I have followed China’s development, its stunning advance in forty years from impoverished Third World to a huge economy, its rapid scientific progress. Coming from nowhere it now runs neck and neck with the US in supercomputes, does world-class work in genetic engineering and genomics (the Beijing Genomics Institutes), quantum computing and quantum radar, in scientific publications. It lags in many things, but the speed of advance, the intense focus on progess, is remarkable.
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Fred missed the mark with this article. In China everything, politics, finances, jobs, sports, education, etc., exists to advance the State. If you express environment concerns about the bridge that was shown, you can be placed in a re-education camp. Problem solved. If a idiot like Occasio-Cortez wants to hold office, he or she can be made to disappear. There is no doubt that a Communist system can get things done quicker than a Democratic one, but I suspect there are a billion or so Chinese who would prefer our system to their's.
ReplyDeletethere are a billion or so Chinese who would prefer our system to their's.
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Just read the first two paragraphs. (about all I can stand of phred) The "speed of advance" he so admires is thanks to stealing & buying (Clinton's) the technology.
ReplyDeleteSome of it, I'm sure. I like his Vietnam and growing up in rural Virginia stories, though there are others I don't post. Thanks.
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