India, USSR, Vietnam, Korea, Nepal, Bhutan, South China Sea.

There's a reason why all of Chinas neighbours hate them.

The UN functionally acts as cover for authoritarian regimes and human rights abusers.

Certificates are almost certainly an indication that the programmer isn't any good. There's an exception, where someone could be young and naive, and they're going for their 1st or 2nd job.

It's an authoritarian regime. All that's going to happen is that investors take a massive haircut. Chinese people will realize that they have to work into their 80s just to put food on the table. The boondoggles have already been built. What doesn't exist if future economic growth and productivity improvements. The regime will not collapse. It will eventually have to acknowledge that they never closed the middle-income trap. Poor chinese will be worked to the bone to prop up the geopolitical aspirations of the CCP. There will be social unrest. Maybe some -- or a lot -- if sabre rattling to keep the regime popular.

The amount of profit is arbitrary, and relates to how much money the CCP moves from one industry to another in the form of subsidies. If the chinese system were more open, we could run some numbers and actually figure this out.

There's no such thing as a profitable private company in an authoritarian state.

China hugely overpays for talent, because "skill researchers" would prefer to live anywhere but China. That includes China, which is undergoing a massive brain drain.

Authoritarian regimes are notoriously bad at innovation. China would do fine if it could shed the CCP.

The Chinese economy produces about 5x as much CO2 per unit of GDP as the US does. It's been over a decade since the US built a coal plant. They'd do themselves a favour by replacing some super old polluting plants. China is far too corrupt to do anything substantive about pollution. Authoritarian governments always are. You end up with "Potemkin village" efforts. No substance.

That story over 100 years old. Edison wasn't stealing technology, but abusing patent laws, which are under constant reform.

Stealing Western tech has been a long standing sore point between China and the rest of the world. The CCP forces companies to sign 'tech sharing agreements' to enter China. Stealing is official government policy.

China *could* develop a modern economy, but not with the CCP in charge.

Who?

The Chinese economy is in terrible shape. Huawei may be the only bright spot. Maybe. It's hard to know what's happening in such an opaque system.

Sex -- "phenotype for producing a particular gamete size" -- is a binary. For humans, there's only sperms and eggs. Nothing in between. This idea is foundational in biology, like evolution itself.

"Something is never called the "same as itself".

Are you sure?

The CCP has been fighting that battle for 50+ years. Until recently, it has been almost completely one-sided. Since COVID, the world has finally been waking up to the hostile cultish duplicity of China's leadership.