Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars
by someguydave on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:20AM
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In one sense, China is only ~70 years old, and it was born in a horrific era that lead to yet more horrors. When a few generations live and die without hunger or war, it will be interesting to see if they are so willing to believe whatever the Chinese government wants them to believe.
Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars
by sametmax on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:46PM
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I wonder what built this, becauqe clearly it's not new. China use to do it 2000 years ago too.
Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars
by Bakary on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:57PM
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You could spend your entire career on this topic and still never find the answer, but this article gives a nice summary of some of the factors.
https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/evolution-chinese-nat...
On the contrary you could argue that the brutal competition in the country encourages people to be razor sharp in some fields.
A more controversial and touchy point is that they have a strong sense of national and ethnic unity, which many democracies lack. This has many disadvantages of course,[0] but can be extremely helpful for maintaining cooperation and motivation at a large scale whereas the West arguably has trouble dealing with ennui and lack of purpose. To some extent the form of functional ethno-nationalism China has is hard to reproduce elsewhere, and is the result of very specific historical and geographical factors. Japan and Turkey for instance have similar traits but nowhere near the same results. So China is tautologically highly suited to doing what it is currently doing.
[0] https://www.economist.com/briefing/2016/11/19/the-upper-han