”Be innocent but not naive, be kind but resilient. Rise above the vulgarities of daily lives, but plant our feet firmly on the ground. This should be the common pursuit of our generation.”
"First, the Chip War will never work, and here is my first-principle reason: After the golden age of Einstein and Bohr, there has been no major breakthrough in basic sciences. So, in effect, all of us earthlings’ scientific knowledge have been capped at the same level. The corollary of this universal cap is that, sooner or later China will be able to close in on the technological gap, which is essentially just engineering: tinkering and implementation of basic scientific principles. And remember, Chinese engineers are among the best in the world."
The USSR was ahead of the USA in a number of fields, including semi-conductors through the 1970s. However the pigeon holing of science for security reasons, the failure to get a lot of cutting edge technology into the non-military industrial and consumer areas, brain drain (mostly due to resentment and fear factors, rather than outright selling out), combined to see the USSR stagnate and then fall prey to Western economic sabotage. Fortunately China is well aware of many of these pitfalls, but I share this to note it's a bit optimistic to think that technology isn't built by a carefully managed accretion of knowledge and skills. (I define skills as a subset of knowledge that can not be transferred by media). Just look at how much damage has been done to the USA's own industrial base by Financial Capitalism's extraction.
Please , you made me blush, I'm retired after 45 years working as an engineer with 30+ of those years spent in China. Overall I'm optimistic, but I've also seen competition between Cadres stifle innovation. Nepotism, corruption and all the other ills that many western experts harp on exist to a much worse extent in North America and the EU. The difference being the Westerners legalized and institutionalize the corruption to a much greater extent. They have normalized the rot so much that it has become invisible matter the elites swim in. If this should start to happen in China, then that's when all bets are off.
又溶化于社会之中 is under represented in your translation, but it's really a key point. If the party becomes elitist, vs. a true meritocracy then that's a key indication that the last part of the above paragraph is taking root.
"First, the Chip War will never work, and here is my first-principle reason: After the golden age of Einstein and Bohr, there has been no major breakthrough in basic sciences. So, in effect, all of us earthlings’ scientific knowledge have been capped at the same level. The corollary of this universal cap is that, sooner or later China will be able to close in on the technological gap, which is essentially just engineering: tinkering and implementation of basic scientific principles. And remember, Chinese engineers are among the best in the world."
The USSR was ahead of the USA in a number of fields, including semi-conductors through the 1970s. However the pigeon holing of science for security reasons, the failure to get a lot of cutting edge technology into the non-military industrial and consumer areas, brain drain (mostly due to resentment and fear factors, rather than outright selling out), combined to see the USSR stagnate and then fall prey to Western economic sabotage. Fortunately China is well aware of many of these pitfalls, but I share this to note it's a bit optimistic to think that technology isn't built by a carefully managed accretion of knowledge and skills. (I define skills as a subset of knowledge that can not be transferred by media). Just look at how much damage has been done to the USA's own industrial base by Financial Capitalism's extraction.
Very good point!
Please , you made me blush, I'm retired after 45 years working as an engineer with 30+ of those years spent in China. Overall I'm optimistic, but I've also seen competition between Cadres stifle innovation. Nepotism, corruption and all the other ills that many western experts harp on exist to a much worse extent in North America and the EU. The difference being the Westerners legalized and institutionalize the corruption to a much greater extent. They have normalized the rot so much that it has become invisible matter the elites swim in. If this should start to happen in China, then that's when all bets are off.
又溶化于社会之中 is under represented in your translation, but it's really a key point. If the party becomes elitist, vs. a true meritocracy then that's a key indication that the last part of the above paragraph is taking root.
It is really an amazing, “super open-minded脑袋大开” idea.
脑洞？😅
good catch! 😅