Looks like someone in Berlin failed to spread Beijing's memo to his colleague.
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Updates on the dike breach at Dongting Lake - Now that water levels at both sides of the dike have equalized, the repair work to close the breach has begun. The breach has been measured to be more than 200 meters wide before the repair work started.
Goal in life is now to advance to such a degree that you can just cancel meetings with karens
These white liberal politicians are dam annoying always bringing up human rights and some white savior bullcrap if you going to visted a country especially China talk about business if not GTFO and leave.
Joseph Needham is over rated and did not really understood China, just better than others, and the Needham question is simply human nature. People will go do things that make them powerful, rich, and have a good life. Since bretton woods II, when the USD is not pegged to gold anymore, most US elites will go into law(government officials), finance(rich), medical(rich) and away from STEM. For China, before the imperial examination, there are elites doing science in the han dynasty. After imperial examination, all smart chinese are learning Confucianism classics. This is simply human nature, and so if Joseph Needham know China better, he would not have asked the Needham question.
Many international observers were invited to monitor the elections inside Russia. They thought it was a fair process. I think I will take their word over yours and Mr. Szewko's.
They were rigged, but the wrong guy won? Makes sense.
Needham extensively collected and documented the huge range of Chinese inventions beyond just the major known ones, because there is still this misconception among the West that China has invented nothing since gunpowder. The Needham question is worthwhile to consider because most of these inventions came about under the Imperial dynastic system with the examination system in place. Officialdom was the pathway to political power, respectability, and high level corruption. There were still rich merchants though and the quality of Chinese craftsmanship was well known during those times. Like in Europe, there was the awkward situation of the rich merchant being richer than many lower ranking officials though socially they were low.
The seeming prerequisites of the Industrial Revolution were already there as early as the Song dynasty.
The invention mentioned are really just application inventions， by artisans who cannot read or write, there is no fundamental research after the examination system in place. Western science was really developed by bored nobles, so were China ones before and during han dynasty, because fundamental science research at that time brings no person benefits.