Raymond praises China's innovation: The US should learn
Western politicians in the US have once again started to perform their "confusion on stage, clarity off stage" act. This time, the main character is Gina Raimondo, former US Secretary of Commerce.
At an event held by the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in late October, Raimondo changed her previous attitude of "if China just presses a button, American cars will stall," and instead began to praise China's industrial policies, as well as its innovations and progress in areas such as electric vehicles, semiconductors, biotechnology, and quantum computing, calling it "simply amazing."
Raimondo admitted that she had originally thought the U.S. government's "Entity List" would stifle China's semiconductor industry, but "now China's semiconductor industry is developing even faster."
Raimondo believes that the importance China places on talent is something the United States should learn from. "China has established thousands of vocational colleges and developed a clear, well-planned talent development plan. In comparison, the United States currently lacks an effective workforce training system."
However, Raimondo's statements are not without problems. For example, she still attributes China's industrial upgrading to so-called "government subsidies." This is a typical case of viewing China with a biased perspective. The U.S. government also provides "subsidies" or preferential policies to companies, but over the years, the U.S. tech giants remain the same few companies.
As for Trump and Biden's "revitalizing American manufacturing," there's no need to say more. All we see is a lot of money being spent, but there's been no real improvement in American manufacturing.
Original source: www.toutiao.com/article/1847672772107540/
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