cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/39625050
you can see it already in consumer products.
China is 2 years ahead of any other country with foldable phones. The recently-announced American Pixel fold looks like a 2022 foldable from china, with specs to match and a shit processor.
the free market people love so much is working against the US now. We don’t make shit, this is the result of boomers selling out American manufacturing in the 70s.
Call a support line for an American company, tell me if you talk with an American.
look at the label on your clothes and goods. Likely 1% was made in America.
Yup, Beijing has some of the best bioengineering papers I’ve seen lately regarding gene editing and microbiology, even some biochemistry. Chinese medical philosophy trends towards holistic systems, versus Western medicine which looks at discrete conditions. So China has made a lot of advancements in areas where this flexible thinking is benefiting them and is a more accurate way of looking at biology.
Holistic medicine. Do you mean mixing nonsense with actual medicine. Every scientific endeavor of merit is composed entirely of discrete units designed to be testable so we can add one more block to the pile which is used to work our way to a slightly larger understanding of reality.
I do not mean mixing pseudoscience with science. I mean that traditional Chinese medicine, which modern Chinese medicine is based on, if you would bother to do even the tiniest bit of research on the history of medicine, is based on a system of give and take, ying/yang, of flow, and with Qi. This philosophical basis means that they are less binary with their definitions and allow for more gradient thinking. Given that living is a delicate neurochemical and microbe balance, a give and take - it seems much more of an accurate view of the body and this has benefitted them a lot. They cured HIV and herpes with CRISPR-CAS9. It’s genuinely incredible.
China, India, Arabic countries, and then finally Greece and Western countries all influenced each other with medicine because they were on the silk road. The first medical compendiums ever made were made by Arabic scholars over hundreds of years, because they were in the center of all of this information. They also invented the first hospitals, and due to Islam’s values with charity, were meant to be free to use. These are valid scientific endeavors that enabled more research and a greater variety of case studies. It’s why hospitals to this day have wings for roughly each area of the body - eg doctors who read the section of the compendium on eyes would be eye doctors in the eye wing. It wasn’t expected in Arabic medicine that every doctor would treat every condition because the literature was so vast.
The body doesn’t discretely separate out organs though. It doesn’t say “oh well that’s a kidney issue so I can’t hurt the heart.” Western medicine tends to inappropriately segment the body into discrete parts which are actually related. I have personally made connections in the medical field knowing that this is the blind spot in Western medicine, and when I look at studies to confirm my hunches - China did the research. This is what I mean about them having an advantage. We’d have to bring real philosophy back into science if we want to catch up.
Another thread where Americans cry about China 🤣
there must be a huge propoganda campaign going on, I see this sentiment all over social media lately
I think the US is imtimidated by China’s success. We only have ourselves to blame for outsourcing our manufacturing and service. The boomers sold this country to the highest bidder
If you want America to lead the world again, stop supporting companies that sell out our country
Walmart. Target. Amazon. FiveBelow. etc.
you’re going to act like the entirety of American social media isn’t constantly whining about China?
We should be improving instead of whining. blame the boomers that sold our country overseas in the 70s
Most normal Americans don’t care about China. Only your echo chamber does.
It’s funny just reading the headline… Experts warn that Chinese research is getting good? Like, is that a bad thing, or why do we have to be warned about it xD isn’t research in general just good
Not just that China’s research is increasing, but that the USA’s is declining. Context clues indicate that there isn’t one worldwide condition that would explain the decline in USA science, because China is still succeeding and even growing in science… So the decline of USA’s science research indicates a problem in the USA. That is a problem, wouldn’t you agree?
Problem for the USA
The article is from a publication literally called “Scientific American”. Whom do you suspect the intended audience is?
when i was working in technology research we had low trust on Chinese publications, they have to gain in quality more than quantity
China is a publication mill. What’s on the paper isn’t as important as how many papers have your name.