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Can the US and China work together on anything?

ChinaTalk

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Catch Up and Overtake

The psychology of catch up and overtake militated against technological innovation on the basis of original Soviet research. It was always less risky to do something that had already been done abroad than to try out an untested Soviet idea. And so it's really interesting is like you have this tension both in the in the Chinese as well as the Soviet system where on the one hand you have this like worshiping of Chinese technology.

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