China Holds Frontier Tech Edge but Risks Weaponizing Market Dominance

@AnaSwanson Some great food in Ningde

@AnaSwanson What tech race? China is betting on all technologies while the USA gave up all but AI.

China won

@AnaSwanson @electricfelix "Surpassing" US techs? CATL's predecessor, ATL, has been the No.1 in consumer electronics batteries since 2008, CATL has been the No.1 since 2017. CATL has been the source of innovations in the battery for years. "Surpassing" US? What kind of narrative bubble are you living in?

@AnaSwanson China is not ahead on tech. Their batteries are fire hazards and explode all the time. Their robots are junk and half their military weapons are bad copies of other counties weapons. They are a country of lies and facades.

@ChadBown @AnaSwanson Luckily the US or other Western countries have never weaponised market dominance

@ChadBown @electricfelix @AnaSwanson So has the US of course....Beijing learns fast....and more to come....

Great article but this blows my mind:

“CATL was founded in 2011 out of an electronics firm that got its break making the battery for the Apple iPod. At two dozen plants globally, CATL now makes 40 percent of the world’s electric vehicle batteries, and 30 percent of batteries used to sock away solar and wind power and stabilize the electricity grid.”

@AnaSwanson The issue has always been... US never see batt or EV as a crucial sector...why does it has to be a concern suddenly just because some other nation choose to develop that sector ?

@kyleichan @AnaSwanson CATL is to EVs what Nvidia is to AI.

@AnaSwanson @nytimes @grok ये क्या खबर है

@ChadBown Thanks Chad. It was fascinating to visit the factory and see the technology. It is truly impressive and raises a lot of questions for the U.S. in terms of the direction we want to take -- questions it seems like the U.S. is punting on rather than addressing.

@AnaSwanson @nytimes Do some real reporting you slag.

@ChadBown @AnaSwanson Gee, not long ago:

(1) USA often has frontier technology

(2) But if relying on USA for that tech gives them market dominance, Washington will weaponize it

Speaking of self awareness.

@contendwithx I did not successfully get this into the article, but they also produce the bulk of China's yellow croaker!

@TheNightHawk__ @AnaSwanson Seems to work well for the Chinese manufacturers. Perhaps choose a US-manufactured battery the next time? 😂

@liuwen_52 @AnaSwanson @electricfelix I also find it inexplicable to surpass American technology, which has never been ahead in this field.

@AnaSwanson @nytimes Trump is too busy destroying America! And he hasn’t figured out how to make money from batteries!

@AnaSwanson #US should more focus on more and more multiple conflict arround the world! Instead of unprofitable innovation & technology which supposed to be wellbeing for the humanity.

@AnaSwanson Horny and creepy China watchers used to label all SeeSeePee led Chinese people as robots, lacking any imagination/innovation/creativity, only good at rote memorization, ...

@liuwen_52 @AnaSwanson @electricfelix 这样报导是为了满足一些美国人世界第一的骄傲心态。直接说出真相会被指责为收钱为中共宣传。 普通人不敢说国王没穿衣服。