• @CommisarChowdahead
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    44 years ago

    we’re not in the 90s any more

    I think the trick of it is that China has changed so dramatically and so quickly people simply aren’t keeping up. They beat the US to 5g, and they’re leading the way on quantum computing all while developing domestic chip-making; simply put, China is not anymore the semi-industrial back-water it has a reputation in the west as being, and never will be again. Despite this, average Americans remember crappy plastic goods and suicide nets, and imagine a nation-wide gulag. I think it is still possible for milenials and genZ to more easily adapt to the idea of a modern China.

    • @LMD1
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      44 years ago

      TFW Westerners blame China for the Suicide nets outside Apple’s Foxconn production lines