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Godfree Roberts's avatar

I'm not sure that 'process knowledge' is a Wangism. When I practiced IP law in California we used 'process knowledge' to describe implicit, bodily know-how.

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Tobias's avatar

What was it like when Tesla built its first Gigafactory near Shanghai? How many Americans were sent to that factory? What is the knowledge transfer like today? Did this transfer help make China the world's number one battery manufacturer?

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Ronald Chao's avatar

While you may say that the term "process knowledge" was newly coined by Dan Wang, the idea has however been aged old. By the way, it's called knowhow in case you don't know.

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Meridian's avatar

The psychological inability of Western leadership to accept the efficiencies of Chinese manufacturing/supply chain prowess will lead to costly policy mistakes like Nexperia. Like it or not, China will move ahead with or without the US and EU. China does China, and unfortunately, the US and EU haven't paid much attention to structural infra/energy/labor/education/resource allocation needs for some time, and this unforced error cannot be reversed in years or decades, ultimately leading to higher inflation in the West and faster growth within the BRICS trading block.

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Rafael, Zhuge Liang Disciple's avatar

Do appreciate your substantiated frankness, compared to what I agree is a more common than ideal emotional rhetorical tendency from other Chinese sources.

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