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With zero investment in innovation. They just wait and steal the work. Easy to undercut American companies when you have no R&D costs.
Forgot that they are only able to do so because the Western capitalists have been trying to snuff out domestic organized labor and thus dumping huge sums of money into Chinese production for half a century.
Yeah. The crying by CEOs during this obviously inevitable "and find out" phase is beyond ludicrous.
If it was just pure copying the best you could hope for is that you match the performance of your competitor. To exceed their performance genuine investment must be made.
Name a Chinese company that produces a product that's best in the world.
There's probably some lasers/tech etc but nothing consumer, I would guess.
Solar panels. Huawei had some very good 5g tech before the US sanctioned them (great performance competitive price). Electric cars from various brands like BYD and, a very good case can be made about deepseek r1 (same performance as o1 but using an order of magnitude less power/cost).
Can't comment on deepseek but Huawei and BYD certainly are inferior to other products in their industries. Probably not for long, but it's still a happenstance I believe.
Ah yes that’s why America worked super hard to ban them both right.
The commercial drones from DJI are the best in the industry. But also making something that's almost as performant but for a fraction of the cost requires real innovation as well.
DeepSeek's training model was innovative. They used multiple large specialized models to train a very small general model. This is a real practical innovation over OpenAI's one behemoth general purpose model.
True, DJI is a top competitor if not the best drones. Good point
What are you on a about. They produce almost everything you own.
They produce other people's products, I'm talking Chinese designed, produced etc vehicle, phone, TV, plane, whatever
FoxConn makes iPhones, for one.
I guess, but very often private innovation builds upon a bunch of fundamental research funded by the tax payer. Then the private sector patents it, and brings it to market, overcharges and earns billions. Tough luck if China gets better at this game.
And since China is not a party to any Western IP trade agreements and not bound under international trade law, the only solution is a) diplomacy or b) war
B sounds fun