kkzz99

But this perfectly illustrates that just having the "best people" doesn't mean anything as long as the policies in the company doesn't allow for the innovation AND execution into products.

This is the exact comment you are decrying. You have no idea about the historic context and what acronym is and what kind of impact they have in the fashion world, especially techwear.

China is doing much better compared to the US.

Not OP, but I use tst too and I have around 7000 tabs open. I use a userStyle to hide the sidebar-header like this.

#sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"] #sidebar-header { display: none; }

I know Peter Zeihan. He focuses mainly on energy and demographics. His predictions have a shoddy record. He is your typical "China will collapse any day now" think-tanker. In my opinion his analyses are simple and unscientific. He presents easy to digest ideas in an understandable way, he is also a great speaker. But if you actually deep dive into his narrative and the actual data, you will soon discover that he is mostly wrong or dramatically exaggerating.

> Mathematically there can be only rate of growth at any point in time.

Huh? I don't understand what you mean by that. Different development strategies can result in different growth rates. Some will just take longer to ramp up but will pay off in the long term.

> You can say the same about US.

All major developed economies try to focus on high quality growth. The question is who is able to accomplish their goals faster/better. Considering the flexibility, strategic planning and political will, my bet in on China.

> It can go this or that way. With access to Western tech cut off, rate of pilfering from the West will also decrease, so that needs to be factored in too.

That is exactly why they are doing dual circulation and focusing on Latam, Asia and a Africa.

> Don't you think those two are contradictory.

No, because high quality development focuses on innovation, sustainability and green development instead of raw growth via low quality development (construction, low-end manufacturing etc.) They could ramp up low quality development faster and thus achieving higher growth rates in the short term. But they are focusing on long term strategic goals.

China just retaliated by issuing export restrictions for some rare earths, which is an indicator that they are rapidly approaching self sufficiency in many aspects. There are still some major hurdles(EUV alternatives, high end AI accelerators, software stack) but if the current speed of development is any indication, then these too will be overcome and probably much faster than many anticipate.

That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. China's rise will accelerate even further. Growth rate is sinking because they switched to high quality development and dual circulation, which doesn't pump up the numbers as much as low quality development. Looking at Chinese industries, they are on the path of full spectrum domination, from aerospace, chip development, ai, mechanical manufacturing, high tech agriculture, research and so on. Look at the number of research fields where China is now #1. Look at the industries China is dominating.

The last time I recommended to use planetscale at my company the only factor that stopped us using them was GDPR/DSGVO. Any news about a europe friendly version?