Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Can China Really Defeat the U.S. in Technology? | @VisualPolitikEN" video.

  1. Which were all just camouflaged imports or very costly low-yield brute-forced DUV chips.
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  2. ​ @Hardrada904  America didn't do ongoing industrial espionage as government policy. It was all private sector effort.
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  3.  @Elzilcho87  We're free to point out mistakes and obvious biases. That's not the case in China.
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  4. Power is a zero-sum game. By definition it's the degree of what one side can do that the other cannot.
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  5. It doesn't mean they'll ultimately end up on top, the USSR was similarly all about hard skills while neglecting the fuzzy emotional things humans actually care about. A less systemic example was the hubris of the early post-war US in thinking that nukes were simply a very efficient explosive until they realized how very very permanent its radioactive damage would persist.
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  6. @ The target of the Plaza Accords wasn't Japan, it was America and its domestic monetary policies at the time pushing up the value of the USD versus the rest of the G5. Japan was just in the wrong place at the right time to make the same inflationary mistakes over the next decade, one which their economy was too rigid and protectionist to recover from when the JPY bubble popped.
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