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siegecrossbow

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Another cope article by the Chinese lib Minxin Pei, just read for laughs. He obviously has zero knowledge in both semiconductors and football since he got the typical Chinese lib degrees - English & Political Science - so it is mostly just word salad for the consumption of Western audience. I guess that's the typical career pathway for low quality degree graduates of Chinese descent in the West - yellow face propaganda mouthpieces so that their masters don't get called 'racist'. Surprisingly, the few comments under the article are pretty based.

Once China regains the rightful place they will change their tune. We have historic precedence for this. Behold Voltaire, one of the key thinkers whose work led to the creation of Western Democracy.

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As a representative Sinophile in France during the Age of Enlightenment, Voltaire (1694– 1778) was very interested in China, to the extent that he claimed, “Although I have never been to China, I have met over 20 people who have travelled to China and think I have read all the literature mentioning the country” (Voltaire, Philosophical Dialogues 264). In various works of his, Voltaire introduced China as an ideal country. In Letters on the English, he described China as “the wisest and best governed country in the world” (50), and in Philosophical Dictionary, he described it as “the most extended and best governed kingdom of the world” (108). In “The Travels of Scarmentado,” one of his satires, Voltaire presented China as “a free and enjoyable country” (140). In Essay on the Manner and Spirit of Nations, he argued that it is impossible to imagine a better government than that of China at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and pointed out that all power lay in the hands of a bureaucracy “whose members were admitted only after several severe examination” (221). Voltaire was aware that positive aspects of Chinese politics, ethics, and religion were closely related to the teachings of Confucius. For the French writer, Confucius is a “sage” who “deemed too highly of his character as a legislator for mankind, to stoop to deceive them” (Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary 343). After this estimation of the Chinese sage, Voltaire adds, “What finer rule of conduct has ever been given since his time, throughout the earth?” (Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary 343) Confucius was at the core of Voltaire’s Sinophilia.
 

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Once China regains the rightful place they will change their tune. We have historic precedence for this. Behold Voltaire, one of the key thinkers whose work led to the creation of Western Democracy.

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I think you overestimate the likes of Minxin Pei, lol, he is just peddling the mainstream line. Voltaire was uber progressive for his times, one of his quotes:
It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?
That's in 18th century when the rest of the euros were busy genociding, raping, stealing & colonizing the world. I mean, even today how many europeans\anglos really think that way? Especially when we add ideology into account.

I am not as optimistic on the outcome - I think Anglos will only get progressively more hateful & angry instead of going Voltaire's way.
 
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siegecrossbow

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I think you overestimate the likes of Minxin Pei, lol, he is just peddling the mainstream line. Voltaire was uber progressive for his times, one of his quotes:

That's in 18th century when the rest of the euros were busy genociding, raping, stealing & colonizing the world. I mean, even today how many europeans\anglos really think that way? Especially when we add ideology into account.

I am not as optimistic on the outcome - I think Anglos will only get progressively more hateful & angry instead of going Voltaire's way.

It won’t matter though. The Chinese were hateful of European colonists but that really didn’t change ground reality.
 

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I think you overestimate the likes of Minxin Pei, lol. Voltaire was uber progressive for his times, one of his quotes:

That's in 18th century when the rest of the euros were busy genociding, raping, stealing & colonizing the world. I mean, even today how many europeans\anglos really think that way? Especially when we add ideology into account.
Given how much they seem to fail when it comes to those very values seems to demonstrate how those very same Christian values are in such decline across the world when people consider Christianity as a license to basically be an evil western colonist. I would say that these westerners are playing with fire for using the gospel as a license to commit evil and a lot of things happening against the west is in retribution for that very fact. Still all these Christian NGOs and missionaries should be lined up and shot because none of these fronts have any good intentions. We have evidence for this all over the place, even in HK and the only way for the gospel to spread in the world without prejudice is to simply eliminate western input by any means necessary because anyone with a brain knows that western input is always evil. I mean look at the crusades and tell me that the Christians then Didn’t start those fights when if one has actually read the text wouldnt start these fights in the very first place. Simply shows how these western fakes either cannot read the Ten Commandments when any idiot should know what this means or simply instinctively seeks conflict and that the only thing needed now is to not only fight back but to also break the back of the bully so to speak so he can never lift another arm to harm anyone
 

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Bloomberg journalist: Why China is so bad at doing things.

Also Bloomberg journalist: The country has a reputation for accomplishing impossible tasks.

The moron manage to invalidate his entire article just in the first sentence.

Pick one, either they are bad at doing things or they can accomplish impossible tasks.

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He talks about semiconductor like is making t-shirts, till today the most advance fab in the US is Intel 10nm and till today US doesn't have PureAndPlay foundries, remember SMIC is 14nm, the most advance fab in Europe is guess what? 14nm and is still an Intel fab, I think the best European own fab is 28nm, remember HHgrace fab is 28/22nm.

So if China is so bad about semiconductors, why is the US so afraid? Why it have to take export controls harsher than those on the cold war to even slow down a bit China progress in this area?

There are only just 3 countries in the entire world capable of doing ArF scanners Japan, Holland and China, say what you want about SMEE but just the fact that a company of the size of SMEE manage to create an ArF step and scan lithography machine is an impossible task on its own, sadly market forces and the lack of support from SMIC and others didn't let the machine to flourish but still a great accomplishment.
 

FriedButter

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Bloomberg journalist: Why China is so bad at doing things.

Also Bloomberg journalist: The country has a reputation for accomplishing impossible tasks.

The moron manage to invalidate his entire article just in the first sentence.

Pick one, either they are bad at doing things or they can accomplish impossible tasks.

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It’s the same excuses that they all used lmao. Seems like the majority of them have finally reached the bargaining stage.

While resources are certainly needed, they’re not dispositive. Other factors — collaboration, innovation, competition, autonomy, and maverick streaks — are just as essential to success.
 
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