w wrote:<br>
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to hear which of my ideas is outdated.</div>
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<p>The idea that China somehow needs to catch up with the west, or
anyone else. See:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://statisticstimes.com/economy/united-states-vs-china-economy.php">https://statisticstimes.com/economy/united-states-vs-china-economy.php</a></p>
<p>As far as ideology is concerned, I'm certain that the communist
chinese think that everyone else needs to catch up with them!</p>
<p>Even the idea that they can't innovate or do original scientific
research, and have to steal other people's ideas is outdated:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://hbr.org/2021/05/chinas-new-innovation-advantage">https://hbr.org/2021/05/chinas-new-innovation-advantage</a></p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/these-charts-show-how-china-is-becoming-an-innovation-superpower/">https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/these-charts-show-how-china-is-becoming-an-innovation-superpower/</a></p>
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become more like us very soon: they will stop making
everything for Amazon because they will no longer have all
that cheap labor. I am increasingly seeing 'made in
Bangladesh' and 'made in Vietnam'. That trend will get
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middle class. bill w</div>
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<p>I do hope you're right. I doubt it, though. Even if average
citizens get wealthier, automation will easily replace human
labour, and the chinese government certainly won't have any qualms
about that.<br>
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<p>Communist China is very different in outlook to western
democracies. The whole 'group is more important than individual'
mindset has been very successful there, even though it seems to go
against human nature. Certainly the masses seem to agree with it,
or at least acquiesce to it. The leaders probably see it as a
useful tool for wielding power.</p>
<p>I think that this rapid buildup of economic and technological
power, combined with their totalitarian ideology, should be making
us very worried indeed.</p>
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