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I mean, the optics of this externally are:
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Massive warmongering country which doesn’t invest in educating, feeding, or providing safety or healthcare for its citizens and doesn’t invest in its own infrastructure decides to switch to a limited supply of energy that makes people unhealthy and tries to deny said energy to other countries in order to harm and literally torture them, versus
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Much more massive country with a history of innovating and pulling a billion people out of poverty(and not just the standard of that first country, but actually the more massive country’s much higher standard for poverty), which is doing a lot to invest in educating, feeding, and providing safety and healthcare for its own systems and investing massively in its own infrastructure and is quickly switching to solar and other renewable forms of energy and is quickly using dedesertification to try to stop and reverse the spread of deserts and turn them back into forests and vegetation, and is providing energy to a country that said first country is trying to deprive.
The optics look really bad for the first country.
I agree with everything you said except saying that China is “innovating”. China has a long history of espionage and theft to jumpstart many of their technologies someone else developed. The US, Europe, Japan, Korea…I mean look at CXMT’s memory fabrication techniques. They were caught red handed stealing it from Samsung.
China is moving in the right direction with electrification, transit, their belt and road initiatives, etc., but they are not some bastion of Utopia. Not by a long shot. Their support of Cuba is an extension of their soft power globally that the Mango Moron in the US has decided isn’t necessary. China is trying to fill the gigantic power vacuum that the US has left globally by their stupid fucking decisions.
China has a long history of espionage and theft to jumpstart many of their technologies someone else developed.
As they should.
Why should technology be gate-kept from less developed nations simply because they can’t afford it? That’s just a way to keep them underdeveloped, trapped in perpetual dependency on the more developed nations for so-called “intellectual property”
Not saying they should or shouldn’t. Just saying that copying someone else’s homework wholesale is not “innovating”.
Do you think the West invented all their solar panel tech? China is lightyears ahead.
Talking about stealing knowledge while current top Western tech is knowledge theft running on a GPU is peak cope.
Now you’re just being racist. They’re learning from other technology and then innovating it further, not just copying.
And if you don’t think the other countries you listed aren’t doing the same thing, you aren’t thinking about this seriously.
Literally EVERYTHING developed in the United States was innovated by an employee and then the value of that innovation was stolen by their employer.
The United States doesn’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to claiming to innovate. The people who do the actual innovation aren’t mentioned and barely get paid enough money to live.
China literally claims to be a communist country. Well, what’s that mean? It means that when knowledge is known, it’s fair game for the country to use in order to make things better for everyone in the country.
The United States, on the other hand, has the ability to produce enough medication for literally every person who needs it, but creates laws so that businesses can control the production of drugs in order to make as much money as possible regardless of however many people die in the US from not getting the medicines they need.
Make it make sense.
China has a long history of espionage and theft to jumpstart many of their technologies someone else developed. The US, Europe,
Don’t fucking care, the US’ entire history is from since its inception has been plunder, stealing and genocide to steal land. The entirety of Europe’s history has been colonialism and stealing from Africa and mass killings and misery inflicted there.
How many skulls did you measure?
…wat?
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Let the sun shine!
So now when the US bombs Cuba, china can claim they’ve been attacked?
If only the US could have self restraint and foresight!
