Posted on 07/27/2019 7:37:59 PM PDT by cba123
At their G-20 Summit meeting in Osaka, Presidents Trump and Xi declared a truce in the U.S.-China trade conflict to give negotiators time to reach a deal. This was a positive development, although hardly a guarantee of a successful outcome. However, contrary to frequently heard narratives, America's continued global leadership in technology and innovation does not depend primarily on that outcome; it depends far more on significantly strengthening our own domestic efforts to boost our still formidable capacities in these areas.
Markets, politicians and the media doubtless will remain preoccupied with the U.S.-China negotiations. While these talks are highly important to resolve or manage longstanding differences, they also can be a diversion for Americans. They can cause us to pay insufficient attention to major domestic challenges that, left unaddressed, will threaten future U.S. technological and competitive leadership at least as much as competition from China. To retain and enhance U.S. leadership in these areas, we need to pay far greater attention to bolstering our own innovative strengths.
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How can they get ahead of us since they have to steal technology in the first place?
Say, whatever happened to Sun microsystems?
How about 0% ?
We pursue innovation to promote mass indolence and the illusion of dependency for profit. It’s gone beyond logic and sanity.
So let them, don’t buy it. Time for an intervention anyways...
That happens when you send it over there to be made in the first place. How naive can people be?
America is the place where innovation is dying. How can we expect to produce engineers if there aren't jobs for them here?
This is a recipe for the obsolescence of the United States.
Try to find something like an ESP32 that was made here first. Try to find a Bluetooth Low Energy transceiver on an XBee carrier that was made here first.
Those devices were both made in China. The ICs are made in the USA; however, there seems to be nobody here who will innovate products from them. Crap, people here can't get beyond Arduinos using peripherals that are created in China.
Few people understand how deep the damage to American innovation and engineering goes.
Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010.
That's why I get so annoyed with the "Puff the Magic Tariff" brigades here on FR. Tariffs can work tactically if you have industries left to protect, otherwise they equate to putting expensive doors on an empty barn....while your horses are already grazing in the next county. A massive reduction in the Cost of Liberalism is the most important task to focus on.
It certainly is.
You should have known that.
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