With Trump’s first months back in office many are looking on curiously as to the big changes the president will decide to make in the United States’ greatly needed change of direction.
Thank you for that clear explanation of the chip wars. And also for educating us (and Trump) on the correct use of a McKinley tariff.
But now I’m left wondering why our young scholars wish to start a company like Blackrock, State Street or Vanguard, instead of wanting to start a company like SMIC, Samsung, or TSMC. We obviously need a change.
Thank you for pointing us in the right direction for that change.
Thank you Cynthia, brilliant as always! I appreciate your pointing out that even under Trump, the US is continuing, albeit in a different style, its tactics of using aggression, threats and sabotage to try and gain economic advantage rather than roll up its sleeves and build up its own creative, innovative, and productive capacities on a moral foundation, as you describe China doing.
Oh, and on that last problem with the Chinese 5th grader, I actually came up with that answer pretty quickly in my head but figured it must be wrong because it was too obvious. But it was right!
Well presented. Looking at this from a broader - human view - beyond nation states - the issue becomes more clear. There are two perspectives at play. One is the dominator-predator view. The other way is to always look for and use ways that nurtures everyone - people and nature. It might be useful to add a third way - the nurturing of the 2nd way plus ways to block the dominators.
it shouldn't be a race, it shouldn't be competitive. oh well.... : apparently "...A.I. does not need large data centers. Oracle needs large data centers because Oracle and the rest of the gang, using 1980s technology, are stuck in the past and cannot outrun their sunk costs. Oracle, VMware, SAP, Accenture, KPMG, Booz Allen, E&Y want customers to build systems using large, complex, 1980s components...." - unnecessary: go fractal - https://fractalcomputing.substack.com/p/america-is-way-ahead-of-china-in
If, at the end of the day, we live in a moral order that ultimately drives long term outcomes, and we see that much of the US government as well as US institutions have become morally bankrupt with a narrow and self centered focus on money, power and prestige, what do we see in China that is perhaps driving them in the same direction long term? The CCP remains a totalitarian regime that has little concern for the welfare of their people where they perceive a threat, as evidenced by the Uighurs, Falun Gong practitioners, Chinese Muslims and the growing crackdown on all forms of religion. I taught management courses to mid-level Chinese government administrators(primarily in the US) for 5 years in the early 2000s. Our classes would socialize in the evenings primarily at dinners in Seattle area restaurants. It is here that the Chinese would occasionally open up(in private) regarding their views of their country and in particular their views of communism as a system of government. They were universally afraid of their government, and without exception condemning of communism. This in spite of the fact that they were all members of the CCP.
China has many problems. At the same time that their gap in achievement may by accelerating, so may there relative gap in moral decay, this perhaps driven by the fact that the US has reached a nadir.
I highly recommend picking up a copy of Breaking Free of Anti-China Psyops vol 1-2 co-written by Cynthia and myself which deal with many of the issues you raised regarding the Uighur, Tibet, Falun Gong abuse claims, and much more. I noticed that you area paid subscriber to Cynthia's substack, so let us know if you'd like free PDFs of those. Also advisable is to check out Brian Berletic's New Atlas Youtube channel which features some of the most rigorous debunking of anti-China narratives out there. Seriously worth exploring that work too https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Anti-China-Psyops-revived/dp/B0BNVC95XR
Thank you Matthew. I will check those sources out and would appreciate the pdfs. I have no doubt that some or perhaps much of the reporting regarding China is propaganda or psyop. At the same time, where are we getting our truth from?
Hi Brien, I sent you the PDFs to our Breaking Free of Anti-China Psyops. As for Brian Berletic's work on his New Atlas you can find all his videos showcasing the lies behind the Uighur narrative here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas/search?query=uighur Brian's approach is unique in the uighur discussion sphere and does not use the "he said, she said" method which gets us nowhere in knowing the truth behind what is really going on, but rather showcases for ex. the people sitting on these ngo boards who are NED or CIA affiliated etc. and showcases how these claims are not in fact ever substantiated.
Thank you for exposing Musk as the Transhumanist that he is! You have clearly illustrated, with example after example, how America has become everything that so many here accuse China of. Indeed, I find myself under ENORMOUS social pressure, every day, to tow the "China Bad," line. When I point out to people what progress China is doing to raise the standards of its people and other people around the world, the answer is always: "That's just Chinese propaganda." Or, "How would YOU know?"
