the one thing that this article leaves out is very obvious and simple: culture
when you don't have an environment where truthful valid opinions or facts are allowed to freely be tested and communicated you simply can't build anything complex that requires strong individual integrity and honesty.
jets aren't the only stuff that China cannot make. Semiconductors are also a great example.
China has an incredible engineering culture. If you think their meteoric rise is accomplished without being able to share opinions or facts you’re very much mistaken.
To imply they lack “individual integrity and honesty” is misinformed, deluded, and likely racist.
Two weeks ago I took the high speed train to Shenzhen, which was better than any domestic flight in the US. Then I had a drone deliver an iced tea. I took a driverless taxi to get there. The roads were incredibly quiet and the air quality was excellent because almost all cars and motorcycles are electric. World’s first small modular reactor goes live in a few months. The Huawei Ascend GPUs aren’t at Nvidia level, but they’re still allowing the Chinese models to be within a few months of frontier labs, with the gap closing with every new model release. They have no EUV capabilities yet, but neither does the US because that comes from the Netherlands.
Maybe I shouldn’t have used the word racist. But in the same way that stupidity and evil look very similar, so do racism and ignorance.
you are just rambling with totally unrelated topics the article is about why china can't make jet engines.
im asking you a second time because you keep avoiding it: why can't china make jet engines and semiconductors if they have such great engineering culture and talent as you claim?
when you don't have an environment where truthful valid opinions or facts are allowed to freely be tested and communicated you simply can't build anything complex that requires strong individual integrity and honesty.
jets aren't the only stuff that China cannot make. Semiconductors are also a great example.