tortoise vs the hare analogy doesnt work well when there isnt even a race. The USA withdrew from the race with decoupling tariffs.

Humanity needs redundancy and resilience. We dont have that when all medical products are produced in china. The move means we produce them in north america, asia, and europe. We create jobs back home and have secure supply chains.

This unfortunately does mean harsh times for china who needs to adapt. Whereas north american point of view is just job creation.

Apparently this is just a sort of spin “argument” about nuclear reactors the lesson is that China is going slow with research?

I honestly don’t get how the meme like PR statements about this situation apply at all…

> For once, Chinese engineers and scientists didn’t steal intellectual property but used declassified US documents on projects that the West had abandoned and developed them.

Oh wow. I dont think BeiDou Nav Sat System, HarmonyOS, Loongson&Zhaoxin CPUs, high speed Maglev trains (that use homegrown proprietary tech/design/material/engineering), Jinhdong warehouses etc are stolen.

Obviously, there is an argument to be made for how all of the above is based on papers and prototypes that originate in the west. However the same argument also applies to a lot of tech that originates in, say, the US. For example, the US Internet grew out of British packet switching theory(Donald Davies), GPUs rely on parallel computing theories from Japan and Europe etc.

It is very much too late to diagnose a lack of seriousness. China -- Zhongguo, literally "the country that is the center of the world" -- may point and laugh, as one once did at lepers, but soon enough they will learn that there is no safe distance. Devolution is contagious.