The Atlantic is hysterical because China refused to become the economy the West wanted:
cheap labor forever,
low-end factories forever,
a consumer market for Western brands forever,
and never a serious industrial competitor.
Now China makes EVs, solar panels, steel, machinery, robots, and advanced manufacturing products at scale — and suddenly affordable goods are a “global threat.”
Please.
The West subsidizes banks and calls it stability.
Subsidizes weapons and calls it security.
Subsidizes farmers and calls it protection.
Subsidizes chips and calls it strategy.
But when China supports real industries that produce real goods for real people, it becomes “distortion.”
So no.
China is not taking everyone down.
China is exposing how little the West has left once cheap moral lectures stop working.
@mzjacobson As expected the Naysayers attack progress and miss whats happening . It already has a market and sales. Batteries are constantly improving. If it can do 300 m today soon it will do 400m then 500M . Markets increase, Wrights law operates. Costs go down.
@altryne@satyanadella Put them underwater like the chinese are doing and power by off shore wind... but oh.. I forgot Trump doesn't like wind turbines.
https://t.co/9SE1MI9OR9
Italian rhythmic gymnast Sofia Raffaeli is truly out of this world.
Just listen to the crowd erupt as she delivers a breathtaking, sublime performance.