RT @[email protected]

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Why is China not creative? NASA is planning a crewed mission to Mars. China is not planning to go to another planet to perform a mission but wants to beat the US on the same goal. If China were a person, it has one fucking personality.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BerniceMa8/status/1620335323741061121

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“@RealSexyCyborg @chineseciv @zhao_dashuai Why is China not creative? NASA is planning a crewed mission to Mars. China is not planning to go to another planet to perform a mission but wants to beat the US on the same goal. If China were a person, it has one fucking personality.”

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Obviously, these aren't good-faith questions, it's conclusions from decades of Sinophobic propaganda. But that does not mean from the outside looking in, it can't look a bit like this sometimes- particularly if we don't try to show evidence to the contrary.
I'll give it a shot.

>Why is China not creative?

This is more "Why does China often appear to not be creative in ways Western cultures recognize and value?"

I'd start here with this article I wrote way back for @[email protected]

https://hackaday.com/2017/08/30/lu-bans-axe-and-working-with-your-chinese-suppliers/

Lu Ban’s Axe And Working With Your Chinese Suppliers

It is nearly impossible to build any kind of hardware these days without at some point in the process dealing with China — Chinese suppliers, and so by extension Chinese culture. Difficulties…

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@SexyCyborg China is very creative. It takes vast creativity to have rocket artillery and printing press before everyone else.