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

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

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

I know @balajis.eth & others have been yelling this for a while, too. I've not kept up with it well, but they seem to have some challenges that might slow net progress despite the impressive work they've done.