> China's recent successes can be attributed to intellectual theft from innovative cultures, and brutal oppression of their own people. This does not scale.
It scales pretty well. Reason? Facts. Anyone saying China can't innovate is self-denial.
It scales pretty well. Reason? Facts. Anyone saying China can't innovate is self-denial.
Using fear and brutal dominance causes people to take less risks and focus on appearing to succeed instead of committing to the unpopular, long-term effort and delayed results that innovation requires. China's appearance of recent success is exactly that - an appearance. A thin facade created by a PR campaign. We all know from being ripped off on Amazon the real quality of Chinese products. It's exactly what one would expect from a country of prisoners.
If China is such a great power, why not compete on a even field? Get rid of the mail subsidies and use a fair currency exchange rate. You won't, because you know your backwater has no hope of competing with civilized nations. Arrogance and corruption are not a replacement for responsible and effective.
Pride goeth before the fall..
But praying for the downfall of your enemy due to their own weaknesses isn't very good strategy leads towards victory, as we all understand it.
Go examine how common private debt is in China. How common corruption is, which leads to bad products and failing infrastructure.
I can't tell you how many projects I've been on where everything is spelled out to spec and nothing gets implemented right.