> And if the F35 is so bloody useless, why is China pursuing so many versions of their own?
because China has the resources and motivations to bet on everything all the time.
back in the covid days, China invested heavily on all types of vaccines, more precisely, for each possible tech route, they invested in multiple companies. they ended up approving like dozens of different vaccines.
they are now leading in the EV sector, interestingly the CCP recently ordered to continue to invest on the R&D of ICE cars.
I needed a certain type of instrument in my current project, did my research and found there are three commercialised tech routes, one took by the US, one by the EU, China recently claimed to have invented the third route. guess what, they have 3 competing companies selling 3 different commercial products that implemented those 3 tech routes when the US and EU just have one company working on it each.
because China has the resources and motivations to bet on everything all the time.
back in the covid days, China invested heavily on all types of vaccines, more precisely, for each possible tech route, they invested in multiple companies. they ended up approving like dozens of different vaccines.
they are now leading in the EV sector, interestingly the CCP recently ordered to continue to invest on the R&D of ICE cars.
I needed a certain type of instrument in my current project, did my research and found there are three commercialised tech routes, one took by the US, one by the EU, China recently claimed to have invented the third route. guess what, they have 3 competing companies selling 3 different commercial products that implemented those 3 tech routes when the US and EU just have one company working on it each.