The big thing China has going for it is the size of its market, but also because it rejected US pressure not to erect trade barriers on digital technology. The Great Firewall (while also a censorship tool) gave domestic firms the room to grow and improve before going international. Other countries had their competitors to Silicon Valley crushed or acquired before they could reach that stage.
The big thing China has going for it is the size of its market, but also because it rejected US pressure not to erect trade barriers on digital technology. The Great Firewall (while also a censorship tool) gave domestic firms the room to grow and improve before going international. Other countries had their competitors to Silicon Valley crushed or acquired before they could reach that stage.
Yes of course. I am from India and even though I heard one of the country's leading oligarchs speak of 'data colonialism' (first time I heard the expression), I believe the surrender of the country's tech industry was consensual. It was copy-and-catch-up innovation mostly, built around US ideas and infrastructure. I heard tech entrepreneurs complain about roman script keyboards exposing themselves to global competition and referring admiringly to China's own 'cultural firewall'. Of course, it must be one of the factors (and not the reason), but I hear the conversation in China about creating building a Tech stack chip-level upwards and I wish my Indian friends were speaking about that. But I believe the cost of switch is too much and it is impossible to achieve without public investment in Tech, but also in education and market creation.
The big thing China has going for it is the size of its market, but also because it rejected US pressure not to erect trade barriers on digital technology. The Great Firewall (while also a censorship tool) gave domestic firms the room to grow and improve before going international. Other countries had their competitors to Silicon Valley crushed or acquired before they could reach that stage.
Yes of course. I am from India and even though I heard one of the country's leading oligarchs speak of 'data colonialism' (first time I heard the expression), I believe the surrender of the country's tech industry was consensual. It was copy-and-catch-up innovation mostly, built around US ideas and infrastructure. I heard tech entrepreneurs complain about roman script keyboards exposing themselves to global competition and referring admiringly to China's own 'cultural firewall'. Of course, it must be one of the factors (and not the reason), but I hear the conversation in China about creating building a Tech stack chip-level upwards and I wish my Indian friends were speaking about that. But I believe the cost of switch is too much and it is impossible to achieve without public investment in Tech, but also in education and market creation.