Why Jet Engines Aren’t “Made In China”
- General Electrics’s GE9X, the engine powering the Boeing 777X, under construction.
- In my recent article contrasting Chinese dynamism with American sloth, I described how the Chinese state-capitalist system has an unusual tolerance for social disruption, which, when paired with prescient leadership, enables massive societal uplift.
- Many of the comments, however, extrapolated this observation about state capacity into prophecies of inevitable American decline that I did not intend to imply.
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- General Electrics’s GE9X, the engine powering the Boeing 777X, under construction.
- In my recent article contrasting Chinese dynamism with American sloth, I described how the Chinese state-capitalist system has an unusual tolerance for social disruption, which, when paired with prescient leadership, enables massive societal uplift.
- Many of the comments, however, extrapolated this observation about state capacity into prophecies of inevitable American decline that I did not intend to imply.
Sources: Substack