Good thing China doesn't aim to be a respectable member of the global order. It aims to be the most powerful rule-setter in the global order; but respectability immediately follows, since whatever the powerful do is by definition respectable.
Just the opposite. It means being as independent as humanly possible from others, especially hostile others.
Why the scare quotes? What I give is a strategy - just because you don't like it doesn't make it something else.
The United States has decided that China is its enemy, great damage is going to be done no matter what. The strategy I proposed minimizes the harm to China and maximizes the harm inflicted on its opponents.
"Opening up" and "closing down" are just empty phrases, meaningless rhetoric. Contrary to what some Westerners think, "Dengism" is not a religion in China. Deng just implemented a strategy that was optimal for its time and place. We are no longer in that time or place, and pursuing his strategy mindlessly can lead to profoundly suboptimal outcomes.
If there's a psychopath with a history of murderous violence carrying a knife and coming towards me, I don't need to know every single detail of what's going on in his mind before I take steps to defend myself.
The US should not have that card to put on the table, and if my plan is followed it soon won't. In fact, there should not even be any table for the US to play cards with China on. The US should be put in a box where it can play with itself.
You presume too much. How would you know what China's policy is? What you wrote is in fact precisely what China repeatedly said it's not aiming for. Are you calling the Chinese leadership hypocrites?
False. United States decided no such thing. We have merely entered into the competitor stage of the relationship.
I feel a profound admiration for Mr. Ren. The man is bearing a crushing burden: his daughter has been abducted and the company he dedicated his life to is in existential peril. But despite it all, he stands tall and unbowed.A defiant Huawei good for them
Echoing his , Ren also said his company will not be dictated to by Washington. "We will not change our management at the request of the U.S. or accept monitoring, as has done," he said.
Huawei CEO hits out at US export ban and vows to continue chip efforts
Chinese telecom equipment giant says it has broken no law and will resist Washington pressure
ATSUSHI NAKAYAMA, Nikkei commentatorMAY 18, 2019 22:05 JST
Huawei Technologies CEO Ren Zhengfei says Huawei would be "fine" even if Qualcomm and other American suppliers would not sell chips to Huawei, because "we have already been preparing for this."
SHENZHEN -- Huawei Technologies' founder and chief executive blasted the Trump administration's decision to add his company to a government blacklist, insisting the Chinese telecom equipment maker has done nothing illegal.
"We have not done anything which violates the law," CEO Ren Zhengfei told Japanese media at company headquarters in Shenzhen on Saturday in his first interview since the with the Huawei.
Ren also indicated that his company will continue developing its own chips to lessen the impact of the ban on its production. Ren said it would be "fine" even if Qualcomm and other American suppliers would not sell chips to Huawei. "We have already been preparing for this," he said.
Huawei unit HiSilicon Technologies, which mainly designs core processor chips, has made similar allusions to plans for dealing with a potential disruption in supply. In a recent open letter, President Teresa He Tingbo wrote, "We actually have foreseen this day for many years, and we do have a backup plan."
Ren also said the impact of the U.S. ban on Huawei's business will be limited, and expressed confidence in its longer-term outlook. "It is expected that Huawei's growth may slow, but only slightly."
Echoing his , Ren also said his company will not be dictated to by Washington. "We will not change our management at the request of the U.S. or accept monitoring, as has done," he said.
The U.S. deployed a similar ban against ZTE last year, pushing the Chinese telecom company to the brink of bankruptcy.
This is actually a great example of the disadvantage the global IP system places China in. Here's a more detailed article about the same machine: . This is especially interesting
Having to utilize a new and probably inferior physical principle just to sidestep ASML's patents is outrageous. Invalidating ASML's patents on this technology will allow China to much more efficiently produce world-class photolithography machines and address its semiconductor shortcomings. Doing this in ordinary circumstances is untenable, but this war with the US provides excellent cover for China to cast off the chains of the international IP system.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed the essay. I have no current plans to continue it, unfortunately.