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  • These days, it’s the foreigners visiting China who often experience future shock, astonished by the towering skyscrapers, high-speed rail, megabridges, and ubiquitous electric cars, super-apps, and trifold smartphones.

  • The country now accounts for 70 percent of the world’s granted AI patents, 75 percent of global patent applications in clean-energy technology, 41 percent of granted patents in the life sciences and biotechnology, and more patent applications in fusion technology than any other country.

  • Eight of the world’s top 10 institutions by research output are in China, according to the Nature Index.

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[–] verdi@feddit.org 20 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

China builds everything anyways. Hopefully they start building equality soon because so far, it's indistinguishable from a lawless oligarchy. Let China build the means of production back into the proletariat's hands instead of continuously moving towards fascism.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

it's indistinguishable from a lawless oligarchy.

It's definitely an oligarchy, but "lawless" hasn't been my impression of China, at least not any more than any capitalist country.

[–] verdi@feddit.org 2 points 13 hours ago

My meaning was, if you're part of the apparatchik the law doesn't apply to you much like i. e. the US with money keeping you from having to comply with the law.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Let China build the means of production back into the proletariat's hands

That's a good joke.

China has billionaires just like the West, they shit on their underlings who shit on their underlings just like the west.

China is a capitalist nation...

[–] verdi@feddit.org 10 points 19 hours ago

No shit Sherlock...

[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

A dystopia that Elon Musk wants to import from China where one company controls everything you do via an app on your phone.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

What makes it "super" as opposed to "just" an "app"?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I think it's that it basically has a grip on small economy

It's a chat app yes, but it's also Amazon, it's also a payment provider, not just online either, you pay in shops with a WeChat QR code, I think if you're going to a gig, your tickets are on WeChat

It's basically all encompassing.