The Wall Street Journal satirizes Musk and his Tesla: China's future may not have you. Using the "painful lessons" of Motorola and Apple as examples, it makes a dialectical analysis and concludes that once we build up our industrial chain relying on orders and technology from American companies, they will be pushed out.
This report clearly expresses its intention: that industries developed first by the United States cannot be touched by others, and profitable sectors are exclusively for the US to develop, while others can only watch and do the hard work, earning only low-cost manufacturing fees.
Americans also believe that others' development is achieved through their efforts. When others show signs of success, they think their technology has been stolen and consider themselves the biggest victims.
That is very strange. Since The Wall Street Journal has such a "deep" understanding, and its entrepreneurs are not dumb, why do so many "painful lessons" still happen, and yet American companies keep investing in building factories? It seems no one forced them. Now they are calculating and explaining things clearly, but why didn't they speak up when they were making money?
Additionally, it is precisely because these companies cooperated with us that they became world-class enterprises quickly. If these companies leave the fertile ground of development, they would have withered long ago. How can there be any "painful lessons"? If these companies one day really have no place for themselves in this country or around the world, they should think more about why they couldn't compete with their rivals and why they were pushed out.
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