China offers a great counterfactual to the Western argument of "what if we simply stopped doing strategy?" - ThreadSky

davidrvetter.bsky.social • 16 days ago

China offers a great counterfactual to the Western argument of "what if we simply stopped doing strategy?"

Reposted from Jan Rosenow

China's dominance in clean energy cannot be overstated.

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rachelbc.bsky.social•16 days ago

The ability to play the looooong game

gamleode.bsky.social•16 days ago

Or the ability to not do societal improvement as a long game.

davidrvetter.bsky.social•16 days ago

*By which I mean systems strategies, rather than "give as much money as possible to rich people and cross your fingers"

davidrvetter.bsky.social•16 days ago

I can anticipate people responding to this with "ah but those are the constraints of democracy", and let me just say that that response raises way more questions than it answers.

godmocks.bsky.social•16 days ago

Indeed, it does, for those are really just the restraints of a democracy in the grips of Citizens United and corporatism's ability to write laws through shadow lobbyists and control agendas via power. It doesn't have to be that way; we choose to let it be that way. (https://a.co/1NSm6PZ)

godmocks.bsky.social•16 days ago

The crisis is in capitalism which is strangling democracy by the hands of demagogues, oligarchs, plutocrats and a wannabe fascist dictator.

godmocks.bsky.social•16 days ago

Just a few of the brilliant minds showing us the way.

randomvariable.co.uk•16 days ago

"The West" is quickly whittling away any moral superiority over China. Both have legitimated genocides, both embracing authoritarian restrictions on speech and folk declared unpeople.

And on science and manufacturing, "the West" has a very tenuous grasp on reality.

martycrabneck.bsky.social•16 days ago

When exactly did "the West" possess any moral superiority over China? When they were mass murdering Vietnamese civilians with chemical weapons perhaps?

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