> I think they do not believe that big corporations in the US or Europe would actually use chinese models in their business operations due to security, regulatory and/or business continuity concerns.
Quite failure by someone to assume that EU businesses would use US over Chinese, based on the current political atmosphere. US causes even bigger concerns than Chinese labs.
i am amazed they expect everyone else to see the chinese as these fiction-like evil corrupt dictators
It is flabbergasting, indeed. I'm no friend of China, because it is an evil dictatorship, but as a business man I prefer dealing with China over the USA nowadays. At least China is predictable, even in its corruption.
It's just a single dictator. China has one dictator with full unilateral uncontested power. No courts shooting down orders or elections changing tides. One guy, all the power, for life. Every official, citizen, and business owner take his orders, uncontested.
If you think that is the choice basket to put your eggs in, best of luck.
Exactly. Imagine China's dictator would kidnap some other foreign president just to steal their country's natural resources. Or if he just starts a war against some Middle East country to take the focus away from some pedophile scandal.
Thanks God nothing like that could happen in the US, thanks to its constitution, courts and armed informed citizens. That's why I'm putting all my eggs in that basket.
The irony here is the blessing that in the US, all the dirty laundry gets put on blast for everyone to see.
And the airing of said laundry achieves what exactly? I don't see any knock on effect from that dirty laundry being aired, other than entertaining the masses with new scandal and signaling to the rest of the world that the US is not to be trusted.
> the airing of said laundry achieves what exactly?
No midterm routs in China.
For Europe, the answer is using homegrown metal, even if it is severely underpowered, and accepting that it will be running American and Chinese open-source models for the near future. (The French lobbyists looked likely to turn Mistral into another Arianespace, but they’ll be resisting implosion for at least another year.)
It's the feedback loop of democracy.
If you don't think it's important or needed, well, there is still a lot for you to learn.
You are delusional and indoctrinated.
US per capita spending on healthcare: $13,473 per person
China per capita spending on healthcare: ~$763 per person
Both have average life expectancy of 79 years. LITERALLY China has better healthcare, better housing, literally better in all the ways that count.
What does our "democracy" get us exactly???
Oh really? What about the Epstein files? What about the State protecting billionaire pedophiles? You have got to be naive beyond wit or willfully malicious to spew this nonsense. Did you vote for Trump? I think you did.
I think Xi is pretty benevolent as dictators go. Bad things you could point to are the continued threats against Taiwan, repressive policy in Xinjiang, and strategic support of Russia (whose dictator I think is far more amoral than Xi). Good things are Xi's apparent preference for advancing China's interests rather than self-gratification, his hostility to corruption, and the transformation of the country from an industrial to a technological superpower with a paternalistic but not suffocating style of governance.
Did you hear about the belt and roads initiative? Like this is the stuff that gives soft power in geopolitics. When was the last time the US did something comparable?
That is not entirely true. The central committee is extremely powerful, but so are the local governments that actually send the representative, the reason the central committee always votes in unanimity is because the discussion happen at the local government level, a local Chinese government may be ruling over hundreds of millions of people.
I'm not saying this is good, I'm merely stating that the central committee power and Xi's power is still limited by the sheer size of the Chinese state. If you compare that dictatorship to the Stalin dictatorship or Gheddafi dictatorship you'll find that Xi does not have that kind of unfettered power through sheer violence, he still needs to make a high number of cogs to work in unison to exercise it.
lol that's so false and uninformed it's hilarious
Please, corrections are welcome.
A single court ruling overturning an order from Xi will shut me up immediately.
Our pedophile convicted Felon president literally tried to take control by force, caused an insurrection and said I quote:
> In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not going to have to vote.
At least the Chinese president isn't a pedophile enriching himself at the expense of the Chinese people. China has steadily increased the quality of life for its people where the quality of life for the average American has steadily decreased.