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Re:"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel by SoftTalker on Friday December 29, 2023 @02:47PM (#38809383)
Probably meant Japanese, I don't think China had much of a steel industry in the 1970s and given the politics of the time I don't think it would have been imported in the USA even if available.
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Re:"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel by margalabargala on Friday December 29, 2023 @04:09PM (#38810213)
China started pushing for a large domestic steel industry in the late 50s.

It did not go well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_furnace

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Re:"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel by legitster on Friday December 29, 2023 @11:29PM (#38812837)
He specifically said Chinese. But given the era it might have well been conflated.
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