Comments on: Some of the technologies behind China’s Assassin’s Mace weapons were indigenously developed

By: Pseudo-Chrysostom

Pseudo-Chrysostom — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 02:13:15 +0000

The difference between the CCP and USG is that in China, the official religion says ‘make china great again’, while in the occupied states of america, the official religion says ‘provide self-esteem to women, deviants, and subsaharan bantus’.

Both entities are accomplishing their missions.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 22:08:18 +0000

So true.

By: Gavin Longmuir

Gavin Longmuir — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:36:34 +0000

Back in the 1960s in the days of the NASA “Brain Drain”, many of the smartest people in Europe emigrated to the US because things could get done in the US. That was in contrast to stodgy old Europe where there was a profound reluctance to try anything new.

Something analogous has happened in China — minus the immigrants.

Take Magnetic Levitation trains as an example. The US and Europe have been playing around with that technology for decades, but it took China to take the step of actually building a working MagLev line.

Or compare China’s build-out of something like 14,000 miles of High Speed Rail versus California’s converting HSR into a full-employment plan for lawyers, spending vast amounts on litigation instead of getting a working HSR.

The concern is not really with technology — because there is very little which is truly secret. The issue is with the willingness to take a chance by investing and doing. On that score, China is now as far ahead of the US as the US once was ahead of Europe.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 13:02:05 +0000

Regarding the Chinese theft of US technology:

China has 10 times as many engineers and scientists as we do, that is they have 10 times as many people as we do that can do creative technology.

As Thomas A. Callaghan Jr. (influential US defense consultant of the 1970s and 1980s) said, “Quantity has a quality all its own.” So China now leads the US in refereed journal publications and patents; it has more supercomputers, and two of the fastest; it has more high-speed train trackage than Europe, including mag-lev; it has an independent manned space program; its industrial sector is 50% larger than ours; and its economy is one-third larger than ours, and growing three times as fast.

The collapse of our education system, especially STEM, is another Chinese advantage.

By the way, Russia, with half our population, has as many engineers and scientists, and they are better educated than our. The numbers of engineers and scientists is more or less proportional to the size of the physical economy. Just how small do you think Russia’s economy is? Its physical economy (metals, chemicals, machines) might be as big as ours. Their commercial ship building vies for third or fourth in size with Japan.