In April 2022, the United States launched its “Declaration for the Future of the Internet.” It asserts that human rights and democratic values must remain central to future technological developmen…

Developing world needs an alternative to Chinese tech::In April 2022, the United States launched its “Declaration for the Future of the Internet.” It asserts that human rights and democratic values must remain

  • Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.auEnglish
    552·
    1 year ago

    While corporate America focuses on mainly profits, “fighting for human rights” are just empty slogan, because corporate America is already exploiting human misery for profits. For government, it’s going to be “to prevent China from becoming the dominant tech power in the developing world” that’s going to drive this sort of initiative, which most likely will have mixed results or fail miserably altogether. Chinese exports are already driving the non-elite consumer markets in the developing worlds.

    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      I’m not sure competition would help too much. The incentive just isn’t good, because companies tend to focus mainly on price, rather than quality. If a factory makes a worse product, but does it for cheaper, then that is what will get picked.

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      I laughed at the anti-globalists in the 90s. I now realize they were right and I was dumb.

      Redundancy and self-sufficiency are wayyyyy more important than economic efficiency.

    • silvercove@lemdro.idEnglish
      1212·
      1 year ago

      This is the best thing that happened to the world in 300 years. The history of the Western World is one of murder, invasions, genocide and imperialism. Now they are finding it harder and harder to invade and murder us as their industrial base diminishes.

      • FireTower@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        1 year ago

        Hate to be a downer but murder, invasions, genocide, and imperialism is more of a general humanity thing. China had it’s warring states, Japan had Unit 731, and Cambodia had the Khmer Rouge just to name three examples.

      • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
        77·
        1 year ago

        Oh yes innocent peaceful China, certainly not the worlds longest running imperialist country ever. How many hundreds of millions have been killed in wars by China?

        • BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tfEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          The Chinese government has only been in power since the late-40s/early 50s. Do you contribute the deaths by Nazi Germany to the modern German state?

          • PostmodernPythia@lemmy.worldEnglish
            36·
            1 year ago

            One-note support of a regime with talking points rather than actual arguments? Smells like a govbot to me…

            For non-bots: No one I’ve seen here is arguing that America hasn’t done shitty things. If you want to have China be your imperial masters, you have every right to make that decision, but imperialism sucks no matter who’s running it (hint: it’s not just a yt people thing), and China’s international relations strategy isn’t being run for the good of poor countries, but the good of the Chinese state. I think things tend to go better for the poweless when power isn’t unipolar, so poorer countries can play competing interests off each other, but every sovereign nation gets to make that call for themselves.

              • PostmodernPythia@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                1 year ago

                Pretty sure I’ve never murdered anyone personally, but I’m actually pretty much constantly talking about my country’s murderous policies. Which ones? Chile? El Salvador? Laos? Iraq? I’m a leftist, I can talk about that shit all day. I think we’re dicks. I’m just also antiauthoritarian, so I think the Chinese government are dicks, too.

  • 3arn0wl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    • BRICS nations are going RISC-V - for varied reasons - as quickly as they can (and the EU may well follow suit).

    • China is a huge producer - if not THE biggest manufacturer - of electronics.

    Those two points alone suggest a RISC-V revolution, in BRICS and 3rd-World economies, who like cheaper goods. RISC-V cores have been used in microcontroller roles for a while now, and we’re now seeing RISC-V chips being used as primary processors.

  • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    125·
    1 year ago

    “In April 2022, the United States launched[…]” yet another initiative to cut off China in order to maintain sole superpower status in the world because the US love their monopolies (as long as they’re the one with the monopoly). Then they claim they’re doing this for humanitarian reasons. Idiots believe them while thinking they’re immune to propaganda and shout down and downvote anyone on the internet that presents an opposing view.