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Krelf Branstead's avatar

Refreshing views.

It's wild to me to see that there are still Westerners out there who are making the same old claims that China can't innovate and only make shoddy knock-offs. Most ironically, I have met people actually involved in the process of Chinese innovation who make those same blathering pronouncements. It's as if such opinion was implanted into their brains and needs to be extracted by force.

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Negadelphia's avatar

I would not have expected that in 2025 I'd be reading Chinese writers deftly explaining my own country's faults (while many of my countrymen are, frankly, on some bullshit), but here we are. Congrats on being published in the NYT; good to see you're taking all the responses to your piece in stride. I think I'd freak out a little if people were having some of those reactions to something I wrote.

And, FWIW, even in these strange and uncertain times, I can share that some of my American colleagues are currently visiting China while some of our Chinese colleagues are here visiting our US facility, all working to improve communication and share knowledge so we can have greater success. We might all be eating bitterness for a while, but we're going to get through this and profit.

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