[Lisdexamfeta]

All Xi has to do is stop barreling towards an invasion of Taiwan.

The U.S., Europe, and Japan need to create and enhance a drone industrial base before China invades Taiwan. By the time it has invaded, creating the industrial base will be too late.

Also, China has created DJI through government-sponsored industrial policy, not via open markets.

[sbarre]

> China has created DJI through government-sponsored industrial policy, not via open markets.

So like Boeing, Intel, Lockheed-Martin, GE, IBM, etc..

That's nothing new, just 50-100 years behind the west...

[Lisdexamfeta]

As you well know the scale and effort to dominate external consumer markets is nothing similar.

[sbarre]

Are you saying these US industries and companies have not dominated external markets?

[nullifidian]

the roots of silicon valley are in the decades of military contracts, initially, i.e. in the "government-sponsored industrial policy" https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo?t=3546