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About 90% of the world's consumer 3D printer is made by Chinese companies. Yet China's exports of 3D printing equipment doubled in the first 4 months this year.
News on China's scientific and technological development.
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What is visible to you as "talent" such as the example in the article, is by majority "码农" or "coding coolie" as we call it. It not only applies to migrants to the west but also the majority in China like Huawei.
I saw the same influx in my own company in Europe (one of the few tech giant in the west), first a huge increase of people from China 10 years ago followed by India 5 years ago. They are just average compared to people in China, or even worse. Seriously they are no better than the locals in any measurement.
I don't see this kind of movement as talent lose from one contry to another, but more like ordinary migration everywhere, like moving between New York and Dallas.
It’s a fuel cell.
I wrote about the export control of critical minerals on Japan and the effects we are already seeing on Rare Earth, Gallium and Tungsten.
Technically couldn't Germany just buy from China and sell to Japan?
However that would make Japan Inc less competitive, unless there is a specific agreement between the two countries to secretly sell at cost.
Part of the export controls China put on critical materials is that companies buying them can only get limited quantities and they have to explain the intended use. There's probably some transshipping going on, but it's unlikely to be very extensive, and if China catches you doing it, your company will get completely shut off. It's a lot of risk so there has to be a big reward to make it worth it.
That would violate Chinese export controls and result in German importers being sanctioned as well. It's unlikely that German companies would take on enormous existential risk to their business just to help out their Japanese competitors.
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Japan will need to pay up for those rare earths. But the US, Germany and others will hoard all they can for themselves.