China’s Quest for World Leadership
Ted Cruz is one of the most destructive forces in the United States right now, a true malignancy, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong here.
In fact, I don’t think anybody at any point in the political spectrum disputes what he said. China’s been on a slow march to dominate the world for thousands of years, and that tenacity, along with a wanton disregard for the value of human life, has gotten them to the point where they will have achieved that goal in the next few decades.
Obama’s strategy was the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which, if it had been put into place, would have excluded China and exerted great economic pressure on them. The TPP had other problems, ironically, with respect to environmental sustainability, which would have needed to be addressed, but now it’s a moot point.
Trump, true to form, was clueless, and got used like a garden tool, not too dissimilar to the drubbing the U.S. took at the hands of Russia. As they say, “There’s nothing more dangerous than an idiot who thinks he’s a genius.”
The solution I’ve been hawking for the last decade or so is a concerted effort, on the part of the public and private sectors, focused on aggressive cleantech R&D. The nonstop development of cutting-edge intellectual property in this space represents a way (perhaps the only way) to deal with the inexorable march of the Chinese.
What about the theft of IP, for which China is well-known internationally? I happened to have attended a seminar a few years ago on doing business with China, and I’ll never forget the main take-away on this precise issue. Your IP will eventually be stolen, and there’s nothing you can do about that, other than constant evolutionary progress. They will steal version 1.0, which is why you need to have version 2.0 ready to go.
It’s interesting that the first week of the Biden administration has provided great hope in exactly this arena. We can only hope.
“They will steal version 1.0, which is why you need to have version 2.0 ready to go.”
It sounds a bit too pessimistic, surely if China’s goods enter your country with your IP incorporated then you can ban those goods from entering the country.
Our trade with China must be based on a “FREE AND FAIR” basis and by that I mean we must restrict imports from China to one billion dollars each quarter to what China allowed in from the USA in the last quarter. ie. If China imported 10 billion dollars worth of US goods in the previous quarter we will allow 10 billion dollars in imports from China in the next quarter and China can decide what to allow in from the USA and the USA can decide what to allow in from China.
As I see it my company has developed the only technology that can enable providing energy products such as electric power at the so called grid-edge and liquid and gaseous biofuels in each and every town and city in the USA and around the world. Thus this concept has the most potential to back up intermittent wind, solar and hydro energy with clean energy produced through extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere enough to enable negative emissions energy.
The 276 page book entitled BURN by Albert Bates and Kathleen Draper is about using fire to cool the planet. If you haven’t yet read it you must do so if you expect to understand how we humans can save ourselves from a catastrophic end.