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Not just AI. China is building technologies that challenge U.S. dominance: From batteries and solar panels to drones and satellites, China is building tech capabilities that extend well beyond AI. (restofworld.org)
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[–] 33 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

It's worse than most realize. When I went to Guangdong 10 years ago, I expected to meet fabricators and technicians making our products, but I instead met engineers probing our customers and capabilities.

That company has since been acquired for pennies on the dollar by Google, to the surprise of no one.

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    And the irony is that China has moved far beyond copying Western technology. It’s now a global leader in research output, including fundamental research in materials science, chemistry, and physics. The West outsourced manufacturing, underestimated the transfer of expertise, and somehow assumed China would remain the world’s assembly line forever. That assumption aged spectacularly badly.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 hours ago

    Which is extra ridiculous after having just gone through the same thing with (much smaller) Japan only a couple of decades prior and having domestic auto, heavy and precision machinery markets trounced.

    Once they see a few dollar signs in the short term, all long term vision becomes blind.

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