Most of the “futuristic China tech” is just every day life in the PRC. It’s also funny to have to throw in the paragraph near the end the ‘others’ worry the Huawei device he brought would spy on him. Who is worrying? What proof is there? There is no elaboration, it’s just inserted as it’s seemingly impossible for western news to simply have a positive article about China.

Logging in to comment that this is absolutely the case, also for EU biotech. The scale of innovation and reliance on said innovations by the west isn’t being overstated on the video.

I discussed this with a former leading biotech insider that moved to China because of this. The big western firms have become rent extracting through purchasing IP of medicine developed in China. They don’t do much research any more, and once upon a time when they did do it, the research was profit centric.

Not that surprising given FT recently reported (archive) “China on cusp of next-generation chip production despite US curbs”. That said, like always, China does things at astounding speed.

Archived link/paywall bypass: https://archive.is/VbSPI

Also, you would think a region once plagued by unrest and terrorism (fomented by our favorite imperialist power of course), now stable and prospering would be cause for celebration? No? Also about NEV subsidies, isn’t this what all countries should be doing? Besides, the Global North has long subsidized industries when they chose to.