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  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    In what way?

    Chinese tech is considered to be pretty good but honestly most of their tech has amounted to “paper dragons” so I’d love to see verified reports of whatever it is you’re referring to.

    yes I know it’s paper tigers, paper dragons makes more sense for china IMO

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      10 months ago

      Some people on lemmy have this weird idea that China is some super high tech future society where they’re using fusion for all their power, have the fastest most complex computers in the world, medicine that cures all cancers and a fully functioning space program with a moon base.

      Instead of, you know… About the same as every other developed nation.

      And of course if you ask for any sources, it’s either “I don’t have to do your work for you” or “here’s a source directly from the government from a state-sponsored lab and has only been corroborated by other state-sponsored labs and not a single person outside their team has access of any of the produced things”

      And if you question a source, you’re racist because clearly if they were white you would have believed it.

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        10 months ago

        When the reality is that it’s mostly stolen western tech that’s then been iterated on from a position of disadvantage.

        It takes generations to create the engineering and scientific foundation that allows the tech that the USA and other nations are capable of producing.

        Not that china isn’t getting there or even there now but the reality is they’re still playing catch up. It will likely take a fundamental technological shift for them to leapfrog, or ANYONE to leapfrog the capabilities of “the west”

        Just so I am clear I do believe it is absolutely possible for China to catch up and achieve that fundamental technological developmental shift I am referring to but I believe that it will be a lot “louder” when and if that happens, and as long as the USA is doing their thing it will be a back and forth if anything.

        • Lost Subscriber@lemm.ee
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          10 months ago

          Sulk and downvote me all you want it’s just another expression of our imperial decline. Online reddit escapism. You probably still think Ukraine is winning.

          Your country is becoming like Senegal used to be to us, a source of crude oil to import and a place to export fuel at once. We are DRINKING your MILKSHAKE. 😂😂😂

          China is pioneering entire new forms of laser cooling systems. The UK is quite literally catching up.

          As proven by China’s ability to build regular coal power plants at a high standards, nuclear reactors, mass manufacture solar to bring costs down and invent new technologies with batteries outside lithium ion such as zinc-hydrogen, flow batteries, even kinetic batteries. They will be the leaders in the modern next gen battlefield control techniques. Look at their new aircraft carrier designs. We can’t even build new aircraft carriers at an acceptable rate.

          They created a wave-based power system that will surely be useful throughout Indonesia, where they are also building the world’s fastest high speed rail.

          Tell me, what has the left in the UK done for the world lately other than join hands with the right and send money to nazis?

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        10 months ago

        I have seen videos of them using the directed energy weapons on drones out in the field. The Australians have complained about them using this stuff. Try to stay on top of current events if you’re going to try to write about it

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      10 months ago

      They already showed off their directed energy weapons for use against drones. It’s just nothing new to me, sorry that hurts your pride across the pond.

      Mao was right, we are a paper tiger. The nukes were bluffs. We will overmilitarize and collapse like the USSR did.