Not Possible to Industrialize Like China

[Martian2]

The fact that China industrialized like China makes it possible to industrialize like China.

I think you're wrong.

There is only one Hollywood, which dominates movie-making.
There is only one New York, which dominates finance.
There is only one Silicon Valley, which dominates high-tech.

It took 40 years for Taiwan's Hsinchu Park to wrest a big chunk of high-tech computer hardware (e.g. notebook computers) from Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley still retains all of the high-tech software companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc..

You cannot industrialize like China, because China has not moved from the high-tech industries that it dominates.

China sells Huawei telecommunications equipment, Lenovo computers, Xiaomi smartphones, DJI consumer drones, SANY heavy-construction equipment, Great Wall DFH-4 communications satellites with a maximum of 54 transponders, billion-dollar offshore oil-drilling platforms, nuclear power reactors, Wing Loong military drones, etc.

The Chinese export products are constantly being upgraded. For example, China is now selling Wing Loong II. Huawei is moving into 5G. Great Wall is moving to DFH-5 with improved performance specifications, etc.

Since the Chinese high-tech exports are capital and technology intensive, there is no way that other countries can industrialize like China.

China was able to industrialize, because the United States left the entire market segment of reasonably-priced high-tech exports to China.

The United States has onerous licensing requirements to buy an American 5-axis CNC machine tool. China has no licensing requirements and exports billions of dollars of machine tools each year.

Similarly, China does not attach any strings to the sale of the Wing Loong military drone. In contrast, the US will only sell Reaper drones to allies. Additionally, the US attaches conditions to the use of the Reaper drones.

China was able to industrialize, because the worldwide market for AFFORDABLE high-tech items was left wide open by the United States. Since China has not moved from its high-tech markets, it is difficult to see how any country can compete against Chinese strongholds in all of the high-tech items that I mentioned earlier.

I have been on PDF for 9 years. During the past decade, I have not seen any country climb up the industrial ladder. The Top Ten countries of USPTO patent recipients remain unchanged. The countries with significant trade surpluses from merchandise trade exports are also the same. This shows that it is extremely difficult (if not impossible) to industrialize like China.

 

[TaiShang]

The fact that China industrialized like China makes it possible to industrialize like China.

How would an Indian like yourself possible know? Another SP12 argument?

Hope one day they can reach Sub-Sahara Africa lev.

It would be a truly "Indian! miracle" if they actually managed it.

Such backward manufacturing, bad (insufficient) business environment, low quality work skills and habits, lack of logistics and clusters...

Only Indians see themselves shining; they are on the receiving end of all jokes for the rest of the world. That's a bad image that will take decades of hard work, good result and not boasting.

But these three things Indians cannot achieve.