[fishfasell]

In terms of innovation it's hard to not notice what they're doing. Just look at smartphones, all of the best flagship phones right now are almost exclusively Chinese. Again, from just a technological standpoint- it feels like we've fallen behind. American car manufacturers are fighting so hard to keep Chinese EVs out of America by labelling them a security threat, but given how feature rich and cheap they are it just feels like they know they can't compete.

[verdverm]

Renewables, Ai, biology, chemistry, robotics... they are building that SciFi future. I'm starting to learn Mandrin so I can go see it for myself. Adam Tooze inspired me to do so, said that the cross cultural polination is important for both people

[yorwba]

When you go, I recommend you look at a map of how the local public transportation network is laid out physically (e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shanghai_Metro_Linem... ) notice how it gets sparser further from the center, and explore one of the few-kilometer gaps on foot or by bike. Lest you end up thinking the future is evenly distributed. I used to live in the south near where the purple line 5 forks and went on a lot of walks. Half an hour from the university campus and technology park, there were people living in dilapidated houses, heating with coal in winter, a pipe under each house emptying into an open ditch, with children playing in the water in summer. That's China, too.

[romanhounds]

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