China has become a scientific superpower
China has become a scientific superpower
From plant biology to superconductor physics the country is at the cutting edge
Surely it can't be because we have a school to prison pipeline and our colleges are class division country clubs that are constantly being financially threatened to only research on war machines and oil industry
As well as pull, there has been a degree of push. Chinese scientists working abroad have been subject to increased suspicion in recent years. In 2018 America launched the China Initiative, a largely unsuccessful attempt to root out Chinese spies from industry and academia.When the sinophobia blows up in your face like a Looney tunes contraption
The rise of Chinese science is a double-edged sword for Western governments. China’s science system is inextricably linked with its state and armed forces—many Chinese universities have labs explicitly working on defence and several have been accused of engaging in espionage or cyber-attacksLol said proudly as if westerners don't do that to make above mentioned war machines. Fuck off lmao
There is a list composed by ASPI about the degrees of "danger" of chinese universities. I know that there are universities in europe that use this list to ban collaborations with chinese scholars.
that's almost exclusively why the US universities still exist imo.. just to crank shit out for the state/military
i'm a media slop guy and have been working my way through an american show called ER, a fast-paced hospital procedural airing from 1994-2009 that arguably paved the way for that entire genre and the other shows that followed. because the costuming/uniforms of hospitals has not changed much over 30 years, the show operates in a strangly timeless frame. also, much of the backdrop (a publicly-funded hospital in southside Chicago facing constant austerity) is all too familiar.
however, over time the shifting perspectives of the "outside" periodically insert themselves into the show and betray very dated positioning that, in the context of the otherwise ageless stories and setting, is wildly jarring.
recently, i watched a few episodes that took the most insane swipes at "China" as understood by american network television writers and wherever "notes from above" (NBC/WB TV) come from. one plainly stated that, in 2005 (present day for the show), China had no trauma hospitals in the entire country. this was stated and played as a fact by a levelheaded and worldly character. another episode airing around the same time stated that China had no neonatal care, at all, in the entire country. to be clear, it did not imply that such care existed and was below standard... it stated frankly that it did not exist at all, in any form. i don't know that either statement would be true in 1949, let alone 50+ years after the revolution.
neither of these swipes had any necessary relation to any story/plot arc and, besides their absurdity, felt very much inserted to appease some force external to the show im sitting here in 2024, all too aware of how thoroughly the PRC has eclipsed the US in so many ways through a deliberate path to cultivating knowledge, listening to some actor seriously pretend like china in 2004 was stuck in 1944.
In fact, there are no babies at all in china. They were all killed during the one child program, and now everyone isn’t china is 93 years old
there used to be one baby in all of china (one child policy, hello?), but they killed it too after they stopped the one child policy.
State Dept. product placement 😂/😭
ER was very closely linked with and directed by the White House and other elements of the US security apparatus.
40% of Americans believe in climate change being a threat vs 70% of Chinese
death to The Economist, every nameless shithead hiding behind that masthead should be guiillotined
there was a time when i read the economist somewhat regularly... i almost even subscribed but i was annoyed with the repetitive CHINA WILL END THIS YEAR covers...
what a different time that was in my life
yeah same here, some portion of my anger comes from having been deceived by them when I was fully plugged into the matrix
Here, then, is the problem with the magazine: readers are consistently given the impression, regardless of whether it is true, that unrestricted free market capitalism is a Thoroughly Good Thing, and that sensible and pragmatic British intellectuals have vouched for this position. The nuances are erased, reality is fudged, and The Economist helps its American readers pretend to have read books by telling them things that the books don’t actually say.
How The Economist Thinks | Current Affairs
Ill probably unalive myself when the US inevitably bombs it all and ruins everything
maybe I'll be one of the lucky ones that dies in a bombing of a major imperial core city
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but at what cost