China 28
- Chinese technological success has become the rule rather than the exception.
- China trails the United States in AI capability, but only by a small margin rather than years.
Dan Wang
Writer and analyst of Chinese technology and industry, for years based in Beijing and Shanghai, best known for his annual letters and for the argument that manufacturing capability lives in accumulated process knowledge rather than in tools or intellectual property.
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America 14
- China trails the United States in AI capability, but only by a small margin rather than years.
- China is an engineering state that solves problems by building and acting, while the United States is a lawyerly society whose legal system mostly blocks action, for good and bad.
innovation 8
- Only a handful of countries can do high technology at all, because industrial capability is path-dependent and the initial conditions are very hard to get right.
- Western firms that kept the high-value work at home are betting the workforce they trained cannot absorb the technology, and that bet has already lost several times.
government 4
- Xi Jinping is mostly right about the problems he identifies, and his government's brute-force solutions reliably make them worse.
- The Chinese state's famous capability is largely spent putting out fires it started itself.
censorship 2
- It is the party's censorship, not any lack of talent, that has made China a cultural underperformer beside Japan and South Korea.
- Silicon Valley's intolerance of dissent functions as a kind of soft Leninism.
education 2
See all 2Silicon Valley 2
- Consumer internet is not the highest form of technology, and treating it as such pulls talent away from the industries that matter more.
- Silicon Valley's intolerance of dissent functions as a kind of soft Leninism.