Pittsburgh_Patrika_October_2019

The Pittsburgh Patrika, Vol, 25, No. 1, October 2019
check in already? Do you want to check
anything else before we go?
It was a 40-minute taxi ride to the airport.
Along the way, the driver wanted
to ask me a few details about my flight.
He opened an app and said something in
Mandarin. The English translation came:
Which airline? Domestic or International?
Flight number? Departure time? I
A young couple in the marina.
replied in English and he got the translation
in Mandarin. That is how far advanced China is.
It took China over 70 years to become a vibrant and confident nation
to challenge the Western and Japanese domination in the 20th century
from the feudal society that it was before Mao’s Revolution.
For 1700 years up to the Industrial Revolution, the world GDP of those
times was split between India and China. See the chart below. China is fast
regaining its past, lost glory. It has become the manufacturing hub for the
rest of the world. Its technology base is good and getting better by the day,
and its business acumen is something for the rest of the world to worry
about. It has developed
its own
version of the
bullet train. It is
close to develop
a commercial
equivalent of the
Boeing 737 and
Airbus 320 for
its own market,
which is huge,
and later for the
Asian market.
There is reason
for the U.S. and
EU to worry.
The rest of the
world has a lot to learn from China -— on what to do and how to do it;
and, more importantly, how to adapt modern technologies to local conditions.
If other nations are smart, perhaps they may even learn thow o avoid
some of China’s missteps along its path of rapid growth. •
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