Keeping Our China Eyes Open

Another Bid For World Leadership
Blasting at Boeing and Airbus

As any reader of this blog knows, I am warily watching China as it pursues its ambition to be the world leader in field after field. Already they are passing us in renewable energy - one of the greatest potential business sectors on Earth.  I am worried about their rapidly expanding efforts in military weaponry, space technology, artificial intelligence and robotics. Their huge population, immense wealth and focused government all aim at regional dominance, with world dominance not far behind.

Commercial jetliners for Chinese domestic travel will be one of the largest manufacturing sectors over the next decades, and - surprise! - it's a sector China is determined to own. With airplanes that can capture that market, you can bet they will become competitive on the international markets.

The New Chinese C919
The USA has held a clear lead in aerospace for decades with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, United Technologies and more. The E.U. has a huge player in Airbus.

These solid American assets are soon to be challenged by China.

"...There is now little doubt that China is well on its way to succeeding where several other countries have failed in becoming a full-fledged player in the large commercial aircraft manufacturing sector, with the potential to disrupt the long-standing duopoly of Airbus and Boeing in commercial jets." Aviation Week 

                                                         State of the Art C919 cockpit

This can be another American Century -- or NOT. The Trump administration seems to be abandoning our leadership role in science, technology and education. There are major forces ready to assume our position.
RAISE SOME HELL ABOUT THIS!


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Scooter Duff's Theory of Cosmology [A work in progress]

Image
 [Olde Duff Gets Seriouser] SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES  ARE MOSTLY PRIMORDIAL  DARK MATTER [Draft 8/19/2023] THE BIG NEWS.. ..Is from the James Webb Space Telescope. There were furiously active galaxies very soon after the Big Bang, not that long after the first generation stars happened. This implies supermassive black holes at the centers of the new galaxies.  The question, "how did these giant black holes get there so early?" seems not quite answered by the two main contenders, "Giant dust collapse," and "Many stellar black holes consolidating." Thus I decided to toss this hat into the ring: At the big bang, and dark matter was the first matter of any kind to form (perhaps during the mysterious “inflation” event -- my personal theory).  It’s mutual gravitational attraction and lack of interaction to any electromagnetic force allowed it to exist and start to coalesce, even in the heat of the BB, long before baryonic matter could.  There was a vast quantity
Read more

Rick and Morty

Image
A Millenial Hit Olde Folks Don't Know About Are you over 50? Have you ever heard about "Rick and Morty?" I thought not. There is a "cell" of younger people who love the show and say extravagant things about its wonderfulness. In these times when prior punditry had it we would be unified by some mysterious power in the Internet, there are more and more cells of people, unified within their cells, but isolated from most of the other cells of special interests*, tastes and proclivities.  The U.S. looks more like a pomegranate than a cantaloupe - to push the fruit/melon analogy to its extreme. I will dream up a graphic one of these days. USA, USA! society in fruit form. ANYHOO... I watched Rick and Morty at my millennial son's suggestion, and I LOVE IT. Eccentric old genius and non-genius grandson as the lead characters (faintly Back to the Future -esque) + sci-fi + Simpsons sensibilities +  intelligent satire + over-the-top imaginative creators
Read more

An Informational Present

Image
I TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS SIX YEARS AGO (Surely you remember ?)  ...And in those six years, multiple research projects have affirmed and reaffirmed that SENOLYTICS is a big deal. The science of senolytics: how a new pill could spell the end of ageing                                    * I'm reminded of this by a well-researched article in The Guardian , a newspaper I respect. Aside from that hyperbolic, click-bait-ish headline, it's a fair summary of the state of knowledge on the subject. In brief: Certain drugs and several supplements help the body get rid of senescent cells, "zombie cells" that don't die after they quit doing their thing and just hang around spitting out inflammatory chemicals that damage various organs, joints, and brain cells. The senolytic agents augment apoptosis , nature's way of killing off the senescent cells. When those senescent cells are gone, things start improving measurably (see the mouse with the young look in the Guardian piece.)
Read more