Never underestimate the talent of the Chinese people is a
lesson the West has yet to learn to appreciate. Arrogance and
preventing competition are never going to lead to improvements in
innovation. It stifles innovation and is a recipe for retardation. Again
never forget the quote - 'Blowing out someone's candle won't make mine
shine brighter'.
The West was concentrating on its war on
terrorism after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. They took
their eyes off China, totally underestimating the Chinese, thinking they
are at best only fit to be chefs and laundrymen, without being allowed
anywhere near developments by the West. They were stunned by China's
three to four decades of quiet industrialisation and progress.
The
most disheartening realisation of the West was that the Chinese, in
spite of being locked out from participation in most high tech
experiments by the West, managed to have a space station of its own,
landed on the moon and could even land a probe on Mars. While on the
ground, the Chinese built their own aircraft carriers, jet engines,
hypersonic missiles, mastering drone technology, building
supercomputers, excel in AI, built tens of thousands of kilometres of
high speed railways that others envy, gaining infrastructure
construction expertise that others also envy. Did the Chinese steal all
that technology when it was prevented from even coming close to having a
peek at such innovation being conspired by the West.
To top the
accolades, China also lifted more than 800 million of its poor out of
the poverty trap. Who else could rival that? Did China steal such
poverty relief expertise from the USA? The USA could not even lift its
own 50 million poverty stricken citizens living on the streets and that
says a lot about its bragging rights as the richest country in the
world.
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In the USA, it is said that the only qualifications needed to be a Senator is 'stupidity'. It does appear to be so.
Just how stupid they are can be seen in the way they keep voting to send taxpayer's money into the Black Hole, that is Ukraine. Knowing that the regime in Ukraine is the most corrupt in the whole of Europe, they keep on supporting it. Now, what is in it for them doing so, could only be the money laundering setup that benefits their own pockets. If that is the case, there is really a case of 'stupidity has no cure' or refusing to be cured.
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