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Breadbox

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Ringsword said:
Know some Iranians-nice folk but they are in love with West especially Europe-France/Paris in particular -and probably have a certain hidden disdain for us Chinese despite how powerful we are/become-so no "ChingChong" should bleed blood/nor treasure for them-civil/ambassadorial/economic ties,yes but that's it.
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These people sound exactly the average online commentaors in China during the 2000s. They don't have a single bone in their body except when it comes to praising the amorphous 'West'. They might occasionally parrot liberal values but they don't actually give a shit, they'll switch to spouting Neocon values in an instant. It's really no deeper than worshipping the rich and prestigious.

Their very existence is a symptom of a deeply troubled country. A country can still be weak without being full of people like this yes, but countries like those are the ones that get conquistadored by 100 Spaniards.

There should be an index for measuring the prevalence of these sort of people in non-western societies, the more common they are, the more fucked the country is.
 
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Overbom

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Breadbox said:
These people sound exactly the average online commentaors in China during the 2000s. They don't have a single bone in their body except when it comes to praising the amorphous 'West'. They might occasionally parrot liberal values but they don't actually give a shit, they'll switch to spouting Neocon values in an instant. It's really no deeper than worshipping the rich and prestigious.

Their very existence is a symptom of a deeply troubled country. A country can still be weak without being full of people like this yes, but countries like those are the ones that get conquistadored by 100 Spaniards.

There should be an index for measuring the prevalence of these sort of people in non-western societies, the more common they are, the more fucked the country is.
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More cultural exchanges, ease of flight travel, communication etc, helps a lot in fighting back against such racism.

When they travel to Shanghai and compare it to their place back home, any racism gets obliterated
 
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iewgnem

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Hitomi said:
Although I am pretty pro-China, I wonder if the PPP adjustment would be weaker for higher end research considering that the mix of western to domestic equipment ratio is still quite high and this article is in reality, a veiled "China threat article", and China still has a gap to catch up to or is just roughly equal and should not be lulled into a false sense of superiority.
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Lab equipment doesn't need to be newly purchased for every new research and only make up small fraction of research cost, most professors can tell you they mostly ask money for people, not new equipment. Even for new equipment the actual expensive ones tend to be infrastructure related such as wind tunnels, supercomputers, cyclotrons, etc. The more expensive and bespoke something is the more likely it is to be domestic or just built in-house.

Commercial R&D might be different, but commercial R&D also don't publish nearly as much.

China is superior, it's past the time we pretend its not, being superior doesn't mean you have to be arrogant and China isn't going around refusing to collaborate with anyone. The idea that learning from others is weakness and arrogance is strength is very much an American thing, not China.
 
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