They have no creativity or ingenuity of their own.
That is their strength.
Think of the Chinese as cultural historians. Or in other words, a cover band. The band Rush will eventually fade away, but cover bands will keep the flame alive forever.
Yeah. There are martial art practices from the Tibet and India regions thousands of years old that would have been completely lost to time, but are still alive and well in China.
A thousand years from now, there will be some obscure monastery or museum in China with a fully functioning metal foundry and machine shop that can produce perfect reproduction internal combustion engines.
That is their strength.
Think of the Chinese as cultural historians. Or in other words, a cover band. The band Rush will eventually fade away, but cover bands will keep the flame alive forever.
Yeah. There are martial art practices from the Tibet and India regions thousands of years old that would have been completely lost to time, but are still alive and well in China.
A thousand years from now, there will be some obscure monastery or museum in China with a fully functioning metal foundry and machine shop that can produce perfect reproduction internal combustion engines.
China has recorded history going back pretty far. Farther than the west does.
They'll still be around.
And likely 1000 years from now the current commies will have failed. And they'll have had many dynasties of freedom and many dystopian eras as well.