"DeepSeek is the latest in a spate of breakthroughs from China to shock the U.S. It won’t be the last. The more the West refuses to tear down its own barriers to understanding China, the more it will be caught off guard in the future."
What's there to understand? The CCP is authoritarian and the only way to 'revolutionize' anything is to become more open and free. So in essence, they need to become more like the west.
China usually innovates with technologies that allow them to control their people more effectively: in the 90s it was lethal injection technology, the GFW (Great Firewall), facial-recognition and tracking technology, and now AI (which will also be used to track and control the population).
This attitude is exactly the problem. The US can barely build civilian ships and BYD makes better cars than most of Detroid. China seems awfully big on the rearview mirror and people are putting their heads on the sand.
What's there to understand? The CCP is authoritarian and the only way to 'revolutionize' anything is to become more open and free. So in essence, they need to become more like the west.
China usually innovates with technologies that allow them to control their people more effectively: in the 90s it was lethal injection technology, the GFW (Great Firewall), facial-recognition and tracking technology, and now AI (which will also be used to track and control the population).