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China has become a science / engineering super power over the past 20 years https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/12/china-has-become-a-scientific-superpower
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July
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One thing I notice in the West especially is this tendency to severely underestimate how much change China has gone through in the past 30ish years. Itβs unprecedented at a scale that I donβt portend to even attempt to understand as well, but I think itβs severely overlooked as many in the West
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July
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I think Zhangke Jia captures the tremendous modernization and change (and the effect it has on humans) through movies especially the change that China has undergone in the past 30 years. βash is purest white" is a wonderful illustration of the changes https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7298400/
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Completely different direction but reminds me also of βelephant sitting stillβ what an absolute horror and emotionally exhausting but beautiful movie. RIP Hu Bo https://totonyproductions.com/blog/2021/02/22/an-elephant-sitting-still/
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July
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Thereβs also a tendency in the West to focus primarily on the negative aspects of China often it seems, antagonized repeatedly
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Fully agree with this. Altho I think that might be just the narrative Western governments want to portray to their public? I suspect that Western leaders are fully aware of Chinese progress.
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