I never said every project China does succeeds. You have to try lots of things when you’re pushing the envelope, some will be dead ends. However, China has managed to make a lot of things others abandoned succeed.
For all these examples, they are either pretty much on par with other countries (or slightly ahead), using dumping to kill the competition (PV) or focusing their resources on strategic tech -batteries- (like any authorian regime ever did).
I’m not saying is not saying they are not innovative or a technologic power.
But saying they have brought new tech (that Europeans or Americans had discarded) is not really correct.
Thorium reactors are a clear example of such tech, 5/6g and quantum networks are another. The Europeans and Americans are not able to build anything equivalent. For the other tech I listed, China is far ahead in terms of scale and penetration of deployment. There is a qualitative difference between what China and the west are able to do rooted in China’s massive industrial base and far larger population.
I never said every project China does succeeds. You have to try lots of things when you’re pushing the envelope, some will be dead ends. However, China has managed to make a lot of things others abandoned succeed.
Such as?
They have managed to take over many industries mostly though their focused resources allocation, extremely large internal market and some dumping.
But what technology have they developed, that others failed?
Thorium reactors, rail guns, 6g comms, quantum networks, using solar power at scale, refining rare earths,production of over 75% of the world’s lithium-ion battery cells.. These are just a few examples.
Here’s a study from last year outlining why China is technologically advancing more rapidly than the west. https://itif.org/publications/2024/09/16/china-is-rapidly-becoming-a-leading-innovator-in-advanced-industries/
For all these examples, they are either pretty much on par with other countries (or slightly ahead), using dumping to kill the competition (PV) or focusing their resources on strategic tech -batteries- (like any authorian regime ever did).
I’m not saying is not saying they are not innovative or a technologic power.
But saying they have brought new tech (that Europeans or Americans had discarded) is not really correct.
Thorium reactors are a clear example of such tech, 5/6g and quantum networks are another. The Europeans and Americans are not able to build anything equivalent. For the other tech I listed, China is far ahead in terms of scale and penetration of deployment. There is a qualitative difference between what China and the west are able to do rooted in China’s massive industrial base and far larger population.