@IndustrlPolicy Good grief, does this mean China was actually able to obtain the most advanced technologies through its old "market-for-technology" strategy? Protecting core intellectual property and know-how is something that every country and every company does.
@ScottSpacek@kyleichan@mitchpresnick In 2019, Tesla told investors that the primary objectives of building the Shanghai factory were to reduce prices in the Chinese market, avoid tariffs, and serve the Chinese market.
@iandenisjohnson 2/ The claim that official narratives prohibit a coherent explanation of how these territories were acquired is clearly false. With AI now so advanced, you can easily verify this through search.
@ChadBown@Lingling_Wei@SoumayaKeynes@WSJ 2/ It is rooted in deeper institutions: centralized authority, state-led mobilization, long-term continuity, competitive local execution, and insulation from electoral cycles. Without these, only the surface of industrial policy can be replicated.
@ChadBown@Lingling_Wei@SoumayaKeynes@WSJ 1/ It often gives the impression that the United States, if it simply chose to, could switch at will to a “Chinese model.” But China’s comparative advantage in industrial policy has never been just subsidies or support for factories.
@PennyTresjon@Dalzell60 Xi Jinping has long feared China repeating the Soviet collapse, which he attributes largely to the failure in ideological struggle. His remarks on the “great struggle” thus aim to strengthen China’s ideological defenses.
@JohnF_Sullivan Xi Jinping has long feared China repeating the Soviet collapse, which he attributes largely to the failure in ideological struggle. His remarks on the “great struggle” thus aim to strengthen China’s ideological defenses.
@onglynette What a remarkably convenient worldview: anyone who agrees with you represents genuine public opinion, and anyone who disagrees is automatically a wumao. Under that logic, you're guaranteed to be right every time.
@lyrichues I really struggle to understand this. It feels like you are living in a utopia—are there any actions in the world that come without a cost?
China has created an economic growth miracle for the world and lifted 800 million people out of poverty. Isn’t that enough?