Never having been to China, but, seeing the fruits from afar, with their modern cities filled with shining skyscrapers and their hospitals that are high tech with affordable medicines and treatments, and their high speed rail, there is a Scripture that comes to mind for me: "By their fruits you shall know them." I have known for long that high technology is the result of free thought and open source decentralization, as evidenced by our OWN American history in the past that made US great in technology when we had better thinking being employed.
Yet the answer that always comes back to me, either from my own mind (anticipating what others will say) or actually HEARING others will be: "But that's just Potemkin, fake stuff put out there for Western consumption" or "But it's all a mirage" or "There is a lot of poverty that you just don't see because the Chinese Authoritarian Communist Government won't LET you see, even if you GO to China." etc etc etc. There is an answer for everything. The propaganda that we are bombarded with, as Americans, on what to believe about China is so all-pervasive. It feels like being inside of Plato's Cave and seeing the shadows dancing on the wall and being told constantly that what is producing them is one thing, while it might be something else entirely that one would never suspect, unless they went outside of the cave.
But all I can do is piece together and cross reference the information, finding its logical fallacies and contradictions, like Winston piecing together snippets of old newspapers and remembering things and keeping facts and data points close as memory.
If China is such a closed and authoritarian society that has no original thought of its own but just steals and copies, then, how come so many new scientific discoveries and technology constantly comes out of China? The stories are there...they DO leak through in Western press, for those paying attention and collating (I am).
Some inventor comes up with a far cheaper way to make Graphene using pulsed nanosecond high voltages, when Graphene was formerly very expensive. Chinese name or Chinese university.
Amid fearmongering stories of soil dessication and drought...OOPS...here comes some new invention of a sponge in China's heartland that retains soil moisture, thus, offers hope of resisting desertification and adding more green.
I see and hear these stories CONSTANTLY, and, in order for the West to maintain the charade of Free Speech, it can't stop these stories from leaking through.
Technological innovation at lightning speed does not come from a closed, authoritarian, feudal society. Never has!
WOW Cynthia!!! Thank you SO MUCH for your in depth article making sense of my recent confusion and disillusionment with what I once beLIEved Trump’s MAGA was going to at least TRY to morally pursue in the interest of western society’s pro-active evolution — to the point where I was even thinking if there’s no chance in my lifetime for Canada to be more like China has become— then if Trump was really going to be able to help make life better for Americans, it could be better for us Canadians as his 51st state. I was ready to forgive him his bombastic bull in a China shop rhetoric, even his Gaza riviera social blundering, out of consideration of the possibility that he genuinely however ignorantly meant no harm. But after he actually bombed Yemen and greenlit Israel’s renewed bombing of Gaza in violation of the ceasefire negotiations, I quickly snapped out of hopium impairment, ready to admit that out of desperation for a fix I’d fallen for an egomaniacal pusher.
To be honest his art of the deal mentality never sat well with me. Just there was no winwin in sight on this side of the world so I settled.
Now I’m back to just being happy China is winning for her people and for the whole multipolar cooperative team. For the future of humanity. I’m absolutely positive! It’s almost hilarious to my simple mind that world war three is being ignited by a jealous pusher fearful about losing a race that only he is racing in. Seriously—what a wonderful thing that there are 50 steps to chip production that all 193 countries can share in the production and benefits of!
PS. I’m still hoping Trump’s talks with Putin might help him understand Xi. ✊🥰
Excellent article exposing US hypocrisy, priorities, warmongering and increasing desperation at hegemony.
However, how free are citizens in both the US and China (and Canada) to openly criticize their government?
How free are they from the crimes of warrantless search and seizure of their biometric data using nanotechnology biosensors for surveillance under the skin via the Internet of Bio-Nano Things and the WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network IEEE802.15.6 in the terahertz band)? This is a race to the bottom resulting in the elimination of free will via Transhumanism and biodigital enslavement.
China and its economic, technological and industrial acheivements are a lesson to the world of what is possible when a country, a people and society are free from the control of - thinks- what word to use here, hmmm - a certain middle eastern nation? The USA is permanently enslaved, politically, economically, psychologically and spiritually to this murderously cravenly evil certain middle eastern nation. This enslavement and abjectly servile certain-middle-eastern mode of thinking resulting from it, makes them think that only money is important and everything else will appear as if by magic - like processor chips or EV batteries. The USA will fail spectacularly in their idiotic rivalry with a normal nation like China - and the USA will NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY. Their middle eastern pup-handlers will understand - but they wont tell them.
A great article, Cynthia. You always excel with a deep dive into subjects. A lot of work. The video of the Chinese grade 5 boy is gold. Thanks.
