alt Hacker NewsIs there realistically a path to the west learning any of these lessons without going through WW3?
It’s not like any of this is news. My newspaper of choice has been telling me about how fast china moves, in vivid detail, since at least 2018 - others probably knew much earlier than I did. I watched a graphic documentary on YouTube about Shenzhen in 2019 that gave me all of the same information in this tweet, minus the accomplishments that have happened since then.
My own eyes have seen how their consumer goods have transformed in a very short time. Maybe other Americans don’t notice because the key categories (tech, cars) have so much protectionism. I’m not sure about the Europeans.
The west is better at coming up with excuses and red tape than actually solving problems, it seems.
> Is there realistically a path to the west learning any of these lessons without going through WW3?
> The west is better at coming up with excuses and red tape than actually solving problems, it seems.
Most of the west still has this paterno-colonialist view of the world, we're too complacent, too sure of ourselves, it never changed, just look at how Trump talks about Iran, he is completely clueless about the history of this region of the world, they'd nuke themselves before accepting the unconditional surrender he asked for... It was the same with China: "let's move all our industries there, they are too dumb to figure anything out and they'll will be our cheap labor forever", well no, they're just as smart as us and as soon as they reached the threshold necessary to provide education to the mass they also reached our technological level.
It mostly is over for the west as we know it, demographically, politically, industrially, soon militarily, people who don't see it are straight up blind or historically illiterate, we're in a end of the Portuguese or British empire situation.