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Originally Posted by Exarecr
China's desire to acquire now,learn later, means their Research and Development department functions on the "steal principal". We boost,we take, we steal any technology we can get away with while distributing merchandise stolen months or years ago.
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Well said, dead-on accurate in fact.
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Originally Posted by Exarecr
As long as we let China get away with blatant industrial espionage without sanctions or other forms of punishment then yes,eventualy they will become a high tech powerhouse.
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Not eventually. They're almost there, if not already.
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Originally Posted by Exarecr
By around the year 2100, they can trade in their Super Nintendo for PS2,s while the rest of the world surfs the Global Holodeck.
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Again, I disagree, for the very reason you put forth in the first part of your post.
The Chinese - unlike the Soviets - are actually able to manufacture what they steal, thanks to profit-minded Western companies that have made China the contract manufacturer of the world.
I personally deal with the PRC in the wholesale microchip market on a monthly, sometimes weekly basis. The bosses behind the usually-hapless "clerks" that I deal with are savvy and patient. They deal in useless fakes, stealing millions of dollars from Western idiots that are trying to make a fast buck buying from China. That kind of money is simply pouring into China, giving their private sector all the capital it needs or wants.
Believe me, these people sublimely clever. As they continue to cast off more the heavier shackles of Communism, they'll have all the tools and manufacturing capacity they need to make that Holodeck for the rest of the world.
An eager and money-hungry work force of 800 million, armed with begged, borrowed or stolen Western-supplied technology can't be wrong.
And eventually, they won't need to steal and copy it.