[themafia]

> It undermines the prevailing media narrative that China is behind and backwater.

The prevailing narrative, particularly around hacker news, is that China is a dangerous foe and it's technological progress is a sign that we need to give our own government more money and less oversight so that we don't lose our "technological advantage."

> Americans don't like the idea that maybe China is actually rocketing past them technologically and infrastructurally

I don't buy this explanation given it's value to American propagandists. American society is naturally competitive. There's only two likely reasons why it doesn't get reported.

It's either not as true as the Chinese would like you to believe or American industry is already profiting off of it.