Invent it here?
Hardly. What, if anything has China invented? What they have is a protectionist economy the forces international investors to used local content in order to ensure the lion’s share of the money stays in Chinese hands...
PLUS... a willingness to steal the intellectual property, proprietary technology or actual assets of anyone stupid enough to do business with them (OK they will also buy when necessary, but only if it includes detailed blueprints which will immediately be cycled out the door for reverse engineering and incorporation into Chinese products which will soon be marketed as competitors)...
AND...lets not forget the cheerful enthusiasm necessary to slash safety margins, cut corners, substitute lead for just about anything COMBINED with the willingness to treat their own workers like slaves, dump millions of tons of pollutants into their own water and air ALL THE WHILE complaining that the rest of the world is picking on them.
Invent? The only thing that China must have invented recently is some amazing drugs if a guy can write something this stupid and expect people to believe it.
Well, it has been a while but they have been widely credited with inventing gunpowder. :=)
“By insisting (as any country can) that products sold in China must adhere to local as well as international standards, China makes sure that Chinese inventions get built into high-tech products sold here. That means there is a Chinese voice in which products succeed or fail in China. And products that succeed in China have a much higher chance of succeeding globally.”
The article isn’t about laying claim to what has been invented, it is about making sure they control or at least strongly influence future developments.
They are pretty good at reverse-engineering or outright stealing US technology.
So were the Soviets.
Paper. Gunpowder. Magnetic compass. Center pivot rudder. Silk. Tea. Ceramics. Earthquake monitoring. Noodles...
China and India both have huge populations. They are industrious and intelligent, it is entirely reasonable to conclude that in the coming decades they will have their share of Edisons and Fords.