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China has become a science / engineering super power over the past 20 years https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/12/china-has-become-a-scientific-superpower
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July
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One thing I notice in the West especially is this tendency to severely underestimate how much change China has gone through in the past 30ish years. It’s unprecedented at a scale that I don’t portend to even attempt to understand as well, but I think it’s severely overlooked as many in the West
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July
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I think Zhangke Jia captures the tremendous modernization and change (and the effect it has on humans) through movies especially the change that China has undergone in the past 30 years. “ash is purest white" is a wonderful illustration of the changes https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7298400/
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July
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Completely different direction but reminds me also of “elephant sitting still” what an absolute horror and emotionally exhausting but beautiful movie. RIP Hu Bo https://totonyproductions.com/blog/2021/02/22/an-elephant-sitting-still/
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July
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There’s also a tendency in the West to focus primarily on the negative aspects of China often it seems, antagonized repeatedly
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Harpalsinh Jadeja
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Thank you for the movie recs! Did you use any tool to write this thread?
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gill
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let's be real. it's an ideology war. not different then cold war era. The "west"* tries over and over again to attach anything socialism to dictatorship and capitalism to 'freedom' and 'opportunity'. But peak capitalism is making it pretty obvious how unsustainable it's ideology is. *calling it the west is ideological as well. There's socialist Cuba in this side of the globe (surviving despite of an usa embargo and a great public health and education system regardless). There's also a lot of countries in LatAm that will only reflect the "west" ideology out of an usa/eurocentric point of view but have really particular perspectives of the world (and the ones they echo with the "west" are out of usa's influence)
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Fully agree with this. Altho I think that might be just the narrative Western governments want to portray to their public? I suspect that Western leaders are fully aware of Chinese progress.
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