Re: USA decoupling From China
Sure, they have their "Skylab" now - fifity years later - and thank to a lot of Western technology we have transferred to China just because of easy and larger profits for a few.
Russia did and does have smart people too - but CCCP still failed miserably without being able to get Western technology easily. And many of those Chinese "smart people" are busy trying to get at all that the technology they can't develop locally. Because you need to be not only smart, but enough close to the Party to get the job.
But the West was very gracious too opening a lot of technology - FOSS is truly a great gift for authoritarian States, hey get all this IP for free, you don't need to develop it yourself, we are giving it to you because we are idiots - some of use wanted people to work for free to enrich a few, and those few were so blinded by the gold they cold amass they couldn't see beyond their noses - while other wanted exactly that.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
