Engineering

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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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. It’s unprecedented at a scale that I don’t portend to even attempt to understand as well, but I think it’s severely overlooked as many in the West

Definitely overlooked.  China has essentially been remade overnight within one generation (~30 years)

Feels like the education in STEM in China has been outpacing US but we haven't really seen the effects of this yet

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i'd say that the effects are just not felt in the west bc of the broader overlooking issue

History

The irony is that it feels like the West is taking a page out of the Qing Dynasty playbook in the 21st century

In the 19th century the Qing Emperors repeatedly under appreciated the threat posed by Western powers. While the situation is not the same — the technological & organizational hubris led to their ruin

Agreed 

institutionalizing overlooking from the top down will lead to this:

Agreed 

institutionalizing overlooking from the top down will lead to this:

https://warpcast.com/july/0x8c70b220