>VC from Asia is skyrocketing, threatening to shift power over innovation
"Threatening" to whom? Not to Asians.
This is an offending us/euro-centric title in a global age...
"Threatening" to whom? Not to Asians.
This is an offending us/euro-centric title in a global age...
It's meant as "to announce as intended or possible".
That's true whether you're Asian or not.
In a negative way. See my response below, and the lemmas for 3 major dictionaries...
That's not necessarily bad. One could say it's used to say it's unexpected, as I assumed for the quote we're discussing.
With that perspective in mind, it's definitely threatening given the rivalry between the U.S. and China. There's both the economic threat towards America's future prosperity as a country for technology, and the cultural threat that a country modeled like China will surpass a country modeled like the United States. The second one is what I find most concerning.
Audience concerned, this is increasingly less so for web-based properties.
As others have said, the parent misinterprets the meaning if 'threatening'.
It also has no basis for the opinions of Asians, an incredibly large and diverse group of billions of human beings from Turkey to India to Japan to Kazakhstan to Russia to Indonesia to the Philippines to etc etc. To suggest all these people share the same opinion is absurd.
What meaning exactly would that be?
Dictionary.com: 1. tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures. 2. causing alarm, as by being imminent; ominous; sinister:
Webster: expressing or suggesting a threat of harm, danger, etc. received a threatening message a threatening manner : indicating or suggesting the approach of possible trouble or danger saw threatening clouds on the horizon
Oxford dictionary: 1 Having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner.
It does mean "impeding", but not a neutral impeding -- an "ominous" impeding.
Thats what the OP thinks it is. The actual title of the article is " Silicon Valley Powered American Tech Dominance—Now It Has a Challenger "
Perhaps the western world sees challenges from Asia as threats now.