Thank you for that clear explanation of the chip wars. And also for educating us (and Trump) on the correct use of a McKinley tariff.
But now I’m left wondering why our young scholars wish to start a company like Blackrock, State Street or Vanguard, instead of wanting to start a company like SMIC, Samsung, or TSMC. We obviously need a change.
Thank you for pointing us in the right direction for that change.
Priceless.
Thank for your insights Gerry! 🙏
Thank you Cynthia, brilliant as always! I appreciate your pointing out that even under Trump, the US is continuing, albeit in a different style, its tactics of using aggression, threats and sabotage to try and gain economic advantage rather than roll up its sleeves and build up its own creative, innovative, and productive capacities on a moral foundation, as you describe China doing.
Oh, and on that last problem with the Chinese 5th grader, I actually came up with that answer pretty quickly in my head but figured it must be wrong because it was too obvious. But it was right!
👏👏👏
Well presented. Looking at this from a broader - human view - beyond nation states - the issue becomes more clear. There are two perspectives at play. One is the dominator-predator view. The other way is to always look for and use ways that nurtures everyone - people and nature. It might be useful to add a third way - the nurturing of the 2nd way plus ways to block the dominators.
it shouldn't be a race, it shouldn't be competitive. oh well.... : apparently "...A.I. does not need large data centers. Oracle needs large data centers because Oracle and the rest of the gang, using 1980s technology, are stuck in the past and cannot outrun their sunk costs. Oracle, VMware, SAP, Accenture, KPMG, Booz Allen, E&Y want customers to build systems using large, complex, 1980s components...." - unnecessary: go fractal - https://fractalcomputing.substack.com/p/america-is-way-ahead-of-china-in
Great analysis and synthesis as usual Cynthia.
If, at the end of the day, we live in a moral order that ultimately drives long term outcomes, and we see that much of the US government as well as US institutions have become morally bankrupt with a narrow and self centered focus on money, power and prestige, what do we see in China that is perhaps driving them in the same direction long term? The CCP remains a totalitarian regime that has little concern for the welfare of their people where they perceive a threat, as evidenced by the Uighurs, Falun Gong practitioners, Chinese Muslims and the growing crackdown on all forms of religion. I taught management courses to mid-level Chinese government administrators(primarily in the US) for 5 years in the early 2000s. Our classes would socialize in the evenings primarily at dinners in Seattle area restaurants. It is here that the Chinese would occasionally open up(in private) regarding their views of their country and in particular their views of communism as a system of government. They were universally afraid of their government, and without exception condemning of communism. This in spite of the fact that they were all members of the CCP.
China has many problems. At the same time that their gap in achievement may by accelerating, so may there relative gap in moral decay, this perhaps driven by the fact that the US has reached a nadir.
Hey Brien
I highly recommend picking up a copy of Breaking Free of Anti-China Psyops vol 1-2 co-written by Cynthia and myself which deal with many of the issues you raised regarding the Uighur, Tibet, Falun Gong abuse claims, and much more. I noticed that you area paid subscriber to Cynthia's substack, so let us know if you'd like free PDFs of those. Also advisable is to check out Brian Berletic's New Atlas Youtube channel which features some of the most rigorous debunking of anti-China narratives out there. Seriously worth exploring that work too https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Anti-China-Psyops-revived/dp/B0BNVC95XR
Thank you Matthew. I will check those sources out and would appreciate the pdfs. I have no doubt that some or perhaps much of the reporting regarding China is propaganda or psyop. At the same time, where are we getting our truth from?
Hi Brien, I sent you the PDFs to our Breaking Free of Anti-China Psyops. As for Brian Berletic's work on his New Atlas you can find all his videos showcasing the lies behind the Uighur narrative here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas/search?query=uighur Brian's approach is unique in the uighur discussion sphere and does not use the "he said, she said" method which gets us nowhere in knowing the truth behind what is really going on, but rather showcases for ex. the people sitting on these ngo boards who are NED or CIA affiliated etc. and showcases how these claims are not in fact ever substantiated.
The Money Shot- "Perhaps Trump has not moved on from his days under Jewish mafioso Roy Cohn after all…"
Seems to me that somebody has him over a barrel.
Thank you for exposing Musk as the Transhumanist that he is! You have clearly illustrated, with example after example, how America has become everything that so many here accuse China of. Indeed, I find myself under ENORMOUS social pressure, every day, to tow the "China Bad," line. When I point out to people what progress China is doing to raise the standards of its people and other people around the world, the answer is always: "That's just Chinese propaganda." Or, "How would YOU know?"
