FaujHistorian
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I see a lot of chest beating (and well deserved in some cases) about joint projects with china,
where we copy Chinese defense tech
then use our labor to produce more of the defense items copied.
However I do not see a serious effort on our part to ask a simple question.
--- Are we trying to copy JF-17
without ever realizing
-- that JF-17 is the product of Chinese culture
And if we agree on this,
Do we want to copy just the things like JF-17
without ever becoming "chinese" in our pursuit of basic knowledge, traditions, habits, etc that allowed Chinese to build high tech equipment?
If we don't ask this question,
or don't take an action
Then we'll remain a passive and dumb copy cats for a long long long time.
And it is likely that Chinese will start shunning us because the only thing common between us and them will be our passive copying of their machines.
We'll never be able to build and MAInTAIN people to people contacts due to stark difference in culture.
Thoughts?
comments?
@Slav Defence, @Luftwaffe, @WebMaster, @Jungibaaz, @jaibi, @notsuperstitious, @Azlan Haider, @ajpirzada, @DESERT FIGHTER, @AgNoStiC MuSliM, @Jazzbot, @Jf Thunder, @Hyperion, @JonAsad, @Nihonjin1051, @cirr
where we copy Chinese defense tech
then use our labor to produce more of the defense items copied.
However I do not see a serious effort on our part to ask a simple question.
--- Are we trying to copy JF-17
without ever realizing
-- that JF-17 is the product of Chinese culture
And if we agree on this,
Do we want to copy just the things like JF-17
without ever becoming "chinese" in our pursuit of basic knowledge, traditions, habits, etc that allowed Chinese to build high tech equipment?
If we don't ask this question,
or don't take an action
Then we'll remain a passive and dumb copy cats for a long long long time.
And it is likely that Chinese will start shunning us because the only thing common between us and them will be our passive copying of their machines.
We'll never be able to build and MAInTAIN people to people contacts due to stark difference in culture.
Thoughts?
comments?
@Slav Defence, @Luftwaffe, @WebMaster, @Jungibaaz, @jaibi, @notsuperstitious, @Azlan Haider, @ajpirzada, @DESERT FIGHTER, @AgNoStiC MuSliM, @Jazzbot, @Jf Thunder, @Hyperion, @JonAsad, @Nihonjin1051, @cirr
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