There is a believe that the Iranians are trying to give the USA the impression that the USA did destroy the three nuclear sites, in order not to invite further bombing. I think this is a very good strategy on the part of Iran. What is the point of denying if those sites were really destroyed, as it served no purpose for Iran to keep denying it? Just lull the USA into a false sense of victory would be a better way of dealing with the matter. Let the USA continue to think and believe that their bunker busters are the most effective weapon in the world.
How many times have the USA been waylaid by their own claims that they are the best in everything, only to discover that they are already behind upon realization. There are perfect examples like space station technology, high-speed rail construction, EV technology, battery technology and shipbuilding, sectors that China came from far behind to snooker the USA. Downfall is always the consequence of those who are too arrogant. Moreover, stifling competition from peers will result in the thinking that innovation is no longer a necessity, as tariffs will handle the competition.
China is not resting on its laurels, as trying to be self-sufficient means it is necessary to continue to innovate. As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention.
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Chinese leaders think differently from Western leaders. They are all encompassing in their strategy, which is how they managed to control so much of the raw materials in South American and African countries, the global market for its products and what is necessary to keep China ahead in terms of an educated workforce.
ReplyDeleteChina did not just start out to control the flow of raw materials like rare earth to China. China had also to build up its industrial base to cater to them and over the decades this is exactly what happened. Now, more than that, China had to change its education system to produce more scientists and engineers to helm those industries.
While the World's University Rankings were all preoccupied with citing just research papers written in English, while ignoring those written in Chinese, by Chinese researchers and academics in top Chinese Universities, it has now been discovered that there was a treasure trove of high valued papers that have gone under the radar in compiling the ranking of top universities, especially in science and engineering. This became apparent when China started dominating in high-speed-rails, EVs, batteries, infrastructure building like bridges and dams and shipbuilding. How could China be doing all that without having a closer look at all the research papers that they were publishing in Chinese that have long been ignored by the West. But it is too little too late to stop the horses from bolting after letting the stable doors open for China to step into the competition.
The USA is now trying to correct its mistake of taking its eyes off China and concentrating on forever wars and fighting terrorism. Thirty years of much ado about nothing allowed China the time factor to catch up in many sectors. Now, in terms of patents filed, China is way ahead of the USA in many sectors. The USA is trying to scrap the bottom of the barrel for raw materials that had long been cornered by China in South America and Africa. China has set up a manufacturing and industrial chain that not even the USA can ever manage to catch up and now using overcapacity against China to cripple it. China had already set up an education system well-tailored for its continuity as factory of the world. How long will it take Trump to bring all these to fruition to counter China? China has even cornered the market in the Global South that the USA and EU has no way of competing against.
A very strange scenario has developed regarding Japan's domination of high- speed-rail construction expertise in the past but that is now a pale shadow of itself in its heyday. Japan has lost out big in high-speed-rail construction innovation and the answer lies in its narrow scope for innovation with Japan's relatively short high speed rail system, stretching slightly more than three thousand kilometers in all that fail to necessitate any plans to develop any further. This has led to Japan lacking the necessity to innovate its high-speed rail construction expertise to compete with China.
ReplyDeleteChina has a 46,000-kilometer-long high-speed rail system and is still adding on mileage as well. The Chinese are able to innovate and improve due to its size and using updated methods to improve construction, which is how China has eclipse Japan even when competing against Japan in overseas ventures. Japan has stagnated in high-speed-rail construction, even though Japan is decades earlier in HSR construction compared to China in this sector.