Now the USA needed urgently to pass laws to kill Rednote and DeepSeek since it cannot compete with them. Instead of taking up the challenge to innovate in order to compete, the USA is basically taking the easy way out by banning, sanctioning and threatening. Raising tariffs to high heaven is not going to encourage innovation. More likely it is going to stifle innovation in the US going forward.
China has benefitted largely because the USA is behaving like an ostrich, burying its head in the sand when facing danger. The head may be saved by being in the sand, but the body will be at the mercy of the predator.
DeepSeek was the big shock that the USA encountered. And the other bigger shock was that DeepSeek was the brainchild of just a couple of young graduates from China's own universities, not the kind of innovation that depended on 'long in the tooth' old timers unable to think out of the box.
According to Kevin Walmsley, the USA could not believe that top Chinese Universities were turning out such outstanding students and tried to dig deeper into the issue, trying to find out whether there were people educated in Western Universities teaming up with them and providing the expertise to help them. They were disappointed that the brains behind DeepSeek's innovation all came solely from top Chinese Universities, Beijing and Tsinghua, all without any education derived from Western Universities.
Not being convinced they dug even deeper to try to find out whether the Professors who taught these geeks were culled from Western Universities and research establishments and imparting their knowledge to these young Chinese scientists. They found out that those professors were themselves all cohorts from Chinese Universities.
Now there is an awakening about Global University rankings that failed to take into account the research papers written by Chinese University researchers just because they were all written in Chinese. The realization struck them like a bolt of lightning. They only started realizing this when China became the dominant player in high-speed rail construction, EVs, batteries, shipbuilding, space exploration, telecommunications and catching up in aviation, semiconductors and nuclear research and development.
Too little too late I would say. Even without any Mainland Chinese Nobel Prize winners in any category to gloat about, China is producing cutting edge technology in many fields. Too much arrogance, too deeply entrenched in superiority complex mentality and looking down on China for far too long is a price to be paid by the USA today.
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The saying that investing in education cannot be taken away by theft, scam, sanctions and banning is very true. All other material possessions that money can buy can be lost in a jiffy, just like the US$300 billion that Russia had in its reserves. And even the gold in Fort Knox is now under speculation about its existence and status.
China must use its massive reserves and not keep them invested in USA treasuries and USA and Western assets. Those are very risky investments, not as safe as being touted in the face of the USA's agenda to put China down.
China already saw the value of investing in education long ago, in fact learning is a trait that the Chinese value very much. That is why China invested heavily, first in sending Chinese to study in overseas universities, and now building universities like no other. The BBC, the propaganda arm of the UK, even said that China has been building the equivalent of a university in China every week. This is part of a silent revolution that China is undergoing as more foreign students are flocking to China to take advantage of the cheap and high value education standards that China is building up. The average cost of fees studying in a Chinese university as disclosed by Chinese citizens is US$2,000 per year. This is atrocious compared to the hundreds of thousands that even USA citizens have to pay studying in the USA to graduate. Does that make sense that foreign students from South America, Africa and Middle East are flocking to study in China? With the rise of AI and DeepSeek and others, the whole world now realizes the standard of Chinese universities being able to turn out top-notched students that outperforms those educated in the West. People are asking, what else is being hidden by the Chinese that has not yet been revealed to the world.
While USA was investing lots of money in wars, churning out propaganda, instigating regime changes, carrying out assassinations, funding the creation of unrest, sanctioning every Tom, Dick and Harry, China was undertaking more productive investments with its money. And Elon Musk is now peeling away the facade of money wasting endeavors by previous USA administrations over the decades that achieved nothing. The revelations just add to the derision of the USA's dirty tactics and criminal activities worldwide.
China's investment is getting more bang for the buck, literally. Just looking at the scientists and engineers China has trained, now repaying all the investments that China made over the decades. Now, this does not come about by chance or at warped speed. It was all planned and thought out over the decades, a generational move, when China decides what it needed to do for it to rise. Manufacturing was the path chosen. It provided the jobs needed to be created, the economic benefits of exporting finished goods and the rest is history.
What has the USA achieved in underwriting the war in Vietnam? Did Vietnam become democratic after all the lives lost?
What has the USA achieved in Afghanistan? After dumping US$2 trillion into going after the Taliban, it turns out ironically that it was the Taliban that finally chased them out. That US$2 trillion could have been used more meaningfully to eradicate homelessness, rebuilt failing infrastructures and provide a better life for USA citizens. But the USA chose to waste it on wars.
What has the USA achieved setting up the propaganda machine that was being used to demonized communism, Russia and China. In one swift unintentional move, Rednote exposed all the lies of the USA dream by showing USA users the real China that their Government and MSM had tried to lie to them for decades. Foreign vloggers also helped to dispel the propaganda trotted out by the West about conditions in China. The US$300 million investment had been all wasted for nothing.
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