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Funny how China leads in most tech areas now.
Turns out letting monopoly capital control your government policy leads to short term gains at the expense of long term viability. Maybe the VCs can make some money off government surveillance and defense contracts before being completely eclipsed?
https://www.aspi.org.au/news/aspis-critical-technology-track...
China calls its government a State Council, Russia calls theirs a Duma, and the USA calls its one Microsoft. (Or Oracle, or Disney, or S&P 500...)
Going with your example, the State Council or CCP only exists in name only. Xi, the emperor, is the government now just like Putin is the government for Russia. We might be puppeteered by corporations, but at least it's still a group of people who need consensus vs one flawed, megalomaniacal dictator - at least for now
stupid swipe typing