Lotta typical propaganda but meh....
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Today, there is still lot of restrictions for main-land China to access cutting edge technologies from developed countries.
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Little thing about running over students with tanks.
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But Taiwan is in a much better position and many Taiwan businessmen bring those technologies to main-land as investment. It opens a back door for main-land China to access some of the cutting edge technologies.
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Gotta love espionage and a complete disregard of intellectual property rights. The only thing dumber than trusting the Chinese not to steal your ideas/technologies/methods is building those things there in the first place and giving them acess.
But both examples highlight why China really isn't a mature nation under the CCP. They still believe in the rule of force over the rule of law. China has done alot but is rapidly reaching the end of the economic miracle highway. She now faces the transisition from a militaristic dictatorship and empire to a real and mature modern nation founded on a shared identity and the rule of law.
As an American is it shameful to know that my spending habits are now propping up the actors of some of the worlds worst human rights abuses. Shameful beucase my country made a deal with the devil in the cold war. Only 2 desperately poor communist regimes remain beisdes China. I have to wonder if the US dollar was not propping up the CCP would we have had a similar counter revolution in China by now? The communist states didn't diue by fire, but died when thier citizens collectively rejected being hungry, abused, underworked, and, over crowded and unrepresented, and walked away from communism. And yet thanks to greenbacks and Nixon it is now nearly 20 years since those brave students gave thier lifes blodd for liberty and nothing haschanged once you look past the shiny neon covered surface.
China has held off reform and liberty with full bellies, glittering dreams, and stout cudgels, all thanks to "all mighty dollar", but the reality is most Chinese will never be free, are subject to arrest and even death without a fair trial, and poverty. But hey my countrymen can by cheap TV's and tennis shoes at Walmart.
Chinese communism also has alot of fuedal warlord trappings with its perks, privillages and fringe benifits to the party bosses and generals. These industrial political feifdoms are a dead weight on the Chinese economy and social reform. One reason the improvoing economy hasn't brought improving social conditions is the blocking of labor groups. Not just beucase such would be as hostile to the CCP as Solidarity was in Poland, but beucase the Generals aging factories could not support the reforms.
All in all China still has a long long way to go before it can call it self a modern nation without other real modern nations snickering about the hubris of the Chinese.