I didn’t read it yet is it good lol punished-bernie punished-bernie punished-bernie

  • sempersigh [he/him]OP
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    801 year ago

    Okay after skimming through looks not so good even if the overall message is better than most politicians

    In recent years, the rapidly growing Chinese economy has eclipsed the US as the world’s major carbon emitter. Right now, China is building six times as many coal-fired power plants as the rest of the world combined – the equivalent of two new coal plants every week. Last year, they quadrupled the number of new coal plants approved compared with 2021. Current plans will see China add as much new coal to its grid as used in all of India, the second largest coal user, and five times more coal capacity as the US.

    It is no great secret the Chinese government is undertaking many policies that we and the international community should oppose. They are cruelly repressing and interning the Uyghurs, threatening Taiwan and stifling freedom of expression in Tibet and Hong Kong. China has bullied its neighbors, abused the global trading system, stolen technology and is building out a dystopian surveillance state.

    Just awful

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        “Only the white man possesses the creativity lobe, all other races can only produce lesser imitations of his works.” - a thing liberals actually believe but they’re totally not racist because they like Hamilton

        • @wantToViewEmojis@hexbear.net
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          591 year ago

          dont make me tap the sign

          “The Russians never invent anything. All they have, they’ve got from others. Everything comes to them from abroad—the engineers, the machine-tools. Give them the most highly perfected bombing-sights. They’re capable of copying them, but not of inventing them. With them, working-technique is simplified to the uttermost. Their rudimentary labour-force compels them to split up the work into a series of gestures that are easy to perform and, of course, require no effort of thought.” - Adolf Hitler

          • BeamBrain [he/him]
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            491 year ago

            Weird how liberal thought keeps echoing Hitler. Ah well, I’m sure it’s just a coincidence

      • @HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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        371 year ago

        The “stolen IP” story is fun because it represents an unstated assumption that only the West has good ideas.

        When their years of long-term thinking and investment in R&D pay off, will the people kvetching today be willing to license Chinese designs?

        I note that the new high speed rail project being promoted in Texas is based on old shinkansen designs from Japan; I wonder if it was just too much lost face to consider a CRH derived design?

        • Egon [they/them]
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          231 year ago

          It’s also fun because if it was true, it would be proof that the copyright and patent system is stifling for development, competition and innovation

      • kristina [she/her]
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        301 year ago

        who cares about stolen tech, even if they did that would be better for carbon emissions

        • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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          211 year ago

          noooooooooooooo! you’re solving the climate crisis but you stole our trademarked things to do it!!! you motherfuckers better put that carbon back in the air and do it the RIGHT way!

      • PeoplesRepublicOfNewEngland [he/him]
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        231 year ago

        How has he forgotten great Randian hero Elmo who keeps trying to steal WeChat and somehow instead blasts pollution all over the American southwest and gets 9000 FAA violations

      • Maoo [none/use name]
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        151 year ago

        China “stealing” tech is good, but most of the time this complaint isn’t even referring to IP infringement or anything clandestine. It’s just the tecg transfer agreements that companies happily sign in order to move production to China.

        • GaveUp [she/her]
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          I have not seen a single credible source that China stole technology for microchips

          If you’re talking about that singular dude who stole from ASML then that’s just a dude

          A dude that rocks, might I add

          • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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            391 year ago

            People also forget that the Snowden leaks revealed the NSA was conducting industrial espionage against companies in Europe and China that compete against US companies.

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                211 year ago

                I believe the suggestion is that they then reverse-engineered them and used what they learned in violation of IP law. I don’t follow this, so I don’t know if it’s true, and I would support China doing this because fuck those companies and the US, but I believe that’s the accusation.

                • GaveUp [she/her]
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                  Yea I mean I know China has reverse engineered a lot of Soviet and Russian weapons exports but I don’t think chips and semiconductors is the same since the difficulty is in manufacturing and not what’s in it

                  Companies generally have to transfer IP to even operate in China which is why the stealing IP generally doesn’t even have to happen

                  • @charlie@hexbear.net
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                    71 year ago

                    Thanks, this finally makes me gets what they’re actually saying with that stupid “China is stealing IP” mouth fart.

                • @zephyreks@programming.dev
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                  171 year ago

                  Semiconductors are hard.

                  First you need the lithography machines (ASML). Then you need the process development (TSMC, Samsung, Intel). Then you need the EDA tools (Synopsys, Cadence).

                  SMEE announced a 28nm-capable lithography machine, SMIC has a gimped 7nm process, and Huawei has EDA tools capable down to 14nm.

                  However, necessity is the mother of invention. I’m expecting the next few years to see an explosion in specialized hardware coming out of Chinese companies.

        • loathsome dongeater
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          321 year ago

          Nothing wrong with stealing technology unless you want to carry water for corporations and their billionaire executives. Regardless of that most of the technological progress in China comes from technology transfer agreements that they made with Western corporations for doing the manufacturing for them which is then layered on top with indigenous innovations.

          • SimulatedLiberalism [none/use name]
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            Actually the largest technology transfer in history came from the Soviet technology transfer to China from 1949 to 1966 (until the Sino-Soviet split). The Soviets practically established modern scientific institutions and kickstarted the industrialization process in China.

            The irony is that the rapid industrialization of Communist China was what made it so attractive to Western capital in the 1970s in the first place, which was used in turn to help destroy the Soviet Union.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      stifling freedom of expression in Tibet, . . . abused the global trading system,

      God damn what a fucking piece of shit he is. Not just the obligatory hits but really just slinging whatever he can fit in a sentence, plus going to bat for bad-faith accusations from protectionists.

    • @zephyreks@programming.dev
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      341 year ago

      A dystopian surveillance state… You mean like the US and UK?

      Here I was thinking a dystopian surveillance state was a requirement for modernization. My bad.

    • regul [any]
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      171 year ago

      I mean, the coal thing is concerning. We really shouldn’t, as a species, be building any coal plants.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        61 year ago

        While this is true, it’s worth noting that around 30% of China’s power generation is renewables as of 2021 (which I don’t think includes nuclear), a number that has been steadily trending up (eg 26% in 2019), and that it is responsible for 45% of global investments in renewables. Compare that to the US which only produces 21% of its electricity from renewables as of 2021, and is the richest country on earth.

        • spectre [he/him]
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          31 year ago

          That’s great and I hope they shut down their coal plants as fast as possible