Who’s working on gene editing for IQ maxxing?
Tell that to Pakistan, Taiwan, Cambodia, Korea and checks notes Tibet.
America’s cultural projection was similarly local while the British Empire reined.
What dispute do they have with Pakistan? You mean India?
You’re the one who straw manned to territorial disputes!
Beijing culturally projects in Pakistan. Capitalism with Chinese characteristics, a growing prevalence of Mandarin being taught as a second language [1], requiring Islamabad embrace Beijing’s foreign policy, et cetera.
(To be clear, this seems fine. Both Pakistan and Russia have proven dangerously incompetent as fully sovereign states. Perhaps being under Beijing is more stable and prosperous.)
[1] https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202210/19/WS634f462aa310f...
Anyways understanding China as if it were one giant entity operating in lockstep is peak western thinking.
They also have different values, so sometimes their movies and TV seem a little "off" for us. We don't find the same things funny, or heroic.
Any chinese here that can share their view?
No, that's actually completely untrue. Chinese (and Japanese too) has no problem to copy your IP, but they will fight tooth and nail to protect theirs. Nintendo is great example of that (look into history how they got big) for China it was recently when EU wants tech transfer in exchange for dropping tariffs on cars, which Chinese are not keen on at all.
There are organizations aside from the Chinese government that speak Chinese and could translate into other languages. I'm thinking specifically of any news reporting organization.
> They also have different values
They also span five different time zones. The values are no more consistent in their society then it is in any other.
Having said that, we do get some of the biggest games, movies and apps.
The simple answer is that they are still in the "copying" stage.
China is what, like 30k GDP on a PPP basis? I think they are still in the stage where the marginal returns on simply copying stuff are higher than frontier research for most of the industries they are in.
They don't have the problem of something like Switzerland, where we need to figure out what a 110k GDP PPP looks like (the countries above us right now cannot be replicated for obvious reasons). China can mix match its way to 40,50,60,70k PPP for the next 10 years.
I don’t have firsthand experience, but I have heard that China is attempting to restructure their education programs which have been historically 100% aimed at test taking which is not a good way to produce leaders, original thought, and value to society. The elites of China still send their children abroad to study.
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avgDev•2h ago
I feel like high iq people are more likely to succeed in the USA, than a communist country. This comes from someone whos parents grew up and lived in a communist nation.