Any time I see an article about China's tech doom I'm skeptical. Are there any solid, trustworthy sources for statistics on these matters? Where should I be looking for signal?
The way I am reading it, what the article is getting at is specifically tech unicorns are in trouble, either that they are not making the money they require or getting the investments they once had. Doesn't exactly mean a 'tech doom', but I would say these are worrying signs.
> Vladimir Bukovsky maintained that the middle ground between the Big Lie of Soviet propaganda and the truth was itself a lie, and one should not be looking for a middle ground between disinformation and information.[5] According to him, people from the Western pluralistic civilization are more prone to this fallacy because they are used to resolving problems by making compromises and accepting alternative interpretations—unlike Russians, who are looking for the absolute truth.
That's not at all true. I have seen countless articles in the mainstream media over the years about the huge gains China has made.
What I also see a lot is that when the mainstream press reports something that is going bad in China, then China defenders will say something like you just did.
So how did you get “tech doom” out of that? Is it just the setup for a straw man?
Specific and non-apocalyptic phrases from the article are
* "Technology startups are finding it harder to attract venture capital"
* "slowest quarterly revenue increase since 2014"
* "Deals are taking longer: a round of funding once raised within a month is taking six"