Be afraid, America, be very afraid!

[Jawge]

Nice but I like this :

Although China holds the patents on the technology, design and equipment used by the CRH380 train, some in the industry question the degree to which China is justified in claiming the latest technology as its own.
"Everybody knows that a lot of the core technology is European," Michael Clausecker, director general of Unife, the Association of the European Rail Industry, said in a recent interview. And despite the obvious benefits high-speed railways bring, the replacement of slower lines with more expensive high-speed trains has prompted complaints from passengers reluctant to pay higher fares, especially on shorter routes.

The US will be afraid when they can mix the concrete to build the dam ( a chemical engineering marvel by itself) Do your research and find out where the concrete came from.

[Assasin]

Well all them know bout China now. Just go a Walmart and Target and look pon the "made in" tag .

[Islandman]

Yeah but I think that Americas middle class is more ignorant of the rest of the world than the middle class in most other countries. Only countries them fighting war with them have a little knowledge of.

Maybe its simply because they have been dominant for so long , and they have not had to know or care.

[Don1]

now yuh have mi confused. i thought the chinese was the best thing to happen to jamaica since...manley! and now yuh waan come buss dem bubble!

the guy is lost... trapped in a Babylon-induced Quantum Singularity

[Muadib]

?? Wi depending on Chiney fi technology ???

[Mosiah]

Mi hear seh Merica land a man on di moon in the 60s !

While China catching up.. Merica working on next gen.. the gap is just too large.. unfortunately population size does not determine pace of innovation..

Good analogy: China a rollout 2G while Merica working on LTE

now yuh have mi confused. i thought the chinese was the best thing to happen to jamaica since...manley! and now yuh waan come buss dem bubble!

[Muadib]

Mi hear seh Merica land a man on di moon in the 60s !

While China catching up.. Merica working on next gen.. the gap is just too large.. unfortunately population size does not determine pace of innovation..

Good analogy: China a rollout 2G while Merica working on LTE

[Don1]

That may be true...but it doesn't mean (to me) that when gross ignorance is encountered that it should not be challenged with reality

[Me]

many people having little clue about what is going on elsewhere in the world?

[Don1]

what... frogs bursting?

[Me]

Is that not the case for most countries?

[Don1]

Many Americans (and aped by many Jamaicans) have very little clue of the big changes going on in the world.

Reminds me of that parable about the frog.... put one in boiling water and it WILL jump out immediately.

Put a frog in cool water but with a flame under it...dat deh frog stay inside dat wata an get hotta & hotta til im BUSS...LoL!

Ignorance is a hell of a thing

[Mosiah]

Hey, give dem wi road, gi dem every striking ting fi wuk pon!

As a matter of fact, I was handed a document last week to do a little write up on, and to my surprise the general contractor was indeed a Chinese company. I doubt many people know they are involved on this particular project, but it nuh matter. Gi dem!

Yes, Maudib, unnu gone clear wid di China link!

[Me]

Many Americans have accepted that China is much more than that. There is a reason why Arnold Schwarzenegger was in China discussing California's high speed rail plan.

[Mosiah]

But many of these initiatives have come at great human and environmental cost, and some have questioned whether the country fosters a sufficiently innovative spirit to compete on the next level.

The only people with these questions are the nervous Americans. Dem can stay deh feel say China going to copy and stop right there. I know some Chinese students in my grad class who were not copying from anyone! Plain geniuses, or at least, extremely hard workers. When we got a project to do for a week, these students were handing in mini-thesis papers!