:melon-musk: has incited the Rocko's Modern Basilisk dudes into infighting. :simpsons-monkey-fight:

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    they can just read the research papers.

    There's actually a theory going around that one of the elements of China's R&D advantage is that most Chinese researchers speak enough English to read and understand English-language research papers in their field, whereas the vast majority of Westoids doing research cannot string together a single sentence of Chinese.

    This disparity will only get worse as Western Sinophobia ramps up and more ethnic Chinese researchers seek work in China instead of the West.

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Hilarious consequence of neoliberalism example #69420: the hollowning out and eventual inversion of the core-studies-periphery dynamic.

      Start with all the huge government, academic, and business institutions dedicated to managing imperialism, which produced a tremendous amount of knowledge and area experts that made the periphery legible to the core. All of that gets defunded, cut, or outsourced due to neoliberalism, which also produces a steady stream of educated people flowing from core to periphery to teach ESL classes. A few decades later your core-studies-periphery institutions are failing right as the core becomes more legible than ever to the people of the periphery.