Last year China produced 50% of the world’s computers and mobile phones; the U.S. produced only 6%. China produces 70 solar panels for each one produced in the U.S., sells four times the number of electric vehicles, and has nine times as many 5G base stations, with network speeds five times as fast as American equivalents.
False connection.
What one has to ask is "What country developed those technologies built?"
In other words, were those technologies made in China, or the US?
Well, there you actually have a rather sharp answer. China is a leader in production, but when it comes to actual engineering and design it is way far behind. In fact, their most successful "productions" are primarily US and Japanese created electronics;. They just copy them as they were designed by others.
Want proof of that? Show me a Chinese designed computer CPU ship. A Chinese designed smart phone. A Chinese designed game console. Computer? Camera? TV? I can just go on and on and on, but I think I have made my point.
China is basically the Xerox machine of the world. They churn out copy after copy after copy. But here is the thing, they make almost nothing that anybody outside of China wants that is original.
And yes, looking at a lot of the numbers they are amazing. China sells four times the number of electric vehicles!
Wow, really? But then you really need to ask yourself, what are these electric vehicles?
This $5,000 electric is the top selling car in China. It is not exported, it is for domestic use only, and can go around 110 miles on a charge. In fact, when looking through the Chinese electric cars, it is damned near impossible to find one for export. Primarily because of things like "auto safety standards", such pesky regulations that some countries use to keep out competition.
As far as "network speeds", anybody that is actually involved in IT can explain that very easily. As the US was an "early adapter" (if not the originator), they have decades worth of legacy hardware already in place. Where as China and most other "developing nations" leapfrogged all of that initial technology and purchased the mature ones at the highest capabilities.
Having been in computer networking for decades, I have seen this first hand. Originally working with "thicknet" coax cable, as well as 15 pin AUI and RG-58 coax cable long before "Twisted Pair Ethernet" was really a thing. Then jumping into that early on, with Cat-3 cable.
The infrastructure in the US is literally built upon decades of earlier standards. Where as China and other countries could make the leap straight to 100-base-T or Gigabit, without all of the steps and cost of what came before it.
And yes, sometimes companies are really-really outdated. Back in 2000, I did a project a the US Honda headquarters in Torrance. And was surprised to see their entire network was literally an ARCNET hardware system that stull used coax to push a Token Ring topology. And I was one of the few techs at that job that had even worked with that technology before, as it was already largely antiquated by the early 1990's. But somewhere the bean counters had made the decision that continuing to use that was more effective than replacing all the hardware and cabling with Cat-5.
So China has networks 5 times faster than the US. They are welcome, as it was largely US companies like IBM, 3Com, Cisco, and the like that made all of that possible for them to jump straight to Gigabit without having to invest in the older slower standards.
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Last year China produced 50% of the world’s computers and mobile phones; the U.S. produced only 6%. China produces 70 solar panels for each one produced in the U.S., sells four times the number of electric vehicles, and has nine times as many 5G base stations, with network speeds five times as fast as American equivalents.China is poised to overtake the U.S. as the global leader in AI by 2030. U.S.-born students are earning roughly as many doctorates each year in AI-related fields as in 1990, while China is on track to graduate twice as many science, technology engineering and mathematics Ph.D.s as the U.S. by 2025. China now clearly tops the U.S. in practical AI applications, including facial recognition, voice recognition and fintech
