This type of progress shows China is capable of moving from an economy that’s build on labor arbitrage or copying others to genuine innovation. It’s also further evidence of the extreme competence of the CCP in governance, which I feel should be acknowledged despite their authoritarian negatives.
> This type of progress shows China is capable of moving from an economy that’s build on labor arbitrage or copying others to genuine innovation
China has been genuinely innovating in manufacturing techniques for decades. If anything, that ingenunuity peaked when Xi began his term, and has been degrading as his dictatorial tendencies needlessly hamstrung Chinese industry.
I don't think it makes sense to extrapolate from one particular technical field to governance in general.
The US managed to defeat both Nazi Germany and Japan plus develop nuclear weapons, all in 1941-5. Was it a proof of extreme competence of the US government in general? The some government tolerated abuse of blacks and forced segregation in the South, I would call it a serious governance failure.
Worse than us? We're conducting a genocide. The "Uighur genocide" is not real, the people creating that narrative were right-wing christian nationalists and none of it held up. We know what a genocide looks like in the 21st century because it's being live-streamed.
Don't buy US propaganda so easily. They want to create a moral equivalence where there is none.
