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    China’s tech giants have conquered the East, now for the West - Telegraph

    At a global summit on artificial intelligence in Washington last November, Eric Schmidt, former executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, delivered a stark warning on China’s technological prowess. “By 2020, they will have caught up. By 2025, they will be better than us. By...
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    US Travel Blogger Recounts Horror Story About Being Stalked, Harassed and Trapped in Delhi OYO Room

    Roaming around ghettos is fine. I even posted a video in this thread where foreigners were walking around in one such ghetto. Find out if they actually stayed in one. Westerner complaining about being raped and later harassed in China...
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    US Travel Blogger Recounts Horror Story About Being Stalked, Harassed and Trapped in Delhi OYO Room

    1. you say china hid truth to make themselves look better, yet you say China has 4 times more prisoner than India. First, show your link for your claim, second, show that prisoners are there due to violent crimes. 2. Westerners stay in Chinese AirBnB without using ID ALL THE TIME, many...
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    US Travel Blogger Recounts Horror Story About Being Stalked, Harassed and Trapped in Delhi OYO Room

    what does controlled media have anything to do with anything? if problem is so prevalent in China, then people would spread news among themselves, you don't need government news if your friend, people from work, classmates, neighbor or friends of friends, neighbors of neighbors got raped, it's...
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    US Travel Blogger Recounts Horror Story About Being Stalked, Harassed and Trapped in Delhi OYO Room

    lol, another Indian using China "hide" rape problem excuse. When I was growing up in china and to this very day, rape and other types of violent crime are never big problems in China. Many girls as young as 10, go walk to schools or take buses by themselves. You would think if rape is such...
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    Putin says Russia and China to reduce use of dollar in trade

    I think you forgot china can offer trillions worth of exchangeable currency into Russia, cheap consumer goods is an afterthought and that's not what Russia is after anyway. why is it short memory when dollar trade has decreased, but trade in respective currencies in fact increased since 2014...
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    Elon Musk says China has an advantage because its politicians are better at science

    I didn't say people in poverty don't innovate, I'm simply saying people with more money can more easily pursue innovation when they don't have to worry about starving. There's positive correlation between number of innovations and the wealth of the country, not that poor countries don't file any...
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    Elon Musk says China has an advantage because its politicians are better at science

    Modernizing from extremely poor stage != innovating. China modernizing from $1000 per capita in the past 3 decades is to simply pulling people out of poverty by providing them with low level jobs and fed, not trying to be innovative. Only recently has China truly been emerging in innovation...
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    Elon Musk says China has an advantage because its politicians are better at science

    that's not really a valid comparison by using last 200 years. I think everyone is aware US has been and is still the tech lead in many areas. I think what Elon Musk and many people here referring to is what would be like going forward. China only start bursting on the tech scene over the past...
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    US earned $210 billion in tourism receipts in 2017, 3 times higher than any other country

    it's definitely top Asian destinations for Europeans. China (even including Hong Kong) is the same as the Thailand.
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    US earned $210 billion in tourism receipts in 2017, 3 times higher than any other country

    Chinese is the new comer, it's still the mecca for European and American and expensive areas are still dominated by whites, chinese are relatively cheap.
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    US earned $210 billion in tourism receipts in 2017, 3 times higher than any other country

    Thailand is way expensive than China, it's a mecca for white European and Americans. Some of the beaches and resorts there cost at 70% or 80% or just as much as Hawaii and are filled with white people.
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    The reality of quantum computing could be just three years away

    Quantum computing has moved out of the realm of theoretical physics and into the real world, but its potential and promise are still years away. Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, a powerhouse in the world of quantum research and a young upstart in the field presented visions for the future of...
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    US earned $210 billion in tourism receipts in 2017, 3 times higher than any other country

    because china is really cheap to travel. US is on the top because US is expensive, you send $8 on a burger, while in china a burger cost $1. That's 8x already for purchasing the same thing. Foreign spending is higher in the US reflects exactly that, people may actually purchase more items in...
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    VC behemoth Sequoia now thinks China is on-par with US in tech startups

    They are investing in Chinese startup exactly because China is now the 2nd largest INTERNATIONAL PATENT producing country in the world, for more than half decade now, a close 2nd to the US. It's like saying, don't invest in Facebook because Facebook is second in patent application comparing to...
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    VC behemoth Sequoia now thinks China is on-par with US in tech startups

    As the shadow of SoftBank (and its $100 billion fund) looms large over the investment landscape, Sequoia Capital is pushing the upper limits of the checks it’s willing to write to global growth-stage companies up to $1 billion. With a B. That’s the word from Sequoia’s global managing partner...
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    China was never colonised. Why compare it's performance with newly independent countries?

    whether it's china's own doing or not is up to debate, without Japanese invasion, civil war could been ended long time ago as well, who would have known. But I thought OP's hypothesis was that China had advantage and head start over India, the answer is clearly no. In fact, China was...
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    China was never colonised. Why compare it's performance with newly independent countries?

    china was also utterly devastated and the entire country was in ruins after WWII, where India at the time had the best railway system in Asia and suffered practically no damage from WWII.
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    With Ships and Missiles, China Is Ready to Challenge U.S. Navy in Pacific

    blatant lie. Taiwan's official name is Republic of China, their own constitution states "taiwan is part of china". Practically every single country in the world recognizes Taiwan as part of china, including UN, US, and rest of the world. To date, Taiwan hasn't declared independence, and their...
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