Never having been to China, but, seeing the fruits from afar, with their modern cities filled with shining skyscrapers and their hospitals that are high tech with affordable medicines and treatments, and their high speed rail, there is a Scripture that comes to mind for me: "By their fruits you shall know them." I have known for long that high technology is the result of free thought and open source decentralization, as evidenced by our OWN American history in the past that made US great in technology when we had better thinking being employed.
Yet the answer that always comes back to me, either from my own mind (anticipating what others will say) or actually HEARING others will be: "But that's just Potemkin, fake stuff put out there for Western consumption" or "But it's all a mirage" or "There is a lot of poverty that you just don't see because the Chinese Authoritarian Communist Government won't LET you see, even if you GO to China." etc etc etc. There is an answer for everything. The propaganda that we are bombarded with, as Americans, on what to believe about China is so all-pervasive. It feels like being inside of Plato's Cave and seeing the shadows dancing on the wall and being told constantly that what is producing them is one thing, while it might be something else entirely that one would never suspect, unless they went outside of the cave.
But all I can do is piece together and cross reference the information, finding its logical fallacies and contradictions, like Winston piecing together snippets of old newspapers and remembering things and keeping facts and data points close as memory.
If China is such a closed and authoritarian society that has no original thought of its own but just steals and copies, then, how come so many new scientific discoveries and technology constantly comes out of China? The stories are there...they DO leak through in Western press, for those paying attention and collating (I am).
Some inventor comes up with a far cheaper way to make Graphene using pulsed nanosecond high voltages, when Graphene was formerly very expensive. Chinese name or Chinese university.
Amid fearmongering stories of soil dessication and drought...OOPS...here comes some new invention of a sponge in China's heartland that retains soil moisture, thus, offers hope of resisting desertification and adding more green.
I see and hear these stories CONSTANTLY, and, in order for the West to maintain the charade of Free Speech, it can't stop these stories from leaking through.
Technological innovation at lightning speed does not come from a closed, authoritarian, feudal society. Never has!
WOW Cynthia!!! Thank you SO MUCH for your in depth article making sense of my recent confusion and disillusionment with what I once beLIEved Trump’s MAGA was going to at least TRY to morally pursue in the interest of western society’s pro-active evolution — to the point where I was even thinking if there’s no chance in my lifetime for Canada to be more like China has become— then if Trump was really going to be able to help make life better for Americans, it could be better for us Canadians as his 51st state. I was ready to forgive him his bombastic bull in a China shop rhetoric, even his Gaza riviera social blundering, out of consideration of the possibility that he genuinely however ignorantly meant no harm. But after he actually bombed Yemen and greenlit Israel’s renewed bombing of Gaza in violation of the ceasefire negotiations, I quickly snapped out of hopium impairment, ready to admit that out of desperation for a fix I’d fallen for an egomaniacal pusher.
To be honest his art of the deal mentality never sat well with me. Just there was no winwin in sight on this side of the world so I settled.
Now I’m back to just being happy China is winning for her people and for the whole multipolar cooperative team. For the future of humanity. I’m absolutely positive! It’s almost hilarious to my simple mind that world war three is being ignited by a jealous pusher fearful about losing a race that only he is racing in. Seriously—what a wonderful thing that there are 50 steps to chip production that all 193 countries can share in the production and benefits of!
PS. I’m still hoping Trump’s talks with Putin might help him understand Xi. ✊🥰
Excellent article exposing US hypocrisy, priorities, warmongering and increasing desperation at hegemony.
However, how free are citizens in both the US and China (and Canada) to openly criticize their government?
How free are they from the crimes of warrantless search and seizure of their biometric data using nanotechnology biosensors for surveillance under the skin via the Internet of Bio-Nano Things and the WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network IEEE802.15.6 in the terahertz band)? This is a race to the bottom resulting in the elimination of free will via Transhumanism and biodigital enslavement.
China and its economic, technological and industrial acheivements are a lesson to the world of what is possible when a country, a people and society are free from the control of - thinks- what word to use here, hmmm - a certain middle eastern nation? The USA is permanently enslaved, politically, economically, psychologically and spiritually to this murderously cravenly evil certain middle eastern nation. This enslavement and abjectly servile certain-middle-eastern mode of thinking resulting from it, makes them think that only money is important and everything else will appear as if by magic - like processor chips or EV batteries. The USA will fail spectacularly in their idiotic rivalry with a normal nation like China - and the USA will NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY. Their middle eastern pup-handlers will understand - but they wont tell them.