When history repeats itself, but a role reversal

In the late 19th Century, the Europeans crashed into the world stage after the great Industrial Revolution.  They were ahead of the rest of the world in new technology and industrialisation. They were the new advanced countries. China and Japan were the waning Asian countries that have lacked far behind the Europeans. Japan took a bold move to learn from the Europeans, to industrialise and followed the path of the Europeans to become successful industrialised nation.

China on the other hand chose to turn its back from the rest of the world. Instead of learning from the new industrialised countries, learning new technologies, China turned isolationist and refused to learn, and fell further behind and eventually was crushed by the more industrialised and power countries of Europe and Japan.

The moral of the story, refusal to learn new things and move forward, turns inward, isolation and stagnation and got left behind.  By the time China realised what was happening, it was history.

Today we are seeing history repeating itself in almost the exact mould. This time the players role were reversed. The losers and the winners have switched sides.  China in a way is assuming the role of the industrial West of the 19th Century while the USA and UK, plus the Anglo Saxon countries are now the backward countries in the area of 5G and AI. Though these two fields may be too narrow to described who is more advance and who more backward, 5G and AI is about everything in the future. And in both areas China is way ahead of the USA and the Anglo Saxon countries and running ahead at blinding speed.  China is striding ahead in many areas that are leaving these new backward countries huffing and puffing but without any idea of how to catch up.

Then came Trump and his moribund policies of isolation, a replica clown replacing the Dowager of the Qing Dynasty with a brain of likely equal size of a pea. Instead of welcoming the new technology and plod along with China, Trump is turning inwards, not wanting to embrace the new technology. And Trump is dragging the Anglo Saxon countries with him into their own little backward world.  Trump is putting all the stops on Huawei's 5G technology and chose to live with the outdated 4G and backward limited 5G which is as good as a 4G in new clothes. No 5G at all cost and forcing the USA to go along with Nokia and Ericsson with their premature 5G models.

And the UK, having tried very hard to convince themselves that Huawei's 5G was the way to go, is now being pressurised to drop all the 5G installation to be content to have none of it. All Huawei's 5G equipment would have to be taken down by 2027. This means in the next 7 years, the UK would be tearing itself apart, not to have the most advanced 5G available but to live with whatever 4G that it has and remain backward until the next 5G comes along, if it comes along.

In desperation, knowing how important 5G is, and knowing that Nokia and Ericsson did not have the 5G to match, the UK is turning to Japan for help to build its 5G network. The big question is what did Japan have as far as 5G is concerned? Nothing.  Japan's 5G development is no better than Nokia and Ericsson.  Japan is no longer the technological powerhouse of the 1970s. But the UK is running out of ideas and options and grasping for straws is better than none.

When China is offering the USA and UK and the other Anglo Saxon countries the most advanced 5G technology of the future, they chose not have it and opted to try their luck with countries/companies that did not have 5G technologies. Nokia. Ericsson and Japan's NEC and Fijitsu are at least 2 to 3 years behind Huawei, could be longer. By the time they caught up with Huawei's 5G in 3 or 4 years time, Huawei would be flying with 6G.  In this field of high tech, 2 or 3 years behind is between modernity and stone age.

This turning away from new technology also applies to electric cars. Tesla is not making headways in the US but finding a big open market in China.  China is moving away from petrol engines to fully electric in the next one or two decades when all vehicles will be electric, incorporating 5G technology.

This is what is happening today. History is repeating itself with the US and UK and company choosing to close their doors to advanced technology, just like what Qing China did. And what happened to Qing China would be the fate of the US and UK and company in the not too distant future, backward countries and would never catch up for a thousand years.

People who do not understand history would repeat the mistakes of history. In this case it is not that they don't understand, their ego and pride, just like Qing China, would bury them alive. Instead of welcoming 5G from China and move forward, they chose to shun it, closed their doors and hoping for the best, just like Qing China did. China will be the modern Europe after the 4th Industrial Revolution, and the US and UK and company would be the Qing China in the 21st Century.

Time changes, fortune changes, and countries will rise and fall. It is time for a new China to rise, and for the old Empires to fade away into history. The Evil American Empire will not last for long.

The clown is now banning Tik Tok on the silly and pretentious excuse that it is spying for China and thinking that he could hit China and China cannot hit the Americans.  Wait for China to stop buying beef, soya beans and produce from the American farmers, stop buying planes from Boeing, stop buying chips from American companies and see how the farmers and workers cry for mercy. It is never a one way traffic. Every tit would be returned with a tat.