I mean, the optics of this externally are:
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Massive warmongering country which doesn’t invest in educating, feeding, or providing safety or healthcare for its citizens and doesn’t invest in its own infrastructure decides to switch to a limited supply of energy that makes people unhealthy and tries to deny said energy to other countries in order to harm and literally torture them, versus
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Much more massive country with a history of innovating and pulling a billion people out of poverty(and not just the standard of that first country, but actually the more massive country’s much higher standard for poverty), which is doing a lot to invest in educating, feeding, and providing safety and healthcare for its own systems and investing massively in its own infrastructure and is quickly switching to solar and other renewable forms of energy and is quickly using dedesertification to try to stop and reverse the spread of deserts and turn them back into forests and vegetation, and is providing energy to a country that said first country is trying to deprive.
The optics look really bad for the first country.
I agree with everything you said except saying that China is “innovating”. China has a long history of espionage and theft to jumpstart many of their technologies someone else developed. The US, Europe, Japan, Korea…I mean look at CXMT’s memory fabrication techniques. They were caught red handed stealing it from Samsung.
China is moving in the right direction with electrification, transit, their belt and road initiatives, etc., but they are not some bastion of Utopia. Not by a long shot. Their support of Cuba is an extension of their soft power globally that the Mango Moron in the US has decided isn’t necessary. China is trying to fill the gigantic power vacuum that the US has left globally by their stupid fucking decisions.
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Seems all the Lemmy.ml people woke up and did the predictable thing of pulling a bunch of straw man and whataboutism arguments.
China has a long history of espionage and theft to jumpstart many of their technologies someone else developed. The US, Europe,
Don’t fucking care, the US’ entire history is from since its inception has been plunder, stealing and genocide to steal land. The entirety of Europe’s history has been colonialism and stealing from Africa and mass killings and misery inflicted there.
China has a long history of espionage and theft to jumpstart many of their technologies someone else developed.
As they should.
Why should technology be gate-kept from less developed nations simply because they can’t afford it? That’s just a way to keep them underdeveloped, trapped in perpetual dependency on the more developed nations for so-called “intellectual property”
Not saying they should or shouldn’t. Just saying that copying someone else’s homework wholesale is not “innovating”.
Now you’re just being racist. They’re learning from other technology and then innovating it further, not just copying.
And if you don’t think the other countries you listed aren’t doing the same thing, you aren’t thinking about this seriously.
How the actual fuck am I being racist?
China is a country. Not a race.
The idea that Asians only steal and can’t invent anything is a pretty old Orientalist trope.
I don’t believe what you’re claiming I do. China, Japan, South Korea…all of these countries have made incredible inventions and technological achievements.
It’s also very common for the Chinese government to support and foster espionage against Capitalist countries to jump start their technological development of some things.
It’s also very common for corporations to steal from each other, too.
Multiple things can be true. Pointing out scummy behavior of one entity does not mean I’m a racist.
Do you think the West invented all their solar panel tech? China is lightyears ahead.
Talking about stealing knowledge while current top Western tech is knowledge theft running on a GPU is peak cope.
No the French invented photovoltaics. Then it was an American who made the first commercial solar panel and Bell labs of the US made the modern solar panel design that we use today. China has been involved in development along the way, but they didn’t start things. Their biggest contribution has been making them cheap and affordable.
China has had plenty of innovations that are incredible. Sodium Ion battery technology is largely a Chinese development with others contributing. There are plenty of things that China has made and they should be proud of. They also steal other’s ideas and try to pull a “I made this” meme. That doesn’t mean they are unique in this manner, though.
American AI companies are thieves, too. The entirety of AI development is bullshit made on the back of human innovation. It’s an abomination. Multiple things can be true. You clearly have an agenda with your whataboutism arguments
Do you think discovering the principle of something is the same as refining and mass producing it? In that case, plants beat France.
Do you think the only thing China has done is make them cheap?
No and I never said that. I said it was their largest contribution to the technology, although I’m open to a rebuttle of information, if you have evidence to the contrary. I’m hardly an expert, but I know a good amount of solar panel history.
Maybe try not being so fucking presumptuous and hostile to everyone that presents something you don’t like.
How many skulls did you measure?
Literally EVERYTHING developed in the United States was innovated by an employee and then the value of that innovation was stolen by their employer.
The United States doesn’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to claiming to innovate. The people who do the actual innovation aren’t mentioned and barely get paid enough money to live.
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So now when the US bombs Cuba, china can claim they’ve been attacked?
If only the US could have self restraint and foresight!
