And one does not even being to master the precursor technologies if they don't even start development. That's the issue, they don't even start development on the basics until it becomes mainstream or they have a knife to their throats. Tesla 100% is benefiting from other leading edge American robotics companies like BD. Issue is that BD started development 15 years ago, while lots Chinese companies seemed to have jumped on the humanoid robotics bandwagon only after Tesla started working on it, probably because Elon Musk and Tesla is very very famous. Just looking at many of the recent robotics companies, it's clear that they have just started development and their robot aren't much better than the ones being made 10 years ago. And Tesla is mainly a car company. You have purely robotics companies like Unitree whose products are shitter in comparsion.
We can see this in so many industries. Why was China's development of the semiconductor industry so slow until the US sanctions forced China to speed up development? Why was critical technology like lithography ignored until America began to choke China out with it? Why did it take ChatGPT for the LLM A.I boom to happen in China, instead of GTP-3 or China's own interal development of A.I models? Why did it take Spacex to land a rocket before China could give to go ahead to allow for the development of the private space sector? Why is GMO techologny banned in China until 2020 when I suspect that the deteriorating supply chains and worsening relationships scared the government enough to allow the development of GMO crops to secure China's food supply. You and I have talked about China's speed in modernising/phasing out their hypergolic rocket fleet.
Let's be honest, China's leadership in technology like EVs/renewables is because the government laid the groundwork decades beforehand and because America actively suppressed those technology due to their powerful fossil fuel lobby.
And what's the point of China's top down centralized economy if they can't even identify the critical technology of the future and try to boost development in those areas? EVs and renewables are a success story, but there's a massive lack of foresight in other areas like the forementioned lithography or GMO crops. Don't tell me it's lack of resources. What's the difference between 2023 and 2019/2018? China isn't a small or poor country. Especially in imporant areas like this? We not talking about toilet technology or the latest in smart fabrics, I don't care if China falls behind in those areas.
And yeah, China is doing better then 99% of countries. But they need to be doing better then America. Europe isn't extactly levaging their IP to try and choke China out. If China can't match America 1:1 in development speed, the least that they can do is start development earlier and not wait to jump on the bandwagon only after certain famous American companies annouced their products.
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