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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Stop exporting American innovation.
It doesn’t help that they’re stealing our tech without consequences.
We systematically punish innovation to reward indolence. What result did we think we were going to get?
How? The Chinese aren't focused on teaching in their schools based on showing kids how to be transgender and queer, and how to put on condoms. They focus on math, chemistry and engineering. As long as liberals run the public schools here and staff them with queer socialist teachers, there is no focus on showing kids how to be innovative in the right way.
Additionally, we aren't allowing the best and brightest minds to stream into our country.
But central planning-based countries can cheat and steal. And that is what China does.
I’ve worked in Silicon Valley for 30+ years and the real problem is that too many tech companies are now managed by non-Americans (think India, Taiwan, and China) with no loyalty to this country.
Their best and brightest stream into our country and then stream right back into theirs after they have packed their brains with what we know.
Think "Concordski".
American education is in shambles, opportunities and freedom are stifled.
Of course we have an innovation problem, the wright brothers probably would have had a lawsuit or criminal record if they were growing up with the values of today’s society.
Yabutt, China is WAY behind on transgender issues...
There are a lot of very basic steps that need to be taken. One example - we’ve been training Chinese scientists for decades, on taxpayer dollars. I would immediately limit this, dramatically.
In biomedical research, for example, it is very common for American researchers with NIH grants to spend a significant amount of those grants on postdocs from other nations. I would make it law that no more than 35% of any NIH grant could be used to pay foreign post-docs. Why should US taxpayer money be used to fund foreign researchers, when US citizens are avoiding going into science because it is too risky financially, with little job security?
Innovative my ass. Have yet to see anything innovative from the Chinese that they didn’t steal from us. That’s why they won’t fold to Trumps trade war. They know they would be screwed without their thievery.
Congress is spending most of their time and money on trying to find a crime Trump has committed. This is what one gets with an affirmative action congressional representation.
“will threaten future U.S. technological...”
American is so far ahead of China, India, Russia and Brazil, four backward countries trying to live like us.
Problem: American students are not trained to work in Silicon Valley. China has 80 million and India has 20 million training to work in Silicon Valley. American public schools are garbage. Just look at UC Berkeley’s rejection of Milo and Ben Shapiro.
You should know more about pro-market economic policies in China. China has been a member of WTO for 20 years, how could it still stick to orthodox Marx-Lenin centre-planning principle?
...IF WE DON'T STOP IMPORTING TENS UPON THOUSANDS OF THEIR SPIES.
I’ve been in tech for about 10 years and agree 100%. indians are as big a threat to organizations as chinese nationals IMO - the self-dealing and venality is unreal.
The author is a Jimmy Carter guy, and member in good standing of the SWAMP:
“Robert D. Hormats, vice chairman of Kissinger Associates, was undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, 2009-13; assistant secretary of State, 1981-82; and a former ambassador and deputy U.S. trade representative, 1979-81. As senior economics adviser to three White House national security advisers from 1969 to 1977, he helped to oversee the U.S. opening to China. He is a former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs (International).”
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